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Eric Bana as Henry deTamble

Sponsored Blog Post: Australian actor Eric Bana stars as Henry deTamble, the time-travelling librarian in The Time Traveler's Wife. Bana began his career as a comedian and gained notoreity in Australia for his impressions of ... Read More »

August 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Britain’s most avid reader, library-themed ice cream flavours, and more

By Suzanne Gardner

Some quirky bookish links from around the Web: Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, arguably one of the most message-heavy children's books, is being made into a 3D CG-animated feature film to be released in March 2012 ... Read More »

July 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

About Author Audrey Niffenegger

By Q&Q Staff

Sponsored Blog Post: Audrey Niffenegger resides in Chicago, where she is a visual artist and professor in the MFA program at the Columbia College Chicago Centre for Book and Paper Arts. At the end of ... Read More »

July 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Publishers Weekly up for sale … again

By Suzanne Gardner

Publishers Weekly announced this morning that it's being put up for sale. Reed Business Information, which publishes over 400 trade publications including PW, Library Journal, and School Library Journal, intends to sell most of its ... Read More »

July 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

Pages requests memories for send-off bash

By Stuart Woods

Pages Books & Magazines may be closing its doors for good at the end of August, but not without throwing itself a massive send-off party. Pages staffer and event organizer Chris Reed has sent out ... Read More »

July 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Author Audrey Niffenegger’s Debut

By Q&Q Staff

Sponsored Blog Post: Published in September 2003, The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel of Audrey Niffenegger. The love story is between a librarian, Henry deTamble , who involuntarily travels through time and his ... Read More »

July 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Kerouac will ruled a fake

By Suzanne Gardner

A 15-year-long lawsuit over the estate of author Jack Kerouac has ended with a Florida judge ruling that the writer's mother's will was fraudulent. When she died in 1973, Kerouac's mother, Gabrielle Kerouac, left her ... Read More »

July 28, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

2009 Man Booker Prize longlist announced

By Suzanne Gardner

The 13 longlisted titles for this year's Man Booker Prize were announced today: The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt Summertime by J.M. Coetzee The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds How to Paint a Dead Man ... Read More »

July 28, 2009 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Amazon’s Kindle 2: “An alpenhorn blast of post-Gutenbergian revalorization.” NOT!

By Steven W. Beattie

At least, not according to author Nicholson Baker, who has written a long, occasionally pedantic article about his experiences with the machine for The New Yorker. The piece is full of typically florid Bakerisms: he ... Read More »

July 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Optioning The Time Traveler’s Wife

By Q&Q Staff

Sponsored Blog Post: New Line Cinema optioned The Time Traveler's Wife soon after its publication in Fall 2003, before it became an international bestseller. New Line Cinema partnered with Plan B Production, at the time ... Read More »

July 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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