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Oct 18 2010: Belva Plain died last week at the age of 95. The author of more than 20 bestselling books and known for epic novels of family and forgiveness, she never owned a computer and wrote in longhand on a yellow pad.
Oct 13 2010: The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Titles in the running for the Fiction award include Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss's Great House and Lionel Shriver's So Much for That.
Nonfiction includes Nothing to...
Oct 12 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson has won this year's Man Booker Prize. More about the book at BookBrowse (link below):
Oct 12 2010: Rumors of a completed novel to follow Steig Larsson's first three Millennium series novels (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo etc), has been confirmed, but it doesn't look like it will be publishing anytime soon as the book resides on a computer belonging to Larsson's ...
Oct 12 2010: The UK's Orange Prize is dropping their award for new writers, in favor of digital promotions and an online book club that they say will "be able to support a greater number of first time writers in a year long campaign."
Oct 12 2010: An atmosphere of excitement and optimism missing in recent years permeated the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association fall trade show held in Portland, Oreg. on October 7-9
Oct 07 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa's publisher at Faber (UK) has hailed the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature as "a writer of enormous range, passion and insight".
Lee Brackstone spoke to The Bookseller (the UK's leading publishing industry magazine) after the Peruvian ...
Oct 07 2010: UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has halted betting on this year's Booker after C by Tom McCarthy received a flurry of bets setting "alarm bells ringing". At William Hill, bets are still open, but Tom McCarthy's novel is still the 10/11 favorite.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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