April 2011
20 posts
WatchDiet for a Hot Planet author @AnnaLappe responds to @PaulGilding’s remarks at Demos
Watch.@PaulGilding kicks off US tour at Demos for THE GREAT DISRUPTION, just published by @BloomsburyPress.
Other People's Money - The Barnes & Noble Review... →
[Justin Cartwright’s novels] are absolute marvels of comedy and intellectual depth.
How $26 became a miracle in Africa -... →
@RyeBarcott will talk about his book IT HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO WAR at Quail Ridge Bookstore tonight at 7.
Exciting for one of our reissues: Stephen King... →
SK: Thomas Williams was a wonderful, wonderful novelist. He wrote a novel called The Hair of Harold Roux, which is one of my favorite books, about a writer named Aaron Benham. Benham says that when he sits down to write a book it’s like being on a dark plain with one little tiny fire. And somebody comes and stands by that fire to warm themselves. And then more people come. And those...
Conversation: Howard Jacobson | @NewsHourArtBeat |... →
My heroic journey in ping-pong and almost anybody’s heroic journey in ping-pong ends nowhere. It ends in obscurity. Obscurity is a very good subject for a writer. Failure is a very good subject for a writer. You don’t want to write about success is not good for a writer— no one really wants to read a novel about somebody for whom it’s all gone right. The stories that...
.@HereOnEarthShow : Radio Without Borders - Molly... →
Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage. Now nearly a thousand of her cut-paper collages, known as Flora Delanica, are housed in the British Museum. Molly Peacock has written a biography of Mary Delaney as only a poet could.
"Bonds was guilty no matter what"
In COOPERSTOWN CONFIDENTIAL, Zev Chafets offers a stinging and persuasive defense of Barry Bonds, who was found guilty of obstruction of justice yesterday. Chafets argues that racism and hypocrisy led to the downfall of one of the greatest sluggers to ever play the game, and that “the cost to baseball in goodwill in the black community is likely to be much higher.” This is an excerpt...
Book Review: Other People's Money | A Young Man's... →
Now comes Justin Cartwright’s “Other People’s Money” (Bloomsbury, 259 pages, $15), a novel that illustrates this transformation of finance as it describes the death of one of the last private banks in London. Julian Trevelyan-Tubal—a member of the 11th generation of the Tubal dynasty—takes over the family firm after his father, Harry, suffers a stroke, and the...
DIET FOR A HOT PLANET is now in paperback,...
Cooling the Planet, Feeding the World
In her latest book, Diet for a Hot Planet, Anna Lappé exposes the connections between the food on our plate, the climate crisis, and what we can do about it. The launch event for the paperback edition will be in New York City next Monday 4/18 at NYU (details below) and will be followed by trips to Northern California and Elon University in North Carolina. ...
“#fridayreads @HowardMegdal: “[Mirabelle] gripped my index finger tightly...”
– TAKING THE FIELD by Howard Megdal, watching the Mets-Indians game on 6/17/10 with his wife Rachel and young daughter Mirabelle.
The New York Apartment - Gay Talese Recalls... →
Every morning at the age of 79, I wake up in the same bed, in the same third-floor apartment, in the same four-story brownstone on the East Side of Manhattan that I first moved into in 1958, when I was 26 and feeling older than I do now. At 26, I was constantly worried about things that worry me no longer. Where was I going? What was my next move? Now I never question myself about my next ...
Book Review: Let's Kill Uncle by Rohan O'Grady -... →
“Now being republished, happily, by Bloomsbury…this cheerfully twisted adventure…”
Politics, religion, and the Civil War in ‘America... →
“The political system,’’ writes David Goldfield, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “could not contain the passions stoked by the infusion of evangelical Christianity into the political process.’’ The various political disputes of the time, “and above all slavery,’’ he writes, “assumed moral dimensions that confounded political solutions.’’ And as “the...
Politics, religion, and the Civil War in ‘America... →
@BloomsburyPress “The political system,’’ writes David Goldfield, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “could not contain the passions stoked by the infusion of evangelical Christianity into the political process.’’ The various political disputes of the time, “and above all slavery,’’ he writes, “assumed moral dimensions that confounded political...
The Mighty Walzer - The Barnes & Noble Review →
The Finkler Question was the first comic novel to win the Man Booker Prize. I think The Mighty Walzer is more amusing—not as economically constructed as The Finkler Question, but also without that novel’s ideological abstractions and thudding satire.
Goodbye to Heather Brown (@itsheatherbrown)!
Congrats to our marketing intern Heather Brown who will soon be leaving us for a job at Routledge! Good luck Heather!
Heather Brown, Nikki Baldauf, Glara Cha
Nate Knaebel, Nikki Baldauf, Glara Cha, Heather Brown, Rachel Mannheimer, Laura Phillips
