Lance Armstrong in lawsuits over books

Lance Armstrong targeted in lawsuit over books
Los Angeles Times
Lance Armstrong lied for years about doping, and now some unsatisfied customers who bought hisbooks want their money back. A Republican political consultant in Sacramento, Rob Stutzman, and a professional chef, Jonathan Wheeler, are spearheading a ...

2 file lawsuit against Lance Armstrong for lies in books
USA TODAY
FICTION: Library in Australia moves Armstrong books. The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District in California by Rob Stutzman, a public affairs consultant in California, and Jonathan Wheeler, a professional chef. Both read the book only to learn later ...

Now that's a wall of books
Los Angeles Times
"The Hope of Liberty" by George Moses Horton, who lived near the store, was the first book by an African American author published in the South when it appeared in 1829, writes bookstore owner Myles Friedman on The Bookshop Blog (via Shelf Awareness) ...

Friend of exotic-animal owner writes book about killings
USA TODAY
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — A friend of Terry Thompson, who was called to the exotic-animal owner's property the night the man opened his animals' cages and shot himself, has written a book about the ordeal. Sheriff's deputies killed almost 50 of the tigers ...

Book Buzz: Hilary Mantel's prize-winning novels adapted for stage
USA TODAY
... source where Orwell worked nearly 70 years ago. Millions of e-books: Book and literary site The Millions has begun publishing e-books, debuting with the long essay "Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame and the History of the Worst Thing Ever" by Mark O ...

Online dating has changed everything, author says
USA TODAY
In his new book, Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating, writer Dan Slater argues that online dating has changed society profoundly. Slater, 35, a Brooklyn, N.Y., newlywed, tells USA TODAY's Sharon Jayson just how ...

Local bookstore asks teens: Which books do you like?
Christian Science Monitor
Watchung Booksellers, a local bookstore, is setting up a teen advisory council, reports booksellers industry newsletter Shelf-Awareness.com. Beginning on Feb. 1, the teens will meet every other month to read, discuss, and review advance copies of books ...

Christian Science Monitor

Book Review 'Drinking With Men' by Rosie Schaap
Boston Globe
On the book's first page, Schaap, who tends bar part time and writes a column about alcohol for The New York Times Magazine, estimates that she's spent 13,000 hours at bars in her lifetime. But “Drinking With Men'' is not an addiction memoir — it's an ...

Boston Globe

Book News: Aural Orwell, Ripe Prose
New Yorker (blog)
If you're looking for one of Lance Armstrong's books at your local library, you may find it in the fiction section. “This firm Sardinian sheep has the cool unaffected strut of Mick in his prime, Lou in middle age or Polly Jean today.” Why New York City ...

New Yorker (blog)

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Aaron Swartz and Motel Caswell: Book ends to prosecutorial reform?

Aaron Swartz and Motel Caswell: Book ends to prosecutorial reform?
Christian Science Monitor
The two cases are feeding a simmering groundswell among constitutional law professors and others about the inherent discretionary powers of federal prosecutors, especially in an era of books like attorney Harvey Silverglate's "Three Felonies a Day: How ...

Christian Science Monitor

Business book review: The Reckoning
Dallas Morning News
... to get better-paying jobs to offset their tax increases. They need to manage their budgets, and save and invest more, too. Moran uses facts, logic and common sense to drive home his points. Jim Pawlak reviews business books for The Dallas Morning News.

Novelist and publisher Dave Eggers on writing, politics, the state of the ...
The Guardian
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. For Hologram, we worked with a great printer near ...

News about New England books and writers
Boston Globe
Three best-novel nominees pay tribute to Parker in a book nominated for best critical/biographical work. That book is “In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero” (Smart Pop), edited by Otto Penzler.

Boston Globe

Minnesota Book Awards finalists named
Minneapolis Star Tribune
This year's short list for the Minnesota Book Awards is studded with the names of authors and books that have already won major prizes. The list of finalists, released Saturday night, includes novelist Louise Erdrich's "The Round House" and young-adult...

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Tell Us: Which Of These Picture Books Will Win The Caldecott?
NPR (blog)
On Monday morning, the 75th Caldecott Medal will go to the artist of "the most distinguished" American children's book of 2012. And while ... Here are some of the most talked about books, along with a peek at the artwork that helped them earn all that ...

NPR (blog)

Book examines history of Tampa cemeteries
South Tampa News and Tribune
The book is the latest in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Arcadia publishes booksabout the nation's local and regional histories, and has thousands of books in its catalog. Among the company's other local titles: "Ybor City," "MacDill ...

'Alone on Ice' by David Roberts
Boston Globe
It was a complex affair, with two separate bases 1,500 miles apart, and multiple forays from each base conducted by different parties. There is a curious moment in the middle of the book when the author, who has been largely invisible thus far, steps ...

Boston Globe

Altadena Junction: Voluminous book collection heads to auction
Pasadena Sun
Even as a child, Art Ronnie loved two things fiercely: aviation and books. He would spend his odd-job money buying books about fliers and aircraft. When he was 14, he got a job washing planes for a flying school for 50 cents an hour (an extra dollar if ...

Debut author: Melissa Harrison
The Guardian
In her 20s, Harrison wrote to Jeanette Winterson for advice, as she already knew she wanted to be an author but had not decided what she wanted to say. Winterson told her to find "that burning bush, the thing you really need to communicate". It was a ...

The Guardian

Documentary throws the book at Google scanning project
CNET (blog)
PARK CITY, UTAH--The most arresting moment in "Google and the World Brain," Ben Lewis' thoughtful new documentary about the search giant's effort to scan all the world's books, takes place not in Mountain View or a courtroom but rather a monastery high ...

Book Review Podcast: Joe Queenan on a Lifetime of Reading
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Ligaya Mishan reviews Joe Queenan's “One for the Books,” a memoir about life as a voracious reader. Ms. Mishan says that Mr. Queenan, a “famously dyspeptic humorist,” is in this book “mostly in celebratory ...

New York Times (blog)

Book details highs, lows of Francona's tenure
MLB.com
The 343-page book -- titled "Francona: The Red Sox Years" -- was written by Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, with full access from co-author Francona, and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The book is full of nuggets that Sox fans -- and...

MLB.com

Turkish Science Agency's Book Selections Prompt Questions
Science Now
Through its popular science book program, TÜBİTAK translates a range of science books into Turkish and sells them to the public, both directly and through bookstores. It used to offer more than 450 titles, including more than a dozen books about ...

Disgruntled book buyers sue Lance Armstrong over doping lies
Los Angeles Times
Lance Armstrong is being sued over his repeated, vehement denials in two books that he did not use performance-enhancing drugs or blood doping to win his seven Tour de France titles. Rob Stutzman, an aide to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and ...

Book review: Investing made easy
CBS News
The first thing I like about Swedroe's book is that it's easy to read and is short at just 134 pages. There are no complicated graphs and charts, but there are several insightful sketches from Carl Richards, The New York Times blogger, illustrator and ...

Coral Gables author has the 411 on packing in new book
MiamiHerald.com
“Because of that, packing to me was no big deal,” she said, as she recounts a friend's comment that led her to self-publish her attractively presented How to Pack (With Style), a subject she will discuss Friday at Books & Books in the Gables. George ...

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Publisher Defends Book Against Church Of Scientology Claims

Lawrence Wright Publisher Defends Book Against Church Of Scientology Claims
Huffington Post
The author and the publisher refused to provide the church with a copy of the book and showed little interest in receiving input from the church during the writing or so-called “fact-checking.” In the two years that Mr. Wright spent on his book he sent ...

What Are the National Book Awards For?
Slate Magazine (blog)
For the past few years, I have been at least somewhat persuaded that the NationalBook Awards judges were getting too clannish with their fiction selections. Maybe, as Salon's Laura Miller suggested, they were indeed making the prize irrelevant. After ...

Slate Magazine (blog)

Adobe Books cooperative takes over
San Francisco Chronicle
As Andrew McKinley saw rents rising around his funky Mission District bookstore, art gallery and youth hangout, Adobe Books, he knew how the story would end, just as it has for many San Francisco bookstores that have been pushed out by e-readers as ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Jared Diamond: By the Book
New York Times
Jared Diamond: By the Book. Published: January 17, 2013. The author of “The World Until Yesterday” says that if he had to recommend one book of geography to children, he would suggest his own “Guns, Germs, and Steel.” Enlarge This Image ...

Robert Stone to Publish First Novel in Decade
New York Times (blog)
Robert Stone, author of “Damascus Gate,” the 1998 novel about apocalyptic conspiracies in Jerusalem, will publish his first novel in a decade in November, his publisher said Thursday. The newbook will be titled “Death of the Black-Haired Girl” and is ...

Old All-Stars Who Still Dazzle the Eye
New York Times
This particular all-star lineup of art books includes that populist paragon Winslow Homer; Mati Klarwein, whose album covers shimmer with a cryptic hippie cool that seduced Miles Davis and Carlos Santana; Joel Sternfeld, whose reissued photographs snap ...

New York Times

A. Scott Berg to Publish Biography of Woodrow Wilson
New York Times (blog)
Mr. Berg, 63, is the author of four previous books. “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius” (1978) won the National Book Award, and “Lindbergh” (1998) won the Pulitzer Prize. His biographical memoir of Katharine Hepburn, “Kate Remembered” was a No.1 bestseller ...

Book News: Unburied Burns, Reading with Dr. Huxtable : The New ...
By Andrea DenHoed
A researcher has discovered long-lost manuscripts and letters by Robert Burns. “I remember well the first time I read 'Waiting For Godot.' I felt, when I finished, that I had read a very great love story, maybe the greatest...
Page-Turner

TED Blog | New TED Book: Radical Openness
By tedstaff
Tapscott shares much more of his vision of cooperation in the new TED Book, Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success. In it, Tapscott — with co-author Anthony Williams — looks at how, around the world, people are ...
TED Blog

Should Every Book Link To Amazon? - The Dish | By Andrew ...
By Andrew Sullivan
we get most of our Amazon Affiliates money from stuff that people buy after they click past the link to the book. Because they don't always buy the books — they're searching for, finding, buying tights, computers, random DVDs, etc. — but as ...
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Why Wook Author Hugh Howey Didn't Sell His Ebook Rights | Digital ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Wool author Hugh Howey struck it big in a deal with Simon & Schuster late last year that saw him collect a seven-figure advance for just the print publishing rights to his hit best-seller. As it turns out, well before his deal with a traditional ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Logos: Inspiring Examples and Related Books | Inspiration
By Gisele Muller
Back in November, we published an article with a few recommendations of books for you to read. After the article a lot of people got in touch with me asking for logo design related book recommendation, and this is why I decided to do this ...
Web Design Ledger

IT book edited by DSU professors | The Argus Leader | argusleader ...
The book was written for health IT professionals and students to provide an understanding of the process, challenges faced and lessons learned in the ...
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The e-book bubble?

Has the e-book bubble burst?
Los Angeles Times
I like Nicholas Carr. His 2008 Atlantic cover story “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (expanded two years later into “The Shallows,” a 2010 Pulitzer finalist) helped catalyze a key idea: the distracting nature of digital culture, which encourages us to ...

Book Buzz: Is heaven for real, Lena Dunham hype
USA TODAY
Here's a look at what's buzzing in the book world today: Heavenly tales: Is heaven for real? Three best-selling books - Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, To Heaven and Back by Mary C. Neal and Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo - tell personal stories ...

The UK's Biggest Distributor of Children's Books Is About to Be ... McDonald's
The Atlantic
If so, that activity would make an apt reaction to the following news: McDonald's restaurants across the U.K. are going to start distributing books, instead of toys, in their Happy Meals. For the next five weeks, as part of the chain's "Happy Readers ...

The Atlantic

'Silver Linings Playbook' author happy for recognition
USA TODAY
I tried to put the best of me, the truest version of me, in the book at a time when there weren't many people who thought I could publish a book, let alone get this far. "To see it grow to this point, it's heartening and beautiful." Once he got news of ...

Co-author of Mike Piazza biography says catcher did not use PEDs
Los Angeles Times
Actually, Lonnie Wheeler tried real hard not to say it, before naturally, saying just that in response to a question on whether Piazza denies taking performance enhancing drugs in the book. Said Wheeler on Thursday to Long Island Newsday: “Anybody who ...

Winter book preview
Los Angeles Times
Novels from 87-year-old James Salter, "All That is," and National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers," arrive in April. And rumor has it that October will bring a new novel from reclusive author Thomas Pynchon, "Bleeding Edge." But ...

Book Review Podcast: The State of the Nuclear World
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Bill Keller reviews three new booksthat address the current thinking about nuclear weapons. Mr. Keller writes: Fear of nuclear weapons spiked for a time after 9/11, when we confronted the possibility of ...

New York Times (blog)

How to Fail in Business
Wall Street Journal
There are books that gallop you through a landscape of vivid anecdotes in a quest to turn five insights or seven habits or 10 lessons into a grand theory about how things should work. "The Org" isn't one of those books. It is an amiable guide ...

Wall Street Journal

New Book Tells Inside Story of Atari
PC Magazine
A new book based on nearly eight years of research and extensive interviews with former Atari employees tells the story of the iconic, pioneering U.S. video game company. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun, written by Martin Goldberg and Curt Vendel, was ...

New Book Explains Why Ex-CIA Director Richard Helms Lied to Congress
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Now in a new book, his widow Cynthia Helms attempts to explain why. Richard Helms, who was the director of the Central ... He chose the oath to the CIA, and told the questioner "no," she explains in the book. Four years later, that response would come...

U.S. News & World Report (blog)

MAKE | Book Review: Tiny Homes
By Laura Cochrane
Lloyd Kahn's gorgeous new book, Tiny Homes, is filled with inventive and unique tiny-house inspiration. ... Book Review: Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn. Review by Meara O'Reilly. In the county, where I built my tiny house, anything smaller than a ...
MAKE

'How Dare You': Conservative Author Confronts Piers Morgan on ...
By Madeleine Morgenstern
Conservative author and Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro on Thursday accused CNN's Piers Morgan of "standing on the graves of the children" who died in Newtown, Conn. in his opposition to guns. "Honestly Piers, you've kind of been a ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories

The Best Book Covers Of 2012, As Chosen By Our Favorite Book ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The Best Book Covers Of 2012, As Chosen By Our Favorite Book Cover Designers – Flavorwire. In Cold Blood. Posted: 01/11/2013 7:23 am EST. React. Inspiring Funny Typical Important Outrageous Amazing Innovative Beautiful. Read more ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Anti-Feminist Press Crows Over Book Celebrating Domestic Abuse ...
By Amanda Marcotte
In the book, Valdes celebrates her boyfriend for forcing her into a submissive role, which she describes as letting go of feminism's “dreary shroud of lies”* to embrace what she believes is a woman's natural role, which is one with no autonomy: ...
The Raw Story

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Book Review Podcast: Inside Scientology

Book Review Podcast: Inside Scientology
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Michael Kinsley reviews “Going Clear,” Lawrence Wright's new book about Scientology. Mr. Kinsley writes: That crunching sound you hear is Lawrence Wright bending over backward to be fair to Scientology.
 
New York Times (blog)

Francona not pleased with his Sox book teaser
MLB.com
On Friday, when Francona was in Cleveland for the team's Tribe Fest event, the Indians manager said he feels the controversial excerpt painted a misleading portrait of the book, "Francona: The Red Sox Years," which was co-written by the Boston Globe's ...

As E-Books Rise, Publishing Still Waivers
Huffington Post
On top of that, according to a study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, "the number of owners of either a tablet computer or e-book reading device such as a Kindle or Nook grew from 18 percent in late 2011 to 33 percent in late 2012 ...

DreamWorks acquires 'Silver Linings Playbook' author's new manuscript
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
”We immediately sparked to Matthew Quick's book and the heart and humor which is infused in his storytelling,” said DreamWorks' Holly Bario in a press release. “All of us at DreamWorks are excited to begin developing this story and look to make it a ...

From Dropout to Six-Figure "Book Mama": The Un-Schooling of Linda Sivertsen
Forbes
How would you like a six-figure career helping aspiring authors generate six- and even seven-figure advances for their soon-to-be bestselling books? Better yet, how would you like ...
 
Forbes

Book News: Poetic Bacteria, Siri Banter : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
“I am amazed that poets will continue to write about their divorces, even though there is currently a robot taking pictures of orange ethane lakes on Titan.” Anthony A. Davis talks to Christian Bök, the scientist who wrote a line of poetry into a ...
Page-Turner

Amazon is testing Kindle rentals for regular books, with pricing ...
By Alex Wilhelm
If you enjoy reading, but want to lower the price of your habit, Amazon is slowly introducing something new that should heat your cockles: rentals of regular books on your Kindle. Textbook rental is not new on Amazon, but the rental of ...
The Next Web

Glitch art book shatters fundraising goal | Massively
By Shawn Schuster
Through Indiegogo (one of the many alternatives to Kickstarter), Brent set up a project to raise $17,000 for production of a hardcover book showcasing the art of Glitch. But as happens with the internet, the initial goal was shattered with the ...
Massively

Books | Whistleblowers | SmartPlanet
By Jenna Marotta
Prolific Brooklyn-born reporter and author Sam Roberts has written Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America (Grand Central Publishing, $30, January 22), about the impact of this iconic structure. In the book, he and legendary ...
All Content on SmartPlanet

Not Oprah's Book Club: Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of ...
By Syreeta
From Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Margot Mifflin, published by powerHouse Books. Maud Wagner, the first known female tattooist in the U.S., 1911. Photograph courtesy of the author. Years before Adrienne ...
Feministing

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Days Of The $14.99 Ebook Over?

Are The Days Of The $14.99 Ebook Numbered?
Forbes
When the Department of Justice announced that several publishers had settled a lawsuit that alleged ebook price-fixing, which would eventually give ebook retailers pricing control that they didn't have before, an Amazon spokesperson said, “This is a ...

National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for awards
Los Angeles Times
The late journalist Anthony Shadid, Los Angeles writer Reyna Grande and the novelist Zadie Smith were among the finalists announced Monday for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards. Honors will be awarded in six categories: fiction, ...

Self-Published Books Hit Kindle Bestseller List
Forbes
Amazon have announced that 15 of the top 100 bestselling Kindle books in the UK last year were self-published. Nick Spalding dominated the chart, with the number one spot taken by his Love… From Both Sides, and Love… And Sleepless Nights taking third ...

Ben Fountain of Dallas among National Book Critics Circle nominees
Dallas Morning News
Others in the running for fiction include Zadie Smith's NW, French author Laurent Binet's HHhH, Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son and Lydia Millet's Magnificence. Boo already won the National Book Award for Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, while ...

Dallas Morning News

The First Bookless Public Library: Texas to Have BiblioTech
ABC News
Library goers will be able to take out books on any of the devices in the library, take out one of the 50 e-readers for a period of time or bring their own e-readers to the library and load books onto their own devices. The library will also be ...

ABC News

Book Buzz: National Book Critics finalists announced
USA TODAY
New and noteworthy: Hoda Kotb's inspirational book Ten Years Later leads the list of this week's notable releases selected by USA TODAY's Jocelyn McClurg. Also out this week: The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer, which USA TODAY's Brian Truitt calls "an ...

National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists - NYTimes ...
By By JOHN WILLIAMS
In the fiction category, only one of the finalists from the National Book Awards made the list: “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,” by Ben Fountain. The other books that will vie for the prize are “HHhH,” by Laurent Binet, which won France's top ...
ArtsBeat

A Book Trailer for "Truth In Advertising" : The New Yorker
By John Kenney
Page-Turner - Criticism, contention, and conversation about books that matter. « Book News: Bad Confessions, Softcore in Hardcover · Main. January 14, 2013. A Book Trailer for “Truth In Advertising”. Posted by John Kenney. Tweet ...
Page-Turner

Books I Never Wrote - Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
But there are a number of books I tentatively agreed to write but then backed out of, and other booksI wanted to write but never got around to. Here are some of them. I (re)discovered my old bookarchives when destroying optical disc backups ...
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

Children's Book Cracks Self Published Bestsellers List - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we have compiled lists of the top eBooks in three major marketplaces for self-published digital books: Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords. We update these lists every week, tracking ... If you are an author, check out our Free Sites to Promote Your eBook post and our How To Sell Your Self-Published Book in Bookstores post and our How to Pitch Your Book to Online Outlets post. Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for...
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Things I Learned About Publishing a Book

Nataly Kelly: Six Things I Learned About Publishing a Book That Very Few Books Will Tell You: ".  . . 6. Platform matters, but passion matters more. Nowadays, it is next to impossible to get a major publisher interested in a book without an established platform -- that is, a built-in audience of people who already know your work and ways to reach them. Publishers put up money, take a risk, and make an investment when they offer an advance and escort an author down the traditional publishing path. They hope that investment will pay off -- some do, some don't. The author's platform is an indicator of reduced risk, plain and simple. That said, passion is even more important, for that is really what builds a platform to begin with. Take away the passion, and the platform fades or stagnates. Enduring passion for your topic is what shows a publisher that your platform has staying power too. . ."

Amazon is gutting Barnes & Noble | BGR: ". . . The true horror here is that Nook revenues declined by more than 12% — a steeper slide than what B&N’s total sales showed. This means that combined digital content and Nook device sales are now shrinking faster than traditional hardcover and paperback sales. This is fairly disastrous . . . Barnes & Noble is the last national chain of book stores in America. And its eBook strategy simply isn’t working. This was the Christmas when the earlier collapse of the Borders chain should have boosted Barnes & Noble’s fortunes. Instead, Nook volumes declined and retail segment revenue crashed by 10.9% compared to the previous Christmas. Now, both brick and mortar as well as digital sales are spiraling down. . . . "

The Most Important Finance Books - Business Insider: "Reading a good investment book should top your list of New Year's resolutions. But these books are a dime a dozen. Book stores have sections devoted to investing in the stock market, personal finance, and how to 'get rich quick.' The 27 books we selected appear on must-read lists repeatedly.  They are the best finance books ever written."

Weekend picks for book lovers
USA TODAY
USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include Brad Meltzer's explosive new thriller and a Star Wars novel for Han Solo fans. The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer; Grand Central, 436 pp.; fiction. Since the days of George Washington, American presidents have ...

Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books'
The Guardian
Set in Heti's native Toronto, the book is based on the author's own conversations with her artist friends (the character Margaux is Heti's real friend, painter Margaux Williamson), her analyst and her relationship with Israel, the man with whom she has ...

10 Deleted Chapters That Transformed Famous Books
Huffington Post
There is a fine line between a good book and a great book. In some cases it might only take one chapter to completely destroy what could be a classic work of literature. Below are ten books—not all necessarily classics—that might have been unknown if ...

For Justice Sotomayor, Books Unlocked Imagination
NPR
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's autobiography, My Beloved World, debuted this week, and NPR's Nina Totenberg sat down with her to talk about her youth and schooling and career. Sotomayor discusses the role that books played in her life, from ...

“In the House of the Interpreter'' by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Boston Globe
The author picks up the story in 1955, the year in which he entered Alliance High School, headed by principal Edward Carey Francis, a figure who looms large in wa Thiong'o's narrative, and who viewed the school as a “grand opportunity to morally and...

Boston Globe

Chloe Hooper: 'I see this as an anti-erotic novel'
The Guardian
Australian author Chloe Hooper, 39, is creating a singularly diverse literary career. Her 2002 debut novel, A Child's Book of True Crime, made the Orange prize shortlist, while The Tall Man (2009), a nonfiction investigation into the death of an ...

The Guardian

Madeline McCann book written by mother raises £1million for search fund
Daily Mail
In the searingly honest book Kate McCann explains she thought it would be 'unwise' to leave her three children with a babysitter on the night they dined at the resort restaurant. Explaining why they did not make use of the babysitting service offered ...

Daily Mail

Inaugural books
Chicago Tribune
There's been no shortage of books about President Barack Obama. Even before he became president, he had written an autobiography and had at least one biography written about him. Since his inauguration four years ago, though, the market has exploded ...

Chicago Tribune

Top 5 Social Media Books Reviewed | Social Media Today
By mindofmiller
Learn about the business social media tactics that author Jeffrey Gitomer and other online gurus are employing right now as you examine each angle of this “foundation-building, platform-building” book. These are not ideas that came by ...
Social Media Today - The world's...

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Alexandria alive again with books

Alexandria, alive once more with books
Newsweek
Inside, the Bibliotheca features computer workstations with high-speed Internet, an international interlibrary search service, and space for an extraordinary 8 millionbooks—though currently more than three quarters of its shelves sit empty. Exhibits ...

Newsweek

Three Great Books To Read for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster, 2013): Taylor Branch has cemented his place in sharing the historical narrative of our times with books like “The Clinton Tapes,” “The Cartel,” and “The ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Los Angeles Times
Branch's latest book on King, published last month, is a condensed, highlight-heavy sampling of his award-winning trilogy about King. The first book, "Parting the Waters," was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1987, and the two following ...

Dark stories
The Economist (blog)
This was the Ramallah debut of "The Great Book Robbery", a 2012 documentary about the looting of some 70,000 books from private Palestinian libraries during the 1948 war. It vividly chronicles the large-scale cultural pillage and dispossession of ...

The Economist (blog)

Michael Jackson Fans Attempt To Crush Book With Negative Amazon Reviews
The Consumerist
The New York Times writes about a fan-led campaign to smear the book and its author via Amazon reviews. Of the 182 reviews currently posted about Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson, 112 are 1-star reviews. The Times ...

Amazon Children's Publishing expands with more books for younger kids and ...
paidContent.org
“Two Lions” will publish picture books, chapter books and middle-grade fiction (for kids ages 8 to 12), while “Skyscape” is aimed at teens. The imprints' first titles will be published this spring. Amazon acquired 450 children's titles from the ...

An App to Sift Through Books - NYTimes.com
By By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Another is to join social media sites devoted to books, like Goodreads.com or Shelfari.com — but that takes time and commitment. You could follow book recommendations from friends on Facebook — but you would have to dig through other ...
Media Decoder

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Are Print Books Are Here to Stay?

Never Mind E-Books: Why Print Books Are Here to Stay - WSJ.com: "Ever since Amazon introduced its popular Kindle e-reader five years ago, pundits have assumed that the future of book publishing is digital. Opinions about the speed of the shift from page to screen have varied. But the consensus has been that digitization, having had its way with music and photographs and maps, would in due course have its way with books as well. By 2015, one media maven predicted a few years back, traditional books would be gone. Half a decade into the e-book revolution, though, the prognosis for traditional books is suddenly looking brighter. Hardcover books are displaying surprising resiliency. The growth in e-book sales is slowing markedly. And purchases of e-readers are actually shrinking, as consumers opt instead for multipurpose tablets. It may be that e-books, rather than replacing printed books, will ultimately serve a role more like that of audio books—a complement to traditional reading, not a substitute."


A Quirky Little Bookshop in Cyberspace
"The Los Angeles-based multimedia director Claire Cottrell has begun Book Stand, an online bookshop dedicated to limited-run, hard-to-find print publications that would look great on your coffee table. The items on the site run the gamut from books, magazines, zines and, starting this month, even the occasional arty film, like Gabe Rosenn’s “Hot Tubs.” Rather than categorize her goods by subject area, Cottrell opts for more creative monikers like Dreamlands and Sweet Earth. In an effort to foster a sense of community, Cottrell also posts conversations with select artists and even asks them to share their favorite recipes with her readers. Additionally she posts photos from trips to bookish points of interest like the Ofr. bookstore in Paris. . . . "

Author, publisher, entrepreneur: Guy Kawasaki on apes, authors, and what it means to write books today | VentureBeat: "Kawasaki: I’ve written 12 books now, and the best data I have is with Enchantment, where the ratio of print to ebooks is two to one. There is a myth that more ebooks are sold than paper books, but generally speaking the total U.S. market for books is about $25B, and roughly 10 percent is ebooks. The place where ebooks really dominate is adult fiction. I think that it will be 90 percent ebooks someday … but that’s not true today."

Lance Armstrong books moved to fiction section in Australian library
New York Daily News
There librarians have puzzled over what to do with Armstrong's many books and have come up with the perfect solution. PHOTOS: ARMSTRONG'S FALL FROM GRACE They have all been recategorized and put in the fiction section, according The Australian.

New York Daily News

Books: New and noteworthy
USA TODAY
The buzz: Private Games, the last book that paired Patterson and Sullivan, reached No. 4 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list in February 2012. 3. Drinking With Men by Rosie Schaap (Riverhead, non-fiction, on sale Jan. 24). What it's about: A memoir ...



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92Y Reading Series: Tom Wolfe - Back to Blood (video)


92Y Reading Series: Tom Wolfe - Back to Blood

Set in modern-day Miami, Tom Wolfe’s new novel, Back to Blood, examines race, sex, art and immigration. He is “one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed post-modern era,” wrote Time magazine. “With books like The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, he has built a towering reputation both as a journalist and as a novelist, and he does things with words—exhilarating, intoxicating, impossible things—that no other writer can do.”


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Previewing 2013 books (video)



Previewing 2013's books [Google+ Hangout]
Los Angeles Times
During Tuesday's scheduled discussion, we plan to go past the titles themselves to talk about how David and I pick the books we choose to review. Other questions on the agenda include: What is it that makes us look forward to a book? How do we discover ...

A Possible Digital Solution for Illustrated Book Publishers?
Forbes
But when was the last time you bought an e-cookbook or an ebook dedicated to the sights and sounds of London? Many of ... While there have been some notable successes for what are known as “enhanced ebooks” and book apps, and some publishers are doing ...

Book Buzz: Thomas Pynchon announces new book
USA TODAY
New Pynchon: Penguin Press confirmed Friday that Thomas Pynchon will publish a new book, called The Bleeding Edge. The author, who is often rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel prize, wrote his last book, Inherent Vice, in 2009, and is rumored ...

Book News: New Pynchon, Bookstore Cats
New Yorker (blog)
Penguin Press announced on Friday that Thomas Pynchon is set to publish a new book, entitled “The Bleeding Edge.” (As reported in last week's Book News, the notoriously secretive Pynchon is also rumored to be collaborating with Paul Thomas Anderson ...

New Yorker (blog)

Review: Book sheds light on traditional societies
Huffington Post
According to author Jared Diamond, such trials are already taking place. In his new book, "The World Until Yesterday," Diamond argues: "Traditional societies in effect represent thousands of natural experiments in how to construct a human society. They ...

Doctor Who regenerates in ebook form
The Guardian
Each of the subsequent stories will be written by a different children's author, with each story featuring a reimagining of one of the eleven Doctors, from Hartnell via Tom Baker to the most recent Doctors David Tennant and Matt Smith. Colfer told the ...

The Guardian

The Best Books to Boost Your Career in 2013
Forbes
As part of my job as a career coach and as the Work and Volunteering blogger for Next Avenue, I make it a point to keep up with the latest career books. So to help you get 2013 off to a strong start, I wanted to share my favorite work-related books ...

Forbes

Top business books of 2012
CBS News
Sure it's a book about fitness, but at its core this is a leadership book -- it's about how you can lead yourself. Rich Roll, the author, found himself overweight and out of breath on the eve of his 40th birthday. Dissatisfied, he did something nearly ...

Shelby Scates, reporter-author-climber, dies at 81
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Scates published his final book in 2006, “Maurice Rosenblatt and the Fall of Joseph McCarthy.” Rosenblatt was head of the National Committee for an Effective Congress, a group that challenged the Red-baiting Wisconsin senator and raised money for those...

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Book Deal for Author Ends Circuitous Path Back - Media Decoder ...
By By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Thirteen years after her debut novel, "Last Things," was released, Jenny Offill is returning with a two-book deal with Vintage, a division of Random House.
Media Decoder

Publisher Drops Author for Sending Black Conservative Woman Vile ...
By Madeleine Morgenstern
In sticking to our own 'zero tolerance' model, we terminated our contract with this author immediately and his book is in the process of being removed from stores.” The publisher noted that the decision was “not just a business issue” but a ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories

Site News - New Author - The Phinsider
By Kevin Nogle
I am pleased to announce that we have a new author joining the team here at the Phinsider. Throughout the season, he has posted impressive Fan Posts following each game, and it was an easy decision to invite him to join the group. He will ...
The Phinsider - All Posts

'Creative Reuse' Author on Why 'Recycling Sucks!' - Core77
He's also the author of 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse: Remake, Restyle, Recycle, Renew. And in his TED Talk entitled "Recycling Sucks! The History of Creative Reuse" Garth points out that recycling is the last of the three R's (the first two ...
Core77

Horry Literacy Council's book store does more than just sell books ...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.- Libraries and big books stores are all over the Grand Strand, and sell varieties of books every day. But one small book store is doing ...
www2.wbtw.com/.../horry-literacy-councils-book-store-does-7...

Author Neal Stephenson Slices Up Stuff With a Longsword ...
In this high speed video captured by a Phantom Flex, author Neal Stephenson slices up fruit ...
laughingsquid.com/author-neal-stephenson-slices-up-stuff-wit...

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Guy Kawasaki on apes, authors, writing, publishing

Author, publisher, entrepreneur: Guy Kawasaki on apes, authors, and what it ...
VentureBeat
He's built and sold three companies, invested in dozens more as a venture capitalist, still runs a few startups fairly actively, and worked for Apple in the early breakout years of its 1984-style fight against Big Brother (aka IBM). But he's also a ...

VentureBeat

Books: New and noteworthy
USA TODAY
4 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list in 2011), the author offers this intriguing stop along the way. 2. The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman (Blue Rider Press, non-fiction, on sale Jan. 8). What it's about: Actor Jeff ...

The Model Modern General
Wall Street Journal
Modern generals' memoirs are mostly ghostwritten these days and follow a familiar template: open with a battle scene to hook the reader, then flash back to the author'syouth, before bringing the story up to the present day, focusing most of the ...

Wall Street Journal

Printed books carry a lot of fond memories
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Newsweek just made the switch to digital only, and some new books are being published solely in eBook format. In light of our ... Growing up, I rhymed with my dad's childhood copies of Dr. Seuss; I solved many mysteries with the Bobbsey Twins and Nancy ...

Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

The Giver author describes upcoming fourth book; movie in the works
Public Radio International PRI
The Giver, the controversial, yet popular, children's book has been renewed with a fourth installment, Son. Out in October, Son continues the story of the Community. But that's not the only news for the series. The Giver itself is being made into a movie.

Book review: 'To Sell Is Human'
Los Angeles Times
The best moment in author Daniel Pink's new offering from Riverhead Books comes when he cold-calls the king of cold callers, Joe Girard, Guinness World Record-breaking salesman and author of "How to Sell Anything to Anybody." As Pink archly reveals in ...

Bernie Madoff's Books - Latimes.com
By The Huffington Post News Editors
How does an author of seriously literary fiction discover one of his books was owned by Bernie Madoff, the investor who defrauded his clients of billions of dollars? He sees it listed in an auction on EBay.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Gabrielle Giffords Books Sitdown With Diane Sawyer on Shooting ...
By Michael O'Connell
Gabrielle Giffords is heading to ABC World News this week. The network announced Sunday that the former congresswoman will once again be interviewed by Diane Saywer, the only journalist she's spoken with on camera since a gunshot ...
Television

Gorgeous Pop-Up Book Explores the Insides of a Unicorn – Flavorwire
By Emily Temple
Seeing a unicorn is nothing, but seeing inside a unicorn? That's magic. Or at least it is in the hands of Alison Woodward, whose macabre but beautiful pop-up “book” Heirloom, which we spotted over at io9, lets you dissect a dead baby unicorn, ...
Flavorwire

FDL Book Salon – Your thoughts to my desk | Book Salon
By BevW
They are a reflection of our FDL community and activism. This is your time to tell me about the BookSalons you liked, and didn't like so much. What are your favorite books, subjects? How do you read them – hardback or eBook? What are your ...
Book Salon

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Books: Print Is Here to Stay

Don't Burn Your Books—Print Is Here to Stay
Wall Street Journal
Half a decade into the e-book revolution, though, the prognosis for traditional books is suddenly looking brighter. Hardcover books are displaying surprising resiliency. The growth in e-book sales is slowing markedly. And purchases of e-readers are ...

Wall Street Journal

Crime novelist Dennis Lehane offers spot in book for finding lost dog
Today.com (blog)
... bring Tessa back to their home in Brookline, Mass., near Boston. The 47-year-old author ofbooks including "Mystic River" and "Gone, Baby, Gone" is offering a monetary reward and has said he'll name a character in his next book after whoever finds ...

Thomas Pynchon to Publish New Book
New York Times (blog)
He is suspicious of e-books, does not like to have his picture taken, and is often rumored to be on the short-list of American novelists who might win the Nobel prize for literature. The secretive novelist Thomas Pynchon is back. He will publish a new ...

Uncommon Advice for Seeking a Fresh Start
New York Times
Remarkably, three books have emerged since the nonfateful winter solstice that can help everyone become a finer creature in the brave new world of 2013. All of these books — one about self-image, one about diet and one about habits — would seem, on ...

New York Times

The Power of Patient-Expert Books
Huffington Post
Patient-authors also narrate the experience of illness. That is why I hope health care professionals (HCPs) are also reading books written by patients. A book like No-Sugar Added Poetry, for example, can give HCPs immediate access to some of the ...

Book Buzz: Quentin Tarantino, book critic?
USA TODAY
Quentin Tarantino, critic: Earlier this week, Quentin Tarantino revealed to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air that after he turns 60, he will stop making films, and instead will write scripts, books andbook reviews. New Kerouac adaptation: Watch the ...

'The End of Your Life Book Club,' by Will Schwalbe
New York Times
As its title suggests, these discussions are the ostensible subject of Will Schwalbe's memoir, “The End of Your Life Book Club.” But just as the books themselves served as excuses for Mary Anne and Will to talk of difficult things — particularly ...

Book News: A Lukewarm Nobel, Roald Dahl in Flight : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
Gerda Lerner, author and pioneer of women's history, has died at the age of ninety-two. “There aren't any obvious candidates for the Nobel prize and the prize committee is in an unenviable situation.” Newly opened records reveal that ...
Page-Turner

iBook Lessons: Childrens picture books | TUAW - The Unofficial ...
By Erica Sadun
In this case, the material was a children's picture book. And because of that, I suggested going with the iBookstore instead. The iBooks Author software, available freely from Apple, provides a much better match to picture book layout and ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TED Blog | New TED Book: In Mistrust We Trust
By Kate Torgovnick
With his provocative new book, In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?, political commentator Ivan Krastev explores this incongruity between our political head and heart. There has been a profound decline of the public's trust in the ... for the Kindle and Nook, as well as through the iBookstore. Or download the TED Books app for your iPad or iPhone and get a subscription, which for $4.99 a month lets you download all the books you can read.
TED Blog

Neil Gaiman's Journal: Amazing Book Cover Announcements and ...
By Neil
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac—as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark. It began for our narrator forty years ago when ...
Neil Gaiman's Journal

Gary Shteyngart Gets Book Blurb Documentary - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Gary Shteyngart Gets Book Blurb Documentary. ... next job Guinness World Records is looking for a Records Manager- (Gaming). next job Quayside Publishing Group is looking for a Acquiring Editor. next job Random House U.S.A is looking for a eBook Assistant Production Manager - Digital Operations. see all ... Journalist Edward Champion has released “Shteyngart Blurbs,” a short documentary looking at the life and book blurbs of Gary Shteyngart (along with the history of blurbs).
GalleyCat

MeeGenius! Kids' Books - The Read-Along Educational App for ...
MeeGenius is the fun, free and easy-to-use library of e-books you and your little ... Create your ownbook club and share your child's favorite books with their ...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meegenius!.../id364734296?...

Book takes you behind the scenes at 'Downton Abbey' - mcall.com
Author opens door to cast and characters in companion guide to popular PBS show ... The book is expected to make the New York Times best-sellers list on ... as deputy editor of Country Life Magazine, before writing several other books.
www.mcall.com/.../mc-downton-abbey-chronicles-companion...

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