Submit a Story!

Top Stories - Last 30 Days

Select time frame: Now | Week | Month
Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition
Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition
guardian.co.uk — Bad sex award nominee: Philip Roth. Photograph: Orjan F Ellingvag / Dagbladet / Corbis... (more) Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff ...
2009 Winter Blog Blast Tour Schedule
chasingray.com — Here's the list - and don't forget it will be updated with direct urls and quotes every... day. Also each of the sites will be linking daily to the other interviews. Hope you find something here that interests you! Monday Jim Ottaviani at Chasing Ray Courtney Sheinmel at Bildungsroman ... (more) 2009 Winter Blog Blast Tour Schedule
Cormac McCarthy on The Road
Cormac McCarthy on The Road
online.wsj.com — [ cormac1112 ] Corbis Outline Cormac McCarthy, above in 2007, drew on his own relationship with his... son for his novel 'The Road.' (more) Cormac McCarthy on The Road
How Waterstone's killed bookselling | 				Books | 				The Guardian
How Waterstone's killed bookselling | Books | The Guardian
guardian.co.uk — Waterstone's book promotion, 2009 Staff arrange a promotion for Dan Brown's latest book at Waterstone's Piccadilly branch.... Photograph: John Phillips/UK Press/Press Association Images (more) How Waterstone's killed bookselling | Books ...
An essay is an act of imagination. It still takes quite as much art as fiction
An essay is an act of imagination. It still takes quite as much art as fiction
guardian.co.uk — Writer Didion At Hippie Happening The perfect essayist: Joan Didion in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in... 1967 Photograph: © Ted Streshinsky/Corbis (more) An essay is an act of imagination. It still takes quite ...
The WILLA List Wiki
The WILLA List Wiki
willalist.wikia.com — From The WILLA List Wiki [ edit ] Welcome to The WILLA List Women in Letters and... Literary Arts started The WILLA List to note great books by women that Publishers Weekly missed in 2009. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit an entry, so we ... (more) The WILLA List Wiki
NZ Book Council - Going West (video)
Play
NZ Book Council - Going West (video)
youtube.com — Film for NZ Book CouncilProduced by Colenso BBDOAnimated by Andersen M Studio... (more) NZ Book Council - Going West (video)
2010 Debut Author Challenge Information
2010 Debut Author Challenge Information
thestorysiren.com — Last year, 2009, I found out last minute that the original blogger that hosted the 2k8 Challenge,... had decided to no longer host challenges. In return I took over the Debut Author challenge in 2009, but since I hadn't anticipated hosted it, I had nothing planned or worked. As a result the ... (more) 2010 Debut Author Challenge Information
Thankfully Reading Weekend
Thankfully Reading Weekend
bookblogsocialclub.com — Welcome to the very informal Thankfully Reading Weekend. Jenn from Jenn's Bookshelves gets full credit for coming... up with the idea. She happened to tweet that she was going to have a fairly quiet U.S. Thanksgiving weekend and was hoping to spend ... (more) Thankfully Reading Weekend
2009 Virtual Advent Tour
2009 Virtual Advent Tour
adventblogtour.blogspot.com — Kailana from The Written World and Marg from Reading Adventures are very pleased and excited to announce... that we will once again be running the Virtual Advent tour this year. This is the fourth year that we have hosted and we hope that the event has ... (more) 2009 Virtual Advent Tour
Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010
Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010
bookchickcity.com — Now, there are many different sub-genres of thriller, so don't go thinking that you don't actually read... these kinds of books because I bet you read more than you think. As I mentioned above you can choose from the numerous sub-genres, from cosy ... (more) Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010
100 Notable Books of 2009
nytimes.com — The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published... our previous Notables list. It was not easy picking the winners, and we doubtless made mistakes. To the authors who made the list: congratulations. To ... (more) 100 Notable Books of 2009
Weekly Geeks 2009-43
weeklygeeks.com — This is a guest post by Jackie of Literary Escapism who has graciously offered to organize the... Book Blogger Top 10 again this year. For the second year in a row, we're asking book bloggers to help put together a top 10 list of books published in ... (more) Weekly Geeks 2009-43
2009 Holiday Reading Challenge
bookwormygirl.blogspot.com — As I'm sure you can all tell, I'm in a "Christmassy" mood already. The blog is decked... out, my giveaways are up, the iPod is set to holiday tunes, and I'm ready to snuggle up with a... Frappucino (because sadly, it is still too hot in Florida for ... (more) 2009 Holiday Reading Challenge
Challenge: The Alphabet in Historical Fiction
Challenge: The Alphabet in Historical Fiction
historicaltapestry.blogspot.com — HT is going to host its first challenge! Based in Mysteries in Paradise's community challenge we now... present you The Alphabet in Historical Fiction. To participate, just follow the rules: Each fortnight you have to write a blog post about an historical fiction book of your choice (it might ... (more) Challenge: The Alphabet in Historical Fiction
Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub Women Writers
politicsdaily.com — Filed under: Woman Up A few weeks ago, two book critics held a hushed conversation via cell... phone under cover of darkness. "They better not do it again," one hissed. "I know," the other sputtered. "If it happens, I will just --" "I know!" ... (more) Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub Women Writers
How Junot Diaz, Kazuo Ishiguro, Orhan Pamuk and Other Authors Write Books
How Junot Diaz, Kazuo Ishiguro, Orhan Pamuk and Other Authors Write Books
online.wsj.com — ALEXANDRA ALTER Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop... computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," shuts himself in ... (more) How Junot Diaz, Kazuo Ishiguro, Orhan Pamuk and Other ...
Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend : OUPblog
blog.oup.com — Birds are singing, the sun is shining and I am joyful first thing in the morning without... caffeine. Why you ask? Because it is Word of the Year time (or WOTY as we refer to it around the office). Every year the New Oxford American Dictionary prepares ... (more) Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend : OUPblog
The 100 Best Books of the Decade
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk — Number 50: No Logo, Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, by Naomi Klein (2000)... (more) The 100 Best Books of the Decade
TwentyTen Reading Challenge
bartsbookshelf.co.uk — The aim is to read a total 20 books, over ten categories, in 2010. (Was this challenge... based solely around the name? I’ll let you decide!) Rules: So, on with the categories Young Adult Any book classified as young adult or featuring a teenage ... (more) TwentyTen Reading Challenge