For all audio books lovers
25 Oct 2010 13:30:54
The narrator is Holden Caulfield of "The Catcher in the Rye," but the voice — a light, steady baritone — belongs to Ray Hagen. He is a longtime reader for the Library of Congress' National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, which provides books on tape ("talking books") and in Braille. This recording, book number RC 47480 in the library's catalog, is the closest anyone will likely come to an official audiobook edition of J.D. Salinger's classic novel.
The author, who died... Read Full Story
Jon Meacham become more famous
23 Oct 2010 19:09:05
Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham will soon be working for the Random HousePublishing Group.
Random House announced Wednesday that, effective Jan. 3, Meacham will "acquire and edit a select number of nonfiction titles each year."
Meacham's biography of Andrew Jackson, "American Lion," was released by Random House in 2008 and won a Pulitzer.
The 41-year-old Meacham was editor of Newsweek from 2006 until last summer. His other books include "Franklin and W... Read Full Story
About Chinua Achebe the Nigerian writer
23 Oct 2010 19:06:33
"Unfortunately, the truth is that Nigeria has disappointed all of our friends and loved ones and relations who are constantly having reasons to ask, `When will something good ever happen?'" Achebe, who turns 80 next month, said during a recent interview from his home in Providence, R.I.
"Fifty years is a long time, especially for those of us who were already grown up when it happened. The expectations were just unbelievable. It's like the place was lit up and we were expecting miracles. But the... Read Full Story
About famous publishers
23 Oct 2010 19:04:51
The country's largest newspaper publishers still haven't been able to reverse a slump in advertising sales more than three years after it began.
THE LATEST: Third-quarter earnings from The New York Times Co. and McClatchy Co. both showed that print advertising fell compared with a year ago, when ad sales had already taken a big plunge from 2008 levels.
THE FALLOUT: After results came out Tuesday morning, Times Co. shares fell 25 cents, or 3.1 percent, to close at $7.79. McClatchy slipped 27 c... Read Full Story
It isn’t a joke, but Mark Twain is still popular
22 Oct 2010 00:32:39
Pre-orders for the first of three planned volumes of his autobiography, released in full upon the centennial of Twain's death, have for the past few days placed the book in the top five of Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com. It is outpacing new works by Ken Follett, John Grisham and Jon Stewart.
"The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1" comes out Nov. 15 from the University of California Press, which already has increased the first printing from 50,000 copies to 75,000, the publisher said Tues... Read Full Story
Interview with Anne Fortier
22 Oct 2010 00:29:37
Anne Fortier wrote her own interpreter about famous William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" jumps back and forth between Siena, Italy (a town in Tuscany), in the 1300s and the present day, when Fortier's protagonist, 20-something Julie Jacobs, inherits a key to a safety deposit box in Italy. Her aunt left most of her estate to Julie's twin sister, Janice.
It turns out Julie has a connection to the woman who inspired Shakespeare's Juliet.
Fortier wanted all the details of medieval Siena to b... Read Full Story
The culture didn’t disappeared in the terrible period of France
22 Oct 2010 00:24:32
During the four years of World War II in which France was under Nazi occupation, artists painted; musicians and singers performed; fashion designers turned out haute couture; and novelists, poets and playwrights produced work at a pace that reflected the City of Light's renown as a cultural beacon and a place where intellectuals were held in high esteem. As author Alan Riding explains in "And the Show Went On," his broad-ranging book about cultural life during the occupation, it was in the int... Read Full Story
The mother of England detectives says that she was fed up with her famous hero
20 Oct 2010 14:01:51
Christie considered the diminutive, stiff-moustached gastronome as her "bread and butter" but would grumble about having to churn out "yet another Poirot," Mathew Pritchard told Radio Times magazine.
"She was never short of ideas for books but some of these ideas were inappropriate for Poirot, so she was very keen to exorcise herself of him by writing different stories with new characters," he said.
"But her agents and publishers, who were in charge of the pounds and pence, were very keen on P... Read Full Story
For all lovers of New York City Comic Con dedicated to
20 Oct 2010 13:57:54
According to CBS News, Richard Turner and an unnamed accomplice attempted to steal some valuable comics from Matt Nelson, co-owner of Worldwide Comics in Texas. Nelson chased after Turner, who had grabbed a copy of "Action Comics #11" valued at $4,000. This particular comic is notable because it contains one of Superman's earliest appearances.
Turned has since been charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property. The accomplice did run away with a copy of "Whiz Comics," featuring t... Read Full Story
What do you know about Churchill Defiant?
20 Oct 2010 13:54:51
Germany's surrender, in the midst of a victors' summit, war-weary British voters threw him out of office.
Churchill had effectively lost his top status in the final weeks of the war. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the American commander of Western forces marching on Berlin, gave up the race against Soviet troops advancing on the city from the other direction.
Churchill had begged Roosevelt to make Eisenhower capture Berlin, pleading in vain that a Soviet victory would give Stalin too much influenc... Read Full Story
"Death to the BCS" by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan true story about American football
18 Oct 2010 13:25:00
The authors, who are reporters for Yahoo!, examined public records and interviewed officials representing universities, conferences andbowl games. They say they found a corrupt system that's inherently unfair to smaller programs, robs fans of seeing fair competition and often leaves taxpayers in the lurch. (At least one member of Congress has asked for a Justice Department investigation into whether the BCS violates antitrust laws.)
The BCS is technically run by the commissioners of college... Read Full Story
It isn’t so easy to write novels
18 Oct 2010 13:22:31
Elmore Leonard's 44th novel, "Djibouti," hit shelves on Tuesday, a day after he celebrated his 85th birthday. And "Justified," the FX drama based on a Leonard short story and for which he's an executive producer, wrapped up a critically acclaimed first season earlier this year.
Surely, the octogenarian is ready to slow down a bit.
Besides 44 novels, Leonard has written 32 Western short stories and nine produced screenplays. Seventeen of his books have earned a place on The New York Times lis... Read Full Story
