When Is The Team Coming? A History of the South Ridge Baseball Team 1939-1953
Chicks Dig Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Thanks to Galley Cat for drawing my attention to the fact that if the Washington Post' s "Book World" can't pick up some more subscribers to its podcast series , the higher-ups will eliminate funding for the program. Editors Ron Charles and Rachel Hartigan Shea have voices that are easy on the ears, and they do a nice job mixing headlines from the publishing world in with authors interviews...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In an email interview with Washington City Paper , Washington Post Book World fiction editor Ron Charles worried about the subscriber rate for the site's podcast series . Here's more from the post : "There's no concrete deadline for adding more subscribers, Charles says, or even a goal for how many it needs, just 'a general mandate to make sure we're concentrating our efforts on projects that...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
``I have just read Francine Prose's Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. This is an amazing book. It pulls together into one volume with great order and clarity much of what has been written about both Anne Frank and the publication of her diary over the years, but also (and most importantly, I think) focuses on Anne Frank as an accomplished writer who with great skill and talent edited herself...
Stray Carrier Pigeon (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I love this: Margaret's death had shaken us, like three dice in a cup, and spilled us out with new faces in unrecognizable combinations. We forgot how we used to live in our house, how we'd passed the time when we lived there. We could have been sea creatures stranded on the beach, puzzling over an empty shell that reminded us of the ocean. - Goldengrove Francine Prose
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On Salon.com, Laura Miller talks about the controversy over PW’s best ten books of 2009 being 100% male: What’s at issue isn’t sales or even access to readers; this is an argument about prestige and critical recognition, an argument best articulated by the novelist and critic Francine Prose in a 1998 article for Harper’s magazine. Prose [...]
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In 2005, prolific writer Francine Prose was starting her 15th work of fiction. This novel was to have a 13-year-old girl as its main character and narrator. So Prose decided to reread “Diary of a Young Girl,” which she hadn’t picked up since her youth. Prose’s reason was simple: “The greatest book ever written about a 13-year-old girl was Anne Frank’s diary.”...
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
“I'm 52, and I'm the best dancer ever. I can dance hip-hop, salsa, ballroom-dancing—you name it, I do it.”
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Book lovers, get ready to celebrate because the 26th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International (Fair), is just around the corner. Presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College (MDC), the Fair will take place Nov. 8 – 15 at the college’s Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave., in downtown Miami. The Fair...
Matt Bell (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
My story "His Last Great Gift" appears in the newest issue of Conjunctions , which is themed " Not Even Past: Hybrid Histories". The issue should be shipping in early November, so now is a great time to subscribe to be sure you get it right away. Conjunctions 53 includes the first publication of seminal correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Grove Press’s Barney Rosset,...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
H-A-W-T-H-O-R-N-E?? Originally uploaded by kleopatrjones Last night, I participated in "Let It Bee", the annual spelling bee to benefit the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses . CLMP is an organization of literary magazines and independent publishers. Things got off to a rocky start. I took the wrong train, so I had to walk about ten blocks to get to the Diane von Furstenberg Studio....
Thumb drives and oven clocks (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Francine Prose goes a long way toward making me want to actually read that optimistically purchased hardback of 2666 that's been sitting on my shelf for an age and a half now.
NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Lighthouse Writers Workshop is an independent creative writing program that has sponsored writing classes and literary events in Denver since 1997. Many accomplished Colorado writers teach at Lighthouse, including novelists Nick Arvin, Eli Gottlieb, and Laura Pritchett, and several writers who have taken classes at Lighthouse can boast of significant achievements as well, notably Gary Schanbacher,...
Thumb Jig (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Listen to Podcast From the depths of history, to the classroom, to the stage, how do we understand the enduring influence of the story of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl ? Francine Prose, adoring fan and author of Reading Like a Writer will join us to discuss the book, the life, and the afterlife. Guest Francine Prose , author of Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
We’re lucky to have Anne Frank’s diary — lucky that the diary was ever discovered, and lucky, too, that someone took a chance on publishing the eventual bestseller. This is all nicely outlined by Francine Prose, who has a new book out called Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. You can listen to her [...]
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Many thanks to TLC Book Tours, Francine Prose and Harper Perennial for putting Goldengrove into my hands for review. I read this book the first part of this month (read my review) and was completely sucked into Prose’s beautiful writing and the story of Nico – a thirteen year old girl growing up in [...]
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