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...
by | Feb 13, 2008 | Literary News
By MOTOKO RICH Published: February 13, 2008 New York Times In a surprise move, Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Independence Day” and “The Lay of the Land,” has switched publishers for his next three books. Mr. Ford, who turns 64 on Saturday, sold...
by | Feb 12, 2008 | Literary News
92.5% of guild vote in favor of strike’s end By CYNTHIA LITTLETON, DAVE MCNARY “The strike is over,” Patric Verrone said, dispassionately but with the hint of a smile. “Our membership has voted. Writers can go back to work.”The WGA West...
