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The New York Times' Janet Maslin has posted a glowing review of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, which goes on sale Tuesday. "Too many popular authors (Thomas Harris) have followed huge hits (The Silence of the Lambs) with terrible embarrassments...
So it turns out that Thomas Pynchon really does sound like The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Tracy Locke of The Penguin Press confirms that the reclusive author narrates the trailer for his new book, Inherent Vice, which we wrote about on Shelf Life...
Since there's no delicate way to introduce the word at the center of Jesse Sheidlower's funny, yet surprisingly informative book, I'll leave it to A Christmas Story's Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley): "The word. The big one. The queen mother of dirty...
Jerry O’Connell (formerly the chubby kid from Stand By Me and currently the lucky, lucky husband of Rebecca Romijn) is set to write a memoir about his experiences as a stay-at-home father of twins, according to GalleyCat. The book, titled Cry, Feed,...
Scholastic announced today that the third, still-untitled book in Suzanne Collins’ massively popular futuristic The Hunger Games trilogy will be released in English worldwide on August 24, 2010.
Stephen King and Twilight’s Stephanie Meyer have both...
I’m the first person who’ll tell you how important the Twilight series is — not from a literary standpoint, mind you, but more from a reading standpoint: These are books that get kids reading. And yet, as a feminist and the mom of teenage daughters,...
Looks like readers are hoping to save some trees this season. According to Amazon, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the company has sold a whopping 48 Kindle books for every 100 physical books it has sold this season. That number has risen...
Welcome back to your weekly belletristic bellwether. Here’s the skinny on where the writers are:
11/30
Kathy Griffin, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, on Chelsea Lately (E!, 11 p.m. EDT)
12/1
Hank Stuever, Tinsel: A...
H.L. Hix, Incident Light (Etruscan Press)
When a friend of the poet’s learned, at age 49, that her dad was not her biological father, Hix used some of her comments and memories to craft this collection: a “biography that loosens reality’s hold,...
