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Fiction
Source: www.post-gazette.com Date: 8 hours 27 minutes ago As readers of John Irving know, terrible things happen to his characters; not just terrible things but comically far-fetched terrible things. More Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: 13 hours 21 minutes ago Alan Bennett's imagined encounter between Britten and Auden is full of ideas, laughs and great performances, writes Susannah Clapp More Source: www.jsonline.com Date: 15 hours 27 minutes ago Billy Collins and artist David Sibley have either created a stupendous enticement for bird watching or destroyed birding as a hobby forever. More Source: www.statesman.com Date: 19 hours 41 minutes ago Kim Stanley Robinson, a highly acclaimed science-fiction author, stirred up a bit of a controversy this year with an article in New Scientist magazine criticizing the Booker prize for favoring historical fiction during the past several years. Five of this More Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Date: 21 hours 13 minutes ago Simon Heffer had always believed there were raging currents in TS Eliot, yet the poet of 'Prufrock' kept them well out of sight in his letters. More Date: Nov 21, 2009 On Mondays from 7 to 9 pm listen to Blarney on the Air with hosts Shay Clarke from 7 to 8 pm, and Bill Margeson from 8 to 9 pm. Shay likes it all, Bill likes mostly traditional. 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: www10.nytimes.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 An exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington on the Fal-Nameh, or Book of Omens, may lead to discoveries that will throw some light on its emergence in 16th-century Iran and Turkey. More Source: www.prlog.org Date: Nov 21, 2009 Sarah Palin Debunked & The Obama Cunundrum. Review copies of Lionel Rolfe's new book, "Presidents & Near Presidents I Have Known" are available for media members by email. More Source: www.blackbookmag.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 It seems like just yesterday Washington State was getting all caught up in the Twilight/New Moon mania and spinning off tours and downloadable PDFs for all Twihards who felt like coming to visit Port Angeles, Forks, and the spooky area of La Push. Now they're offering actual trip giveaways to the More Source: www.independent.co.uk Date: Nov 21, 2009 A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online. More Source: living.scotsman.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 Bookworm: Writing wrongs - LET'S start with the bleedin' obvious. You can't put on a book festival without writers, no more than you can stage a Formula One race without racing drivers; they're the reason for the whole event happening, so it makes sense to look after them. More Source: www.conversationalreading.com Date: Nov 20, 2009 I'm not so sure that the end of the Oprah show means the end of Oprah's involvement in publishing. Indications are that Oprah's going to have her own cable TV network, which would certainly provide a podium to sell books from, if that was something she wanted to do. I've been back and forth on the More Source: www.nzherald.co.nz Date: Nov 20, 2009 Sam Hunt writes in his new book, Backroads, that even as an 8-year-old boy, More Source: www.readingrockets.org Date: Nov 20, 2009 Offers effective teaching strategies, activities, lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, assessments for reading comprehension, language arts, literacy, fluency, phonics and phonemic awareness for children, especially those with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. 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.nybooks.com Date: Nov 19, 2009 An article by Peter Brooks from The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2009 More Source: www.artsjournal.com Date: Nov 19, 2009 "Roth can comfort himself with the fact that a roll call of literary fiction's great and good, from Booker winner John Banville to acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell and Whitbread winner Paul Theroux," are also in competition this year for the Literary Review's bad More Source: New Scientist Date: Nov 19, 2009 Musical twitterers have found a way to condense entire compositions to fit in single, 140-character tweets listen to them here More Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk Date: Nov 19, 2009 Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. His most recent collections of poetry are District and Circle, 2006, and The Riverbank Field, 2007. More Previous | Next
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