by | Apr 12, 2008 | Literary News
snipped from Variety Norman Mailer celebrated at Carnegie Random House stages poignant tribute to scribe By DADE HAYES Norman Mailer was remembered as equal parts novelist, pugilist, activist and patriarch during a touching and lengthy memorial Wednesday at Carnegie...
by | Apr 8, 2008 | Literary News
from Guardian UK Lily Allen drops out as Orange prize judge Sean MichaelsMonday April 7, 2008guardian.co.uk Lily Allen was never the most obvious pick to judge a major literary prize. She’s famous not for her views on novels but for a song about London that...
by | Apr 7, 2008 | Literary News
from TwinCities.com Putting poetry in motion Article Last Updated: 04/06/2008 11:12:43 PM CDT April is National Poetry Month, so it’s a particularly good time for local bards to polish their works in a competitive performance venue. Poets from Minnesota and...
by | Apr 5, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness Book Review: Animal’s People Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (S&S, $25, March 2008) Animal’s People should have won the Booker Prize. It towers over the other shortlisted novels, entertainment on a grand scale, hugely...
by | Apr 5, 2008 | Literary News
from the New York Times ESSAY There Will Be a Quiz By JOE QUEENAN Freelance writers are always looking for ways to scare up a few extra bucks, so recently I tried my hand at writing some of those “Questions for Discussion” that appear at the back of many paperbacks. I...
by | Apr 3, 2008 | Literary News
from the NY Daily News ‘Twist’ my arm! Dickens tome brings $229G BY CHRISTINA BOYLEDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, April 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM A first edition of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” sold for a record $229,000...
