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Nov 12 2006: The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is asking booksellers to post a new statement in their stores. "To Our Customers" explains the bookstore's support of free speech and readers' privacy. It comments on why booksellers believe it is ...
Nov 12 2006: American author Jonathan Littell (son of the author Robert Littell) has won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary honor, for novel, Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones). Harper Collins will publish the US translation in Spring 2008. ...
Nov 12 2006: The battle over searching the entire text of books continues to hot up with Google issuing subpoenas to Amazon, the Association of American Publishers, Yahoo, Microsoft, Random House, HarperCollins and Holtzbrinck Publishers seeking details relating to each ...
Oct 19 2006: Kiran Desai has won this year’s Mann Booker Prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss. At 35 Desai is the youngest woman to ever win the award, which is the U.K.’s most prestigious literary honor. The daughter of three-time short listed nominee ...
Oct 19 2006: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus (who shares the honor with Grameen Bank, which he founded and heads) won the Nobel Peace Prize. His book Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty was published in the USA in 1999. We ...
Oct 19 2006: Khaled Hosseini's first book, The Kite Runner, has been a runaway bestseller for Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Putnam. The title and publication of his next book has just been announced: A Thousand Splendid Suns will be published on May 22, 2007.
Oct 19 2006: Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist known for his free speech struggles with the Turkish government, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Academy head Horace Engdahl said Pamuk was selected not for political reasons, but because he had "enlarged the roots of the ...
Oct 19 2006: All 89 Tower stores, which include two Tower Books, are closing for good after Great American Group, a liquidating company, won a bankruptcy court-supervised auction and bought Tower's inventory for about $134.3 million
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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