by | Nov 21, 2008 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK Bad sex award exposes this year’s nominees Alastair Campbell among Literary Review’s nominees for the year’s worst erotic writing Alison Flood guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 20 2008 15.12 GMT Article history ‘Slightly...
by | Nov 18, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness Library of Dust photographed by David Maisel (Chronicle Books, $80, 9780811863339/0811863336, September 2008) This is definitely a big gift book, measuring almost 18″ x 14″, which is a display challenge, but worth it. In 1913, Oregon...
by | Nov 16, 2008 | Literary News
from the New York Times When a Real-Life Killing Sent Two Future Beats in Search of Their Voices Courtesy of the Allen Ginsberg Trust William S. Burroughs, left, and Jack Kerouac in 1953. By MICHIKO KAKUTANI The best thing about this collaboration between Jack...
by | Nov 14, 2008 | Literary News
from MSNBC In the book world, the rarest of the rare Would you pay $25 million for a Bible? By Philipp Harper Every passion has its Holy Grail, and rare-book collecting is no exception. Ask a group of bibliophiles to identify the rarest of all rare books, and a...
by | Nov 10, 2008 | Literary News
from National Public Radio The Making Of A Posthumous Best-Seller by Martha Woodroof NPR.org, November 11, 2008 ·The Girl with the Dragon Tattoois an unlikely best-seller — it’s the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously...
by | Nov 8, 2008 | Literary News
from the New York Times A Genial Explorer of Literary Worlds By A. O. SCOTT My literary education was feverish and haphazard. From later childhood through the end of adolescence, from Jimmy Carter to the first George Bush, I schooled myself by snatching novels from my...
