February 21, 2012 ? 10:37 am
- News: Patchett and Colbert on Bookselling, Bezos and Tire Irons ? ?Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert and author and new bookseller Ann Patchett mixed it up as they talked about bookselling, Amazon and more. In his introduction, Colbert said, ?Oooh independent bookstores. I should buy one of those on Amazon!? And at one point, he asked, ?Why would a writer open a bookstore? That?s like a rodeo rider opening a butcher shop.?? ? Shelf Awareness
- News: New editions commemorate Faulkner, by Carol Memmott ? ?Six works by acclaimed American author William Faulkner will be released in new commemorative editions in time for the fiftieth anniversary of his death this July.? ? USA Today
Interview: Adam Wilson (?Flatscreen?) with Brad Listi ? ?Raves Sam Lipsyte:? ?Adam Wilson is a gutsy, funny, and often beautiful writer, and Flatscreen is one of the most hilarious and commanding debuts I?ve read in a long time.?? ? Other People
- Feature: When E.B. White is also Grandpa, by Danny Heitman ? ?E.B. White?s granddaughter Martha keeps loving watch over a unique literary legacy.?? ? The Christian Science Monitor
Film: How to Prioritize Your Oscar Week Movie-Cramming, by Jason Bailey ? ?Flavorwire is offering, as a public service, a priority ranking of the nominees for the major awards (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress), so you can sift through the 18 nominees and see what time will permit you to see. Let?s be clear: this list is only tangentially related to the actual quality of the films at hand (since, as we?ve discussed, the Oscars often don?t reflect that quaint notion). ? ? Flavorwire
- News: Lit Mag News & Bits: The latest on ?New Madrid,? ?The First Line,? and ?Alimentum Journal? -? New Pages
- Lists: 2 Ways to Make the Most of Goodreads, by Jane Friedman ? ?The recent Goodreads author newsletter offered a number of gems helpful for any author with an upcoming release.? ? Being Human at Electric Speed
- Writer?s How To: Don?t Be Negative About Negatives, by Mark Nichol ? ?A site visitor called attention to a sentence in one of my recent posts and asked, because it has two negatives, whether it is grammatically correct. The sentence in question? ?In case you hadn?t heard, I couldn?t care less.?? ? Daily Writing Tips
Review: The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose ? ?Rose weaves Napoleonic history with that of China and the oppression of Tibet and then brings those ties even further back into history to Egypt and Cleopatra.? In addition to archeology, her characters delve into mythology, history, and hieroglyphics translation and more, creating an even denser and more mysterious novel than expected.? ? Savvy Verse & Wit
- News: Judi McCoy Loses Battle with Diabetes, by Barbara Vey ? ?Author Judi McCoy passed away on February 19th due to complications from diabetes.? ? Publishers Weekly
News: Gabby Giffords? husband to write children?s book ? ?Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who collaborated with his wife, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on her memoir, is writing a children?s book about a mouse that goes to space. ?On my first space shuttle flight, we had 18 mice on board as experiments,? Kelly said. ?And 17 of them, as soon as we got into zero gravity, stayed latched on to the side of the cage. But one of them seemed comfortable through the whole mission, like he was enjoying it.?? ? USA Today
- Essay: Fiction?s Revenge, by William Deresiewicz ? ?Everybody always gets enraged when one of those sensational memoirs?I was a teenage transgendered prostitute; I was a part-white, part-Native American foster child in South-Central Los Angeles; I was fed through a concentration camp fence by a little girl whom I accidentally met again, and married, years later?turns out to be a hoax. But I always love it, because it demonstrates anew the irrepressibility of fiction.? ? American Scholar
Review: The Whipping Club, by Deborah Henry ? ?Inspired by her heritage and research of the Irish Industrial School system, Henry?s auspicious debut chronicles a couple?s attempt to save their son from horrific institutions.?? ? Kirkus Reviews
- Feature: Joseph Roth?s Letters Reveal a Great Forgotten Writer, by Anthony Heilbut ? ?The great Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth has undergone a slow rediscovery, but a new collection of his letters reveals him to be an urgent, necessary, and heartbreaking prophet.? ? The Daily Beast
- Viewpoint: Nice Bloggers Don?t Get the Girl, by Steven Lewis ? ?Being raised English presented considerable disadvantages to me as a writer and a blogger. The greatest of them was the English pride in understatement and self-deprecation.? ? Mystery Writing is Murder
- Bestsellers (hardcover fiction): The Sense of and Ending, by Julian Barnes; Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James; Taken, by Robert Crais; The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach; Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins ? The Los Angeles Times
- Essay: Biography on Film, by Carl Rollyson ? ?I discovered that Joseph McBride, a film historian, writing professor, and screenwriter, was about to publish Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless. McBride learned his craft with the best, working with Orson Welles.? ? Biblio Buffet
Review: Dancing with Memory: On Brian Castro?s Shanghai Dancing, reviewed by Colin Dickey ? ?Put simply, Shanghai Dancing is the best contemporary book in English that most Americans have never heard of. Castro?s ?fictional autobiography? follows Antonio Castro (whose biography shares much with Castro the author) ?forced to leave Shanghai as a child, he returns 40 years later seeking an inheritance consisting both of money and stories.? ? The Millions
- News: Barnes & Noble To Take On Amazon (Again) With A New 8GB Nook Tablet ? ?Barnes & Noble will release a new 8GB version of the Nook Tablet on February 22. While the original Nook Tablet sported 16GB of onboard memory, the new version will feature the same amount as the bestselling Kindle Fire.? ? TechnoCrunch
- Quote: ?Writing is alchemy?truly a tool of wizards, witches and sorcerers. It?s the magic wand, the incantation, the wave of the hand that transforms all?? ? Mark David Gerson in ?The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write?
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