In Joe Meno’s newest collection, even the table of contents reads like a story, each title an evocative verbal starburst. With handles like “An Apple Could Make You Laugh” (following the blissful torture of an office romance) and “People Are Becoming Clouds” (examining the effects on a marriage of the wife’s tendency to literally dissolve [...]
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Sep
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2
Jul
THE MOST OFF-PUTTING THING about Iain Pears’s extraordinary 17th-century detective story An Instance of the Fingerpost (694 pages. Riverhead. $27) is, unfortunately, its title. In fact, one of the few missteps Pears makes in this erudite, funny historical novel is that he doesn’t explain–until page 594–that his title comes from a quote by Sir Francis [...]
9
Jun
“I’ve always been intrigued by the comforting nature of food,” says Sarah Addison Allen, the Asheville, N.C., author of the 2007 best-seller Garden Spells, her debut.
The Sugar Queen (Bantam, $22), her new novel, features various characters deeply involved in food rituals, none more so than Josey Cirrini, a lovelorn 27-year-old who fills her need with [...]
6
Mar
Book News
Sci-fi novel among 100,000 downloadable titles
He is an accountant by training, a science administrator by vocation and a scientist by passion.
And now, in this latest addition to his professional evolution, Ben Parris has become a science-fiction novelist by download.
“Wade of Aquitaine,” the Hicksville, N.Y., resident’s romantic fantasy about time travel [...]
6
Mar
Into the Wild
Director Sean Penn takes his penchant for brooding and his powerful grasp on what makes an aching performance and turns them into his most fluid film yet. Emile Hirsch is Christopher McCandless. In 1990, the college grad headed west from a Washington, D.C., suburb on a two-year walkabout. In his 1998 best seller, [...]
4
Mar
The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Feb. 16.
FICTION
1. The Appeal, by John Grisham, $27.95
2. 7th Heaven, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, $27.95
3. Duma Key, by Stephen King, $28
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by [...]
4
Mar
The Denver area’s best-selling books, according to information from the Tattered Cover Book Store, Barnes %26 Noble in Greenwood Village, Boulder Book Store and Borders Books in Englewood.
FICTION
1. The Appeal, by John Grisham, $27.95
2. The Reserve, by Russell Banks, $24.95
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
4. The Invention [...]
4
Mar
The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Feb. 9.
FICTION
1. The Appeal, by John Grisham, $27.95
2. 7th Heaven, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, $27.95
3. Duma Key, by Stephen King, $28
4. Stranger in Paradise, by Robert [...]
4
Mar
NEW YORK - As he prepared a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, author Peter Ackroyd read through more than 20 volumes of Poe’s work and filled two file cabinet drawers with notes , more information than the most devoted fan could absorb in a lifetime.
It was all for a book that will run less than [...]
22
Feb
NEW YORK - The Oprah touch doesn’t just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman’s “Women %26amp; Money” were downloaded after the announcement last week on Winfrey’s television show that the e-book edition would be available for free on her Web site, http://www.oprah.com,/ for a period of 33 hours.
“I believe [...]
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