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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
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 ...
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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