by | Feb 28, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Jan Berenstain Has Died By Jason Boog on February 27, 2012 5:07 PM Jan Berenstain, one half of the couple that created The Berenstain Bears book series, passed away this weekend. The series began in 1963 with The Big Honey Hunt. This...
by | Feb 25, 2012 | Literary News
from The New York Times The Man Who Made Publishing a High-Wire Act Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times In the mostly tweedy, genteel world of book publishing in the 1960s and ’70s, Barney Rosset, who died on Tuesday at 89, was a bit of an outlaw: a raffish,...
by | Feb 16, 2012 | Literary News
from the Santa Cruz Sentinel Pam Houston, the author of the new novel ‘Contents May Have Shifted’ brazenly challenges the lines between fiction and non-fiction By WALLACE BAINE You might think that the name a novelist gives her protagonist is no big deal....
by | Feb 8, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Globe And Mail RUSSELL SMITH Fiction or non-fiction: Does it matter any more? Published Wednesday, Feb. 01, 2012 3:46PM EST The biggest topic in literature these days – aside from the endless e-book debate – is, once again, the difference between fiction and...
by | Feb 4, 2012 | Literary News
from America Magazine Stuck In The Teeth POSTED AT: FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 07:25:58 PM AUTHOR: JIM KEANE, S.J. In his memoir/novel A Million Little Pieces (first pitched as the latter, then sold and made famous as the former, then eventually exposed as largely the...
by | Jan 10, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from artnet John McWhinnie BOOKWORLD by Charlie Finch John McWhinnie sifting through Richard Merkin’s archives in 2010, photo by Duncan Hannah The loss of book dealer, promoter, collector and champion John McWhinnie in a water accident last weekend at a young...
