BNA_Daily | August 28, 2009
Today’s news follows up on the deaths of Dominick Dunne and Ted Kennedy and celebrates the release of Suzanne Collins’ next post-apocalyptic novel. And to lighten things up, we threw in a link to a Meg Cabot essay with a neon pink background.
Novelist and chronicler of celebrity life Dominick Dunne passed away on Wednesday at [...]
BNA_Daily | August 26, 2009
If you think you are a superstar vacation reader, wait until you see President Obama’s ambitious reading list for his week-long holiday. We also have a glimpse into Thomas Pynchon’s reclusive ways and a book about chimps. Enjoy!
Obama is reading in Cape Cod, and you know what that means - a spike in book sales! [...]
BNA_Daily | August 24, 2009
If you haven’t read Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice yet, you should, if only to make sense of that neon cover that keeps popping up everywhere. It seems that every newspaper in the country is reviewing the book and trying to determine if this commercial book lives up to Pynchon’s literary legacy. Inherent Vice is a [...]
BNA_Daily | August 21, 2009
The independent traveler of Eat, Pray, Love is writing a book about marriage, Libba Bray is walking around New York City as a cow, and writers and publishers are about to engage in a “showdown” - has the literary world gone crazy? You’ll just have to read more and find out.
Good news for the millions [...]
BNA_Daily | August 21, 2009
It’s possible that after three months of summer reading the kids in your life aren’t looking for any more book recommendations, but today’s are different! From graphic novels to the best reviewed books of 2009, these are books kids will want to hear about. Just make sure you don’t sell any too hard, because “assigned [...]
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 14, 2009
Free content is the name of the game today, with a 26-minute reading from J.M. Coetzee and the first half of James Patterson’s Daniel X available online. You can also find out which authors are on Twitter and follow them ASAP, kind of like literary paparazzi. Enjoy!
Have you tweeted with your favorite author lately? The [...]
BNA_Daily | August 12, 2009
Today questions are answered, such as “How’s the new Conroy novel?”, “What ever happened with Justine Larbalestier’s cover battle?,” and “How can I get my significant other to cook me gourmet food?” We also have a list of books from Washington journalist Judy Woodruff to help young people “stay sharp” - it could be [...]
BNA_Daily | August 11, 2009
A few weeks ago we mentioned a book being promoted as “Harry Potter for grownups,” and now the wait is over! The book, The Magicians by Time book critic Lev Grossman, hits stores today and is getting encouraging reviews. Rather than pretending to write free of the influences of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, Grossman [...]
BNA_Daily | August 7, 2009
Chick lit, pink e-readers, and Islam - is there anything we don’t cover? See below for the latest on Jennifer Weiner, the Kindle’s pretty rival, Scott Westerfeld, and powerful nonfiction.
In a review of Jennifer Weiner’s latest novel Best Friends Forever, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan defends the chick lit genre, saying, “If there are any doubts that [...]
