Fear and Loathing on the Book Tour, Part 6: Postcard From Seattle
Another day, another strange encounter in an airport. This one with Charles D’Ambrosio, who wound up on the same flight as ours from Portland to Seattle.
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$25,000 Bellwether Prize Goes to Hillary Jordan
Best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver recently announced that Hillary Jordan won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction for her unpublished novel “Mudbound.”
Fear and Loathing on the Book Tour, Part 5: Postcard From Portland, Oregon
Why is Portland, Oregon, my favorite city in which to read? Let me count the ways.
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Mailer, Miller, and Roth Make Playboy's Sexiest Novels List
Playboy recently named the twenty-five sexiest novels ever written. The list of works “famous for being dirty books for decades” includes Norman Mailer’s An American Dream (Dial Press, 1965).
Beloved Named Best Work of American Fiction From the Last Twenty-five Years
Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Knopf, 1987) was recently named “the single best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years,” according to a survey of several hundred writers, critics, and editors conducted by New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus.
Fear and Loathing on the Book Tour, Part 2: Postcard From New York City
Ah, springtime in New York City! That ineluctable smell! What is it, exactly? Curry and fish sauce, garbage, perfume, rotten eggs, fresh bread, urine, incense, stale tailpipe, shish kebab, body odor. (I am estimating.)
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New Study Shows Decline in U.S. Book Production
Book production in the U.S. last year totaled 172,000 titles, a decrease from 2004 of 18,000 titles, or nearly ten percent, according to a recent study by R. R. Bowker, the publisher of the Books in Print database and the official agency for assigning ISBNs in the United States.
Fear and Loathing on the Book Tour, Part 1: Postcard From Boston
This is the first installment in a series of Postcards written by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott, coauthors of Which Brings Me to You (Algonquin Books, 2006), while on tour to promote their book.
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