Orwellian Rule Anew

from Shelf Awareness It’s 1984 All Over Again: Orwell’s Book Sales Spike Daily disclosures about America’s surveillance apparatus have sparked renewed interest in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Wall Street Journal reported that...

HENRY MILLER MADE ME DO IT by James Frey

from big think On Writing: Henry Miller Made Me Do It by JAMES FREY I became a writer after I read Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller when I was 22. I couldn’t believe somebody wrote that book.  I couldn’t believe somebody said what he said and lived how he lived and...

9 Circles of Literary Damnation

from Shelf Awareness Floor Display of the Day: ‘9 Circles of Literary Damnation’ “Fired up by the release of Dan Brown’s Dante-inspired new thriller, Inferno,” the staff at BookPeople, Austin, Tex, “put together a massive display on...