The Secret Country: Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction (Costerus New Series 165)
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A few writers received an unexpected bookstore boost today as they nabbed spots on Hudson Booksellers' Best Books of the Year list. The list will earn these writers some coveted placement in the company's bookstores, reaching the most captive readership in the whole world--the airport reader. Hudson runs 65 full-service bookstores around North America, but sells books in over 350 Hudson News stands...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Check here for a list of winners. Names will be added as they are received. Best of 60 yrs of nba winners: Complete Stories of Flannery O'connor (was put to a vote on the web, 10,000 responses) Young people's literature: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose Poetry: Transcendental Studies by Keith Waldrop Non-fiction: The First Tycoon, by TJ Stiles Fiction Let the Great World Spin,...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Go, Jayne Anne, Go! Originally uploaded by kleopatrjones Today is the National Book Awards. My boss, Jayne Anne Phillips is a finalist for her amazing novel, Lark and Termite ! I'll be at the ceremony and I'll be on twitter . Do you suffer from Rosa Parks Syndrome ? I do, but I am trying to reover. Salon says goodbye fiction, helloooooo memoir ! Remember when I congratulated Victoria Chang on being...
the Whole Garden Will Bow (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Fiction Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press) Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House) Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.) Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf) Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) I picked wrong on the Booker Prize, but that has not dissuaded me from trying my [...]...
Notable Books (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
PW Top 10 Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin Big Machine by Victor LaValle The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Stitches by David Small Shop Class as Soulcraft by...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The St. Petersburg Times interviews author Anne Rice about her current reading. NPR's All Things Considered profiles The Swell Season. Jayne Anne Phillips talks to the Chicago Tribune about her latest novel, Lark and Termite. The A.V. Club interviews Jemaine...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The National Book Award NomineesFictionBonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)NonfictionDavid M. Carroll, Following the Water: A
ZYZZYVASPEAKS (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
I dropped by yesterday afternoon to pick up some books I had requested at USF's' Gleason Library , which has been my mainstay for 30 years, ever since I worked on my Master's in Private School Administration (most of my classmates were nuns preparing to run parochial schools; they never talked back to our instructors, which I had been trained to do). Oh, said the work/study librarian, you're going...
Favorite PASTimes (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Hi everyone! I'm bringing you the news today (what I've discovered, anyway) on history and historical fiction. Have you discovered podcasts yet? If you have an iPod, you can download them and listen while you're out and about. And even if you don't, you can listen on your computer. I usually download audiobooks from the library and listen to them on my daily walk, but podcasts are fun too--and usually...
Eat, Sleep & Read! (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS Fiction Bonnie Jo Campbell , American Salvage (Wayne State University Press) Colum McCann , Let the Great World Spin (Random House) Daniyal Mueenuddin , In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.) Jayne Anne Phillips , Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf) Marcel Theroux , Far North (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
Avoiding the Muse (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
FictionBonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar Straus and Giroux)PoetryRae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press)Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
J.A. Phillips at Joe's Pub Originally uploaded by HERS Photo The National Book Award finalists have been announced and I am thrilled that my boss, Jayne Anne Phillips, has been nominated for her excellent novel, Lark and Termite . I was a huge fan of Jayne Anne's work before way she became my boss. I recently found an old journal with my life of writerly fantasies. One was "Meet Jayne Anne Phillips",...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The finalists for America's National Book Award were announced yesterday. These are the shortlisted fiction titles (because this is the category that interests me most) with links to further information about book and author : Bonnie Jo Campbell - American Salvage Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin Daniyal Mueenuddin - In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Jayne Anne Phillips - Lark and Termite Marcel...
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The National Book Award nominees are out. In the fiction category, the nominees are: Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press) Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House) Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.) Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf) Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and [...]
Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist... (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Man, where did the year go? Awards season is gearing up again. The National Book Award finalists were announced today: Fiction American Salvage, by Bonnie Jo Campbell Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips Far North, by Marcel Theroux Nonfiction Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook, by David...
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