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Going...Going...Nevermore!: An original copy of Edgar Allan Poe 's first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems , is up for auction tomorrow , with expectations of a final bid between $500K to $700K. The Wait is Over...Almost: Scholastic announced today that the final book in Suzanne Collins 's ...
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Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
I recently met Kim Stanley Robinson at a cocktail party, because we’re both authors and meeting each other at cocktail parties is what authors do when we’re not writing. I have not read any of Robinson’s fiction other than Escape from Kathmandu when I was in the titular city over a decade ...
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Kim Stanley Robinson
Booker Prize
I often turn memories over in my mind, wondering what they'd look like if I had an alternative way of seeing them, in prose or poetry or performance, even. But when I've tried to record memories, purely for the sake of comparison, I'm usually disappointed. I'll take this opportunity to say ...
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Mary Balogh
Paul Constant over at the Slog just posted a mesmerizing pro-book ad from the New Zealand Book Council, and noted, "I have to say, I can't stop looking at the pretty pictures long enough to listen to the words." Indeed--I can hardly make out the words at times, and I don't think it's just the ...
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This week, John Green sort of reviews New Moon ...
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Bookshelves of doom reports that issue 2 of TBRT (TBR Tallboy), a lo-fi journal of short YA fiction, has shipped. To order or see submissions guidelines go here .
Two Sioux Falls, SD middle school libraries have ...
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Liar
Publishing assistants all across Manhattan were kept from their dinners so they could hit the refresh button, but the New York Times Book Review 's 10 Best Books of 2009 list finally did go live this afternoon/evening. No big surprises there for anyone who's been reading the Book Review ...
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Mary Balogh
Kate DiCamillo
Carol Shields
Jonathan Franzen
The anti-list list: The Millions has launched their annual Year in Reading feature, which bucks the trend (happily indulged in over here) of making Best of the Year lists that "posit an illusory pinnacle of achievement and quality," in favor of collecting a British-style series of ...
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Millions
Jonathan Franzen
We're not the only ones taking votes on the best covers of the year . As I mentioned before, Joseph Sullivan at the Book Design Review, venerable year-round commenter in this field (we're just amateurs sneaking in during the holidays), has done a poll of his favorite covers in each of the past ...
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Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
Tom Clancy
Keys to the Literary Kingdom : The Olivetti manual typewriter that Cormac McCarthy bought in 1963 for $50 at a pawnshop is going up for auction at Christie's and is expected to fetch up to $20,0000. In the Meat of Passion : The Wall Street Journal reviews Julie Powell's Cleaving: A Story of ...
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Cormac McCarthy
Agatha Christie
The Wall
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In yesterday’s essay I talked a bit about
writing fiction set in a historical past on a...
rather broad level, and so today I would like to address what to me constitutes the single most important aspect of writing historical fiction—realism. ...
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The Sweet Filth of History (Guest Blogger Jesse Bullington)
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Leah Hager Cohen on Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro: "A quick tally yields all the elements of pulp fiction: violence,
adultery, extreme cruelty, duplicity, theft, suicide, murder. But while
in pulp fiction the emotional climax coincides with the height of
external ...
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Alice Munro
Ayn Rand
Michael Crichton
Zadie Smith
Susan Sontag
Sarah Waters
During the holiday weekend, I managed to stave off the food coma long enough to read a few upcoming December releases. At the top of the short stack was Alexander McCall Smith 's new novel, La's Orchestra Saves the World (available December 8). I must confess that I'm a bit of a ...
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Alexander McCall Smith
omnivoracious.com - 2 days ago
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The best thing about writing historical fiction, for
me, is the history. There is no substitute for...
hitting on some obscure fact or figure and realizing in this crackling flash that all the problems I was having with Chapter 17 are banished, ...
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History, Fantasy, and the Blurry Lines of Literature ...
This week, in the midst of looking back on the year, and the decade, that are coming to a close, we're also offering you something fresh: a debut novelist, Jesse Bullington , who will be guest-blogging at Omni all week. Jesse's debut, The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart , was released ...
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The New York Times announced their 100 Notable Books on Thanksgiving Eve (they'll appear in the print edition of the Book Review on Sunday), which completes the annual triumvirate of US top 100s, including PW's list and ours . I won't go to the cut & paste lengths of linking to all 100 of ...
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This year was a morbid one for Batman fans. February kicked off the funeral proceedings with Grant Morrison 's Batman: R.I.P. , which led directly into Final Crisis (also by Morrison), where the Dark Knight finally met his match. The eulogy remained to be continued, however, as Neil ...
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Daniel Ehrenheft
Wrap it Up! : NPR highlights their picks for the Best Gift Books of 2009 . A Picture of a Cookbook Is Worth a Thousand Opinions: One of our favorite food blogs, Eat Me Daily, spotlights our picks in Cooking for the Best Book Covers of 2009 , and weighs in with their thoughts on what we ...
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omnivoracious.com - 8 days ago
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If you think Peter Mendelsund went through a
lot to get to the final version of the...
cover for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , just imagine what Michael J. Windsor's work life was like past year. Windsor was the designer of one of the most iconic ...
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Keeping a Cover Under Wraps: Questions for Lost Symbol ...
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Once again , I had a Crush all planned, only to be drawn onto another path by the events of the day. Well, such is the way of crushes... This time, it was a conversation between the cubicles with my colleagues Daphne and Anne that diverted me. Daphne was sifting through a heap of books, ...
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Kay Thompson
Jim Crace
The Writing Life : The New York Times ' Paper Cuts blog catches up with Jennifer Gilmore , author of Golden Country and the upcoming spring 2010 novel, Something Red . "One of the Films of the Year" : New York magazine's Vulture blog gives the embargo-breaking film blogger Harry Knowles ...
