Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In Marcel Theroux's National Book Award-nominated novel "Far North," Makepeace has survived in a remote Siberian town, essentially alone, until coming across a desperate adolescent raiding an empty house. This disturbance changes Makepeace's path, so that staying alive means searching...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... ;" YA finalist Rita Williams-Garcia , author of " Jumped ;" fiction finalist Marcel Theroux , author of " Far North ;" YA finalist Laini Taylor , author of " Lips Touch: Three Times ;" poetry finalist Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon , author of " Open Interval ;" and nonfiction finalist Sean B. Carroll , author of " Remarkable Creatures ."...
Voy Por Ustedes (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... stuff. If there's a betting market for this award however, I think my £10 would be on Paul Theroux - father of Louis and Marcel Theroux - whose books are shit and rammed with perfunctory redundant sex scenes all littered with tedious clichéd sexual metaphors which are the very essence of this award - Neal's blog "entries" about Annabel Croft have more...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Ford. Money, or lack of it, also shaded three nominated novels: Marcel Theroux's "Far North," Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin" and Jayne Anne Phillips' "Lark & Termite." "Money does matter, especially when you haven't got any," Campbell said during a recent interview. "A lot of the trouble in...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... excellent writers. Interviewees included fiction nominees: Bonnie Jo Campbell , Colum McCann , and Marcel Theroux . 8:00 PM Reporters are crammed into banquet tables, roughly 35 spots for 40 reporters. Anyone worried about the death of the book review should try to navigate this crowded press box. The VIP crowd is working through dinner, a team of white-jacket waiters are serving...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... you want it. Other prominent novels include The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane , Far North by Marcel Theroux , and The Mere Future , along with many other sci-fi, literary fiction, and fantasy novels. Some non-fiction books include Tinsel , a study of America's Christmas obsession; Reasonable Men: The Birth of the National Enquirer ; and A Heartbreak and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and...
IM VIDEO JOURNALISM (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In this photo: Richard Vagg, Rachel Royce, Julia Caeser, Sacha van Straten, Marcel Theroux, Sacha Van Straten, David Dunkley Gyimah (photos | remove tag), Sally Greenwood, Seltzer Cole, Stephen Lee, Trish Adudu, Dan Stanton, Oni Battacharya, Paul Lewis, Amera Ziganii Rao, Rachel Ellison, Dan Roland, Tim 'The Beast' Woolgar, Steve Punter (photos), Kate Ashley, Richard Griffiths, Jonathan...
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 Related information · More on this story 31 Jul 2009: Part two: Marcel Theroux swaps a shared berth on a public train for luxury quarters on an antique loco as he pushes into the far north of Russia 11 Oct 2009 24 Jan 2009 21 Dec 2008 29 Nov 2008 24 Jan 2009: Tim Dowling and family took the Glacier Express to the swankiest resort in the Alps
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 Related information · More on this story 31 Jul 2009: Part two: Marcel Theroux swaps a shared berth on a public train for luxury quarters on an antique loco as he pushes into the far north of Russia 11 Oct 2009 24 Jan 2009 21 Dec 2008 29 Nov 2008 24 Jan 2009: Tim Dowling and family took the Glacier Express to the swankiest resort in the Alps
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:...
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... In Other Rooms, Other Wonders ( Norton ) Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite ( Alfred A. Knopf ) Marcel Theroux, Far North ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux ) NONFICTION (1 point) David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ) Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species ( Houghton Mifflin...
Favorite PASTimes (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... Other Wonders (W.W. Norton & Co.) Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf) Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Nonfiction David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Greg Grandin,...
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)
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Tycoons, evolution and the environment were among the subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees. Marcel Theroux's global-warming novel, "Far North," and T.J. Stiles' "The First Tycoon," a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, were some of the finalists.
