by Michelle | Nov 10, 2007 | The Literary World
London, 9th November 2007: New research released today by Costa, the UK’s fastest growing coffee chain, reveals that 77% of UK readers have enjoyed a book* so much the first time that they’ve gone back to read it again. {Full article here.} I’ll post...
by Michelle | Sep 17, 2007 | The Literary World
Robert Jordan, author of the popular fantasy Wheel of Time series, passed away on September 16th as a result of a rare blood disease. According to a BBC News story, Jordan’s personal assistant said: “the disease caused the walls of his heart to...
by radguru | Sep 8, 2007 | The Literary World
Madeleine LEngle, author of “A Wrinkle in Time” has died. Many of us will remember reading this Newbery Medal book. Not a big fan of fantasy and science fiction, this is one of the few in that genre that I have read and enjoyed. In my earlier days as an...
by ta | Aug 27, 2007 | The Literary World
Excerpts of 80-Year-Old Poet John Ashbery’s poems will appear on mtvU this fall. mtvU which is available only on college campuses will also sponsor a poetry contest for college students. For the full article click here.
by ta | Aug 23, 2007 | The Literary World
I just read on Maud Newton’s blog that Grace Paley died today. Here is her obituary from the New York Times. “Grace Paley, the celebrated writer and social activist whose acclaimed short stories explored in precise, pungent and tragicomic style the...
by Michelle | Jul 23, 2007 | The Literary World, YA
If you’re a Percy Jackson/Rick Riordan fan (as in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titan’s Curse) you’ll want to take a virtual walk over to Riordan’s blog. He’s posted the first part of a never-before-seen Percy short...
