T. J. Stiles’s new biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt reveals that the tycoon was on the winning end of fist-fights well into his fifties.
Kirkus Reviews hints via its Twitter feed that it has “a few interested buyers.”
“The Big Lebowski” spawns a new academic field of study.
The Daily Beast names ten of the past decade’s most overlooked books.
A new book explains how the Stasi monitored Günter Grass.
“King of the Lobby,” by Kathryn Allamong Jacob, tells how deals got done in Washington during the Gilded Age.
Posted on Dec 30th, 2009 by Ian Crouch in Cornelius Vanderbilt, Gilded Age, Günter Grass, In the News, Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Kirkus Reviews, Stasi, T. J. Stiles, The Big Lebowski, Twitter |
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 |
