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May 15 2009: January Magazine explores the developing story of a sequel to Catcher in the Rye apparently due to publish in September. Is it a hoax, an unauthorized sequel, or is it really penned by J D Salinger using the lame pseudonym "John David California". The considered ...
May 13 2009: Richard Madeley has spoken out days after his and wife Judy Finnigan's digital channel chatshow was axed to openly admit their failure.
The couple's decision to move "The Richard and Judy Show", and its popular book club, from Channel 4, where it attracted a peak ...
May 13 2009: Eden Ross Lipson, long-time editor editor of the New York Times Book Review, died yesterday. She was 66 and had pancreatic cancer.
An editor at The New York Times Book Review for 31 years, Ms. Lipson was the children's book editor there from 1984 until her retirement...
May 06 2009: Amazon have unveiled their larger Kindle DX with a screen size 2.5 times the size of a regular Kindle. It's 1/3 inch thick and able to store 3,500 books or periodicals. Although they are offering it for sale at Amazon there is no firm date on when it will actually be ...
May 04 2009: The New York Times reports on the rumors that Amazon is close to launching a bigger screen version of the Kindle, with a screen roughly the size of a standard sheet of paper, aimed at the newspaper and magazine reading market.
Similar readers are also in the works ...
May 01 2009: May 1st is Buy Indie Day. The idea: buy one book - paperback, hardcover, audiobook, whatever you want - at an independent bookstore near you. Find an independent bookstore near you at Indiebound.org
Apr 30 2009: The Guardian reports on the remarkably diverse reading culture in Europe with Swedish crime fiction dominating the charts led by
Stieg Larsson,
Henning Mankell, Liza Marklund and Jens Lapidus.
By awarding points for chart position and length of time in the charts...
Apr 29 2009: Obama has already sent a number of non-fiction books to the top of the bestseller lists by being seen reading them. Can he do the same for fiction?
In a forthcoming interview in the New York Times Magazine Obama admits to being "sick enough of briefing books" and ...
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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