Books | Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction | Seattle Times Newspaper: The Associated Press, via the Seattle Times, reports on the National Book Awards. McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin took the fiction prize, and T.J. Stiles’s The First Tycoon, a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, won for nonfiction. Also a winner […]
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Many libraries go quiet as local budget cuts deepen — latimes.com: Just as the bad economy is driving more people to use library resources to save money, so is it forcing some libraries in the Los Angeles area to close or cut back on services. Ironically, “The bad times for libraries are coming just as
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Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-Reading – NYTimes.com: In the war between Amazon’s Kindle, the Sony Reader, and Barnes and Noble’s new Nook, here’s another contender: smartphones. Despite the miniscule screen, our phones are always with us, allowing us to read a bit now and then when waiting to meet someone or
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Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 – The New York Times: Every year since 1952, the Book Review has asked a panel of judges to select 10 books from among the several thousand children’s books published that year. The judges this time around were Adam Gopnik, who writes regularly for The New Yorker and is
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100 books that defined the noughties – Telegraph: Never mind “best books of the year” lists. Here’s a list of one critic’s 100 best books of the decade. It’s from the United Kingdom, so you’ll see a definite slant in the choices.
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Amazon.com: Best of 2009: Books: Books: Yes, the frenzy has officially started with Amazon’s various lists of Best Books of 2009. On this page you’ll find links to several lists, including standard ones such as Editors’ Top 100 and Customers’ Top 100 and top books by category (e.g., mystery & thriller, biography, children’s books) as
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Three Hauntingly Unforgettable Literary Houses : NPR: Just in time for Halloween, NPR presents this list of three formidably haunted houses: “In some novels, the house is as much a force as any of the people in the story. When that happens, the human characters had better beware.”
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Here’s a run-down of some of the latest news in the continuing ebook wars: E-Book Fans Keep Format in Spotlight: From The New York Times. Nook from Barnes & Noble, available for preorder now. Borders how has the Sony Reader available in several editions: Sony Reader Touch Edition Sony Reader Pocket Edition: available in silver,
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Nation’s Retailers Engage In Online Book Pricing War : NPR: Anyone who has ever cringed at the price of a new hardcover book will be interested in news of the current price war between some of the largest retailers: The price war took off last week when Walmart, in a bid to compete with Amazon
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Dominick Dunne, Writer Who Chronicled High-Profile Crime, Is Dead at 83 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Dominick Dunne, who gave up producing movies in midlife and reinvented himself as a best-selling author, magazine writer, television personality and reporter whose celebrity often outshone that of his subjects, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was
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