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How can you not like the Library of America? High-quality hardcover books produced by a non-profit and featuring some of the greatest writers and minds in our country’s history. I’ve been a Library of America fan ever since I was a fledgling literature major in college. Now, I am happy to report that they’ve gone [...]
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The Times Online has a great piece from Salman Rushdie gushing, in a very eloquent manner of course, about his love for “The Paris Review Interviews.” Great writers, it turns out, are actually quite inquisitive about the habits of other great writers. They need to know whether their colleagues are as crazy as they are… [...]
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I think that this article over on Guernica was written for me. Without ever reading a lick of Roberto Bolaño, I’ve already been drawn in by the myth of the dead writer; a myth that according to those who knew him, was manufactured by a North American literary machine plugged in to our intense cultural [...]
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The News Hour with Jim Lehrer dove into the discussion about how reading and publishing is changing as a result of big box retailers with their pricing wars and as the web and digital devices begin to circumvent the old publishing industry. It’s a thoughtful 11:30 minute take on the state of the book world [...]
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Yeah, you heard me right, that’s not a typo – it’s “Vook“. Strange name for a great overall concept and product that’s a harbinger of what’s to come. All you stodgy warthogs who think that it’s only about the printed page need a reality check. Most authors care about delivering their message and the printed [...]
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is set to receive a collection of Hemingway’s papers from Cuba (interesting given the history of Cuba and US relations during JFK’s time). The papers include corrected proofs of “The Old Man and the Sea,” a move script of that novel, an alternate ending to “For Whom [...]
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On Tuesday afternoon, I went over to Elliott Bay Books to check out Gary Vaynerchuk while he stopped by to talk about his new book, “Crush It.” As usual, his enthusiasm and positive energy was infectious. In fact, the first thing I did when I got home was read the entire book cover to cover [...]
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The new Murakami 2-volume novel is selling fast enough to set records for the publisher in Japan. I wonder how long we’ll have to wait to see this one in the US? The publisher and Murakami, who rarely gives media interviews, kept a veil over “1Q84,” which can be read as “1984″ in Japanese, after [...]
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