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792/Behind the Bestsellers
Source: www.fromthesquare.org Date: 2 hours 30 minutes ago On my way to the booth, walking across gravel made bright white by the blazing Caribbean sun, my status as a civilian—clean shaven, dressed in a tie and formal shoes—was punctuated by the loud sounds of practice machine-gun fire in the distance. More Source: www.rarebooknews.com Date: 5 hours 40 minutes ago " For Surjit Hans, a well known Punjabi litterateur and retired professor of history, reading Shakespeare in English was not very easy. So he translated the Bard's plays into Punjabi." Read this article.... More Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: 6 hours 1 minute ago Richard Lea: Our survey of the noughties' highlights continues with a year that brought new work from Kundera, an exciting debut from Kunzru, and contentious pop science from Stephen Pinker More Date: 7 hours 3 minutes ago I was stunned to realize that this volume didn’t conclude the series, since so many plot points are tied up and conflicts resolved. All the themes of the series are prominently on display: More Source: www.thebookseller.com Date: 9 hours 3 minutes ago Borders' website has stopped taking customer orders, with staff in store told earlier today (23rd November) that they are no longer allowed to place customer orders. The move suggests that the chain, which is at the centre of feverish speculation about its future, can no longer rely on supply. More Source: powells.com Date: 11 hours 24 minutes ago Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world. We carry an extensive collection of out of print rare, and technical titles as well as many other new and used books in every field. More Source: www.beneaththecover.com Date: 14 hours 9 minutes ago “Gratitude” wrote William Faulkner, “is a quality similar to electricity —it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at More Source: www.artsjournal.com Date: Nov 22, 2009 "Oxfam has attempted to patch up its differences with secondhand booksellers." A trade group "had said that Oxfam's voluntary staff, donated stock and business-rate reductions allowed it to undercut rivals, forcing some secondhand booksellers out of business and taking trade away from others."... More Source: lailalalami.com Date: Nov 22, 2009 When I was an undergraduate at University Mohammed-V, I used to find all my English-language books at the aptly named English Bookshop in downtown Rabat. The store was so tiny that the aisles only fit one person at a time. More Date: Nov 21, 2009 She will enthrall you, with tales of magic, and intrigue you with true love please join Traci Hall for a ride you will never forget book signing. She will be signing Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways and Something Wiccan This Way Comes. More Source: features.csmonitor.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 Books: Book reviews, news from the literary world, and a daily blog by the books editor of The Christian Science Monitor. More Source: www.powells.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things... More Source: www.post-gazette.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 "The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900" By Domenic Bradbury with photographs by Richard Powers Thames Hudson, $65 The world's most influential houses are in this More Source: www.austinchronicle.com Date: Nov 20, 2009 On topics of interest alone – first diaries in A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, now letters in Yours Ever: People and Their Letters – one might accuse the essayist and novelist Thomas Mallon of voyeurism, or at least of a fetish for being the uninvited guest. More Source: www.themanbookerprize.com Date: Nov 18, 2009 Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, is today (Wednesday 18th November) announced as Chair of the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Andrew Motion is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. More Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Date: Nov 17, 2009 Stephenie Meyer, the author of the phenomenally successful Twilight Saga books, has broken Waterstone's record for the fastest time to sell a million copies. More Source: www.publetariat.com Date: Nov 17, 2009 April L. Hamilton issues a challenge for indie authors to put their money and influence where their mouths are. More Source: www.unshelved.com Date: Nov 17, 2009 The actors may be extremely attractive, the special effects may be awesome, but the movie will never be as good as the source material. More Source: booksquare.com Date: Nov 16, 2009 For the past few weeks, we've been talking about Digital Rights Management (DRM), and the diversity of comments have been fascinating. I still do not believe More Date: Nov 16, 2009 ReadySteadyBlog: Robert Kellys long poem, The Will of Achilles has just been posted up on the Web Conjunctions website.But under the raina different thing. Vine leavesAchilles sees, inconsequentmyrtles. There is no endto weather. The gods are done with him.(More...)… More Previous | Next
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