Book links

Bookmarks: Rowling’s suicidal thoughts, Clarke’s funeral, and the most annoying people in bookstores

We keep meaning to make these cheerier, but they always come out grim.... Some book-related links: J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide after divorce (BBC) Minute of silence in Sri Lanka as Arthur C. Clarke laid to ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks (hell in a handbasket edition): Belgian writer euthanized, publishers liquidated, bookstore in trouble, author flees death threats

By Nathan Whitlock

Some cheerful book-related links: Belgian author Hugo Claus, suffering from Alzheimer's, is remaindered euthanized at age 78 (Associated Press) Two UK publishers liquidated over anti-bullying books scam (press release) Black-owned Brooklyn bookstore facing financial crisis ... Read More »

March 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: publisher goes paperless, Eminem to tell all, and Holocaust memoir debunked

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: The Hachette Book Group starts using e-books internally (New York) Eminem to "write" memoir (USA Today) Author admits Holocaust memoir was made up (The Boston Globe) Timothy Findley's Pilgrim as an opera ... Read More »

March 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks (bad news edition): Fiction is in trouble, booksellers flee Paris, and the Bush library is under construction

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: George Steiner says narrative fiction's days are numbered (The Guardian) Parisian booksellers leave city for picturesque town “ there's a charming and quirky romantic comedy just waiting to be written here (Deutsche ... Read More »

February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: Alain Robbe-Grillet is dead, product placement in kids’ books is controversial, and Hollywood often screws authors out of money

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Alain Robbe-Grillet, dead at 85 (Literary Saloon) Two views on product placement in kids' books (The New York Times) Authors often get screwed by Hollywood (Los Angeles Times) Profile of David Poindexter ... Read More »

February 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: closing libraries, rewarding booksellers, and filming Chabon

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related (but not Valentine's Day-themed, alas) links: Victoria library locks out workers, shuts down all branches (Victoria Times Colonist) California bookseller gets $500k MacArthur grant (MSNBC) The Coen Brothers to filmify Michael Chabon's The ... Read More »

February 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Bookmarks: new Bond in Russia!, new Thunderbirds everywhere!, no new autobiographical characters in Salman Rushdie novels!

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: New James Bond novel gets Russian publisher (MI6) New Thunderbirds novels after more than forty years (SWFA Pressbook) Salman Rushdie vows to stop creating autobiographical characters (The Canadian Press) Mold: the enemy ... Read More »

February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: a new Alice Munro story, a fake Robert Fisk biography of Saddam Hussein, and a complaint about pokey publishing

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: "Free Radicals," a new short story by Alice Munro (The New Yorker) Robert Fisk's bio of Saddam Hussein is selling well “ except he didn't write it (The Independent) Why does it ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: online shoppers prefer books, kids ought to read, sci-fi space gods are dumb, and other shockingly obvious book news

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Books are tops amongst the world's online shoppers (The Guardian) Apparently, reading is good for kids, so they should do it more (Toronto Star) The dumbest space gods in science fiction (io9) ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: Ishmael Beah’s “poetic licence,” sci-fi’s exhaustion, and the Bard goes manga

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: The flaws in Ishmael Beah's memoir called "poetic licence" (The Australian) Is sci-fi out of ideas? (Entertainment Weekly) The Bard goes manga (The Star - Malaysia) Tales of romance, in Polish (The ... Read More »

January 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

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Bookmarks: Rowling’s suicidal thoughts, Clarke’s funeral, and the most annoying people in bookstores

Bookmarks (hell in a handbasket edition): Belgian writer euthanized, publishers liquidated, bookstore in trouble, author flees death threats

Bookmarks: publisher goes paperless, Eminem to tell all, and Holocaust memoir debunked

Bookmarks (bad news edition): Fiction is in trouble, booksellers flee Paris, and the Bush library is under construction

Bookmarks: Alain Robbe-Grillet is dead, product placement in kids’ books is controversial, and Hollywood often screws authors out of money

Bookmarks: closing libraries, rewarding booksellers, and filming Chabon

Bookmarks: new Bond in Russia!, new Thunderbirds everywhere!, no new autobiographical characters in Salman Rushdie novels!

Bookmarks: a new Alice Munro story, a fake Robert Fisk biography of Saddam Hussein, and a complaint about pokey publishing

Bookmarks: online shoppers prefer books, kids ought to read, sci-fi space gods are dumb, and other shockingly obvious book news

Bookmarks: Ishmael Beah’s “poetic licence,” sci-fi’s exhaustion, and the Bard goes manga

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