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Who is reading books in America? According to a recent PEW survey, not everyone. “About a quarter of American adults (24%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio…
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…
On June 14th, Christie’s will offer one of the most important illustrated books of all time at auction. The Birds of America by John James Audubon has an auction estimate of $8,000,000-12,000,000. From the Christie’s web site: The two lanky purple herons…
A Child Went Forth follows thirteen year old Charlie Griffin’s evolvement from boyhood to manhood in the summer of 1855 as he carries money from Brooklyn to Missouri to give it to the abolitionist leaders there. All the while he is being…
The Ice Dragon, a 1980 children’s book written by Games of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, is headed for the big screen. From Deadline Hollywood: Martin wrote the book in 1980 prior to Game of Thrones. The book is not set in…
Influential author Philip Roth (Portnoy’s Complaint, The Great American Novel) died Tuesday night at a Manhattan hospital of congestive heart failure. He was 85. Though his work and his persona were often controversial, Roth numbered among America’s best known novelists, and his…
When books are banned or protested, it gives us an opportunity to look more closely at the book being called out and, in certain cases, to zoom in for closer examination which is often followed by more sales. This is one of…
Author and journalist Tom Wolfe has died at age 88. Best known as the author of books including Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full and The Right Stuff, his agent confirmed to the New York Times that Wolfe had died…
We loved The Passage by Justin Cronin when it debuted in 2010. “There is a great deal here that’s captivating,” wrote January Magazine contributing editor Tony Buschsbaum at the time. “Intense characters whose emotional volume is always dialed up to 11. Set…
After more than a decade of digitally fostered decline, bookstores are making a comeback says CBS News in a recent article: Between 2009 and 2015, more than 570 independent bookstores opened in the U.S., bringing the total to more than 2,200; that’s…