OK. This doesn’t strictly relate to books. But it’s really difficult finding a book related video every week, you know! So here is a video about some delicious yellow cakes! • QOTW: “Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish. Before 1455, books were handwritten, and it took a scribe a year to produce a [...]
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS Back in May, I posted up a short quiz offering readers a chance to win an awesome prize* if they could correctly determine which Dan Brown novel I was referring to based on a collection of plot points. Fortunately for me, no-one won said prize – primarily due to the [...]
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Since it hit stores roughly a month ago, The Lost Symbol has obliterated all manner of sales records and firmly cemented Dan Brown as one of literature’s biggest names. But if you are yet to pick up a copy of the novel everyone is talking about, there has never been a better time than now! [...]
Todd Decker’s Trailer for The True Story of Butterfish takes out the 2009 Book Video Awards. In other news, there are Book Video Awards? • “Vampires have overwhelmed pop culture because young straight women want to have sex with gay men.” • No. You may not borrow my pen. • Zombies vs. Vampires: “They’re two [...]
The past few days have seen not only the announcement of this year’s Booker Prize, but the winner of the Nobel Prize as well. So without further ado, I’m pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature is German/Romanian author Herta Muller! Muller was deemed a worthy candidate for literature’s [...]
You don’t date vampires. What were you thinking? • QOTW: “Might our communal antipathy towards Brown in fact be a displacement of the energy that fuels the oft-unspoken but pervasive anxiety that the even attainment of longed-for commercial success is no guarantee that we are actually any good at writing? And yet would we keep [...]
Last night, Hilary Mantel edged out former winners JM Coetzee and AS Byatt to receive the 2009 Booker Prize for her historical novel, Wolf Hall. Set in the 16th century, Mantel’s sprawling masterpiece recounts the life and times of Thomas Cromwell as he sets about manipulating the British establishment to better serve his personal goals. [...]
Swimming in the Nile is now 100 posts old! Hooray! ——————————————————————————————– In order to celebrate this momentous occasion, I’ve taken a journey down into the dark, labyrinthine depths of our archives and exhumed the posts of which I am most proud. Here are just a few: – Introduction – Bestsellers – Watching the Watchmen – [...]
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The latest trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road • “Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has dissected many inspirational underdog victories, but his own triumph over the opposite sex could well be the most inspirational of all.” • “Stacy Griffith, 15, liked frequenting chat rooms online. One day, she met a funny, goofy [...]
Reilly was only nineteen when he penned his debut novel, Contest. But when the book was subsequently rejected by every major publisher in Sydney, the young author refused to be disheartened. Reilly borrowed enough money from the bank to produce an extremely limited print run and convinced a local bookstore to stock several copies of [...]
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