Ever wished your iPad was more 19th century? • Read the article that spawned the controversy… • Brett Easton Ellis talks about his upcoming sequel to Less Than Zero: “I did not want to write a sequel to Less Than Zero.” • Justin Cronin talks about his upcoming novel, The Passage, a “manly man’s monster [...]
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Give the kid some books for crying out loud! * “Police said a 74-year-old woman arrested after pouring mayonnaise in the Ada County library’s book drop box is a person of interest in a yearlong spree of condiment-related crimes…” * J. P. Morgan’s annual ‘book club for billionaires’ confirms my long held suspicion that people [...]
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I don’t know who these people are, or even what they did. But I love them. And you will too… • This week’s ‘Martin Amis pisses someone off’ article is brought to you by… your grandfather? • Wolf Hall doesn’t win the 2009 Orange Prize. • Has the ever-growing popularity of the Young Adult genre [...]
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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is out tomorrow. Eclipse is out soon. So here’s Bree Tanner in Eclipse! • Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro defends clichés, footballers. • Jay McInerney talks about which of the Jane Austen characters he finds most sexually appealing. • Read books – have smarter kids! • Literary author [...]
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