Bookninja (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I kind of hope you didn’t show up yesterday to witness my shame. I’ve been doing public speaking engagements lately where I address various groups on how to set up, maintain, and develop online communities, and one of the key things I talk about is being consistent. Damn. Bad blogger-who-wants-to-be-a-novelist. If it’s any consolation, I wrote 7 pages. Steven Galloway isn’t holding his...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Barry's Costa-winning The Secret Scripture and Canadian writer Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo all won eight nominations as well. Also longlisted for the Impac, at €100,000 (£90,000) the most valuable literary award for a single work of fiction published in English, are Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, Peter Carey's His...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Barbados, Lebanon, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United States) The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (8 libraries representing Belgium, Canada, England, and Finland) The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (8 libraries representing Brazil, Canada, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, and the United States) The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (8 libraries representing...
Allie's Musings (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
"If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good." ~Steven Galloway Well, I'm blogging over at the Samhain Publishing Blog today....do stop by and visit me there, would you? Love to hear from you!
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Gil Adamson’s The Outlander, Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes, Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing, Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi—and, this year, Michael Crummey’s Galore. What a fabulous Giller list, a litany of some of the best (and bestselling) Canadian novels of the last...
Ace and Hoser Blook (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Literature This novel tells the story of three people trying to survive in Sarajevo during the siege. One day a shell lands and kills twenty-two people waiting in line for bread, as the cellist watches from a window in his apartment. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albinoni's Adagio once a day for each of the twenty-two...
