Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (Bookclub-In-A-Box)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
For 56 years, this giant among 'little magazines' has provided intimate reports on how great writers go about their jobs In the literary world, there is one kind of interview that's as rare and precious as the purest opium. Addicts will know already that this month a new batch became available; many, no doubt, are already blissfully mainlining it. I speak, of course, of the "Art of Fiction"...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
There will be a lot more of these in the coming weeks, but the first 'book of the year recommendations', where newspapers and magazines ask their contributors or people in the public eye for their best reads of the year, have begun to appear. Today The Observer asks a variety of people -- including Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Cameron, Geoff Dyer, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- for their Books of the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition and an author equal to the task. Travelling from Nagasaki to Guantánamo, this very beautiful novel sets out to grasp the nettle of our modern history. The...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It was the year of Atonement, Body Artist and The Corrections, but what was your favourite book from 2001? It was the year our era began, with unprecedented abruptness, in obscene rolling news. But, blessedly, literature moves at a much slower pace, and it would be some years before the convulsions of September 2001 began to resound in serious fiction. Saturday, Ian McEwan's post-9/11 novel, was four...
Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A-Z Wednesday is hosted by Vicky of Reading at the Beach To join, here's all you have to do: Go to your stack of books and find one whose title starts with the letter of the week. Post: 1~ a photo of the book 2~ title and synopsis 3~ link(amazon, barnes and noble etc.). Be sure to visit other participants to see what book they have posted and leave them a comment. (We all love comments, don't we?)...
Nerd's Eye View (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
It’s like a horror movie for your wallet. Funny how you can barely see the damage in the video footage. The part of Kermit the Frog is played by Peter Carey, stunned passenger, Kelly Goodman. Related Posts Gulf Islands Roundup Mistakes Rookies RVers Make Video: Meet the Big Rig
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...
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