BNA_Editor | January 13, 2010
1. More Reading, Fewer Books Sold:
In January of this year, the National Endowment for the Arts published a report titled “Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy” that pronounced this seemingly contradictory message: Americans are reading more (more than half of adults surveyed said they had read one work of literary [...]
BNA_Daily | September 29, 2009
Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, is back with a new novel about love and the supernatural. Her Fearful Symmetry begins with the death of the 40-something protagonist, Elspeth. An identical twin herself, Elspeth leaves her London flat to her identical twin nieces from Chicago, Julia and Valentina. The problem is, Elspeth [...]
BNA_Daily | September 15, 2009
After 6 years and 2 mediocre films to tide us over, the follow up to Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code hits stores tomorrow. The Lost Symbol follows protagonist Robert Langdon on another epic, mysterious adventure, this time in our nation’s capital. After discovering his friend’s severed hand in the Capitol building, [...]
BNA_Daily | August 21, 2009
Jonathan Tropper, author of How to Talk to a Widow and Plan B, is back with This Is Where I Leave You, a novel the Los Angeles Times calls “often hilarious and often heartbreaking.” Judd Foxman’s father has died, leaving Judd thrust under the same roof as his siblings and mother to observe the Jewish [...]
BNA_Daily | August 4, 2009
Richard Russo’s latest novel, That Old Cape Magic, is out today, his second novel since Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls in 2001. That Old Cape Magic tells the story of Jack Griffin, a middle-aged screenwriting professor who must spread his parents’ ashes on Cape Cod, where he vacationed as a child. The task sends him reeling [...]
thomas_b | July 28, 2009
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played With Fire is out today, following The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as the second book in the late author’s “Millenium” series. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are back at the center of the action, but this time a string of murders point to Salander as the suspect. Blomkvist [...]
BNA_Daily | July 9, 2009
Tuesday was a big day for popular fiction, with new titles releasing from several best-selling authors. From love stories and mysteries to murder at an Indian dinner party, there’s bound to be something you’ll enjoy on the New Release shelf this week. See below for reviews of three of the week’s most buzzed about titles.
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BNA_Daily | July 6, 2009
With a title like Heroic Measures, you might expect an action/adventure epic, but Jill Ciment’s latest is a slim novel spanning one weekend in the life of an elderly couple and their dog. Though a terrorist scare in New York City forms the story’s backdrop, the couple’s real problems involve selling the East Village apartment [...]
BNA_Daily | June 29, 2009
In Trouble, Kate Christensen’s latest novel, 40-something Josie walks out of her life of marriage and motherhood to pursue the sexuality she forgot she had. She joins her rocker friend Raquel for an escape to Mexico City, where debauchery and sexual re-awakening ensue. Publishers Weekly calls Trouble a “slightly lesser work” than The Great Man, [...]
BNA_Daily | June 22, 2009
In 2004, Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind took off unexpectedly, soliciting rave reviews from critics and reaching bestseller status in several countries. But Shadow was never supposed to stand alone - Zafon tells Amazon that he was “toying around with the idea of creating a fictional universe that would be articulated through [...]
