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...
by | Apr 2, 2008 | Literary News
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....
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...
