The Big Read is a national page-turner – Los Angeles Times: Developed by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Big Read funds projects nationwide in an effort, NEA literature director David Kipen explains, ‘to restore reading to the heart of American life.’ This newspaper article, which understandably focuses on Southern California, may pique your […]
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Literary Map of Maine | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram: What a delight! The Literary Map of Maine is a partnership between the Maine Sunday Telegram newspaper and several of the state’s libraries and humanities groups. Here you can read about such classic authors of American literature as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet
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Books | The year’s best mystery books | Seattle Times Newspaper: Seattle Times crime-fiction columnist Adam Woog’s picks for best mysteries of 2008 include works by Tana French, Alan Furst, P.D. James, John le Carré, Richard Price and other authors whose books will keep readers turning the pages well into 2009.
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The Top Ten Top-Ten Lists – Paper Cuts Blog – NYTimes.com: Just in case you missed any of these (and I seem to have missed most of them), The New York Times book blog provides links to still more year-end “best books” lists.
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Crime – Notable Crime Fiction of 2008 – NYTimes.com: I’ve already linked to The New York Times‘s other “notable books” lists, but this is a new one: mystery reviewer Marilyn Stasio’s list of best thrillers and mysteries.
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P-I Gift Guide: Great books for kids: If your holiday gift list includes children–toddlers through teens–the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has some suggestions for you.
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Best Short Stories | In Photos | csmonitor.com: In a clever twist on the usual “best books” list, The Christian Science Monitor presents a slideshow of book covers for its 8 choices of best short story collections of 2008.
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The 10 Best Books of 2008 – NYTimes.com: The editors of the New York Times Book Review have pared the list of 100 Notable Books down to these 10, 5 fiction and 5 nonfiction.
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Best nonfiction books of 2008 | csmonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor‘s list.
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Best novels of 2008 | csmonitor.com: From The Christian Science Monitor.
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