by | Apr 2, 2008 | Literary News
from the New York Observer Freelance Fizzle! The Decline and Fall of the Writer BY DOREE SHAFRIR “There’s not one path anymore,” David Hirshey, executive editor of HarperCollins and former longtime deputy editor of Esquiremagazine, said the other day. “Thirty years...
by | Mar 31, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness Book Review: The Man Who Made Lists The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall (Putnam, $25.95) It’s tempting to sprinkle a review of this impressive biography of Peter Mark...
by | Mar 30, 2008 | Literary News, Mirth
from AP via NY Daily News Oddest Book Title award winner announced THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday, March 28th 2008, 9:38 PM LONDON – Good advice? Maybe. Oddest book title of 2007 – that’s official. “If You Want Closure in Your Relationship,...
by | Mar 28, 2008 | Literary News
from The Village Voice Kurt Vonnegut’s Unpublished Writings Armageddon in Retrospect collects the late fabulist’s work on war by Julie Phillips In a 1997 interview, the Voice asked Kurt Vonnegut why he had never written about his time as a prisoner of war...
by | Mar 27, 2008 | Literary News
from the Indianapolis Star Booksellers incensed over sexual content law Critics say state effort to target adult material casts too wide a net “This lumps us in with businesses that sell things that you can’t even mention in a family newspaper,”...
by | Mar 27, 2008 | Literary News
from CNN.com Pottermania lives on in college classrooms iReport:Tell us what’s the strangest college course you’ve ever taken? By Patrick Lee Special to CNN NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) — J.K. Rowling has retired Harry Potter, but the fictional boy...
