Book, Authors, Entertainment, More
Superstars, a book by New York-based Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee has been banned in the photographer’s home country. According to the Khaleej Times, the book will not be “allowed to be sold in the conservative city-state.” The Khaleej Times reports that Superstars…
Today in the January Magazine children’s book section, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Larklight by Philip Reeve. Bursztynski feels that Larklight is a children’s introduction to the steam punk genre: fiction set in the Victorian era, but with science fictional elements. “I…
An auction house in London was surprised today when a copy of the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, failed to sell at auction. The book, penned by a then-unknown author named Ian Fleming, was a first-edition and was published by Jonathan…
I’m a bit late getting to novelist (and occasional January contributor) Tracy Quan’s (Diary of a Married Call Girl) very reasoned response to what I’m now inclined to call the Dowd Debacle, Maureen Dowd’s NYT column that blasted chick lit and sent…
In what is arguably one of the most flawed essays ever written about writing, in his February 14th column in The Guardian, lawyer-turned-journalist Marcel Berlins asks, “Can you think of a great novel that takes place where the author has never been?”…
I don’t think that headline needs an actual story, do you? It’s sort of ‘nuff said, already. But here’s the link.
I’d love to hear Maureen Dowd respond to the widespread wit her NYT column on Chick Lit, “Heels Over Hemingway,” has fostered all over the blogosphere. So many people have read the column — or read about the column — that I’m…
The Guardian brings word of a new award that will see the publication of writing by authors currently working in the field of book sales. Inspired by the example of Sarah Waters and David Mitchell, who both worked as booksellers before becoming…
The words might have more weight if they came from other than Faye Weldon, author of that notoriously commercial work, The Bulgari Connection. A terrible sense of inconsequence hangs over publishing houses. From outside it seems as if they act on whim….
From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department: Over at the Rap Sheet, J. Kingston Pierce reports that “some worthless schmuck” has stolen the Maltese Falcon. Read all about it here.