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Colum McCann Wins National Book Award

Colum McCann won the for fiction on Wednesday night for “Let the Great World Spin,” a novel featuring a sprawling cast of characters in 1970s New York City whose lives are ineluctably touched by the mysterious tightrope walker who traverses a wire ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Random House Inc,  Alfred A. Knopf,  Rosa Parks,  Andy Borowitz

Colum McCann, T.J. Stiles Win National Book Awards

Colum McCann won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for “Let the Great World Spin,” a novel featuring a sprawling cast of characters in 1970s New York City whose lives are ineluctably touched by the mysterious tightrope walker who ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Random House Inc,  New York Times Company,  Alfred A. Knopf,  Metropolitan Opera

National Book Awards: Conflict of Interest Question Arises in Young Readers' Category

A blogger and former book review editor has questioned whether a judge on the panel that will select the award for Young People’s Literature has a conflict of interest with one of the candidates for the award. The awards, which are celebrating their 6 ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Maurice Sendak,  New York Public Library

Novels, 3.5 Inches at a Time

With Amazon’s Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers. For some, that’s not small enough. Travis Bryant, with his daughter, Ivey, reading “The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril” on his iPhone at their ...

From MOTOKO RICH AND BRAD STONE, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  Sony,  Stephenie Meyer,  Nick Cave,  Steve Berry

The Authors' Hearts Beat Faster. Publishing Was So Close Now. . .

Got a romance novel in your desk drawer? Polish it up and get ready to become a Harlequin author. Harlequin Enterprises, the queen of the romance world, has signed a partnership agreement with Author Solutions, a company that helps aspiring scribes ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Thomas Nelson,  Metropolitan Opera,  Sony Pictures,  Ambrose Bierce

More English Translations on the Way for Nobel Winner's Novels

Curious readers clamoring for more work from this year’s Nobel laureate in literature will be able to get their hands on two more titles in the next three years. Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to two novels by Herta Müller, ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Northwestern University,  New York Times Company,  Metropolitan Opera,  Sony Pictures,  Ambrose Bierce

Google and Authors Win Extension for Book Settlement

A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday granted an extension until Friday for a revised settlement of Google’s effort to legalize its plan to create a vast library of digital books. At a hearing in October, Google and its partners at the Authors Guild ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Authors Guild,  Denny Chin

In Google Book Case, a Request for More Time

The parties to the Google book settlement, which would legalize the creation of a vast library of digital books, have asked the judge overseeing a revision of the agreement for an extension to this Friday, Nov. 13. At a hearing in October, Google and ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Authors Guild,  Denny Chin,  New York Post

For Thrillers, Glenn Beck Is Becoming New Oprah

Virtually every novelist in America fantasizes about being picked to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show. But now an increasing number of writers have discovered a new champion: Glenn Beck, the outspoken media darling of populist conservatism. On his ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  Thor,  Oprah Winfrey,  Fox News Channel,  US Department of Defense

The Online Price War Over Books Has a Fresh Twist (Or Two)

Why do hardcover books cost so much more than paperbacks? Aha! This is capitalism? Ha! This is free market? The survival of the fittest or the most creatively innovative? Let books/information/knowledge be accessible to all and affordable Partly, the ...

From MOTOKO RICH, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  Wal-Mart

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