Sep 16 2008: In a very extensive article, New York Magazine examines the book publishing business, offering a gloomy prognosis for the short term, with light at the end of the tunnel.
Sep 15 2008: In a lengthy article about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the New York Times explores the book banning issue:
"The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to ...
Sep 15 2008: David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide.
Sep 12 2008: "The Economist" reports on the good health of small town libraries in America's "land of mountains and cattle", noting that the average Wyoming resident checked out nine books in 2005-06, compared with an average of five in California and two in Washington, DC.
Sep 09 2008: J. K. Rowling got her wish on Monday when a federal judge blocked a librarian from publishing a guidebook to her Harry Potter series that was to be published by librarian Steven Jan Vander Ark. In a 68-page ruling released on Monday, Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of ...
Sep 09 2008: The Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. Notably absent from the list is Salman Rushdie, who UK 'bookies' had tipped to win.
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White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes ...
Sep 09 2008: The McCain-Palin team is continuing its pushback campaign against stories about VP nominee Sarah Palin banning books while mayor of Wasilla, and in particular to a lengthy list of books that it is said she banned (which is now known to be false - as some of the books ...
Sep 08 2008: Mary Ellen Baker, the librarian at the center of the Sarah Palin book-banning controversy, may not be talking to the press, but librarians around the country are voicing their concerns about having an alleged censor on the Republican ticket — through a blog called "...
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