Late yesterday, TechCrunch reported the following:
Update on the Kindle 2: It was scheduled to be released in October in time for this holiday season, but Bezos himself reportedly pulled the plug for last minute changes to the software. Our sources now say it’s tentatively scheduled to go on sale in “early next quarter.”
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Defining the Novel in Northanger Abbey, Ms. Austen said:
A work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest deliniation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Sounds like a novel [...]
I picked this up from Publisher’s Weekly this morning:
“Marcella Edwards at PFD has secured a new deal for William Trevor in the UK and the US. Rights for a new novel and a long-awaited collection of stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers have been sold to Tony Lacey at Penguin UK and to [...]
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Some books are read in the comfort of a quiet calm. Where the Line Bleeds is not one of those books. Even though this is a book about love, devotion, caring and relationships within a family, a gnawing fear of looming disaster grips the reader from the first page; there’s an [...]
Peter Matthiessen won the National Book Award in the fiction category for Shadow Country. “I had a hard time,” he said in his acceptance speech, “persuading people that fiction was my natural thing, not nonfiction.” Alexander Hemon’s The Lazarus Project and Marilynne Robinson’s Home were front-runners. Salvatore Scibona’s The End, a debut novel published by [...]
From his Primer of English Literature . . .
“Writing is not literature unless it gives to the reader a pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said; and that pleasure is only given when the words are carefully or curiously or beautifully put together into [...]
Some time back, I wrote of Books That Changed My Life, and, along the same lines, yesterday I happened upon a post on The Guardian web site concerning Literary Heroes and our inability to choose them. While I’ve posted the link to that article, I’m not at all sure I agree with the premise. In [...]
Publication Date: November 11, 2008
Simon Montefiore is a noted historian responsible for such award winning nonfiction works as Young Stalin and Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Sashenka is his first foray into fiction, yet he is not straying from his roots. Beginning in St Petersburg in 1916, then skipping forward first to the [...]
Nice article from the AP’s Hillel Italie entitled Writers Welcome a Literary President-Elect. The gist is that President Elect Obama actually wrote his books and actually writes his own speeches. Writers, who normally as a group vote for liberal Democrats, appreciate that the words he speaks come from his own mind and reflect his own [...]
I met Michael in Los Angeles when my firm consulted on his retirement plan. I was an actuary while Michael was in many ways a scientist himself, so to a degree we hit it off. As much as anything else, he was an idea man—the world interested him and he did his best to figure [...]
