Industry News

March, 2008

The Litblog Coop (R.I.P.)

by admin | Mar-23-2008

The Litblog Coop came on the scene in the spring of 2005 as a coordinated effort to promote awareness of—as its website put it—“the best of contemporary...read »

Truth and Consequenses

by admin | Mar-20-2008

Speaking of truth in memoir, British author Sebastian Horsley has just stumbled on a new potential consequence for (a) writing a memoir that tells the truth...read »

Where Publicists Fear to Tread

by admin | Mar-17-2008

The revamped New Haven review, edited by Mark Oppenheimer, just launched a new website and a new series of reviews on “unfairly neglected books.” I don’t know...read »

Liars’ club

by admin | Mar-14-2008

Only two years after the Frey Affair, we seem to have regained our innocence about that slippery genre, the memoir. How else to explain the shock and outrage...read »

February, 2008

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists

by admin | Feb-28-2008

Fiction Junot Diaz, THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (Riverhead) Andrew O’Hagan, BE NEAR ME (Harcourt) Stewart O’Nan, LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER...read »

Around the World on Thursday

by admin | Feb-28-2008

Jim Shepard has won the Story Prize for “Like You’d Understand, Anyway.” Lewis Jones takes a look at a readable new biography of Marcus Garvey. Neil Astley...read »

The Top Foreign Books for the Dutch

by admin | Feb-27-2008

NRC, Holland’s (fourth) biggest, most respected paper, held an internet poll for the readers’ all-time favorite foreign book. Here’s what they came up...read »

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