Penguin LostAndrey Kurkov
The Lonely VoiceFrank O' Connor
If you’ve been wondering what to do with that $3.2m burning a hole in your pocket, you might consider investing in a piece of children’s literary history. A.A. Milne‘s former home is for sale — the very one in which his son Christopher Robin Milne grew…
For those who missed the original airing, as I did, this post over at the Daily News points to a very contrary Diane Keaton appearing on the Colbert Report recently to promote the paperback release of her book, Then Again. She seems to refuse to…
View the video below to see Oprah Winfrey as she promos the ultimate book club, in a skit on Jimmy Kimmel‘s post-Oscar show — Oprah’s “Book Club Fight Club.”
“Fashion designer Carlos Campos first read Gabriel García Márquez‘s Love in the Time of Cholera when he was a teenager. And the book stayed with him: The designer, now 39, based his fall 2012 line on it. He showed his designs Sunday at New York…
It’s a small thing, but over and over again I’ve seen industry observers appear impressed that Amazon Publishing — recently renamed “Amazon Publishing’s East Coast Group” — was able to acquire James Franco’s first novel, Actors Anonymous. The Times headlined the acquisition a “coup” and…
On this date, January 27, the eminent mathematician and Fellow of Christ Church college, Oxford, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in 1832. He is the distinguished author of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations (1867); two…
The Obamas, a new book about guess who written by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor has generated a “scathing” response from the White House because it “includes plenty of juicy infighting,” notes a Politico report. A Reuters wire story notes White House press secretary…
We just came across the Tumblr Hey girl. I like the library too and the earnest text accompanying a series of photos of heartthrob Ryan Gosling are making us cry tears of joy. Tears, we say! An entry on December 5th reads, “Hey girl. You…
How about this for a delightful literary correspondence? In 1961, Electric Literature tells us, Groucho Marx received a request for a portrait from none other than T.S. Eliot. Presumably slightly bemused but nevertheless inclined to play along, he sent the venerable poet a picture as requested…
Celebrity memoirs have long been one of the driving factors in a successful holiday season for British booksellers. Also known as the “arts autobiography” (the closest Nielsen Bookscan category), a Guardian report by Richard Lea notes that it’s a genre with a surprisingly long history:…