October 2011
9 posts
E-book bargain bin: October edition
From now until November 10, the e-book versions of the 21 titles listed below, published across many of the Bloombury imprints (Bloomsbury, Walker & Co, Bloomsbury Press, and Bloomsbury Kids) are heavily discounted from all e-tailers for your Kindle, Nook, iPhone, Android, etc. Prices range from $1.99-$3.99. Click on the jackets for more information!
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Audio: Jesmyn Ward reads a passage from Salvage...
Listen to National Book Award finalist Jesmyn Ward read the opening chapter from her novel Salvage the Bones.
Wolcott Gibbs: "the highest compliment I can pay...
Though it seems to me that Arthur Miller still has a tendency to overwrite now and then, his “Death of a Salesman,” at the Morosco, is a tremendously affecting work, head and shoulders above any other serious play we have seen this season. It is the story of Willy Loman, a man at the end of his rope, told with a mixture of compassion, imagination, and hard technical competence you don’t often...
With the #OccupyWallStreet protests, @RepMikeHonda...
Rep. Honda, senior member of the House Budget and Appropriations Committee and lead author of the People’s Budget, is hosting a panel discussion to highlight the growing income inequality in the United States, its effect on our society, and what the Federal Government can do to address it.
Briefing: Federal Budgets, Family Budgets: Income Inequality and the US Economy Brought to you by ...
Delivering Ha-Joon Chang's 23 THINGS...
We sent several of our books to the Occupy Wall Street post office box earlier this week but managed to overlook the economist Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, so we hand delivered it yesterday. (We’re disappointed but not shocked that Professor Chang is not on anyone’s short list for the Nobel Prize in Economics this year.) The library is...
September 2011
10 posts
#fridayreads Wolcott Gibbs: “Nobody knows anything...
@NewYorker (1941) - The great paradox about this age of perfect communication, of course, is that nobody knows anything about what’s going on. We ourself read six newspapers every day, listen interminably to the radio, and spend a good deal of our time talking to industrious prophets who have just flown in from the warring cities and the capitals and the battle fronts. Our guess is that we...
September e-book promotions from Bloomsbury - only...
Great prices ($2.99-$3.99) from your etailer of choice (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc) for these 11 titles! Includes Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst, the Turner triology from the crime novelist James Sallis (who wrote DRIVE, which is now a film), Stephen Clarke comic novels, Katie Hickman’s historical novel The Aviary Gate and Nina Planck’s Real Food. (Click on the jackets for...
.@RepMikeHonda invites Richard Wilkinson to DC for...
THE SPIRIT LEVEL co-author Richard Wilkinson will return to the United States in two weeks to discuss his work at Boston-area colleges, before heading to Washington D.C. for a Congressional briefing with Representative Mike Honda on Friday October 7.
Wilkinson is the co-author of THE SPIRIT LEVEL, the groundbreaking study which analyzes the effects of economic inequality on any given...
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Wolcott Gibbs: "The air has an edge in...
We closed the gray house on the beach last week with the same feeling we have each year. It is always very sad to go. The last time the colored umbrellas and the children’s toys are brought up from the beach and packed to go to town is the most melancholy of our annual domestic rites. It always seems too soon to be going back to the city. The air has an edge in September, but most of the time the...
August 2011
8 posts
Wolcott Gibbs: "We waited for a hurricane that...
Last week, on the thin barrier of sand that separates Great South Bay from the Atlantic, we waited for the hurricane that never came. Sitting out the watch with us was our cat, who had ridden out the last one, just a year ago, all alone in an empty house facing directly on the uproarious sea. She had had quite a time. We were in town with our wife that day and the children and their nurse...
WatchFrom Get Smart series @GalapagosDUMBO this past Thursday, author/musician David Rothenberg plays clarinet
Tomorrow in SF: Laura Albert (aka J.T. LeRoy) at...
An art installation inspired by the saga of J.T. LeRoy (Sarah, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things)
Discussion with Laura Albert and Jasmin Lim moderated by Chuck Mobley Wednesday August 24th, 7pm ATA Artists Television Access 992 Valencia Street In association with Modern Times Book Collective
Untitled (Persona Case Study), Window Installation at ATA
Artists’ Television Access, San...
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The Beatles in Kansas City
[Charlie Finley’s] most infamous event involved the greatest rock band to invade America—the Beatles. Finley tried to gain fan approval by bringing the band to Kansas City for a concert in the fall of 1964. Seeing that the Beatles did not have a Kansas City stop on their first U.S. tour, he tracked down manager Brian Epstein at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on August 19 to try to bring the...
Happy Birthday @BarackObama!
Looking for a gift for President Obama? Send these books to remind him of the glory days, and assure him better ones are yet to come.
Young Mr. Obama Chicago and the Making of a Black President
Amazon| BN | Powell’s
The Speech Race and Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ By T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Amazon | BN | Powell’s
July 2011
10 posts
$2.99 e-books for Douglas Coupland novels
One week only: ebook promotion for three Douglas Coupland novels on our backlist - all 3 titles are $2.99.
All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland (2002)
The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction.
Kindle | BN | Google ebook | Kobo
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland (2004)
“A maestro’s ear for dialogue and a deep understanding of humanity…Coupland,...
Evangelicals, Republicans and the Civil War -... →
America Aflame author David Goldfield’s contribution to the Disunion blog.
John Ferling takes a long view of America’s... →
John Ferling has written the kind of ambitious, sweeping, top-down narrative history that has lost favor somewhat in an era when historians increasingly pursue a narrower focus…
Rave from Fresh Air's Maureen Corrigan for THE... →
If you love Charlotte’s Web — and, please, if you don’t, just get help now! — Sims’ lively and detailed excursion into the mystery of how White’s classic came to be is a perfect read for this season: full of grass and insects, pigs and summer rain.
June 2011
10 posts
Roméo Dallaire ‘They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die... →
“Dallaire founded the Child Soldiers Initiative to wipe out the use of young fighters, and the tale of how he created this organization turns out to be the book’s strongest suit…. his account of knocking heads together makes for an intriguing look into the inner workings of international humanitarian action.”—Roger Atwood, The Boston Globe
“Edmund White has three voices. First there is the storyteller, relaxed,...”
– Martin Amis on Edmund White’s new novel JACK HOLMES AND HIS FRIEND, which we will publish in January 2012.
“When I was a journeyman printer, [Franklin began,] one of my companions, an...”
– Benjamin Franklin’s advice to Thomas Jefferson as he wrote the Declaration of Independence. (From John Ferling’s INDEPENDENCE.)
New HuffPo piece by DEADLY SPIN author... →
As the head of communications for two of the country’s largest health insurers for almost 20 years, I recognize an orchestrated spin campaign when I see one. And boy oh boy did I see an award-winning one this week in San Francisco.
Book Review - When God Was a Rabbit - By Sarah... →
Henry Alford: “Remarkably, “When God Was a Rabbit” never feels melodramatic or unkind to its characters. Much of this has to do with Winman’s mastery of tone: the narration is dry-eyed but glinting.”
“The Yankee John Adams, for instance, immediately concluded that every New Yorker...”
– John Ferling, INDEPENDENCE, which is publishing the end of this month from Bloomsbury Press.
Late Night Library: Jon Raymond episode live! →
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Late Night Library’s second podcast—and our first featuring a fiction writer—looks at Livability, a short story collection by Jon Raymond. We focus on his story “The Suckling Pig” specifically. Subscribe on iTunes now *best option Download the show We think we nailed this one…
May 2011
10 posts
The Nature of E.B. White - The Chronicle Review -... →
Michael Sims on the writing of his new book THE STORY OF CHARLOTTE’S WEB, just published by our imprint Walker & Co.
Book review: ‘The Paper Garden’ by Molly Peacock -... →
“A beautifully designed, eye-catching book…[The Paper Garden] is a celebration of second chances and the possibility —so attractive to those of a certain age — of an unexpected blossoming late in life…. Here, then, is not only an introduction to a unique artist, but also a whole bouquet of thoughts and observations about the flow of life.” – Michael Dirda, Washington Post
