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Today in the January Magazine fiction section, contributing editor David Abrams looks at Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon’s first outing in a decade. “There is simply too much going on in Against the Day for readers to make an emotional connection with…
If you haven’t been paying attention, today brings us the final, 16th installment of Michael Connelly’s New York Times Magazine serial, “The Overlook.” This Sunday fiction series, which features Connelly’s detective Harry Bosch, received a good deal of publicity before it commenced…
The 2007 Edgar Awards nominees have been announced. J. Kingston Pierce has the whole story — and the complete nominees list — over at The Rap Sheet: Appropriately, the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) chose today — the 98th anniversary of Edgar…
I often disagree with the opinions of Rod Liddle, who writes about books for the London Times. But his extensive piece last weekend on the problems with literary fiction did strike a chord with me. Liddle argues that generation fiction might once…
With his tongue pressed firmly in his cheek (we hope!), Independent columnist Miles Kington takes on sharing the art of reviewing a book: Evelyn Waugh once said that the golden rule of book reviewing is that you should never give a bad…
It didn’t take a crystal ball to see this coming: it was really just a matter of how. And when. AP offers up the answer to both: Bye-bye, ReganBooks. The HarperCollins imprint of Judith Regan, the publisher who nearly brought us O.J….
The National Book Foundation is letting people know that National Book Month is fast approaching (but then, so is Christmas). I didn’t even know there was such an animal. Did you? According to the NBF, National Book Month will happen in October….
Today in the January Magazine fiction section, contributing editor Cherie Thiessen looks at Rain Before Morning by Michael Poole. It’s a classic love story that takes place around the time of WW I. Set in a remote settlement along Canada’s western coast,…
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, perhaps best known in the wider world for his 2000 new verse translation of Beowulf, has been awarded the £10,000 TS Eliot Prize for poetry. The award was made for Heaney’s 12th collection of poems, District and Circle….
In the almost 10 years we’ve been publishing January Magazine, lots of things have been said about us. Refreshingly, most of it good. But today 2Blowhards.com said something that tickled: January magazine is one of the best outlets for bookchat that isn’t…