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The first thing I do on Sunday morning besides drink coffee is read the New York Times Book Review . This week I got Stephen King's On Writing from the library and began reading it last night. A real mashup of happy and sad and poigant and pithy. I laughed out loud at his hijinx with the high school newspaper, because it reminded me so much of my younger self. The book review featured King's new novel,...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Barbara Kingsolver jokes that whenever she publishes a novel she apparently turns into a railway station because, according to reviewers, ''I only do departures.''
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This long-awaited novel recalls a dangerous era for artists. By Maya Jaggi Barbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years takes a huge risk in venturing into copiously charted territory. It moves from the muralists and surrealists of the 1930s in the aftermath of the Mexican revolution to the McCarthyite witch-hunt of artists in the late 40s and 50s. Yet in crossing and recrossing the US-Mexican border,...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver is published by Faber, priced £18.99.
Riordan's Desk (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As everyone knows .... most people know? ... Okay, the few who voted know, last Tuesday was local election day around the country, and as part of their coverage of the Iowa City elections, the Iowa City Press-Citizen ran a profile on election official Tom Slockett titled " What I'm Into ." To quote from the section dealing with Slockett's book preferences: "I like a variety. I don't...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
B'More Green: Cardin, other Dems move climate [hoax] bill in Senate "We have an urgent responsibility to act," Cardin said, adding that if action is not taken, there could be irreversible catastrophic climate change that could jeopardize the availability of water, food and fuel for all . "We will face a world that's less diverse, less beautiful and less secure," he concluded. Al...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Odd. The Lacuna is no Barbara Kingoslver I know: Barbara Kingsolver provides a foil to this tendency with The Lacuna, all the more remarkable, it's fair to say, given the position reserved for it on best-seller lists. The novel's own artifactualness is never in question, since, to highlight the deceptive ways we both perceive and receive history, Kingsolver has dreamed up a series of private journals,...
Life in Mount Vernon Square (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
On Friday, November 6 , Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse will host the second annual Partnership Fundraiser and Book Drive to benefit Scott Montgomery ES. 20% of all purchases where the buyer mentions Scott Montgomery, or presents one of the coupons conveniently stacked by the registers will directly benefit the students of the school. Shop for yourself, your family and friends, or elect...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
THE LACUNA By Barbara Kingsolver Harper. 507 pp. $26.99
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
NPR’s Maureen Corrigan applauds Barbara Kingsolver’s Lacuna for “single-handedly keeping consumer zest alive for the literary novel,” as “the only literary novel caught in the cross hairs” of the price wars waged by Wal-mart, Amazon, and Target against booksellers (the others being genre novels). As for the book itself: “I wish I could say she [...]
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Maureen Corrigan has temporarily lost possession of her normally good book sense. Lacuna is anything but vacant. Its scope and ambition leave most contemporary...
Dealio - Featured Deals of the Day (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Print the Barnes And Noble coupons above and redeem in-store to save 30% off the following books: Ford County by John Grisham, Kindred in Death by J. D. Robb, The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, It's Your Time: Activate
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The book price wars are no longer just for pre-orders. Amazon.com was offering hardcovers of John Grisham's “Ford County” and Barbara Kingsolver's “The Lacuna” for just $9 on Tuesday, the official release date for both books.
Voices (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
So, the race to $0 book prices continues. As the AP notes this morning, the fierce price cutting in the book business, which until now had focused largely on pre-orders, has now spread to current works: Amazon.com is offering both John Grisham’s short-story collection Ford County and Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel The Lacuna for $9 apiece.
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Today arrives Barbara Kingsolver’s latest, Lacuna, “an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover.” Also out are a couple more of those nifty “Olive Editions” from HarperCollins, this time of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 [...]
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