Edgar Nominees Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for this year’s Edgar Awards. I’m chagrined to see that I’ve read only one of all the works nominated. (But I do have another one on my reading list for the next few months.)
2012 National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announced The 30 finalists in six categories for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced on Thursday, February 28 at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium
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The discovery of Mars in literature David Seed, author of Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction, explains why the red planet has inspired so much speculative fiction. Reasons to Re-Joyce Is literary fiction really a dying breed? In The New York Times Darin Strauss argues that it is not: So things might look pretty bad. But
And the Golden Hatchet goes to … – latimes.com There’s a certain joy that comes with reading a great literary takedown, the kind of mean but intelligent and precise review that eviscerates the pretensions and the sloppiness of a truly awful book. Over in Britain, they think of a good pan as a kind of
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Happy New Year! And welcome back. Read ahead for 2013 Jane Sullivan of Australia’s The Age clues us in on books (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) to be published this year. Announcing the 2013 Tournament of Books To add to your March madness: The ToB is an annual springtime event here at the Morning News, where
I read 42 books during 2012, for a total of 5,852 pages of print and just slightly more than 137 hours of unabridged audiobooks. Most best books of 2012 lists include only books issued this year. But my list includes anything I read during the year, regardless of when it was published. The oldest book
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The writing and publishing world lost way too many people in 2012. Here’s a list of names, with, if available, date of death and a link to an obituary. Sam Levin 1/2 Josef Skvorecky 1/3 Mary C. Henderson 1/3 Charles W. Bailey 1/3 Milburn Calhoun 1/7 Wislawa Szymborska 2/1 Basil Payne John Turner Sargent, Sr.
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What’s better than a “best of 2012 books list”? Why, a list of “best of 2012 books” lists. Here are two such lists of lists: Online “Best of 2012” Book Lists From Largehearted Boy. The Best of the Book Lists 2012 From Random House
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Close Out The Year With Some Best-Selling Last Words : NPR People often make lists of the greatest opening lines in fiction, but closing lines really appeal to me. They’re your final moments with a book and can help you remember and treasure it forever. The last weekend of the year seems an appropriate time
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And for those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, best wishes for health and happiness in the future.
