David Guterson Overwrites His Way to Win Bad Sex in Fiction Award – The Daily Beast David Guterson beat out “stiff competition” (his award-accepting spokesperson’s pun, not mine) Tuesday night to win the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel Ed King, a modern Seattle-set reworking of the Oedipus myth. The […]
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These are the 15 nonfiction titles that Monitor book reviewers found to be the most outstanding of 2011. via 15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks – “Day of Honey,” by Annia Ciezadlo – CSMonitor.com. I just finally have to say this. I HATE it when a web site, such as Christian Science Monitor,
Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Books of 2011. Goodreads’ readers have spoken. Check out their favorites in just about any category you can imagine.
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What Sticks: Five 2011 Books That Stay With You : NPR The five books below — three novels, a memoir and a nonfiction narrative — top my list of keepers published in 2011. While it’s no surprise that Julian Barnes and Joan Didion produced books to have and to hold onto, it’s the serendipitous finds
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Plot Driven: Alan Cheuse’s Top 5 Fiction Picks : NPR Although I love the wit and mood of introspective (and lyrically composed) fiction, I’m nearly always drawn to thoughtful, well-plotted books — everything from Ulysses to The Man Without Qualities, Cervantes to Murakami, and Faulkner and Hemingway and Woolf in between. Given all this, 2011’s
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When novels change history As with so many concepts in literature, the French have an elegant word for it: uchronie. For Anglophone readers and writers, we have to make do with such unwieldy terms as “counterfactual novels”, “alternate timelines” and “allohistories” to describe these books. Uchronie is a neologism modelled on Utopia – a “no-time”
Post-Dispatch rounds up favorite books of 2011 Every December, the Post-Dispatch compiles a list of some of the best books of the year after quizzing freelance reviewers, polling a few book sellers and considering some of the books chosen by other publications or award committees. This year, a look at other best-book lists reveals as
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Notable Crime Books of 2011 – NYTimes.com. What people like to read is always a matter of personal taste, but taste becomes especially important in the mystery genre, which can range from the civilized cozy to the darkest noir. New York Times crime reviewer Marilyn Stasio acknowledges this and therefore separates her best books list
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The Best of 2011: Editors’ Picks & Customer Favorites | Audible.com. Audiobook giant Audible.com offers a huge number of lists of “best books of 2011.” (They even have a list devoted to the year’s best zombies.) Customers’ favorites are included along with editors’ picks.
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William Faulkner called him “…the first truly American writer.” Ernest Hemingway declared that all American writing comes from “Huckleberry Finn,” and “there has been nothing as good since.” And Norman Mailer said “Huck Finn” stands up “page for page” to the “best modern American novels.” Wednesday marks the 176th anniversary of the birth of the
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