Japanese mystery writer Miyuki Miyabe is “prolific [46 novels], popular and prize-winning” in her own country but largely unknown in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. She is finally seeing some of her work published for the English-language market, including her fifth novel, The Devil’s Whisper, which just came out. Brief interview at Reuters.
Filed under: crime fiction, international fiction on December 31st, 2007 | No Comments »
“Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated last week at a rally in Pakistan. Harper Collins announced that her new book, originally scheduled for Spring, was completed only about a week before her death. The book, called Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, will be rushed into print as soon as possible, according to […]
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From LT website:
SantaThing: Secret Santa for Book Lovers
The idea is simple. Pay $25. You play Santa to a random LibraryThing member, and buy them up $20 worth of books, based on their library or a short description. Someone else does the same to you. LibraryThing orders the books and pays the shipping, so no addresses […]
Filed under: readers advisory, holidays, librarything on December 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
The NYT reports that Elizabeth Hardwick, “the critic, essayist, fiction writer and co-founder of The New York Review of Books, who went from being a studious Southern Belle to a glittering member of the New York City intellectual elite, died Sunday night [2 Dec.] in Manhattan. She was 91.” Lengthy obituary.
Filed under: literary obits on December 5th, 2007 | No Comments »
Per a Library Journal press release, LJ will expand its coverage of street lit beginning in January 2008: “A street lit reviews column will be a regular fixture of our soon-to-be-launched monthly book review newsletter.”
Filed under: readers advisory, street lit on December 1st, 2007 | No Comments »