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Today’s New York Times Art & Leisure section contains a piece by Joan Didion. Scientists could probably use me as a study in magnetism whenever I pick up a periodical and discover a new essay by Didion; she’s just that powerful. Readers…
February, the shortest month of the year, finally brought to a close the life and career of one of America’s foremost political historians and social critics, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Kennedy administration advisor Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. He died in Manhattan last…
Today in January Magazine’s biography section, contributing editor Cherie Thiessen looks at Steve Nash by Paul Arseneault and Peter Assaff. Basketball fans of all ages will rate this slim read a three-pointer. With not an ounce of fat on it, it’s lean,…
Small Press Month is finally here. Sponsored by a boatload of book-related entities — including Small Press Center; PMA: The Independent Book Publishers Association and The Council of Literary Magazine and Presses — Small Press Month is intended to bring attention to…
I have this mind picture of Dr. Seuss left over from my childhood. Maybe you do, too. That picture is based on no kind of reality; just a cartoon cut-out of a friendly guy created, I guess, by the happy shape the…
The shortlist for the 2007 Kiriyama Prize has been announced. One winner each from fiction and non-fiction will be selected to share the $30,000 prize. In 2007, shortlisted writers hail from Canada, China, India, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States….
I can’t keep up with Marshal Zeringue at the Campaign for the American Reader. First, he started asking authors to apply Marshall McLuhan’s Page 69 Test to their most recent novel. That exercise proved so fruitful and successful — with almost 200…
Though critics seem to have been universally underwhelmed by the new Jim Carrey vehicle, The Number 23, the premise wins it a mention here at January. See: it’s a book movie. That is, it’s not based on a work of published fiction….
Over the last few days, I’ve seen plenty of stories about Rhiannon Barnes, the 15-month-old resident of Georgia who found $1300 stuck between the pages of a used book. According to the child’s baby-sitter, little Rhiannon was quite insistent that the book…
Today in January Magazine’s fiction section, contributing editor Tony Buchsbaum reviews Be Mine, Laura Kasischke’s fourth novel for adults. (She’s also written half a dozen books of poetry and a novel for young adults.) Though Buchsbaum feels the novel starts out strongly…