Strong Fall Books Season

“‘It is a spectacular fall,’ says Carole Horne, general manager of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. ‘One of the best that I’ve seen.’” (Oscar Villalon at SFGate agrees.)
Horne is reported in the Christian Science Monitor to have particularly high hopes for the new Philip Roth book, Exit Ghost, and the new Richard Russo, […]

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Media and Movies

ShelfAwareness is a tidy little (week-)daily newsletter of very current information about publishers, bookstores, and books. One section that might be especially useful for librarians and booksellers is ‘Media and Movies,’ a daily listing of films adapted from books that are opening during the week, and a list of author (and book) appearances scheduled for […]

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