Going Down the Road – In a Town Apart, the Pride and Trials of Black Life – Series – NYTimes.com: Eatonville, the first all-black town to incorporate in the country and the childhood home of Zora Neale Hurston, is no longer as simple as she described it in 1935: ‘the city of five lakes, three […]
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Just in time: Banned Books Week | csmonitor.com: Given the recent public scuffle over Sarah Palin’s conversations while mayor with a Wasilla librarian about the possibility of banning books, there probably couldn’t be a better moment for the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, which begins tomorrw, Sept. 27, and runs through Oct. 4.
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Inside Google Book Search: Book Search everywhere with new partnerships and tools: Google makes it even easier for readers to part with their hard-earned cash: Today, we’re taking a big step towards bringing more books, across more sites, to more people online. We’re launching a set of free tools that allow retailers, publishers, and anyone
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Books | A list of 40 upcoming fiction and nonfiction books | Seattle Times Newspaper: Just in time to distract you from all the election mud-slinging comes this list, from the Seattle Times, of books being published this fall.
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Stephen King turns 61 today. Long live the King.
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Update – Hartford – Writers Unite to Keep Twain House Afloat – NYTimes.com: The Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT, has for some time now been in financial trouble. The New York Times reports on the latest fund-raising effort aimed at saving it: “On Tuesday, Tom Perrotta, Tasha Alexander, Phillip Lopate and at least seven
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James Crumley, Crime Novelist, Is Dead at 68 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: James Crumley, a critically acclaimed crime novelist whose drug-infused, alcohol-soaked, profanity-laced, breathtakingly violent books swept the hard-boiled detective from the Raymond Chandler era into an amoral, utterly dissolute, apocalyptic post-Vietnam universe, died on Wednesday in Missoula, Mont. He was 68 and lived
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The Scout Report, a fine weekly newsletter from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, offers this roundup of stories about the recent death of author David Foster Wallace: Friends and colleagues remember author David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace, Influential Writer, Dies at 46 [Free registration may be required] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html Wallace
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What’s the Funniest Novel Ever? – Paper Cuts Blog – NYTimes.com: “In Rolling Stone’s new comedy issue, prominent comedians are asked to name the ‘funniest movie ever’ and the ‘funniest TV ever.’ “ And so, asks David Kelly on the New York Times book blog, what’s the funniest novel ever? Here are some of the
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Nova Scotia News – TheChronicleHerald.ca: In Nova Scotia’s The Chronicle Herald, Judith Meyrick reviews Magic Island: The Fictions of L. M. Montgomery by Elizabeth Waterston. Montgomery was the author of Anne of Green Gables and several subsequent best-selling novels. Montgomery kept journals and scrapbooks passionately and meticulously, preserving for us a picture of her daily
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