New Titles Out Next Week

from Shelf Awareness Attainment: New Titles Appearing Next Week Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, April 8: The Third Angel: A Novel by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart Books, $25, 9780307393852/0307393852) follows three women facing important life choices....

The Decline and Fall of the Writer

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...

The History of The Author’s Ablest Crutch

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...

Vonnegut Saved From The Grave

from The Village Voice Kurt Vonnegut’s Unpublished Writings Armageddon in Retrospect collects the late fabulist’s work on war by Julie Phillips In a 1997 interview, the Voice asked Kurt Vonnegut why he had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...

Support Your Local Banned Books

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,”...