BNA_Daily | July 31, 2009
From library-themed ice cream to the role of race in teen book covers, today’s news spans genres and raises interesting questions. And for those of you who voted for NPR’s “100 Best Beach Books Ever,” results are in! See below for details.
Omnivoracious has the weekly YA news, including a cover contraversy raising a lot of [...]
BNA_Daily | July 31, 2009
From the Booker Prize to fashion week, today’s news ranges from the literary great to the fun and frivolous. With all of this information, you can discuss the Booker nominees at your next book club while comparing literary tattoos and drinking Hemingway’s favorite cocktails.
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 24, 2009
Somewhere in California, there is a “tent city of enthusiastic vampire lovers.” Read today’s news to find out where!
The time has come - you can stop re-reading Harry Potter. Or at least, put it down for a moment to check out Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. The book has been pitched as “Harry Potter for grown-ups,” [...]
BNA_Daily | July 23, 2009
In The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, Richard Holmes proves that science and the arts walked hand in hand from 1770 - 1830, when the curiosity of the Romantic age led to one scientific breakthrough after another. The book follows the lives of scientists and explorers [...]
BNA_Daily | July 21, 2009
The news today ranges from the sad to the slightly absurd. From the death of Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt to Amazon’s recalling books rightfully purchased by consumers, be prepared to experience a range of emotions. See below for extensive coverage.
Frank McCourt, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes, passed away Sunday night at 78 after [...]
BNA_Daily | July 20, 2009
In today’s links you’ll learn Nora Roberts’ secrets to writing, watch some entertaining and weird book trailers, and learn about five spooky Britain spots starring in a new fantasy series. You can also vote for your favorite beach reads to shape NPR’s best of list. Have fun!
All summer we’ve been linking to summer reading lists [...]
BNA_Daily | July 15, 2009
Maile Meloy, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and author of Liars and Saints, is back with Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, a collection that the Los Angeles Times calls “superbly crafted” with stories that “wind through the ways people fail to relate to each other and even to themselves.” Praised for [...]
BNA_Daily | July 14, 2009
What’s it like to be a really tall woman, and what do vampires have to do with small-town tourism? Also, what is Wordnik? Today’s news has fun facts about all of the above, as well as an enlightening interview with author Joseph O’Neill. Enjoy!
You would think that associating a town with vampires would be bad [...]
BNA_Editor | July 11, 2009
Books & Authors’ first day at ALA Chicago – Mecca for anyone library-obsessed or even just library-curious – was a big success. Met tons of the most engaged, thoughtful book lovers you could ever imagine, watched crime icon James Ellroy give an adrenaline-soaked “declaration of war” against the digital age at the ALA auditorium speaker [...]
