December 11, 2012
Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler), author of the hugely popular 13-volume Series of Unfortunate Events for children and young adults, chatted yesterday on NPR’s Fresh Air with host Terry Gross. Just released is his new book Who Could That Be at This Hour?, a noir mystery, the first of the All the Wrong Questions series and […]
December 6, 2012
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December 5, 2012
The BBC has commissioned J.K. Rowling’s latest book The Casual Vacancy for a television series. Rowling said she’s thrilled: “I always felt that, if it were to be adapted, this novel was best suited to television and I think the BBC is the perfect home.”No date or length of series has been finalized yet, but […]
December 4, 2012
This fascinating blog post suggests a few beautiful books that explain how to reuse, re-purpose, or recycle books into art objects or practical items. They seem to range in level of ease to produce, but the photos are inviting all the same. Shira S.
November 27, 2012
Having recently won her second Booker prize, Hilary Mantel appeared on Terry Gross‘ show to discuss her latest book, Bring Up the Bodies. This work is a sequel to Wolf Hall, which also won the prestigious award. When asked about her focus on Cromwell and Tudor England, Mantel responded that historians have always realized how […]
November 27, 2012
Sendak’s last book “My Brother’s Book” will be published in early Feb. 2013. He writes in anticipation of his own death, so it is a far cry from the rambunctious, playful stories he’s best known for. His older brother Jack passed away in 1995 and this story shows how they might be reunited (obviously, in […]
November 27, 2012
Nancy Pearl, the grande dame of book recommenders and occasional NPR commentator, spoke with “Morning Edition” host Steve Inskeep about her favorite choices for hungry readers looking for books that might not have gotten the hype and marketing push they deserve. Asked how she selects titles for this, she answered, “…Simple: I just pick some […]
November 16, 2012
Seventy nine-year-old Philip Roth recently announced that he’s “done with fiction”. In an interview with the French magazine Les inRocks, he said that his 2010 book Nemesis would be his last. After writing more than 20 works of fiction, he told the magazine: ” I don’t want to read any more of it, write any […]
November 15, 2012
Louise Erdrich has won the National Book Award for fiction for her novel “The Round House” about a woman raped in a Native American community. Katherine Boo has received the nonfiction prize for “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” which focuses on the poor in India and government corruption. […]
November 13, 2012
2012 is the 200th anniversary of Grimm’s fairy tales. Films, books, and plays are being adapted to celebrate this bicentennial. British fantasy author Philip Pullman just published Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm, a retelling of 50 of the stories originally published in 1812. In January Paramount will release Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, and […]
