J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to […]
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A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing – NYTimes.com: You’ve heard of Amazon.com’s Kindle. And you probably know that Apple is likely to introduce a tablet computer this year. Soon you may also be hearing about the Alex, the Que proReader and the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. Those products are part of a new wave
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A Novel? Padgett Powell’s Book Defies Genre : NPR: The question mark that accompanies the subtitle of author Padgett Powell’s new book, The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? might seem flippant. But Powell’s book earns that bit of punctuation. The Interrogative Mood is composed entirely of questions. Some of them are laugh out loud funny, some
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Books – Sherlock Holmes, Shapeshifter – Robert Downey Jr.’s Version – NYTimes.com: Arthur Conan Doyle grew so to hate his greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, that in 1893 he tried to kill him off, plunging him over the Reichenbach Falls. He called it ‘justifiable homicide,’ saying, ‘If I had not killed him, he would certainly have
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Julianna Baggott – The key to literary success? Be a man — or write like one. – washingtonpost.com: This fall, Publishers Weekly named the top 100 books of 2009. How many female writers were in the top 10? Zero. How many on the entire list? Twenty-nine. In the Washington Post, author and creative writing teacher
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Top book picks for 2010 / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: “The experts tell us what they are excited about reading in 2010” Oh, good grief. A “best books of the year” list for 2010 already, and it’s only January 4. At any rate, here are recommendations from some book store owners about books
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Not another top 10 list – latimes.com: Now, personally, I enjoy making up my best books reading list at the end of each year. I also enjoying seeing other peoples’ book lists and comparing them to mine. But columnist Meghan Daum is ambivalent about all these “listicles,” as you’ll see here.
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Looking Ahead – Hot Books for a Cold January – NYTimes.com: To get you started on some possibilities for next year’s best books list, “Here are some of the big books expected in January.”
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Now that 2009 is officially over, I can decide which of the 50 books (exclusive of textbooks) I read this year were my favorites. All the published lists of best books of the year refer only to books published during that year, but my list is of the books I read this year, regardless of
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Devices to Take Textbooks Beyond Text A lot of the talk about digital reading devices has centered around their usefulness for textbook-toting students. Although the ability to carry a lot of hefty textbooks around on one much smaller device is a big plus, the drawback has been that the monochrome screens of current ereaders don’t
