New Book Titles Out Next Week

from Shelf-Awareness.com Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, May 13: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (Harper, $23.95, 9780061537936/0061537934) is the story of a dog and his race car driver owner from the point...

Mark Sarvas’ Next Elegant Variation

from the LA Times Q & A: blogger and first-time novelist Mark Sarvas The man behind the Elegant Variation blog and author of ‘Harry, Revised’ is ready for the criticism he’s built a reputation on. Sarvas says he expects the ‘sharp knives...

VANITY FAIR interview with James Frey

from Vanity Fair James Frey’s Morning After  What’s it like to write a mega-selling memoir, then become a household word for “liar”? Was James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces an ex-junkie’s con job, part of a proud literary tradition, or just the standard hype of an...

NYT Fiction Bestseller List 05/11/2008

from the New York Times May 11, 2008 Hardcover Fiction This Week Last Week Weeks On List 1 THE WHOLE TRUTH, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $26.99.) An intelligence agent and a journalist team up against a warmongering defense contractor. 1 2 HOLD TIGHT, by Harlan...

2008 Edgar Award Winners

from Shelf-Awareness Awards: The Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke Prize Winners of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America and announced last night, are: Best Novel: Down River by John Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur) Best First Novel by an...