BNA_Editor | April 28, 2009
Here at Books & Authors, we spend most of our time huddled on couches or comfy chairs, reading our weekly fix of genre fiction and heartbreaking works of nonfiction (honestly, if anyone can recommend a nice nonfiction work that won’t bum us out, please share). The rest of our time we spend online, searching for [...]
BNA_Editor | April 28, 2009
Back in February, an article on certified “genius” (at least, according to whomever hands out the MacArthur grants) author Colson Whitehead appeared in The Daily Beast with the eye-catching title - “The Great Summer Read Is Almost Here.” The reporter was referring to Whitehead’s newest novel titled Sag Harbor (out today), an autobiographical bildungsroman about [...]
BNA_Editor | April 28, 2009
2009 has been a hard year on literary figures so far, with the world losing John Updike in January and the great J.G. Ballard last Sunday. A master of postmodern irony, Ballard wrote across a wide spectrum of topics and themes, ranging from the apocalyptic extremes of The Drowned World and The Drought to the [...]
