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Cherie Priest is a rising star of smart, textured cross-genre fantasy whose latest novel, Boneshaker may be her best yet. She'll be appearing with Cat Rambo and me at the University Bookstore in...
I love spotting books in the background of photos, and here's today's mystery. I've spent a fair amount of time tracking the reading habits of candidate and president Obama, and we've seen some of...
The epigraph to Audrey's Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry comes from The Beatles's "She Said She Said": She said, "I know what it's like to be dead. I know what it is to be sad." And she's...
New Stephenie Meyer (Sort of): While there isn’t any news on another volume in the bestselling Twilight series, Entertainment Weekly reveals that in addition to the August 4 special edition of...
As anyone in the business of selling books knows, sometimes we really do judge books by their covers. (I know I've bought books because of their covers, and not bought others for the same reason.) We've blogged casually but enthusiastically about our...
Oprah's Movin' On: Today Oprah Winfrey announced that the "The Oprah Winfrey Show"--the biggest daytime show in television history-- will come to a close during its 25th season. The last show will air on September 9, 2011. The multimedia icon and...
Rolling in like a slow, fuzzed-out guitar line from an Orange-brand amp, The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book lives up to the good vibes promised in its title.
Artist and writer Joe Daly's full-color graphic novel collects two stories starring best...
(The crowd lining up to get into the National Book Awards, the amazing Cipriani ceiling inside)
The National Book Awards for first-time attendees like my wife Ann and me constituted a kind of blur of sharp-dressed men and women, most of them...
Zadie Smith is not only one of my favorite novelists to read, but one of my favorite novelists to hear talk about being a novelist (she's like Jonathan Lethem that way). As I wrote in my Best of November review of her new collection of "occasional...
