'Cloud Atlas' Author Mitchell Mobbed in Shanghai

'Cloud Atlas' Author Mitchell Mobbed in Shanghai
Wall Street Journal (blog)
“This is especially true for fiction because a lot of the romance and crime fiction gets translated, whereas a winner of a good literary prize might not if the book is not commercially successful in its original language.” A lot of contemporary books ...

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Joe Paterno 'Despised' Sandusky Long Before Sex Scandal, New Book Claims
ABC News
Long before Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse crimes led to Joe Paterno's downfall, the two Penn State coaches "despised each other," according to a new biography of Paterno. Former Sports Illustrated writer Joe Posnanski describes in his new biography, ...

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'Fifty Shades' helps Barnes & Noble earnings
Los Angeles Times
The largest traditional U.S. book retailer faces tough competition from online retailers like Amazon.com and discount stores and the challenges of dealing with a population that is increasingly moving away from traditional books in favor of reading on ...

Book Review: Floats the Dark Shadow by Yves Fey
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Home Books Book Review: Floats the Dark Shadow by Yves Fey. "A sinister cabal of superior writers." ... Overall, the book is very readable for anyone who enjoys a good mystery and good historical fiction. The novel centers around two characters ...

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Book Review: Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West by Ruben ...
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Home Books Book Review: Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West by Ruben Martinez ... The author relates how pick-up trucks deliver water to communities like Baboquivari Valley in Arizona which is a dry corridor of the Sonoran Desert.

Book Review: The Hidden Power Of Blend Modes In Adobe Photoshop by Scott ...
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In his book The Hidden Power of Blend Modes in Adobe Photoshop, author Scott Valentine takes the mystery out of working with blend modes and provides concrete examples of how they work and what they can be used for. The Hidden Power of Blend ...

RIP Phyllis Diller, author of 'Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse'
Los Angeles Times
It also created the fodder for two books: "The Joys of Aging -- and How to Avoid Them" and "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy." Diller began ... In the book, which was excerpted in The Times, she also wrote jokingly about plastic surgery.

Book review: Terry Brooks delivers another winning fantasy tale with 'Wards of ...
Washington Post
Author Terry Brooks has delivered some of the best fantasy tales written in the past 35 years. His latest, “Wards of Faerie: The Dark Legacy of Shannara,” continues the saga ... The best fantasy novels immerse readers in an unusual, yet familiar world ...

Newsweek cover story author: Has Pres. Obama been an effective leader? I don ...
Fox News
Every now and then, we got the detail -- Ron Suskind's extraordinary book, "Confidence Men," which revealed the chaos that surrounded policy making in the first two years of the administration. I mean, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. That's ...

Amazon.com Books Announces Amazon Election Heat Map 2012
PYMNTS.com
The Amazon Election Heat Map destination will also host two “Live Meters” that indicate the percentage split of red and blue book sales in the US for books by the two presidential candidates as well as their vice presidential running mates. Customers ...

Brazil: Bicycle Brings Books to the Homeless · Global Voices
By Natalia Laczko
The project is a creative and dynamic way to encourage reading, especially among people who live on the streets, because libraries typically require identification and proof of residence to loan books; documents which homeless people don't ...
Global Voices

Alex Morgan Inks 3-Book Deal - GalleyCat
By Maryann Yin
... Deals · Bookselling · Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · Globe Pequot Press is looking for a Acquisitions Editor. next job Rodale Inc. is looking for a Digital Books Assistant Producer. next job Greenleaf Book Group is looking for a Developmental Book Editor for Independent Publisher. see all ... The not-yet-titled first book will be released in Summer 2013. SBYR editor Kristin Ostby negotiated the deal with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment literary agent Eric Simonoff.
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Paula Cooper, Gagosian Among Printed Matter Book Fair ...
By Dan Duray
The organizers of the Printed Matter book fair at MoMA PS1 have released a list of the participants for this year's museum-wide show. Lucy Lippard and Paul Chan are the keynote speakers for this year's Contemporary Artists' Books ...
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The Unshelved Book Club
Book recommendations from the creators of Unshelved® and their friends. Learn who we are, how we pick books, and which books we've featured. ... Raina Telgemeier, the New York Times bestsellingauthor of the Eisner Award winner, ...
www.unshelved.com/bookclub/2012-8-17

Social media and online comments 'causing writers to self-censor ...
Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls, at the Edinburgh international book festival. ... threatens to stifle literary endeavour, the multi-award-winning author Patrick Ness ... In China, which lacks a censorship law but where books are routinely ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../social-media-stifle-literary-endeavour?...

Book: Obama Cancelled bin Laden Mission 3x
Book: Obama Cancelled bin Laden Mission 3x ... Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book.
www.realclearpolitics.com/.../book_obama_cancelled_bin_lad...

Barnes & Noble Q1 2012: Bookstore Sees Revenue Rise On E-Books, 'Fifty ...
Huffington Post
Tech-savvy readers snapped up its e-books and other digital content during the period, while traditionalists headed to its bookstores for the popular "Fifty Shades of Grey" series and other items. The double dose of ... These factors have pushed the ...

A candid look at the life of Penn State coach Joe Paterno
NBCNews.com
there was absolutely a lot of panic. nobody understood what was going on. it was such a whirlwind. it was difficult. it was such an odd place to be as a writer. i knew as i was writing this book, i knew that what i wanted to do was put the reader there ...

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Book Notes: 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
Norwich Bulletin
Published in the United States by Vintage Books, New York, in April 2012. 372 pages, paperback, $15.95. Also available as an e-book for $9.99. Who hasn't wondered about “Fifty Shades of Grey”? Since it was first released in the United States in April ...

Amazon charts redblue book sales
Politico
The map allows users to view not only book sales by states but also the top five best-selling conservative and liberal books per state. For example: Hot in Pennsylvania right now is “The Betrayal of the American Dream” (dubbed a “blue” book) and “The ...

Politico

Bibliotherapy: How Books Can Treat Anxiety, Depression
Huffington Post
De Botton is the author of "How Proust Can Change Your Life," a book that blends literary fiction and self-help. He says academics "could never forgive [him]" for making Proust accesible, but personally believes books are more than works of art to be ...

At a Book Party, Witches, Warlocks and a Wiccan Prayer Circle
New York Times (blog)
There were pagan luminaries like Margot Adler, author of the seminal 1979 neo-pagan book “Drawing Down the Moon” and a granddaughter of Alfred Adler, the pioneering Austrian psychotherapist who collaborated with Sigmund Freud. There was also Kaye...

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