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...
Page-Turner
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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