Adrienne Rich, Influential Feminist Poet, Dies at 82 – NYTimes.com Triply marginalized — as a woman, a lesbian and a Jew — Ms. Rich was concerned in her poetry, and in her many essays, with identity politics long before the term was coined. She accomplished in verse what Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,” […]
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Harlan Coben Floods the Zone – WSJ.com “The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don’t care if anyone reads it,” Mr. Coben says. “A writer without a reader doesn’t exist.” A good introduction to one of my favorite writers, Harlan Coben. Related Blog Posts:
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Trending: Read ’em and weep… the grisly life of the post-mortem biog – Features – Books – The Independent The funeral’s barely over before the tribute books start appearing – expect Whitney Houston’s any day now. John Walsh examines an ugly industry
BBC News – Adam Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize for book review Critic Adam Mars-Jones has won the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award for his scathing review of Michael Cunningham’s latest work, By Nightfall. The award is given for the “angriest, funniest, most trenchant” book review published in the last year. Mars-Jones accepted
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Hemingway & Gellhorn Trailer: Will HBO Get Hemingway Right? Their upcoming movie Hemingway & Gellhorn is, as the title suggests, not only about the author of The Old Man and the Sea (adapted in 1958) and so on, but also Martha Gellhorn, a writer equally worthy (perhaps more so) of the biopic treatment. And if
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CHARLES DICKENS GOOGLE DOODLE: Classic characters populate today’s logo to celebrate author’s 1812 birth – Comic Riffs – The Washington Post. The Washington Post collects useful information for celebrating today’s 200th birthday of Charles Dickens.
Print Books vs. Ebooks Debate (cont., ad nauseam) Never one to shy away from controversy, Jonathan Franzen recently condemned ebooks as the harbingers of the fall of civilization: “I think, for serious readers, a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience. Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this
And the Nominees Are . . . Last week saw the announcements of nominations for two big sets of literary prizes. Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction in the following categories: best novel, best first novel by an
Welcome to World Book Night Here’s a wonderful way to promote reading: We need 50,000 book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23, 2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change someone’s life. The goal is to give books to new
Happy New Year! Novels and Television Recent news that HBO plans to adapt the works of William Faulkner for television has prompted critical discussion of the suitability of novels for this kind of medium translation. “The novel and television are commingling as never before. And it’s about time,” declares Laura Miller in TV and the novel:
