Essay – Read My Book? Tour My House – NYTimes.com: Someday, I really would like to tour The Mount, Edith Wharton’s house in Lenox, Massachusetts. In the meantime, here’s an essay from Anne Trubek about the whimsy of preserving writers’ living quarters.
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ReadingGroupGuides.com – 10th Anniversary Contest Results: In honor of its tenth anniversary, ReadingGroupGuides.com ran a contest asking book groups to submit a list of their favorite books. The results are now in, and here is the Top Ten list. There are also links here to results broken down into categories (e.g., classics, biographies/memoirs). How many
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BookFinder.com Report Fall 2010 @ BookFinder.com: Every year BookFinder.com tracks the most sought-after out-of-print titles in America. In this, the eighth edition, several books garnered enough attention for publishers to re-print them in the near future. We also find some out-of-print mainstays which are unlikely to see a printer again despite their popularity. But above
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Patti Smith, Peter Carey Among National Book Award Finalists: Publishers Weekly has the complete list.
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Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature – NYTimes.com: The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa ‘for his cartography
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Twitter: Banned Books’ New Best Friend – NYTimes.com: Perhaps you’ve heard: It’s Banned Books Week, and across the country, libraries, bookstores, teachers and countless readers are celebrating ‘the freedom to read.’ For an event like this, it never hurts to have a cause célèbre, and this year, organizers needn’t have gone very far in search
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Banned Books Week 2010: Which books drew the most fire last year? – CSMonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor reports on the past year’s book-banning efforts: In total, there were 460 challenges reported to the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom in 2009, 410 of them books. The rest are videos, speeches, magazines, and other forms of
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I hate to have to do this, but the number of spam comments posted here has risen to nearly 400 a week. I am therefore disabling comments indefinitely because I just can’t afford the amount of time necessary to process this amount of stupidity.
The “reframing” power of literature comes from the story’s not being exactly the same as the reader’s story. In fitting the two together, the reader has to shift his point of view and so moves out of what seemed like an immovable and rigid framework. In this way, reading breeds tolerance and sympathy for people
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Books | Who buys books? 40-year-old women and others | Seattle Times Newspaper: Bowker, a global firm that tracks people’s book-buying habits, reports some interesting statistics about book-buying in the U.S. And, in what is no surprise at all, women make 64% of all book purchases.
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