BNA_Daily | August 29, 2010
From Guantanamo libraries to a writing camp in South Carolina, today’s news proves that reading is far from a thing of the past. Just ask people attending the New Yorker Festival…
Literature probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “Guantanamo Bay,” but recently Time magazine took a look at the detention [...]
BNA_Daily | August 20, 2010
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom–that book everyone keeps talking about–doesn’t come out until August 31st, but the reviews are already piling up. So far, the consensus seems to be that if you liked Franzen’s 2001 novel The Corrections, you’ll love Freedom. As Sam Anderson explains in New York magazine, “Freedom is a close cousin to The Corrections: [...]
BNA_Daily | August 20, 2010
It’s Friday the 13th, but today’s news is all good. Check out a hilarious essay about first-time publication anxiety, an interview with Suzanne Collins, and a Time cover that supports literature in America.
On The Millions blog, first-time novelist Rosecrans Baldwin shares his pre-publication fears via a hilarious diary dating back to March. His novel You [...]
BNA_Daily | August 12, 2010
Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere but Here (1986) and PEN/Faulkner Award-nominated Off Keck Road (2000), illuminates the tensions of modern motherhood in her latest novel My Hollywood. The novel revolves around Claire, a well-to-do if slightly dull wife and mother, and Lola, Claire’s Filipina nanny. Lola cares for Claire’s baby, William, while Claire struggles to [...]
BNA_Daily | August 9, 2010
Gary Shteyngart, hilarious and critically acclaimed author of Absurdistan, is back with a new, equally biting satire. Super Sad True Love Story takes place in a not-so-distant dystopian future, where the 39-year-old protagonist, Lenny, is hopelessly over the hill, and his 20-something love interest, Eunice, doesn’t have a meaningful thought in her tech-crazed head. Ron [...]
BNA_Daily | July 16, 2010
Chances are, you’ve heard some of the buzz about Jennifer Egan’s latest book, A Visit From the Goon Squad. Since its release in early June, the book–part novel, part linked stories, totally unique–has collected glowing reviews from one publication after the next. Egan is known for her vivid insight and postmodern experimentation, and in Goon [...]
BNA_Daily | July 14, 2010
Fun news today, from the anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird to a hilarious, star-studded book trailer. Enjoy!
Last Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and the blogosphere is buzzing with fans’ memories of the book. You can also find out what people like Oprah, Tom Brokaw, and Wally Lamb [...]
BNA_Daily | July 8, 2010
If you don’t read today’s news, you may miss the best books of 2010 or get eaten in the zombie apocalypse. So keep reading…
Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times reported on Scholastic’s recent success in introducing classic children’s books to the Arabic market. Carol Sakoian, a Vice President at Scholastic, began the mission several [...]
BNA_Daily | June 23, 2010
Now that it’s officially summer, we’ve compiled summer reading lists, articles, and recommendations from around the Web to guide you and your family through a happy summer full of books. Grouped by age, the lists include everything from classics to guilty pleasure reads, so there’s no excuse for heading to the pool empty handed.
KIDS
Family Education [...]
BNA_Daily | January 13, 2010
Believe it or not, Unfinished Desires is not a romance novel turned murder mystery–it’s a story about a nun. Mother Ravenel, to be exact, an aging woman writing the history of the Catholic school she attended and eventually ran. Author Gail Godwin uses Mother Ravenel’s history to portray the complicated dynamics of packs of teenaged [...]
