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from The Village Voice Kurt Vonnegut’s Unpublished Writings Armageddon in Retrospect collects the late fabulist’s work on war by Julie Phillips In a 1997 interview, the Voice asked Kurt Vonnegut why he had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