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Feb 28 2008: Reuters reports on the death of writer and commentator William F. Buckley who is credited with founding the modern conservative movement in US politics. According to Jack Fowler, publisher of National Review, the magazine Buckley founded in 1955, Buckley had suffered ...
Feb 27 2008: Random House is offering the entire text of Beautiful Children, Charles Bock's debut novel, for free online until midnight on Friday 29 February. Readers can share, e-mail or print the text, which is available as a PDF download at beautifulchildren.net/read.
Feb 26 2008: Reed Elsevier, parent company of Reed Business Information which includes Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Variety, and other top trade journals, recently announced that the magazines were up for sale. In the wake of this it has also been ...
Feb 25 2008: The single-biggest winner at last night's Oscars was No Country for Old
Men, based on Cormac McCarthy's book, which won best picture, best director,
best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay.
The Bourne Ultimatum, based on Robert Ludlum's book, won...
Feb 23 2008: Novelist Zadie Smith, who has received a number of awards including the Whitbread First Novel award for White Teeth and the Orange Prize for Fiction for On Beauty, has caused a stir in the blogosphere and the mainstream media with a blistering attack on literary prizes....
Feb 22 2008: Bestselling author Robin Moore, with more than 80 books to his credit, best known for writing The French Connection and The Green Berets, died Feb. 21 at the age of 82 in Kentucky.
Feb 19 2008: The Times of London takes aim at the monolithic chain stores and questions if they even offer good "value", whether it be for food, clothes or books:
"These days, how you decide to shop defines you as much as how you choose to dress. We treat supermarket shopping as ...
Feb 18 2008: The London Times reports on the realities of being a published author. Of the 200,000 books published in the UK last year, 190,000 sold fewer than 3,500 copies, with about 60,000 selling less than 18 copies. Things aren't much different in the US, where it's ...
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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