Paris : "A Man in Uniform" written by Kate Taylor
18 Jan 2011 01:44:22
The outcome of the Dreyfus Affair has been dramatized in plays and films, including the Oscar-winning "The Life of Emile Zola" in 1937. Taylor, though, envisions the struggle to free an innocent man as a trigger for a French attorney to reconsider his own values.
Lawyer Francois Dubon is comfortable in mid-life — and no wonder. He enjoys a successful if boring practice, a dutiful wife and child, social prominence and a mistress he visits nearly every afternoon on his way home from the office. W... Read Full Story
In a waiting for new story from Sissy Spacek
16 Jan 2011 00:06:29
Hyperion announced Friday that it's publishing her memoir, which is tentatively called "Barefoot Stories." The book is scheduled to come out next year.
The 61-year-old actress won an Academy Award in 1981 for "Coal Miner's Daughter," in which she played country singer Loretta Lynn. She also starred in the horror classic "Carrie." She was seen last year in "Get Low," with Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. Read Full Story
Unwittingly Obama gave another life for the book "Faces of Hope"
16 Jan 2011 00:05:08
Christina Green was among 50 children in "Faces of Hope," a paperback collection of photographs of babies born on the day of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The book was ranked No. 8,288 before Obama's speech Wednesday night at the University of Arizona and was No. 154, and out of stock, by Thursday morning.
"Faces of Hope" was released in 2002 by HCI Books, a publisher based in Deerfield Beach, Fla. A spokeswoman said a new printing would be commissioned quickly. Read Full Story
And in our days Dashiell Hammett still popular
16 Jan 2011 00:01:35
"So I Shot Him," a 19-page crime thriller written in the clipped style Hammett made famous in "The Maltese Falcon" and other works, will appear in the winter/spring issue of Strand Magazine, managing editor Andrew F. Gulli said Thursday. The issue comes out Feb. 28.
Gulli found the undated story, and 14 others by Hammett, while looking through archives at the University of Texas in Austin. The Strand, a quarterly based in Birmingham, Mich., has recently published little known works by Graham Gr... Read Full Story
About Bookseller Borders Group Inc
15 Jan 2011 04:09:14
In the meeting Thursday, Borders asked publishers to provide money for a large portion of the company's debt as a loan, the paper said, adding that one publisher said the plan laid out by Borders was not a convincing strategy for turning around the company.
Last week, sources told Reuters that the bookseller has hired FTI Consulting Inc to assist in analyzing its finances and is in talks with GE Capital about new debt that could replace its existing credit line.
Borders was not immediately ava... Read Full Story
"The Price of Everything" by Eduardo Porter
15 Jan 2011 04:08:02
Porter explores the factors we weigh, consciously and unconsciously, in making decisions about things we don't traditionally think of as having prices. And he shows that in every imaginable context our choices are influenced by circumstances and our available alternatives — more than by finance and logic.
Such thinking helps explain numerous apparent paradoxes that Porter highlights, including the fact that people seem more willing to give blood for free than if they are paid $25, and more will... Read Full Story
Where live the most well-read people? In Washington.
15 Jan 2011 04:06:18
Washington, Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh, in that order, are the country's most literate, the study from Central Connecticut State University found.
It assessed the country's top reading cities in terms of newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.
"This set of factors measures people's use of their literacy and thus presents a large-scale portrait of our nation's cultural vit... Read Full Story
Yiyun Li become a winner Story Prize
12 Jan 2011 23:19:50
Li was nominated for the collection "Gold Boy," set mostly in the author's native China. The other finalists announced Monday for the $20,000 honor were Anthony Doerr for "Memory Wall" and Suzanne Rivecca for "Death is Not An Option." The winner will be announced March 2.
The Story Prize was founded in 2004. Previous winners include Edwidge Danticat and Tobias Wolff. Read Full Story
It may be the new head of Twelve publisher
12 Jan 2011 23:16:08
Author-editor-producer Susan Lehman has been forced out as publisher of Twelve after taking over in September. Twelve is an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, which announced Tuesday in an company e-mail shared with The Associated Press that associate publisher Cary Goldstein will replace Lehman effective immediately.
"Susan Lehman is an extremely insightful, creative and talented editor," Grand Central executive vice president and publisher Jamie Raab said in the e-mail. "Unfortunately, the ... Read Full Story
This book is about strict Chinese education
12 Jan 2011 16:37:11
The book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," is a chatty, witty, intimate memoir of how she raised two daughters in hyper-severe Chinese style, despite the surrounding children of permissive American parents.
Chua's father, a leading theorist of advanced mathematics, gave her a model for perfectionism. In eighth grade, she placed second in a history contest. Someone else was named best all-around student. She invited her family to the ceremony.
"Afterward," she writes, "my father said to me: `N... Read Full Story
He turned up the literature, his name is Mark Twain
10 Jan 2011 23:10:25
The author and humorist worried enough about what he could say in public to withhold anti-religion essays and to forbid his autobiography from being published until 100 years after his death. The first of three planned volumes of the unexpurgated version, released in 2010 and including harsh words for American business and military actions, became a surprise best-seller that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
But Twain also believed in getting out the truth. "The Adventures of Huckleberr... Read Full Story
New story "The Sentry" from the king of crime stories Robert Crais
10 Jan 2011 23:08:02
Pike is filling up the gas tank of his jeep when he sees several men in what appears to be a robbery at a sandwich shop. He intervenes and saves the owner's life. Although the man's niece is extremely grateful, the owner warns Pike to leave them alone. The next morning, the shop is vandalized. Pike realizes his intervention has caused more harm than good, so he decides to take care of the source of the problem.
With the help of his PI friend Elvis Cole, Pike learns who is responsible for the at... Read Full Story
