The big question for many: When will Dan Brown’s next book, following his wildly successful The DaVinci Code (2003), be published? Jeffrey Trachtenberg, writing in the Wall Street Journal today, says it’s a mystery:
“[T]he nation’s biggest retailers can barely restrain themselves. ‘We’re constantly asking,’ says Bob Wietrak, vice president of merchandising at Barnes & Noble […]
Filed under: readers advisory, history, fiction, publishing, dan brown, historical fiction on January 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
From the Reference Desk (Nashua Public Library, NH) offers lists (with webcat links) of feature films released during WWII, to coincide with Ken Burns’ latest video project (with Lynn Novick), The War, chronicling “the American experience of World War II through the eyes of those who endured it.” They also list some propaganda films, […]
Filed under: readers advisory, history, war, film, movies, video, movie lists on November 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
“‘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, […]
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, history, booklists, fiction, publishing, seasonal previews on September 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sarah at Reader’s Advisory Online Blog is launching a new feature, called Subgenre Spotlight. The first article is on a subgenre of (non-fiction) History called ‘New Perspectives.’ Here’s her description of that subgenre: These books offer “offering facts and evidence garnered through extensive research, but their authors often interpret those […]
Filed under: readers advisory, history on August 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »