MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
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...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
As Spooner reaches its deeply moving conclusion, it feels like nothing less than Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums , recontextualized for the small towns of the South and Midwest. The title character is the odd man out in a family of geniuses, a born hellraiser who causes his stepfather, the placidly unknowable Calmer, no small amount of grief. The relationship between the two takes up most...
Whidbey Island Life (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Sue's Seattle P-I Blog: Peninsula Daily News, The Seattle Times and The New York Times are all talkin' about Whidbey
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Being beaten up at a bar helped Pete Dexter find his way to fiction
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Less than two weeks before it begins, the Seattle Bookfest has finally listed its schedule of events . They have also put out a press release: SEATTLE — Seattle Bookfest announces the recent addition of several new authors and poets to the upcoming two-day event. Acclaimed Bellingham author William Dietrich will read from his new book, The Dakota Cipher , the third in his Ethan Gage series,...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The newspaper columnist turned novelist has written a delightfully quirky and concise semi-autobiographical novel about a talented ...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
SPOONER By Pete Dexter Grand Central. 469 pp. $26.99
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
For his seventh novel, Pete Dexter returns to small-town Georgia, the setting for 1998's Paris Trout, his grim and gripping National Book Award winner.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Pete Dexter's "Spooner" opens with a burial at sea that goes comically awry, although the humor is lost on Calmer Ottosson, the young Navy officer whose botching of the ceremony sinks his maritime career.
Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
USA Today 's five book critics each made a list of the five books they are dying to read this fall. Here are the 25 titles from authors who include well-known names like King, Kingsolver and Stoker: Deirdre Donahue picked: 1. Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility By Mireille Guiliano; release date Oct. 13. 2. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks By Max Brooks;...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
At long — LONG — last, advance copies of Pete Dexter’s September novel Spooner are out. Apparently the tinkering process took a bit longer than planned, and the book is seeing the light of day approximately three years past deadline. In his mea culpa accompanying the ARCs, Dexter blames the writing process — “it takes [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
In a note for the advance copy of his new novel, author Pete Dexter confessed that his ARC arrived three years late, lost 250 pages, and "is further away from the finished product than most advanced readers' editions are." The Millions transcribed the humorous letter, giving a brief history of how Dexter's "wry, impolitic sense of humor" surfaces in these ARC letters. It should...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Advance readers copies, the paperbacks sent out early to book reviewers, often contain special notes from authors or editors that impart a little back story or extol the virtues of the book at hand, but I've never seen an author's note quite like the one that Pete Dexter penned for the advance readers copies of his forthcoming novel Spooner : As far as I know, sometime in November of last year, the...
MediumAtLarge.net (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
This probably got lost in all of the post BEA dust settling, but we released a list of the buzz books of the show as chosen by an elite group of secret media book nerds..... The task was simple, we asked a diverse group of mysterious members of the media (who's identities will never be revealed) to wander the aisles with a keen eye towards the big books of BEA. The books that would buzz coming out...
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