Win a Free Copy of HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT

from the San Jose Mercury News Contest: Win a copy of ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Ultimate Guide to Karaoke Domination’ Enter to win today About the book Author Raina Lee helps beginners and veterans conquer stage fright, pick songs to showcase vocal...

Van Man Black Disses Sedaris

from The GalleyCat @ MediaBistro ‘Why does David Sedaris hate America?’ Michael Ian Black, author of My Custom Van: And 50 other mind-Blowing Essays that will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face is endorsed by Amy Sedaris (“Enjoy the ride of your...

New Titles Out Next Week

from Shelf-Awareness.com Attainment: New Books Out Next Week Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, July 1: Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss (S&S, $26.95, 9781416534075/1416534075) examines a politically eventful yet often...

NATASHA by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction from The New Yorker)

from The New Yorker NATASHA by Vladimir Nabokov   In the stairs Natasha ran into her neighbor from across the hall, Baron Wolfe. He was somewhat laboriously ascending the bare wooden steps, caressing the bannister with his hand and whistling softly through his teeth....

Nabokov At Last To Live

from the New York Observer Wylie Agency Adds Nabokov Estate To Its Client List BY LEON NEYFAKH Getty Images Less than a month after Dmitri Nabokov announced, following years of indecision, that he would publish his late father Vladimir’s unfinished final novel, The...