Jonathan Franzen’s fifth novel, Purity, appears, like his previous one, Freedom, amid the media equivalent of the fog of war. There have been trumpeted interviews and fatuous raves, but also misleading headlines, Twitter diatribes, backlashes to the backlash and a deluge of emptily sassy online retorts aggregating all of the above. Low-key irony and a stickler’s insistence on saying exactly what one thinks have never played well in the press, so this author—whose original sin consists of being inanely praised in the New York Times Book Review and declared a “Great American Novelist” on the cover of Time—has only succeeded in compounding the murk. Someone has to be the face of every (real and imagined) injustice writers face when negotiating the publishing establishment; it’s so much more fun to hate a face. Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Southern California Independent Booksellers Association honors 2019 award winners Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-10-02 01:12:51 UTC ]
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An awesome daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-09-26 10:30:24 UTC ]
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What to do in L.A.: 5 book talks for the week ahead include Demi Moore discussing her memoir 'Inside Out' and Jonathan Safran Foer on 'We Are the Weather.' Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-09-20 20:19:53 UTC ]
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‘Ducks, Newburyport’ is a 1,000-plus page female monologue. Might our focus on its heft be a little sexist, the author wonders? Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Franklin, associate publisher at Jonathan Cape, is due to retire after 26 years at the Vintage imprint. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 09:22:10 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has scooped UK and Commonwealth rights to Frances Leviston’s story collection The Voice in My Ear. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 21:28:41 UTC ]
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Critics have dubbed Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments an "addictively readable, fast-paced adventure", but reports of occasional leaks of the novel have continued. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-08 13:33:35 UTC ]
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Want your child to love reading? Two New York Times children's book editors give tips on making reading a pleasurable experience Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-30 18:10:32 UTC ]
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Jeannette Ng, who won the prize this year, said the man it was named after “set the tone of science fiction that still haunts the genre.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-08-28 22:27:26 UTC ]
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Beijing International Book Fair returnees give us an indispensable glimpse into the Chinese market and extol the benefits of attending the fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-20 13:59:20 UTC ]
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Tributes have been paid to Gay’s The Word bookshop co-founder Jonathan Cutbill, who has passed away aged 82 after a period of ill health. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-15 17:00:19 UTC ]
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Author Elaine Kendall was a longtime book critic for the Los Angeles Times. She died in Montecito at age 91. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-12 22:46:20 UTC ]
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In which we argue about pizza, discuss the nature of truth, and hear many, many stories about butts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-02 12:00:19 UTC ]
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[ Book Riot | 2019-07-26 10:30:14 UTC ]
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[ Book Riot | 2019-07-25 10:30:48 UTC ]
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In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, author and illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and science fiction writer Mary Anne Mohanraj talk to hosts V. V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and how space exploration has been... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 08:47:28 UTC ]
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