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Mar 26 2008: A new state law in Indiana that requires sellers of adult material to register with the state has bookstore owners fuming about government censorship and threatening a legal challenge. "This lumps us in with businesses that sell things that you can't even mention in a ...
Mar 26 2008: The New York Times blog "Paper Cuts" offers an amusing piece on the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing ....
Mar 25 2008: The 'Authors for Autism Research' auction is now live at Ebay. Seventeen authors including Lee Child, Louis de Bernieres, Ken Follett, Jodi Picoult and James Sallis, are taking part in the auction. The winning bidders will have their names included as a character in ...
Mar 24 2008: Barnes & Noble has launched Quamut.com, a how-to Web site offering free online guides on more than 1,000 topics. Quamut, pronounced kwomut, is Latin for "how to". The company simultaneously publishes all content in two formats: as HTML online and as downloadable PDFs;...
Mar 24 2008: The finalists for this year's Hugo Awards have been published. The list includes Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union, which has also been nominated for an Edgar and a Nebula. The Hugos, first awarded in 1953, recognize excellence in the field of science ...
Mar 21 2008: The annual BookSense awards have been announced with little in the way of surprises. Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns won for fiction; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver for nonfiction; and The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and ...
Mar 21 2008: British memoirist Sebastian Horsley's book tour ended before it started this week when he was denied entry into the U.S. Horsley, who boasts of having consorted with 1,000 prostitutes, was turned away on the grounds of "moral turpitude". The irony of this happening ...
Mar 21 2008: Author Jon Hassler, who chronicled the foibles of small-town life in Staggerford, Grand Opening and other novels after starting his career late in life, has died. He was 74.
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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