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Oct 05 2006: Publishers Weekly reports that the USA spent $871 million on audiobooks in 2005, up 5% year on year; three-quarters of that was spent on CDs, 16% on cassettes and 9% on digital downloads. Fiction accounted for 58% of purchases, with just over half (54%) of ...
Oct 05 2006: A minor brouhaha broke out in the world of British letters a few weeks back when Bevis Hillier, a biographer of England's poet laureate John Betjeman, duped another of Betjeman's biographers, A. N. Wilson, into including a spoof love letter in his book ...
Oct 05 2006: Haruki Murakami has won the second Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, published last month in the USA. According to the Guardian, the prize, given to the best new collection published in English in the past...
Oct 05 2006: At the official launch of the Sony Reader last week, the electronics giant filled in some of the questions that had remained open since this past winter, when a prototype of the reading device was first released. Perhaps the most important bit of new information was the...
Oct 05 2006: According to the Communications Industry Forecast 2006-2010, the amount of time spent reading books is expected to stay effectively static (107 hours per year in 2006, rising to 108 in 2010 - I suspect the 1 hour increase is actually a fob to the book industry, as...
Sep 20 2006: Baghdad has long been "a city known for its love affair with books." In the words of the well known Arabic proverb "Cairo writes. Beirut publishes. And Baghdad reads." Sadly, this is no longer the case - The Washington Post reports that Mutanabi Street, the ...
Sep 20 2006: The Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. The prize is open to any novel by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland and the shortlist reflects this diversity, with two Australians, one Indian, one exiled Libyan and two Britons making up the...
Sep 20 2006: In April 2007, Houghton Mifflin will publish a new book by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin, one of three "great tales" Tolkien worked on during his life. The book has been completed by Tolkien's son Christopher who has acted as editor of much of his father's ...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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