Book Review Podcast: The Rolling Stones Turn 50

Book Review Podcast: The Rolling Stones Turn 50
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, the editors select their 100 NotableBooks of 2012. The special holiday issue also features Pat Irwin's review of two newbooks about the Rolling Stones, a biography of Mick Jagger by Philip Norman and “The...

New York Times (blog)

Old South Church in Copley Square considers selling first book published in ...
Boston.com
This Sunday, members of Old South Church, which owns two of 11 surviving first-edition copies, are scheduled to vote on a controversial proposal to let its trustees sell one of the books, along with a valuable collection of Colonial-era silver, to help ...

'Hunger Games' author Suzanne Collins will release a picture book
Christian Science Monitor
“The Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins is following up the massive success of her young adult dystopian trilogy with a picture book. Skip to next paragraph. Recent posts. 11.30.12. Philip Roth's retirement from writing is mourned by a former student ...

Christian Science Monitor

NHL: 15 Essential NHL Books to Read During the Lockout
Bleacher Report
Here's a look at 15 essential NHL books that you can read during the lockout that will at least give you a small taste of the hockey that you have been craving since the lockout began Sept. 15. ... However, in this book by Richard J. Bendell you get ...

Bleacher Report

Amanda Knox's book — no smiles here
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Amanda Knox's story is a tough one: college student convicted of murder in a foreign country, sent to prison, then freed and acquitted by an appeals court. Then comes the returning-home part and trying to resume a normal life after you have become a ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Book buzz: Nick Hornby to adapt Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild'
USA TODAY
'Wild' movie: British author Nick Hornby has signed on to adapt Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild (an Oprah's Book Club 2.0 pick), a project being co-produced by Reese Witherspoon, Deadline reports. The book recounts the 1,100-mile solo hike along the ...

Code used by RI founding father is finally cracked
San Francisco Chronicle
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The obscure book's margins are virtually filled with clusters of curious foreign characters — a mysterious shorthand used by 17th century religious dissident Roger Williams. For centuries the scribbles went ... The nearly 250...

San Francisco Chronicle

'Books, I Think, Are Dead': Joe Queenan Talks About 'One for the Books'
New York Times (blog)
In his latest, “One for the Books,” he recounts a lifetime of reading the classics, the trashy and everything in between. He also makes an impassioned case for the printedbook's superiority over its digital competitor. In a recent e-mail interview, Mr ...

New York Times (blog)

Book explores culture's route to 'Inventing the Christmas Tree'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The book's many period illustrations include a 19th-century engraving of Martin Luther and his family sitting by a Christmas tree, proof of the power of images to make myth. Luther died in 1546; the first confirmed Christmas tree in his hometown ...

Limbaugh Caller Tells Rush: Glenn Beck's Book 'Broke' Woke Me ...
By Jonathon M. Seidl
If you were listening to Rush Limbaugh's radio show on Thursday, you might have noticed an advertisement of sorts for Glenn Beck's book "Broke." Not a paid advertisement, that is, but rather the best kind: an honest testimonial. That's because ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories

Lesser Classic Cocktails in a New Book - Alcademics.com
By Camper English
The new book Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition: A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras by Lesley M. M. Blume is a humorous, illustrated book that lists recipes for ...
Alcademics.com

Book Christmas Tree Building - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Email GalleyCat a photograph of your book tree this year and we'll add it to our annual gallery of literary trees. Building a tree of books is a simple but powerful way to show your support for printbooks and bookstores in this digital age. Our first ...
GalleyCat

FIL 2012 book festival in Guadalajara | Chicanísima: Latino politics ...
By Teresa Puente
The annual Guadalajara International Book Fair is the most important book festival in the Spanish-speaking world and the second largest book festival after Frankfurt. It began November 24 and ends December 2, 2012. Storified by Teresa ...
Chicanísima: Latino politics,...

Books - Flavorwire
The author has announced her first new book since 2010′s Mockingjay – and there's no chance it'll get compared to its predecessor. Year of the Jungle, due ...

Register to be a World Book Knight Giver in 2013 (25,000 Total ...
On April 23rd, 2013, World Book Night, an annual celebration designed to spread a love of reading and books, will take place in the U.S. and U.K. and they're ...

Catfish Director Makes Book Trailer for Stephanie LaCava Book ...
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. is looking for a Publisher, Fairchild Books. next job ... next job ...

Sub-compact media: Rethinking the way we publish online - GigaOM
Many publishers seem to assume that the best way to publish their content online is to try and recreate the look and feel of the printed product they are trying to ...



Simon & Schuster will enter the self-publishing world

Simon & Schuster will enter the self-publishing world
Christian Science Monitor
Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that it is partnering with Author Solutions Inc. to create Archway Publishing, a separate publishing house focused on self-published fiction, non-fiction, business, and children's books. ... of e-readers, self ...

Christian Science Monitor

Book Buzz: Bob Saget to write book
USA TODAY
Bob Saget book: Actor and comedian Bob Saget will write a book of "never-before-heard stories" of his time on Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos, to be published in early 2014. Beyond his family-friendly shows, Saget is also known for his ...

U.S. author sues filmmaker Tyler Perry over plot of 2012 film
Chicago Tribune
(Mario Anzuoni, Reuters). NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American author sued the prolific filmmaker Tyler Perry in a federal court on Tuesday, accusing him of lifting the plot of his 2012 movie, "Good Deeds," from her book. Terri Donald, who also writes ...

Author Opens Your Old Text Messages in Book on Motorola Razr
ABC News (blog)
Author and New York artist Kyle M.F. Williams has now published “Razrs” — a book that retails for $9.99 and looks through the old text messages, photos (some decent and some not-so-decent) of 44 used Razrs. The flip phones that once defined a ...

ABC News (blog)

Nobel winning economist Roth has book deal
Boston.com
NEW YORK (AP) — One of this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for economics is working on a newbook. Alvin Roth, an ... Roth, 60, has written dozens of articles and written or edited several books, including a tribute to Shapley. end of story marker ...

Travel books as gifts: From coffee table to memoir
Seattle Post Intelligencer
NEW YORK (AP) — From memoirs and maps to beautiful hard-covers suitable for coffee-table display, here are some ideas for holiday gifts from this year's crop of travel books and publications. (Prices shown are cover list prices.) National Geographic's ...

Which E-book Reader Should You Buy?
Business Insider
I still remember when, not too many years ago, people were saying that computers would destroybooks and therefore authors and therefore the intellectual foundation of civilization. Well, the exact opposite has happened — another example of why no one ...

'Lots of Lambs,' 'One Spotted Giraffe,' and More
New York Times
The author of the “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” franchise turns here to slightly younger children and their flap-happy ways with a sturdy interactive book about a flock of playful lambs. “Happy lambs, grumpy lambs, lambs in a coat,” the book opens.

New York Times

Other book-to-cookbook adaptations
Philadelphia Inquirer
DINAH BUCHOLZ isn't the only author who adapted beloved books into cookbooks. The Free Library of Philadelphia's Dena Heilik compiled some other book-to-cookbook adaptations for us. A Feast of Ice & Fire: The Official Companion Cookbook by Chelsea ...

Book News: Orwellian Textbooks, The "Fifty Shades" - The New Yorker
By Rachel Arons
Simon & Schuster is getting in on the self-publishing industry with a new unit called Archway Publishing. In the Atlantic, Peter Osnos on the prevalence of e-reading in China, where twenty-five million people reportedly read books on their cell...
Page-Turner

You Can Now Pre-Order Books in Google Play Store
By Stan Schroeder
The best way to find books that will be available soon is to check out Google's “New and Coming Soon” section on the Play Store. From there, pre-ordering the book is simple: you purchase it just as you would any other book, and you'll receive ...
Mashable!

From a Book Springs a Music Festival - NYTimes.com
By By ROSLYN SUCLAS
The year-long festival of 20th-century music is inspired by Alex Ross's 2007 book. ... From a BookSprings a Music Festival. By ROSLYN SUCLAS. LONDON — First there was the book. Now there is the festival. The Southbank Center ...
ArtsBeat

The American Spectator : An Overdue Book
By Thomas Sowell
But this little gem of a book exposes, in plain language and with easily understood facts, the whole house of cards of assumptions, fallacies, and falsehoods which constitute the liberal vision of the economy. ... About the Author. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the ...
The American Spectator and The...



Julian Assange book an exercise in dystopian musings

Julian Assange's book an exercise in dystopian musings
The Guardian
Julian Assange's new book is not a manifesto, he writes in its introduction – "There is no time for that". Instead the short volume, entitled Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and published on Monday, is intended to be what the Wikileaks founder calls "a watchman's shout in the night", warning of an imminent threat to all civilisation from "the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen" – the web. . . .  announced in October his intention to publish the book, based largely on the transcript of an interview conducted earlier in the year with three fellow "cutting-edge thinkers" on the web, and broadcast on the Russian state-controlled TV channel RT.
 
The Guardian

Want a book by an Aussie woman in Australia? Try looking for a kangaroo on the ...
Huffington Post
It has been created to help overcome the fact that books by Australian women have been overlooked for major prizes in recent years, including the Miles Franklin: in both 2009 and 2011, it had no women shortlisted. ... Widely reviewed, too, has been ...

Book Buzz: Steinbeck fact or fiction, new book about heaven
USA TODAY
Steinbeck's story: On the 50th birthday of John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley, publisher Penguin admits the author heavily fictionalized the book from his 1960 road trip. Bryce Cortenay dies: Courtenay, the Australian author of The Power of One ...

Book News: School Reading, Fictional Food
New Yorker (blog)
Book News: School Reading, Fictional Food. Posted by Rachel Arons · Tweet. book-news_opt.jpg. Bryce Courtenay, the author of “The Power Of One,” has died at the age of seventy-nine. “What schools really need isn't more nonfiction but better nonfiction.

New Yorker (blog)

Cyber Monday tech e-book, video deals today
Computerworld (blog)
Want a reference guide to add to your collection? A number of major tech publishers have e-bookdeals today for Cyber Monday. O'Reilly Media, which publishes a wide range of technology books, has all its e-books and videos on sale for 50% off today ...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt unveils Curious George books specially formatted for ...
Boston Globe
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it used iBooks Author tool from Apple Inc. to add interactive maps and other features to by J.R.R. Tolkien's text. The maps are of Hobbiton, Rivendell, and beyond, and there's also a height chart that shows how the book's ...

The Secret Race wins William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 2012
The Guardian
The Secret Race details how Hamilton – "the sort of everyman hero sportswriters used to invent in the 1950s: soft-spoken, handsome, polite and tough beyond conventional measure", according to his co-author, Coyle – went from wide-eyed wannabe into ...

The Guardian
'Cypherpunks': New Assange book says Internet may enslave us — RT
By RT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has co-authored a book arguing that the world is at a pivotal decision: Whether the Internet will free us, or enslave us. Assange, famous for his 'hacktivism,' used a decidedly low-tech medium for his latest ...
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The Global Thinkers' Book Club | Foreign Policy
In his book last year, Thinking, Fast and Slow, he consolidated his decades of findings, arguing that the human mind operates according to two systems: one that makes slow, deliberative choices and the other -- put to much more frequent use ... After Apple CEO Steve Jobs died of cancer in early October, his authorized biography by Walter Isaacson -- known for his books on big thinkers like Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin -- was rushed to press, appearing on the market just ...
Foreign Policy

New Christmas children's book honors US military | The Daily Caller
By Laura Byrne
Publish what you read and maintain full control. ... Tell it to Michael Keane, the author of “The Night Santa Got Lost: How NORAD Saved Christmas.” ... He hopes this book will honor the troops, especially those serving during Christmas.
The Daily Caller

My New Book is Now Available! Introducing The Young Atheist's ...
By Hemant Mehta
Last year, I began outlining a book that talked about the unique struggles of high school atheists. We hear so much about college groups and what they deal with, but only rarely do we hear about high school atheists and the obstacles they ...
Friendly Atheist

Microsoft 2012 Holiday Look Book - Next at Microsoft - Site Home ...
By Steve Clayton - Editor
Target doesn't publish a catalog of everything they sell. Instead, they lead with ... While there is an incredible diversity of PCs, tablets, and Xbox games out there, our Look Book presents just 10 suggestions. And with these suggestions, we ...
TechNet Blogs
Book Review: Version Control With Git, 2nd Edition - Slashdot
You have to read the book straight through, from front to back. ... again, this must be due to theauthor's experience using Git in the real world, and readers who ...



Book Review Podcast: Andrew Solomon's 'Far From the Tree'

Book Review Podcast: Andrew Solomon's 'Far From the Tree'
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Julie Myerson reviews Andrew Solomon's “Far From the Tree,” and calls it “a generous, humane and — in complex and unexpected ways — compassionate book about what it means to be a parent.

New York Times (blog)

Book News: Literary Feuds, “The Thanksgiving Prayer”
New Yorker (blog)
On the Daily Beast, Mike Munoz breaks down the difference between the novel “Life of Pi” and the film. “Taken all together, it is a motley thing, ragged, unkempt and strange, and always stubbornly persistent in its artistry.” The Nation's Joanna Scott ...

New Yorker (blog)

Book Buzz: Black Friday deals, bad sex in fiction
USA TODAY
2012 - Here's a look at what's buzzing in the book world today: Literary parade: ... Best books of '12 list: The Washington Post has released its year-end best books list, which includes offbeat picks Arcadia by Lauren Groff and Broken Harbor by Tana ...

Puppy Photography Featured in New Book "A Letter to My Dog"
ABC News
Puppy Photography Featured in New Book "A Letter to My Dog". Celebrities such as "GMA"anchor Robin Roberts and singer Tony Bennett pay tribute to their furry friends. 04:19 | 11/23/2012. Related Links: Lay Z Gaga Is Lady Gaga's Doggy Doppelganger ...

Explaining the Pope's Christmas debunking book
CNN (blog)
(CNN)–CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor Eric Marrapodi explains how the Pope's new book challenges long held Christmas traditions. Read the full story on the Pope's new book here. Watch CNN Newsroom weekdays 9am to 3pm ET and weekends. For the latest ...

Biennale College and a Good Book about Venice
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
And in other Venice news, I'm reading a great book about Venice called “Venice: A New History” by Thomas F. Madden, which tells the story of the city from the fifth century through the 21st and reads like a page turner. Very interesting stuff ...

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

Best-selling Australian author Courtenay dies
San Francisco Chronicle
"The Power of One" was to be the first of three "practice books" Courtenay planned to write over three years before taking two years to write a fourth book which he hoped would find a publisher. "I was absolutely staggered when somebody wanted to ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Latinos on the Rise: Author, Life Coach Francesca Escoto
Fox News
I spoke with Francesca Escoto, author, life coach,speaker, and radio host about how Latino families can learn to re-write their scripts, stop living out old patterns, and begin to enjoy being their best selves and best family members. ... Primarily ...

Bryce Courtenay Dead: Best-Selling Author Dies At 79
By The Huffington Post News Editors
CANBERRA, Australia — Best-selling Australian author Bryce Courtenay, whose first and finalbooks drew on his tough early-life experiences in Africa, has died of stomach cancer. He was 79. ..."The Power of One" was to be the first of three " practice books" Courtenay planned to write over three years before taking two years to write a fourth book which he hoped would find a publisher. "I was absolutely staggered when somebody wanted to publish it in the first place," Courtenay said ...
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“The Outpost”: Buy This Book | Power Line
By John Hinderaker
Tapper's prose is spare, his narrative voice is objective and never obtrusive. He lets the participants in the action speak for themselves. But the author has a point of view, as reflected in the book's subtitle: “An Untold Story of American Valor.
Power Line

My favorite fiction books of 2012
By Tyler Cowen
Our Books. Modern Principles of Economics · Launching The Innovation Renaissance · The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better · Create Your Own ...
Marginal Revolution

Planned Pussy Riot Book Creates Controversy in Russia - The ...
By Vladimir Kozlov
A Moscow publisher is planning to release a book in the names of the members of the controversial feminist punk rock band without their permission.
International

Black Friday Books | HiLobrow
By Joshua Glenn
Black Friday Books. By: Joshua Glenn | Categories: Kudos. Dear HiLobrow readers,. As you do your gift shopping this year, please consider purchasing one (or more) of the following 2012 books. I co-authored the first two; HiLoBooks ... artist), Colin Beavan (environmental activist), Ginia Bellafante (New York Times writer), Deb Chachra (bioengineering scientist), Helen Cordes (parenting writer), Chris Dahlen (videogames critic), Matthew De Abaitua (author, The Art of Camping), Mark ...
HiLobrow

Name of this book? Book Fanatics? - Yahoo! Answers
Any ideas of what this book may be called? All suggestions are ... Answer Questions in Books & Authors ... Trying to find to the name of a book I read as a child?

Does anybody know what this book that I'm describing is? The Title ...
I once read a book about a class in a choir, and the teacher was upset or something, so he tells the kids to make their own concert, thinking that they wouldn't be ...

Battle of Malta Picture Book
A running photo gallery of everything happening at the PokerListings Battle of Malta. Check back for more pictures daily to see what's it's like at the Portomaso ...

Power of One author Bryce Courtenay dead at 79 - ABC News ...
Bryce Courtenay, the Sydney advertising executive turned blockbuster author who sold more than 20 million books, has died at home in Canberra at the age of ...



Tom Wolfe - Miami Book Fair International video

BookTV video
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Tom Wolfe, "Back to Blood" - Tom Wolfe speaks about his latest novel, "Back to Blood," during the opening night of the 2012 Miami Book Fair International.  The novel presents Mr. Wolfe's take on the city of Miami.  Mr. Wolfe will be interviewed by former Miami mayor, Manny Diaz, and take questions from the book fair audience.  The Miami Book Fair International is held annually in November on the campus of Miami Dade College. Tom Wolfe is the author of several nonfiction titles, including "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," "The Pump House Gang," and "The Right Stuff," which was a recipient of the National Book Award for General Nonfiction.  He has also the author of the novels, The Bonfire of the Vanities," "A Man in Full," and "I Am Charlotte Simmons."  For more, visit: tomwolfe.com.

New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing | Brain Pickings: "As far as New Year’s resolutions go, hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better. Today’s reading list addresses these parallel aspirations. And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn’t be — shouldn’t be — an exhaustive list. It is, instead, a collection of timeless texts bound to radically improve your relationship with the written word, from whichever side of the equation you approach it."

The Author of ‘Swamplandia!’ on the Florida Everglades - NYTimes.com: "By EMILY BRENNAN
Published: November 14, 2012 “SWAMPLANDIA!,” a novel by Karen Russell that was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is named for the fictional gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades it depicts. Wildly imaginative, the book takes the reader through eerie mangrove swamps, expansive saw grass prairies and kitschy roadside attractions. “On the West Coast, everyone would ask, ‘How did you come up with that?,’ ” recalled the 31-year-old Miami native. “But in Florida, it was just realism. People would say, ‘The dad character — that’s got to be Jungle Leary.’ ”For the novel and her forthcoming book of short stories, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” Ms. Russell retraced her childhood trips to the Everglades. Below are edited excerpts from a conversation with her about rediscovering them. Q. Where in the Everglades would you go as a child? A. . . . As you go back toward Miami, it’s a completely different ecosystem from the Gulf. My mother would take us biking on this trail in Shark Valley, a saw grass prairie lined with alligators. It’s pretty severe looking, like an African savanna, just a few inches lower in elevation than the green mangroves, and this creates such a different landscape.

Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook | Brain Pickings: "As a lover — and keeper — of diaries and notebooks, I find myself returning again and again to the question of what compels us — what propels us — to record our impressions of the present moment in all their fragile subjectivity. From Joan Didion’s 1968 anthology Slouching Towards Bethlehem (public library — the same volume that gave us her timeless meditation on self-respect — comes a wonderful essay titled “On Keeping a Notebook,” in which Didion considers precisely that . . . "

Bookshelves don't lie
Chicago Tribune
Until recently I owned just two books that were composed of little else but pictures of people's bookshelves. Not nearly enough. One book I received last year for Christmas, a compendium of pictures of author's bookshelves, a sort of literary ...

Chicago Tribune

Biblioracle: Breaking up with a book
Chicago Tribune
It's OK … If I stop reading a book … Before I've finished it. If my informal survey of people I run into on a weekly basis is accurate, then 70 percent of you are reacting in horror, 20 percent are nodding in agreement, and 10 percent are asking ...

Chicago Tribune

From book to birth certificate: Twilight, Divergent and The Hunger Games ...
Vancouver Sun
“If kids and teenagers are exposed to a name not considered stylish – one that doesn't necessarily appeal to parents at that point because it's a little bit 'out there' – they'll grow up seeing it in a different way,” says Laura Wattenberg, author of ...

Weekend picks for book lovers
USA TODAY
9:50AM EST November 17. 2012 - What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY's picks forbook lovers include new 4-star fiction from Barbara Kingsolver and Alice Munro, plus Louise Erdich's National Book Award-winning novel The Round House.

Minneapolis writer's secret: Tap inner 11-year-old
Huffington Post
MINNEAPOLIS — Barely known in a literary field dominated by brand names like "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games," William Alexander scored the National Book Award for Young People's Literature by tapping into his burning love for books when he was 11 ...

Not Your Momma's Book Club
Chicago Tribune
We chose it after a book we did not like, as a light summer read, but we read it as the independent, adult women we are. The book was light, but as we discussed it at length we dove into the positive role model that Katniss is. We found the story ...

Chicago Tribune

Liberty Ross Goes Topless In A Suit At Kate Moss' Book Party (PHOTO, POLL)
Huffington Post
To fete the launch of Kate Moss' new book, the 34-year-old joined the supermodel author along with Marc Jacobs, Florence Welch, Donna Karen and more at the London Bookmarc store on Thursday. So how did she dress to impress the fashion elite?

Author Aims To Curb 'Entitlement' Of Millennials With New Book ...
By ATAtkins
Author Aims To Curb 'Entitlement' Of Millennials With New Book. November 17, 2012 4:00 AM. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook Activity. What's this? Add to Timeline - What's This. Click "Log in" to publish what you read to Facebook ...
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The Book Booth- Thanksgiving Edition | The Political Carnival
By Paddy
On to books. This week the National Book Foundation announced this year's National Book Awards for this year. I have no quibbles here, as I haven't read any of these books (still working on 2007 award winners), but Louise Erdrich is a fine writer and I suspect well-deserving of ... In happier news, National League Cy Young Award winner, and all-around good guy, R.A. Dickey, author of this year's autobiography Wherever I Wind Up, has inked a deal to write three children's books.
The Political Carnival

Apple removes book from iTunes bookstore due to racy cover ...
By Graeme McMillan
Never particularly regarded as being particularly active in the fight against censorship, Apple has reportedly removed an eBook from the iTunes bookstore not because of the content of the book, but because of the image used on the book's cover. The novel in ... “What about New York Book Revieweditions of Dud Avocado, Tyrant Banderas, or our very own The Days of Abandonment? NOPE! ... In a later comment to the thread, the publisher added “The author is Syrian-born. Is it too ...

Video panel today on Hitchens's last book, and a CNN interview with ...
By whyevolutionistrue
The Miami book fair is having a live panel today on Mortality, Christopher Hitchens's last book—a collection of Vanity Fair pieces on his esophageal cancer. It'll be webcast at the following time (Eastern Time U.S), at this link, and is followed by ...
Why Evolution Is True

National Book Awards Dinner Reinvents Itself - NYTimes.com
Organizers of the National Book Awards dinner have added show business ... can submit as manybooks as it wants in any category as long as the author is an ...

Bethany House Division Homepage | Baker Publishing Group
Bethany House Signs CEO of Large Nonprofit for Two Books: Peter Greer to Explore the Dark Side... With this Ring. Marian Wells · The Wedding Dress. E- Book ...



Penguin to Expand E-Book Lending

Penguin to Expand E-Book Lending
New York Times (blog)
In a pilot program that will begin this year, Penguin has worked with Baker & Taylor, a distributor of print and digital books, to start e-book lending programs in the Los Angeles County library system, which will reach four million people, and the ...

E-Book Series Introduces a New Character: [Your Child's Name Here]
New York Times (blog)
Sourcebooks, a midsize Chicago publisher, will announce on Monday that it is introducing an app to allow customers truly to alter books to include a child's name throughout the copy. The app, Put Me in the Story, will allow its purchasers to take best ...

Book on Richmond depot to help finance restoration
Seattle Post Intelligencer
I decided right then I was going to write a book about the history of (the depot) site." That book will be available for purchase beginning Nov. 26. ... "No one hesitated when asked to enlist in helping to create this book," writes Martin on the ...

New book promises keys to hotel industry kingdom
The Associated Press
Jacob Tomsky promises readers the keys to the hotel industry kingdom in his tell-all book, "Heads in Beds." The one-time philosophy major has spent more than a decade working in the industry and, like room service, he delivers the goods. Take those ...

Spotlight on researcher for McCullough, Ken Burns
Huffington Post
If there were a category for "popular researchers," the list would have to begin with Hill, who can be found in the credits of so many books and documentaries, from McCullough's "John Adams" to Nathaniel Philbrick's "Mayflower" to Burns' baseball ...

Thanksgiving for 2012 Books
Huffington Post (blog)
I've written variations of this Thanksgiving list just about every year since I read a book a day. One year it was to give special thanks to women writers, one year to add my two cents to the New York Times best books of the year list. I use my list to ...

The Book We're Talking About: 'Sweet Tooth' By Ian McEwan
Huffington Post
McEwan's most autobiographical novel to date tells the story of Serena, a young book lover and math scholar who is assigned to an exciting mission by the British security service during the early 70s. She is asked to coerce a modernist writer into ...

Second Cutest Book Ever: ZooBorns Goes Exotic
Wired
One of the goals of the ZooBorns website and books is to spread the word about the precarious situations many of these species are in and the efforts underway to save them. A portion of the proceeds from the book goes to support conservation work by ...

Wired

NYT: Penguin to extend ebook and audiobook library rentals to LA ...
By Mat Smith
Expect the same lending rules, with new books appearing six months after their first release and the bizarre 'one copy at a time' system, in which each title can only be rented at one person at any one time. Worse still, at least for libraries, at the ...
Engadget

Bookstore Installs Random Book Dispenser - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Bookstore Installs Random Book Dispenser. ... Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · Harlequin is looking for a Freelance Editor. next job Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. is looking for a Publisher, Fairchild Books. see all · Bookselling ...
GalleyCat

Penguin to extend ebook and audiobook lending across US libraries ...
By Sam Byford
The new ebook expansion is said to include the same anachronistic lending terms as the current New York trials: books become available for lending six months after release, they can only be borrowed by one person at a time, and the library ...
The Verge - All Posts

The Best Science Books of 2012 | Brain Pickings
By Maria Popova
But in Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired (public library), a fine addition to these 7 essential books on time, German chronobiologist Till Roenneberg demonstrates through a wealth of research that our sleep .... theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was setting out to release A Brief History of Time, one of the most influential science books in modern history, his publishers admonished him that every equation included would halve the book's sales.
Brain Pickings

Book News: Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth, and the Poetry of Google ...
By Andrea DenHoed
I knew I wasn't going to get another good idea, or if I did, I'd have to slave over it.” An interview with Philip Roth about his recent retirement. (Also, read David Remnick on Roth's announcement.) Simon and Schuster...
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The 10 Books You Absolutely Must Read to Understand the History ...
Here's our list of ten books you must read if you want to understand this ... This book explores Earth as a "young planet," meaning in the years before the ...

The Dresden Files Reread: Book 3, Grave Peril | Tor.com
A reread of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books on Tor.com: Grave Peril. ... Together, he and Harry start the book dealing with a ghost who appears in a Chicago ...

Amazon's Jeff Bezos as 'Businessperson of the Year': Can the book ...
... for one of Amazon's new products, Kindle Serials, was author Charles Dickens, and he ... By and large, the book industry today is a beleaguered one, dogged by stagnant ... Apple and Flipboard team up to bring more books to iOS devices ... His inspiration for a new e-book product called Kindle Serials, delivered digitally ...

Hungry for knowledge? Vending machine dispenses random book ...
The shop focuses on odd and antique books, but every dealer ends up with a lot of ... Fowler described the machine as a success to book news magazine Quill ...



Books, the Internet, and Censorship

You Can’t Say That on the Internet - NYTimes.com: "Apple, too, has strayed from its iconoclastic roots. When Naomi Wolf’s latest book, “Vagina: A New Biography,” went on sale in its iBooks store, Apple turned “Vagina” into “V****a.” After numerous complaints, Apple restored the title, but who knows how many other books are still affected? True, these books are still on sale. Unlike the good old United States Post Office, which once confiscated “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and other books it deemed too lewd, Silicon Valley does not engage in direct censorship. What it does, though, is present ideas and terms that have gained public acceptance as something to be ashamed of. Silicon Valley doesn’t just reflect social norms — it actively shapes them in ways that are, for the most part, imperceptible."

Books: New and Noteworthy
USA TODAY
The buzz: Baldacci's first Puller thriller, Zero Day, made its debut on USA TODAY's Best-SellingBooks list at No. 3 last year. 2. The 4-Hour Chef by Timothy Ferriss ... The buzz: Ferriss' book has made headlines because many bookstores, battling ...

Book offers Klebold parents' view of son's role in Columbine tragedy
Denver Post
The mother of Dylan Klebold, who with Eric Harris went on the suicidal rampage in 1999 that killed 13 and wounded dozens at Columbine High School, told the author of a new book that during the incident she prayed hard that her son would kill himself.

'Breaking Dawn: Part 2': Saying Goodbye to the Books, the Movies and My ...
Huffington Post
As a senior, middle school still seems like yesterday. But on Thursday, I received a brash reality check on how much the lives of my friends and I have permanently changed and how much of my life has flashed by since my friends and I first picked up ...

Author JRR Tolkien's tales deeply rooted in Christianity
Deseret News
A prequel to "The Lord of the Rings," it's based on J.R.R. Tolkien's young adult book"The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" (1937). (The much darker and more adult "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, itself originally conceived as a tale for children, was ...

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Book-Vending Machine Dispenses Suspense
Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this year, Stephen Fowler, owner of The Monkey's Paw used-book store in Toronto, had an idea. He wanted a creative way to offload his more ill-favored books — "odd and unusual" all, as the store's motto goes — that went further than a $1 bin ...

Bearden: Author tells cat tales for a cause
Tbo.com
And he's also the main character in Lynch's just-published children's book: "Irish Holiday Fairy Tales." (Lynch doesn't take credit for Finn's literary adventures. The book and all the short stories are credited to "author" Finn McCool, the Magic ...

Big data gets its own book: 'The Human Face of Big Data'
CNET
Fittingly, a really big, 7.5-pound book. Called "The Human Face of Big Data," this is the latest project by longtime photojournalist Rick Smolan, the one-time National Geographic photographer who's best known for creating the "Day in the Life" series ...

Novel about racial injustice wins National Book Award
Bend Bulletin
Beating out an unusually competitive field, Louise Erdrich won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday night for “The Round House," a novel about a teenage boy's effort to investigate an attack on his mother on a North Dakota reservation, and his ...

JK Rowling reimagines Harry Potter for video game
USA TODAY
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Sony have partnered to deliver a revolutionary way of entering the wizarding world. Using augmented reality technology, Wonderbook: Book of Spells introduces a novel gaming experience for the PlayStation 3 that will ...

National Book Award winner to give poetry reading
Boston.com
BOSTON (AP) — Poet David Ferry, who just won the 2012 National Book Award for poetry, will be giving a reading of his work in Boston next month. Ferry will read from his award-winning book''Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations'' at Suffolk ...

5 Books Every High School Student Should Read Before College
By The Huffington Post News Editors
This brilliantly written book is simultaneously satirical, fantastical and insightful. Vonnegut's conversational but thoughtful tone inspires the reader to ask big life questions, such as “What is time?” or “Is my perception of reality totally wrong?
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Test Chamber - Wonderbook: Book of Spells - Features - www ...
By Ben Hanson
Watch every episode of Test Chamber in our hub by clicking here. Email the author Ben Hanson, or follow on Twitter, and Game Informer. Filed under: Feature, PlayStation 3, Sony, test chamber, Move, harry potter, wonderbook, sony move, wonderbook: book of spells, book of speels ... V Pre-order Items Arrive. Thanks for sharing your comment! If your comment doesn't appear right away, please be patient as it may take a few minutes to publish or may require moderation. Comments ...
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Book Captures 'Mark Twain's Tale Of Today' « CBS Philly
By ATAtkins
Book Captures 'Mark Twain's Tale Of Today'. November 18, 2012 4:00 AM. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook Activity. What's this? Add to Timeline - What's This. Click "Log in" to publishwhat you read to Facebook. See what your ...
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Brad DeLong: A Book I Will Request in Hardcover from the Library...
By J. Bradford DeLong
A Book I Will Request in Hardcover from the Library... $30 for a Kindle edition, yes. $100 no: The Military Experience in the Age of Reason Christopher Duffy Amazon com Kindle Store. The mind of the publisher remains inscrutable to me.
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SNAP: Floating Books | Mission Loc@l
By Mateo Hoke
SNAP: Floating Books. floating books. "All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned inbooks." -Jean-Paul Sartre. Floating books on 24th St. Photo by Mateo Hoke. Tweet. By Mateo HokePosted November 17, 2012 3:00 pm ...
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Book: Mom of Columbine shooter prayed for son's suicide
Sue Klebold told "Far From the Tree" author Andrew Solomon that police informed ... The book also describes an arrest of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that took ...

Book-Vending Machine Dispenses Suspense | WBUR & NPR
Earlier this year, Stephen Fowler, owner of The Monkey's Paw used-book store in ... He wanted a creative way to offload his more ill-favored books — "odd and ...

Book Fair One-Liners: Cool Nickname, Thanks Autocorrect | WLRN
Enlarge image Credit Siobhan Vivian Author Siobhan Vivian with her former professor, ... MiamiBook Fair InternationalThe Story Doesn't End Here: Remix A Story With Junot Díaz ... Ed Irvin is a contributor to the Florida Book Review. Tags: ...

2012 Miami Book Fair on Book TV | C-SPAN
Today, C-SPAN2 presents coverage from the Miami Book Fair International. ... and eight authorinterview segments with viewer participation through C-SPAN's Facebook page, tweets, your calls, and e-mails. ... Congress, Politics, Books ...

Top-Sawyers Are All the Crack! (5 books)
5 books based on 1 votes: Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer, The Highest Stakes by Emery Lee,... Points are based on the ranking of the book on each list and the number of people have voted for it. ... by Emery Lee (Goodreads Author) ...



Alice Munro's 'Dear Life'

Book Review Podcast: Alice Munro's 'Dear Life'
New York Times (blog)
Podcast Archive. Listen to previous podcasts from the Book Review. This week in The New York Times Book Review, Charles McGrath reviews “Dear Life,” the latest collection of short stories by the celebrated Canadian author Alice Munro. Mr. McGrath ...

New York Times (blog)

ASCAP, National Book Awards honor writers
Examiner.com
Many book lovers have heard that the National Book Awards chose titles by Louise Erdrich and Katherine Boo as two of its 2012 best books Wed. night. But how many know that ASCAP, the music licensing organization, also announced its winners Wed. of ...

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Book Buzz: Searching for the next 'Twilight' franchise
USA TODAY
Back to press: A National Book Award means back to the presses for several publishers, as they prepare to print more copies of the winning books. Reading Roth: Now that he says he's retiring, what lessons did we learn from Philip Roth's fiction? Keith ...

Book tells Titanic family story
Bowling Green Daily News
Williams, a journalism professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., had a great-uncle who survived the sinking of the Titanic, a story she researched and turned into her book, “A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival.” Williams ...

Apple and Flipboard team up to bring more books to iOS devices
Christian Science Monitor (blog)
Tap a cover to unlock information about the book, including author, publisher, summary, and highlights from critics. To purchase, just click to download from the iBookstore; you'll be taken to iBooks for the actual reading with all its features ...

Christian Science Monitor (blog)

Time to turn the page
Chicago Tribune
Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores" and "My Ideal Bookshelf," a book of paintings of the favorite books of famous authors, designers and chefs. Oh, and there's "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore," a novel by Robin Sloan, a former ...

With Hostess crumbling, books to turn to
Baltimore Sun
While we wait to see what will happen with the company, here are a few books to take your mind off the legal battle: Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger. From the publisher: "From the phosphate mines in Idaho to the oil fields in China, Twinkie, ...

CBSE school book says non-vegetarians “easily cheat, tell lies”
The Hindu
CBSE on the other hand said they prescribe textbook only from class IX onwards and it is schools that decide on which books to prescribe for students in other classes. The Minister's reaction came after ... The book titled New Healthway: Health ...

Coffee table book nirvana
Fortune (blog)
FORTUNE -- Coffee table books typically dominate the publishing world at this time of year, and 2012 is no exception. Hundreds of new titles have appeared in recent weeks, all vying for your gift shopping dollars. From this vast selection I chose five ...

Fortune (blog)

Barnes & Noble Is Shutting Down E-Book Pioneers Fictionwise.com ...
By Sarah Perez
Barnes & Noble is shutting down Fictionwise, a company running several eBook websites, including Fictionwise.com, eReader.com, and eBookwise.com. Although..
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CW Developing 'Book Club' Drama With 'Sherlock Holmes' Producer ...
By Lesley Goldberg
The CW is opening up a new chapter in its development. The network has given script orders to BookClub, a drama about a young New Yorker who starts a book club with her mother, grandmother and friends.
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A Most Charming Book Review | decor8
By decor8
A Most Charming Book Review. I am sitting here blushing because my friend did the sweetest thing and decided to surprise me – and I have to share it… a video! I'm so touched by this, I don't know what to say! Me, speechless – get a camera ...
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'Gone Girl' Author Gillian Flynn Inks Deal to Write Two More Novels ...
By Kimberly Nordyke
The writer has signed a new agreement with Crown Publishers to pen a fifth novel and signed with Delacorte Press to write her first young adult book. ... PHOTOS: 11 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years. Financial details were not disclosed, and publication dates for ..."They love books and they love writers, and that makes for a ideal spot for an author to call home," she said, adding that she's looking forward to writing her first YA novel. "The books I read as a ...
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A Children's Book About Evolution (Without Any of the Scary - Patheos
By Hemant Mehta
“The well-documented story of how the Peppered Moth species eventually changed due to pollution darkening the plants where they congregated was perfect for a children's book. The new survival advantage for moths with darker wings is an ...
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Canada PM says still plans to balance books by 2015 vote - Yahoo ...
Publish your own activity and retain full control. ... Flaherty's delayed timetable for putting the booksin the black drew criticism from the Canadian Taxpayers ...

Reccommendgood books to read? - Yahoo! Answers
My favourite books are The hobbit, the LOTR trilogy, the star wars books, the star trek books and the hunger games, any good books like these that you'd ...



Petraeus Book Reviews Review: Fair & Foul

Petraeus Book Reviews Review: Fair & Foul
TIME
The first four gave the book five stars, Amazon's highest rating. This is when the author's pals weigh in, in hope of generating some early positive buzz. “The superb portrait of the soldier-scholar, General David Petraeus is truly riveting,” opines ...

National Book Award winner Katherine Boo on 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
Last night, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo won the National Book Award in the nonfiction category for her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. We weren't surprised at all by the win ...

New Two-Book Deal for 'Gone Girl' Author Gillian Flynn
New York Times (blog)
Molly Stern, the publisher of Crown Publishing, said in a statement that Ms. Flynn's newly announced adult novel “will be in the tradition of her darkly brilliant and gripping previous books.” Asked if additional plot details were available for either ...

Author barred from Atlanta Jewish book festival
CBS News
ATLANTA — An author whose outspoken criticism of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian West Bank got him banned from a Jewish book festival in Atlanta spoke Wednesday night at a sold-out event at an alternate location. "This experience has taught me ...

'Anna Karenina': Setting a Book in the Theater for a Film
Wall Street Journal (blog)
To me the book is kind of two books in one. There is the Anna story, which is a pure fiction, but Levin's story is kind of an autobiographical portrait of Tolstoy himself. He kept a very detailed memoir throughout his entire life except for four years ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

A School District Was Sued Over A Children's Book About Lesbian Moms
Business Insider
The suit calls for the district to be required to return copies of the picture book to the schools' library shelves, and for it to be prohibited from removing or restricting access to books in the future over concerns they contain homosexual themes or ...

Business Insider

Author Stephenie Meyer contemplates end of 'Twilight'
Salt Lake Tribune
Stephenie Meyer thinks everybody — the rabid fans who love, love, love her Twilight book series and movies, and the critics who hate them — should take a deep breath. "I may not have a lot of balance in my novels, because that's fantasy, but I really ...

PJ O'Rourke: By the Book
New York Times
What book is on your night stand now? “Kearny's March,” by Winston Groom. The author of “Forrest Gump” has become a wonderful military historian and tells us how, as a result of the Mexican War, we acquired not just Texas but New Mexico, Arizona, ...

Book Talk: The tale of Napoleon's second wife
Chicago Tribune
A: "Each of my books has been inspired by actually either seeing the place where my characters live, or seeing something that was important to them. So for my first book, 'Nefertiti,' it was seeing her iconic bust in Berlin. For my third book ...

Flipboard Launches New Books Section And Integrates Apple's iBookstore to ...
Sacramento Bee
Sections range from Fiction & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Business books, Cookbooks, Travel and more. Each title includes the publisher's description and a link to the book's page on the iBookstore so when readers discover interesting books ...

Knopf to Publish Pulitzer Prize Winner's Investigation of Scientology ...
By By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Lawrence Wright's book, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief," is based on an article that appeared in The New Yorker. ... Books November 14, 2012, 6:19 pm ...
Media Decoder

Flipboard Now Offers Books Categories, Promotes Apple's ...
By Darrell Etherington
Each carries Apple's iBookstore icon, and each provides a selection of featured iBookstore titles, with lengthy descriptions, author/publisher information and link to the title in the iBookstore. This is a move ... The deal is active in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Spain, where it should help Apple get its ebook offerings in front of Flipboard's significant audience (1.5 million active daily users, according to recent stats). The size of ...
TechCrunch

Book News: Naming James Bond, Advice from Philip Roth : The ...
By Andrea DenHoed
Philip Roth gives a young writer some life advice: “I would quit while you're ahead. Really, it's an awful field. Just torture. Awful.” Colin Burrow on whether “we think James Bond is such a good name for a spy...
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Flipboard adds Books section integrated with Apple's iBookstore ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Social news app Flipboard already aims to help users discover new web content. Now the company is branching out to book discovery. On Thursday, Flipboard added a new Books section to its iOS apps in partnership with Apple's iBookstore.
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