Great Authors To Follow On Twitter These eight writers are sometimes hysterical, sometimes insightful, and are sure to give you words for thought in 140 characters or less. Of interest to both readers and writers. Overrated Authors, critics, and editors on “great books” that aren’t all that great. Some of these may surprise you. Or […]
Like Books? Like NPR? We Invite You To Explore The New NPR Books! NPR has spent 18 weeks significantly redesigning its books coverage. It looks like there’s a lot more information that’s a lot easier to find. This is a welcome change when print sources are cutting back on books coverage. Librarian finds digital divide
Movie Review – ‘The Help’ – Life In The South, Through The Eyes Of ‘The Help’ : NPR. Even reviewers who don’t care for the film adaptation praise the acting of Viola Davis. Here’s what NPR’s Ella Taylor has to say: In his lumbering way, Taylor makes Stockett’s story his own by expanding the book’s
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Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR. Back around the first of August NPR asked readers to vote on their favorite science fiction and fantasy novels (or series). The results are in. I’m not a big fan of science fiction and fantasy, so when I finished counting I was surprised to find that
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“The author, cast and director give an inside view to the book and movie.” via ‘The Help’ touches sensitive subjects.
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Los Angeles Times: Critic Betsy Sharkey writes: “The Help” is a delicious peppery stew of home-cooked, 1960s Southern-style racism that serves up a soulful dish of what ails us and what heals us. Laughter, which is ladled on thick as gravy, proves to be the secret ingredient — turning what should be a feel-bad movie
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Movies | ‘The Help’: Viola Davis elevates film over book | Seattle Times Newspaper Is the movie version of “The Help” better than the book? Yes, it is, primarily for one reason: The book doesn’t have Viola Davis in it. I loved the novel The Help, with its focus on how telling our life story
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Survey Shows Publishing Expanded Since 2008 – NYTimes.com The publishing industry has expanded in the past three years as Americans increasingly turned to e-books and juvenile and adult fiction, according to a new survey of thousands of publishers, retailers and distributors that challenges the doom and gloom that tends to dominate discussions of the industry’s
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Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore Faces Closing – NYTimes.com Even now, 162 years after his death here, Edgar Allan Poe still seems to be suffering from the kind of bad luck that haunted his life. For a second year city leaders have chosen not to subsidize a museum in the tiny house where the
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Why Do We Care About Literary Awards? Mark O’Connell answers his own question: By and large, awards like the Booker are intended to promote solid, well-written, more or less middlebrow fiction — the kind of books that broadsheet newspapers tend to give coverage to. And that’s surely a good thing for the publishing industry, for
