Malla Nunn
A brief but revealing Q&A with Malla Nunn, author of A Beautiful Place to Die, the first in a new series set in 1950s South Africa starring Detective Emmanuel Cooper.
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo and Yoko Tanaka, the illustrator of The Magician's Elephant, discuss the writing and illustrating of the book. In a separate Q&A, Kate discusses The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Brigid Pasulka
Brigid Pasulka explains why she wrote her first novel, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, which is set in Poland during World War II, and in Kraków 50 years later.
Nov 06 2009: As Barnes & Noble prepares to close all but two of their B. Dalton mall stores by January 2010, Borders announced that they will close about 200 of the remaining mall-based Waldenbooks outlets in January, which will result in the loss of about 1500 mostly part-time jobs. This will leave Borders...
Nov 05 2009: In a joining of like minds, NPR and ABA have partnered to provide thoughtful bestsellers and unique book coverage to readers, both on NPR.org and IndieBound.org. Starting November 13, NPR Books will publish four bestseller lists weekly, using the Indie Bestseller List feeds; and the book info...
Oct 28 2009: The Nook has become the fastest selling single item at Barnes & Noble since the retailer introduced the e-reader October 20, according to company CEO Steve Riggio.
Amazon reported that the Kindle was its fastest selling product in both unit and dollar terms. Neither company has...
Oct 20 2009: Barnes and Noble's ebook reader, the Nook, is about to launch. Among Nook's features are that you can loan books to friends and that it supports an open standard so that anything can be distributed on it, including 1/2 million free public domain titles from Google. It is priced at US $259 and is...
Oct 19 2009: As Walmart and Amazon vie for the lowest online prices - Walmart.com have lowered their price on a handful of top selling hardcovers to $8.99, while Amazon remain at $9.00
Walmat CEO Raul Vazquez told the The Wall Street Journal last week that they "will go as low as we need to" in...
Oct 14 2009: The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2009 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at the National Book Foundation's 60th anniversary celebration on November 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, hosted by Andy Borowitz. Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers will...
Questions mount before debut of international Kindle
Oct 12 2009: Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised many questions including: How will the integrity of territorial...
Oct 09 2009: Romanian-born author Herta Mueller* has won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. A member of Romania's ethnic German minority Mueller was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain. The Nobel committee honored her for work that "with the concentration of poetry and...
The books that might influence the war in Afghanistan
Oct 07 2009: As reported by Shelf Awareness, The future course of the war in Afghanistan is currently being influenced by two books that "draw decidedly different lessons from the Vietnam War," according to Wall Street Journal.
"President Barack Obama recently finished Lessons in Disaster:...
Oct 07 2009: Amazon made its long-awaited move into the international market, announcing last night that it will begin shipping a new device with U.S. and international wireless access October 19. The new Kindle, priced at $279, will be available in more than 100 countries, Amazon said, and will have more than...
Oct 06 2009: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has been awarded the Man Booker Prize. Long before its publication last April this 650-page novel, based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to a petulant Henry VIII and remembered as an architect of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was already being...
Oct 06 2009: "Why do they always name schools after politicians and movie stars? Why don't they name a school after a teacher?" the late Frank McCourt often asked. Now his wish may come true. New York magazine reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg "is expected to soon announce the creation of the Frank McCourt...
A spellbinding novel that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.
A gripping and fascinating adventure of one young girl's obsession with knowing who her parents really were/are. The delving into the idea of ...
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I borrowed Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell from the library, hoping it would be a lively story of two feuding wizards. Instead, the author spends ...
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Borders to close 200 Waldenbooks outlets(Nov 06 2009) As Barnes & Noble prepares to close all but two of their B. Dalton mall stores by January 2010, Borders announced that they will close about 200 of the...
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NPR & ABA Partner to Share Book Coverage(Nov 05 2009) In a joining of like minds, NPR and ABA have partnered to provide thoughtful bestsellers and unique book coverage to readers, both on NPR.org and...
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