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 26, 2009
This week on NPR, President of the Public Library Association Sari Feldman addressed the common question of how to keep kids reading over the summer. She talks to “Tell Me More” host Michel Martin about taking kids to the library, asking librarians for book recommendations, and making reading a priority in your household. You can [...]
BNA_Daily | June 25, 2009
From Martin Luther King, Jr. and nonfiction beach reads to reclaiming passionate love in the 21st century, today’s links encourage readers to open their minds and learn something new. Whether you’re a kid obsessed with sci-fi or an adult tugging at the seams of “practical” love, we have something to expand your horizons.
BNA_Daily | June 24, 2009
You would never know it’s the beginning of summer by looking at this week’s New York Times best-seller list - with witches, weretigers, and tech-savvy killers, it feels more like Halloween. But clearly these are the books that keep people turning pages late into the night or distract them from re-applying sunscreen as they cook [...]
BNA_Daily | June 23, 2009
Today we have news involving popular authors Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Janet Evanovich, and Stephen King. Highlights include a book covered with fur and common sense advice about text messaging. Details below…
Nearly a year after the author’s suicide, Viking has signed on to publish David Foster Wallace’s biography. Journalist D.T. Max, who published [...]
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 [...]
BNA_Daily | June 19, 2009
June 19th, or Juneteenth, celebrates the day that the country’s last slaves were freed. In this short video, NPR chronicles the final Civil War battle leading up to the final emancipation in Texas on June 19th, 1865 - two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation became official. In the years leading up to [...]
BNA_Daily | June 18, 2009
There are a lot of interesting things going on in the lit world right now, the most pressing being Iranian author Marjane Satrapi’s involvement in the country’s election debates. On the lighter end of the spectrum are a French version of Green Eggs and Ham and Sarah Dessen’s advice on how not to kill your [...]
BNA_Daily | June 17, 2009
Everyone knows that being green is super hip, so get caught reading a book about nature this summer! Margot Berwin’s much anticipated Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire released on Tuesday, with the Wall Street Journal calling it “one of this summer’s bigger literary debuts.” The book has elements of fantasy and magical realism [...]
BNA_Daily | June 16, 2009
When it comes to beach reading, you would think that a subtly sexy, suspenseful novel called Dune Road would outshine novels about the apocalypse, but, according to today’s news, you would be wrong. We can only hope that these books won’t be as predictive as Dickens’ Little Dorrit, which a Washington Post blogger finds eerily [...]
