A Book A Week (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Popular fiction is a genre that is distinct from literary fiction, though the boundaries are fluid. I like to think of these categories as either ends of a ruler, with most books falling somewhere between the two ends. A lot of the books I read fall right around the middle of the continuum between popular and literary fiction. For example I put authors like Kate Atkinson, Diane Johnson, and Elinor...
TRISH'S DISHES (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Attention Boston-area writers/readers: The Boston Book Fest is this weekend!!! You'll want to go. I want to go. So let's meet there! I have the whole itinerary mapped out and highlighted with the authors I'm excited to see: Richard Russo, Tom Perrotta, Elinor Lipman, the Anitas (Diamant & Shreve), Andre Dubus III, Amy MacKinnon... My plan is to tote my piggy bank downtown, dump it open on the Porter...
Testosterhome (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
From the editors of Good Housekeeping Magazine comes Blessings , a collection of essays that focus on "Gratitude, Love, and What Makes Us Happy." I am quite excited to report that I'm in this book! It is indeed a lovely book and here is what kind of floors me -- I'm in there with a bunch of writers whose books I have read (people like Kelly Corrigan and Elizabeth Berg and Elinor Lipman and...
avengingsybil (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
I highly recommend Elinor Lipman's latest, The Family Man. It's funny, cheeky and romantic. I adore Lipman's work-- I think I'd like to live inside one of her books for awhile. On the strength of their mentions in Shelf Discoveries,...
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Posted by Naomi Firestone The summer-fiction issue of JBooks is now online! JBooks commissioned four short stories with the theme “Jews at the Beach” by authors Dara Horn, Elinor Lipman, Neal Pollack, and Danit Brown. Ken Gordon, the JBooks editor, offers a little information on each story from his e-letter about the issue: “I came up with [...]
Felicia Pride (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
To celebrate its six-decade history of honoring great American books, the National Book Foundation has been posting daily blog entries highlighting the National Book Award in Fiction Winners from 1950 to 2008. Commentary will come from such established authors, critics, book reviewers, bloggers, booksellers, and librarians as MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner Jonathan Lethem; David Ulin, book...
Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
I love movie tie-in tables. There's no question that one industry dwarfs the other, and even an art film can turn a book that dribbles in sales into a steady seller. And for a Time Traveler's Wife ? That would make it a #1 bestseller. Even Evening , the Susan Minot book that was adapted into a poorly-performing movie, albeit with a screenplay by Michael Cunningham, soared in sales. So that's why our...
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The weather could not have been more sumptuously cooperative last night for Laura's and Elinor Lipman's reading at Mad.Sq.Reads, where they were eloquently introduced by Ruth Peltason, whose love for Roger Federer and Springer Spaniels is the stuff of sonnets....
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
THE FAMILY MAN, by Elinor Lipman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 305 pp., $25.
The Pajama Gardener (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
So, as y'all know my new novel is out and I'll be doing a tour of the Girlfriends Cyber Circuit the week of July 20th. In the meantime, allow me to introduce you to another GCCer, a new member, Samantha Wilde . Samantha is the author of THIS LITTLE MOMMY STAYED HOME , which was released the same day as my book. I'm excited about her book because she got a blurb from one of my favorite authors: Elinor...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: The Family Man by Elinor Lipman.About the book, from the publisher:A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer's well-ordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay,
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
The Family Man Elinor Lipman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 305 pages, $25) "Henry Archer did not attend his ex-wife's husband's funeral," Lipman writes in the opening line of her witty, warm new novel, "but he did send a note of condolence." Of course he did. Lipman's characters are intelligent and urbane, and they do not behave with incivility, even if their ex-wives have dumped...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
It was another good month of reading. Although I've reviewed these books individually, here's the list of the books I read during May. Lavender Morning by Jude Deveraux - First in Edilean series, introducing Jocelyn Minton, heir to a house in Edilean, VA, a house she inherited, and never knew existed, changing her view of the the woman who left it to her. Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg - Story of a woman...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 05/17/2009
I adore Henry Archer. Elinor Lipman introduces the gay retired lawyer in The Family Man , the kind of man so many of us would love to have as a friend. He's a man who is content with his life, but doesn't realize it could be so much richer. Henry only meant to be nice when he sent a note of condolence to his ex-wife when her husband of twenty-four years. But, Denise took it as a chance to dump her...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
THE FAMILY MAN By Elinor Lipman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 305 pp. $25 Imet Elinor Lipman some years ago at a three-day writers' conference in Fort Worth. About six of us were entertained lavishly and given keys to the city. Lipman was fresh, radiant, dewy, and the editor of the local book review...
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