Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (Bookclub-In-A-Box)
Mary Honeyball MEP (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
May I belatedly congratulate Faber on their excellent initiative to re-publish first novels by well known writers as a celebration of the publishing house’s eightieth birthday. It’s an original idea to celebrate both the Faber anniversary and the authors in this way. You will not, therefore, be surprised to hear that I was immediately smitten and [...]
Race With Ryan Baumann (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bahati-names-15-rider-roster Bahati to race alongside Clarke and O'Neill The Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team has announced a 15-rider roster for their debut season in 2010. As part of the announcement, Team principal Rahsaan Bahati has confirmed that he will race as part of his newly formed team. Yesterday he had confirmed that he was still looking for a rider contract....
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The long list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is now available: 156 authors from 46 countries, with 41 books originally written in 17 languages other than English (a decent percentage). Among the finalists are a good number (eighteen) under review at the complete review : Anathem by Neal Stephenson The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel Chicago by Alaa Al...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award will be announced today, and you should be able to find it at the official site later in the day (it's not up yet as I write this). The public announcement is only due later in the day -- but Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times apparently got a sneak preview, and was thus able to file Impac list shows worldwide vitality of fiction before...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The White Tiger wins most nominations, from librarians around the world, for the €100,000 prize Aravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning novel The White Tiger has emerged as an early frontrunner for the Impac Dublin literary award, but the Indian writer will have to see off the likes of Nobel laureates José Saramago and Toni Morrison if he is to take the world's richest – and most eclectic...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
How is it that you can live in a city for 11 years and yet never have heard of, much less visited, one of the most beautiful bookshops in London? I'm not sure why Daunt Books has never really made it onto my radar, but having recently heard about it, I decided that I must visit, and so today, with no other plans, I headed to Marylebone for a squizz. The store is billed as a bookshop for travellers....
Commission me - the diary of a freelance writer (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
It was our monthly book club again last night. Actually, last night was a rescheduling of the week before as we usually meet on the first Tuesday of each month but more than half of us forgot which is most peculiar since we have been getting together on the first Tuesday of each month for a few years now. (I would like to refer you to Ladybird World Mother's blog on the very issue of forgetfulness...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A lot of you have been coming in looking for the Nobel Prize for Literature betting odds and leaving comments on last year’s competition – so we’ve decided to show you the odds available for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here are the betting odds available: Amos Oz 3/1 Herta Mu�ller 3/1 Joyce Carol Oates 5/1 Philip Roth 5/1 Thomas Pynchon 7/1 Adonis 9/1 Assia Djebar...
paperpools (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Edmund Caldwell on Contra James Wood has a piece on The Millions' new Top 20 list for the new millennium. I think EC has slightly missed the problem. I got an email a while back from The Millions asking me to nominate my top 5 books for the new millennium, with the following constraints: they must be fiction, they must be available in English. The idea was, The Millions would then tabulate all votes...
paperpools (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Terrific interview of Peter Carey about his new novel, Parrot and Olivier, at Granta .
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
"The opera by [composer] Brett Dean and [librettist] Amanda Holden, based on the Peter Carey novel of the same name," will have its world premiere runs in Sydney and Melbourne next March and April before heading to the Edinburgh International Festival. The story "is described as a modern fable in which suburban everyman Harry Joy 'dies' for nine minutes after a heart attack on his lawn...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
At Granta, Peter Carey tells John Freeman about next novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, which is excerpted in the magazine.
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