Philip Roth, John Banville, and Amos Oz are among the nominees for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Colum McCann, T. J. Stiles, and Keith Waldrop win National Book Awards.
“The Imperial Cruise” argues that Theodore Roosevelt based his foreign policy on odd notions of race.
Junot Diaz failed for five years while writing “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”
Big event books get their own movie-style trailers.
Karl Rove’s memoir “Courage and Responsibility” will be published in March.
A Minnesota father spoke only Klingon to his child for three years.
Barack Obama is the subject of more than sixty children’s books.
Posted on Nov 19th, 2009 by Ian Crouch in Amos Oz, Barack Obama, Colum McCann, In the News, John Banville, Junot Diaz, Karl Rove, Keith Waldrop, Klingon, Philip Roth, T. J. Stiles, Theodore Roosevelt |
Wal-Mart kicks off a hardcover price war with Amazon.
A new biography of Elizabeth Taylor explains how she mastered the art of celebrity.
Google Books “limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns.”
A Gulf War veteran argues that our failure to take Baghdad in 1991 “made our return to Iraq inevitable.”
October baseball makes for good reading.
Can a book fair in Istanbul rival Frankfurt?
Robert McCrum laments that “new fiction by unknown writers, the lifeblood of the business, is being scrutinised by people who have neither appetite for, nor understanding of, originality.”
Philip Roth shows up in Newark for the Weequahic High reunion.
Rampant plagiarism stuns academia in India.
Posted on Oct 19th, 2009 by Ian Crouch in Amazon, Baghdad, Elizabeth Taylor, Frankfurt, Gulf War, In the News, India, Istanbul, Philip Roth, Wal-Mart, World Series |
