by | Feb 25, 2008 | Literary News
March 2, 2008 Hardcover Fiction This Week Last Week Weeks On List 1 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste. 1 3 2 7TH...
by | Feb 22, 2008 | Literary News
by Paul Johnson in The Spectator I gave up writing novels in my mid-twenties, when I was halfway through my third, convinced I had not enough talent for fiction. Sometimes I wish I had persisted. There is one particular reason. The point is made neatly by W. Somerset...
by | Feb 22, 2008 | Literary News
Check out this nice little literary blog from NYC (and buy one of her shirts)… Book Nerd Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States I work at an independent bookstore in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Someday I will have a bookstore of my own in...
by | Feb 20, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness newsletter If setting a good example will increase the number of readers in the U.S., then Amanda Patchin, owner of Veritas Fine Books, Garden City, Idaho, is setting an example extraordinaire. Her goal is to read 200 books–79,349...
by | Feb 19, 2008 | Literary News
Press Association Monday February 18, 2008 guardian.co.uk Alain Robbe-Grillet, a “new novelist” and film-maker who rejected conventional storytelling and was one of France’s most important avant-garde writers has died at the age of 85. Robbe-Grillet...
by | Feb 15, 2008 | Literary News
Ian Thomson reviews a collection of Malcolm Lowry’s poems, letters and fictions Malcolm Lowry was a ferocious malcontent, who free-wheeled towards an early grave with the help of cooking sherry, meths, even bottles of skin bracer. From skid row to bedlam and...
