What Oprah has done for books

On this, the final day of Oprah’s long-running network TV show, I have a confession: I have never watched an Oprah show, not even one of her famous book discussions. But so many other people have watched Oprah’s show that publishers are wondering what their fate will be with the loss of “the Oprah effect,” […]

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Publishers Make a Plan: A ‘One Stop’ Book Site

Publishers have spent a lot of time and money building their own company Web sites with fresh information on their books and authors. The trouble is, very few book buyers visit them. In search of an alternative, three major publishers said on Friday that they would create a new venture, called Bookish.com, which is expected

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Dispute Continues on Harper Lee Book

Strange doings over the upcoming publication of a book about Harper Lee, famous reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird:   The statement did little to clear up the confusion surrounding the book, “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee.” It was announced on Tuesday as “the story of Mills’s friendship with the two

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2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

This article in the New York Times includes all winners. Here are the winners in the arts and letters categories: FICTION – “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf) DRAMA – “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris HISTORY – “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner (W.

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Borders Files for Chapter 11, Announces Store Closings

Borders Group, Inc. Website The book world has been speculating on this for a long time, and now it’s official. Borders will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and, as part of its reorganization strategy, will close about 200 stores nationwide. You can download the store list from the sidebar on the left of this page.

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“Sing Them Home” by Stephanie Kallos

Kallos, Stephanie. Sing Them Home   Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009, 560 pages ISBN: 0871139634   Audiobook by Blackstone Audio   Narrated by Tavia Gilbert The sudden death of physician Llewellyn Jones brings together his three grown children in their small hometown of Emlyn Springs, Nebraska. Nearly 30 years earlier the children’s mother, Aneira Hope Jones,

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“Room” by Emma Donoghue

Donoghue, Emma. Room  New York: Little, Brown, 2010  ISBN 978-0-316-09833-5 Five-year-old Jack lives with Ma in an 11-foot square room. This room is Jack’s whole world. It’s where he eats and plays and learns. It’s where he watches the unreal pictures, made only of colors, on the television. Room is filled with Jack’s friends: Bed,

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My LIst: Best Books Read in 2010

This has been an abysmal year for me in terms of pleasure reading: I read a mere 18 books. The reason for this low count is that I’ve spent the entire year researching and then writing my dissertation, which I hope to finish up in early 2011. So I’m looking forward to 2011 being a

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