The novel that contains letters written by Saul Bellow
27 Nov 2010 00:46:48
"That was thrilling for me to be around, because you witnessed something being born in the moment, the need for something to be done," Janis Bellow, the late Nobel laureate's fifth and final wife, said in a recent telephone interview.
Bellow, who died in 2005 at age 89, wrote thousands of letters — some in longhand, some typed and single-spaced, and some dictated to his wife and others. "Saul Bellow: Letters" has just been released, roughly 40 percent of a correspondence covering more than 70 y... Read Full Story
The Cervantes Prize winner became popular novelist Ana Maria Matute
25 Nov 2010 02:18:33
The 125,000-euros (169,000-dollar) award was announced by Spain's culture ministry.
It will be given to Matute, 85, on April 23, in recognition of the anniversary of the death in 1616 of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of "Don Quixote" and Spain?s greatest literary figure.
Matute's works, including "The Lost Children" and "Soldiers Cry by Night", have been translated into 23 languages, the ministry said.
They deal with themes such as childhood and the loss of innocence, social injust... Read Full Story
Dance bars in Mumbai become more popular
25 Nov 2010 02:16:51
A television report on Mumbai's dance bars and the controversy over whether they should be banned or not first piqued Sonia Faliero's interest in the vast network of bars in India's financial hub and the women who worked there.
But the more she learned the more intrigued she became by the complicated world she found in Mumbai, once known as Bombay.
A 2005 ban on the dance bars -- where relatively well-clothed women perform to Bollywood or Indian pop songs -- set off a firestorm about whether t... Read Full Story
Steve Martin talks about his life and novel
25 Nov 2010 02:14:33
Martin admits "a certain kind of ease" with writing fiction, as exemplified in his new novel "An Object of Beauty" from Grand Central Publishing, but only now does he feel that way, at age 65, years removed from the "wild and crazy guy" who burst into show business as a stand-up comedian in the 1970s.
"Object of Beauty," which hit bookstores on Tuesday, tells the story of an alluring and ambitious art dealer named Lacey Yeager who climbs from the basement at Sotheby's auction house to open her ... Read Full Story
Famous «Baba Booey" gives an interview
24 Nov 2010 01:57:53
In a recent interview, Dell'Abate talked about his book, growing up in a dysfunctional family, and life after "The Howard Stern Show," which airs on Sirius XM Radio Inc.
The Associated Press: You write about your mother suffering from mental illness and your brother dying of AIDS. Was it difficult or easy to share this with the public?
Dell'Abate: Originally, I'd been pitching around a different kind of book. Baba Booey's book of rock and roll lists, stuff like that. My book agent said, "I cou... Read Full Story
Barack Obama wrote the kids book for his daughters and other children
24 Nov 2010 01:55:24
With "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters," a picture book for readers three and up that hit bookstores Tuesday (it was announced in September), the president joins a long list of famous folk who've penned children's books: Madonna, John Travolta, Katie Couric, Will Smith. Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Leno. Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, John Lithgow.
Even Obama's current secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, wrote one — when she was first lady, a book of chi... Read Full Story
In the nearest future it will be a new memoir from Dan Rather
24 Nov 2010 01:52:08
NEW YORK – Dan Rather is in the mood for "Summing Up."
The former CBS anchor and reporter has a deal with Grand Central Publishing for a memoir tentatively scheduled to come out in 2012. Grand Central announced Tuesday that "Summing Up" covers his long career in journalism, from the John F. Kennedy assassination and Watergate to the Iraq War and his final years at CBS, when a disputed story about President George W. Bush's military service led to Rather's departure in 2006.
"I just felt the ti... Read Full Story
You don’t know how spend your holiday time? Take these books and visit all unknown places
23 Nov 2010 02:52:11
First, the big guys. Lugging these tomes on an airplane may put your luggage over the weight limit. But if you're tucking gifts under your tree or shipping from an online retailer, these beautifully illustrated hardcovers are ideal for folks who like to dream about faraway places — as well as for those looking for real-world ideas.
Lonely Planet's "The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World," $50. The folks at Lonely Planet started with a list of the United Nation's 192 membe... Read Full Story
The author opinion about death penalty, you may read in the novel
23 Nov 2010 02:47:59
Grisham presents a very convincing case against the death penalty in "The Confession." (His profile on the back flap of the book notes that he is on the board of directors of the Innocence Project in New York and Mississippi, a program dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted prisoners.)
The clock is ticking down for death-row inmate Donte Drumm, a former high-school football star convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a popular young cheerleader.
Four days before Drumm is schedu... Read Full Story
Who was the Ptolemy Grey? Read new written by Walter Mosley
23 Nov 2010 02:35:58
Now, at 91, he is frail and plagued by Alzheimer's. The Los Angeles apartment he once shared with Sensie is filthy, filled with trash and overrun with vermin. He lives in terror of his drug-addicted neighbors, so he seldom ventures outside. Instead, he sits in front of the television for hours trying to remember how to turn it on. Some days, he forgets to eat.
His great-grandnephew Reggie looks in on him from time to time, taking him to the bank to cash his Social Security check and to the stor... Read Full Story
A famous punk musician Patti Smith won a prize “ the best writer of nonfiction”
20 Nov 2010 00:21:25
There were few prepared speeches on Wednesday night as most recipients managed few words beyond thanking the usual suspects. Patti Smith, who has some experience before audiences, became tearful as she accepted the nonfiction prize for "Just Kids," a bittersweet look back to New York City in the 1960s, when anything really could happen and Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe were just a couple of young artists out to break the rules.
Smith became the rare rock star to win a competitive l... Read Full Story
People will be glad to see the new book "Virals" written by Kathy Reichs
20 Nov 2010 00:18:55
Tory's only friends are fellow teenage islanders: Ben, the muscle; Shelton, the gadget guru; and Hiram, the comical sidekick. Together they form a ragtag team of misfits who regularly embark on "stealth missions" (self-assigned explorations) to off-limit areas around the island.
On one mission, they discover a corroded and illegible military dog tag. They want to return the dog tag to its owner, so they break into a science lab to borrow a piece of equipment to properly clean it. In the lab, th... Read Full Story
