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Book News: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Travel Journals Will Be Published
Monday, March 17, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the 94-year-old poet and founder of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore, sold his travel journals to the W.W. Norton imprint Liveright. Ferlinghetti, best known for his collection A Coney Island of the Mind, was ...
Book News: Children's Books From North Korean Dictators?
Friday, March 14, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Departed North Korean leaders Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung are both credited with producing children's books, according a doctoral candidate at Australia's Sydney University. In a research paper published in The International ...
Book News: Former Factory Worker Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize
Thursday, March 13, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Afaa Michael Weaver's poetry collection The Government of Nature has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The prize, based at Claremont Graduate University, is awarded to a mid-career poet "to both honor the poet and provide ...
Book News: It's True, Keith Richards Is Writing A Children's Book
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is writing a children's book. Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar is about Richard's grandfather, Theodore Augustus Dupree, who encouraged Richards' musical aspirations. Richards plans ...
Book News: 'Fatal Vision' Author Joe McGinniss Dies
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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- Joe McGinniss, author of the true crime book Fatal Vision and the titular "journalist" of Janet Malcolm's scathing study The Journalist and the Murderer, died on Monday, his attorney told The Associated Press. He was 71. ...
Book News: Ned O'Gorman, Poet And Founder Of Harlem School, Dies
Monday, March 10, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Ned O'Gorman, poet and founder of the Children's Storefront, a tuition-free school in Harlem created to combat what he saw as "the pervasive lack of imagination" in children's education, died Friday at age 84. "These children ...
Book News: @GSElevator Author Loses Book Deal
Friday, March 07, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Simon & Schuster is canceling publication of a book by John Lefevre, the man behind the @GSElevator twitter account, which supposedly repeated things overheard in the elevator at Goldman Sachs. It emerged that Lefevre has never worked ...
The Professionally Haunted Life Of Helen Oyeyemi
Friday, March 07, 2014
Being haunted seems like it might be an occupational hazard for Helen Oyeyemi. Her books are re-worked fairy tales, the gruesome kind, with beheadings and wicked stepmothers and ghosts and death, death, and more death (though, once dead, her characters don't always stay that way).
The first time I met ...
Book News: George Saunders Wins The Story Prize
Thursday, March 06, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- George Saunders has won the $20,000 Story Prize for his collection Tenth of December. "George Saunders offers a vision and version of our world that takes into account the serious menace all around us without denying ...
Book News: Sherwin B. Nuland, Author Of 'How We Die,' Dies At 83
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Sherwin B. Nuland, the author of How We Die, died on Monday at the age of 83. The book, which won a National Book Award in 1994 and spurred debate about assisted suicide, sought to "demythologize ...
Book News: 'Goodnight Moon' Author's Lullabies See The Light After 60 Years
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- A collection of lullaby poems from Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon who died in 1952, is being published on Tuesday by Sterling Children's Books. The works were discovered in a trunk in her ...
Book News: Phyllis Krasilovsky, Author Of 'The Very Little Girl,' Dies
Monday, March 03, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Phyllis Krasilovsky, author of sweet, simple children's books such as The Very Little Girl and The First Tulips in Holland, died Wednesday of complications following a stroke, her daughter told The New York Times. She was ...
Book News: Author Criticizes S.C. School Funding Cuts Over Gay-Themed Books
Friday, February 28, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Alison Bechdel, author of the graphic memoir Fun Home, has responded to this week's vote by South Carolina's House of Representatives to cut a combined total of $70,000 in funding to the College of Charleston and the ...
Book News: 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Sales Top 100 Million
Thursday, February 27, 2014
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E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey series has now sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, Vintage Books announced on Wednesday. The erotica series, which began as Twilight fanfiction, features shy Anastasia Steele, her handcuff-happy lover, ...
Book News: Apple Appeals Ruling In E-Book Price-Fixing Case
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Apple is appealing a judge's ruling last year that it broke antitrust laws by conspiring with publishers to fix e-book prices. The appeal, filed Tuesday, called U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote's decision "a radical departure ...
Book News: Bernanke Writing A Book On The Fed And The Great Recession
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, says he is planning a book that will span his eight years helming the Fed, with a special focus on the ...
Book News: Byline Tally Shows There's Still Gender Bias In Book Reviewing
Monday, February 24, 2014
This post was updated at 9:45 a.m. ET
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The annual VIDA count tracking gender inequality in literary publications is out, and the numbers don't look good for women. VIDA counted the numbers of female authors ...
Book News: Year's Oddest Title? 'Pie-ography,' 'Working Class Cats' In Running
Friday, February 21, 2014
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- The shortlist for the Diagram Prize for the year's oddest book title is out and includes Pie-ography: Where Pie Meets Biography by Jo Packham, Working Class Cats: The Bodega Cats of New York City by Chris Balsinger ...
Book News: James Patterson Is Giving $1 Million To Indie Bookstores
Thursday, February 20, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Novelist James Patterson, whose mysteries, thrillers, children's books and romances have sold hundreds of millions of copies, is donating $1 million of his personal fortune to independent bookstores across the country. In a statement released by his ...
Book News: Mavis Gallant, Master Of The Short Story, Dies At 91
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Short story author Mavis Gallant died Tuesday in Paris. She was 91. Born in Montreal, she spent most of her life in Paris. More than 100 of Gallant's short stories were published in The New Yorker. ...