BNA_Daily | June 25, 2010
In today’s news, Carolyn Kellogg proves why fiction isn’t dead, NPR suggests novels to inspire/console recent grads, and e-readers launch a price war (in which consumers win).
In the Jacket Copy post “Fiction is dead. Again?” Carolyn Kellogg takes The Observer’s Lee Siegel to task over his claims that fiction is no longer relevant. Kellogg writes, [...]
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 [...]
N_Danford | March 26, 2009
Nobody would deny that times are tough. Money is tight, and discretionary spending is falling as quickly as the unemployment rate is rising. The poor economic climate is bound to have an impact on books and publishing - and, more specifically, on fiction - as it does on just about every other aspect of life.
There’s [...]
D_Burt | January 19, 2009
In a quote that can serve as the modus operandi of the historical novelist, Oscar Wilde observed, “The one duty we have to history is to rewrite it.” Who has not fantasized about a “do over” in one’s life? What might have been and the road not taken continually beckon, and if the temptation to [...]
