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Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's what's going on in the store this week. We're pretty busy! Monday, November 9th (tonight!), 7 PM. Joe Dungan , discussing his book L. A. Nuts . We use the Ingram web site so the link will indicate the book is not available. It will work to order the book if you pick it up in store. Yes, we still have work to do on our web site. Whether you love or hate L. A., Joe's columns might make you chortle....
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Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
As you've probably already heard, this year's Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2009 is exclusively male-authored. WILLA (Women In Letters And Literary Arts) has issued a press release titled "Why Weren't Any Women Invited To Publishers Weekly 's Weenie Roast." Quoted in The Huffington Pos t, PW confidently admitted that they're “not the most politically correct" choices....
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Ward Six (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This seems to be the year in which my favorite writers publish novels that don't make any sense . I'm talking about the new Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City , an exhaustingly unmoored narrative about weird male friendship, set in an alternate-universe Upper East Side. There's lots to like here, especially if, like me, you like Lethem--an escaped tiger wreaking havoc, giant urban conceptual-art pits in...
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pamie.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Lorrie Moore: A Gate at the Stairs AJ Jacobs: The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked Allen Shawn: Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
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Iron Caisson (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Think Publishers Weekly missed something on their top ten list? Add to The WILLA list Great Books by Women that Publishers Weekly Missed in 2009 ! WILLA's Press Release from November 2, 2009 Why Weren’t Any Women Invited To Publishers Weekly’s Weenie Roast? Publishers Weekly recently announced their Best Books Of 2009 list. In their top ten, chosen by editorial staff, no books written by...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As the weekend glimmers like the light at the end of a five-day-long tunnel, here is your daily dose of quick links and publishing catnip. In a WowoWow interview , author Lorrie Moore confesses: "I do know a lot of writers are watching musicians and the way they've bypassed the sinking music industry and struck out on their own." Entertainment Weekly landed an excerpt from "Nightlight,"...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Campaigners incensed after Publishers Weekly's top 10 titles of 2009 ignores female authors US trade magazine Publishers Weekly has come under fire for failing to include a single woman in its list of the top 10 titles of 2009. From Richard Holmes's history of science in the Romantic generation, The Age of Wonder, to Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life, Geoff Dyer's novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi,...
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: micawberesque : (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
For Immediate Release November 2, 2009 Why Weren’t Any Women Invited To Publishers Weekly’s Weenie Roast? Publishers Weekly recently announced their Best Books Of 2009 list. Of their top ten, chosen by editorial staff, no books written by women were included. Quoted in The Huffington Post, PW confidently admitted that they're “not the most politically correct" choices. This statement...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
It was not long ago that the short story was little sister to the novel, but lately there has been a transformation. With major-league prizes such as the National Short Story competition, the short story is coming into its own again. Claire Keegan and Lorrie Moore have made their reputations on shorts alone; Alice Munro and Ali Smith have made it a highly regarded and popular form.
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
A Gate At The Stairs by Lorrie Moore is published in hardback by Faber, priced £16.99. Available now.
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Blades Out (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Grub Street , a Boston-area non-profit creative writing center, has an annual " From the Desk Of " postcard auction, where they mail 30 authors blank 5x7 postcards and give them free reign to do whatever they want to them. The resulting artwork is offered up for auction on their site - grubstreet.org . This year's amazing crop includes postcards by Alice Hoffman (her postcard is seen here),...
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Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Lorrie Moore might be best known for her short stories and essays — which have appeared in such prestigious publications as The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories of the Century — but her novels are nothing to sneeze at, either. Her latest long work, A G...
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mythical creatures (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
In bed I tried to be simple and straightforward. "Gerard, I need to know: Do you love me?" "I love being with you," he said, as if this were even better. (26) ... My new apartment might be in a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then "Why...
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The Essential Read (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
In Lorrie Moore 's brilliant new novel, A Gate at the Stairs , several women become emotionally attached to one hapless toddler as they each take their turn in a round-robin of care. The list includes the baby's biological mother, followed by the teenaged daughter of the baby's initial foster mother (the adolescent bonds with the infant and is the child's first parent substitute). Then there's the...
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