Novelist's Debut Is Newest Pick for Oprah's Book Club

Novelist's Debut Is Newest Pick for Oprah's Book Club
New York Times (blog)
That dream recently came true for Ayana Mathis, the author of “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” (Alfred A. Knopf). Ms. Winfrey announced Wednesday that she has chosen the novel for the book club famously associated with her former TV talk show. In response...

New York Times (blog)

'Slumber Party Barbie' Diet Book From 1965 Offers Troubling Weight Loss ...
Huffington Post
Among the doll's accessories are a small plastic scale permanently set to 110 lbs., and a diet booktitled "How To Lose Weight," because who doesn't go to a sleepover without their diet book? The dietbook's only advice? "DON'T EAT!" According to the ...

Julian Assange Book, 'Cypherpunks,' Skirts Mainstream On Its Way To Market
Huffington Post
The book consists chiefly of the transcript of a conversation between Assange and three others. In a nod to openness, he has chosen not to offer the ebook version on Amazon. Instead, the book is being sold exclusively on reKiosk, a self-described ...

'Infrared' scream: Nancy Huston wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award
NBCNews.com
It's probably safe to say Nancy Huston's bodice was not rippling with ecstasy when the internationally acclaimed author found out she won this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The Literary Review magazine in London has bestowed the tongue-in-cheek ...

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A Dark and Itchy Night
New York Times
John Furman, the owner of Boot-a-Pest, a team of bedbug exterminators based on Long Island, said he has had hundreds of clients buy a portable heater called PackTite to kill bedbug life, baking any used or borrowed book as a preventive measure before ...

New York Times

Book Review: “Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images”
Universe Today
The Hubble Space Telescope has been the subject of several books and articles, and certainly much more will be written about it in the future, as its status as the world's most successful science experiment will guarantee that. ... After a quick ...

Coffee-table books feed pop culture obsessions
Atlanta Journal Constitution
“50 Years of James Bond” (Life Books, $27.95) is something of a misnomer because while the Bond movies have been around for a half century, Ian Fleming's books date back 59 years. Rightly so, thebook devotes the opening chapters to Fleming, his books ...

'Heartbreaker' extends 'Dork Diaries' series
USA TODAY
More good news: the publisher is announcing that it has signed author Rachel Renee Russell tobooks seven and eight in the popular illustrated series for kids ages 9 and up. The series stars a middle-school drama queen named Nikki Maxwell. In book six ...

Entrepreneur Listened to Dad's Advice: 'Publish or Perish'
Fox Business
We're highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be ...

Beating the Frumpiness Out of You, but Gently
New York Times
WHEN I told people I was going to meet Stacy London, the fashion stylist and host of the TLC show “What Not to Wear,” whose new book, “The Truth About Style,” was published this fall, the reaction was universal: What are you going to wear?

New York Times

Can E-Books and Libraries Coexist?
By Bob Al-Greene
E-reader owners read more books in a year than their print-only counterparts. Is print really a ... To learn more, including who reads fastest -- print or e-book readers -- check out the infographic below, courtesy of TeachingDegree.org. Thumnail ...
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Tonight David Byrne and Author Chris Ruen Explain Exactly ...
By Michael Alan Goldberg
"It's pretty cool that I'm returning in this capacity," says Ruen, who explains that Byrne got ahold of a proof of his book over the summer (it was published last month), loved it, and reached out to Ruen through his publisher to team up for the ...
Sound of the City

Most Overlooked Books of 2012: A Literary Mixtape - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
If you want more books, we made similar literary mixtapes linking to free samples of the 2012 Man Booker Longlist, the Best Science Fiction of the Year, the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist, the Believer Book Award nominees, the 2012 ...
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Book News: Bad Sex Award Winner, Hatchet Job Of The Year : The ...
By Rachel Arons
The Canadian author Nancy Huston has won this year's Bad Sex in Fiction award for her novel “Infrared,” which captured the judges' attention with sentences like, “Kamal and I are totally immersed in flesh, that archaic kingdom that brings... ... Gawker has designated Zoë Heller's “carefully-reasoned, brutal takedown” of Salman Rushdie's memoir in The New York Review of Books as the hatchet job of the year. “Looking through the site is like knocking on a door, then another and ...
Page-Turner

Meet Lamar Smith: SOPA author, climate change skeptic - The Verge
By T.C. Sottek
The erotic guitars, decaying machines, and soy sauce of Maker Faire Tokyo · Meet Lamar Smith: SOPA author, climate change skeptic, and Congress' next science boss · The world's biggest chiptune festival takes its final bow in Tokyo · The ...
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Winfrey picks Mathis' debut novel for book club - Yahoo! News
News: Add another book for possible holiday gifts: Oprah Winfrey's latest 2.0 selection. ... Publishyour own activity and retain full control. ... up publication from early next year to this week, and anauthor interview will be aired Feb. ... Dozens of books over the past 20 years have become best-sellers, thanks to the talk- show ...

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Oprah Announces Her Second Pick for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 ...
Learn more about how you can participate in Oprah's Book Club 2.0. THE OPRAH SHOW. THE ...

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