Jun 03 2010: The New Yorker has chosen its "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers worth watching. The last list was published in 1999 and included future literary stars such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander and Junot Díaz; plus the likes of Michael Chabon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and ...
Jun 01 2010: Wallander author Henning Mankell is one of nine Swedes being held in Israel after landing from the aid flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos yesterday morning
May 25 2010: Martin Gardner, who teased brains with math puzzles in Scientific American for a quarter-century and who indulged his own restless curiosity by writing more than 70 books on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy and the nuances of Alice in Wonderland, died Saturday in ...
May 25 2010: When Mark Twain died he left behind 5000 unedited pages of memoirs saying that he didn't want them published for one hundred years. 2010 marks one hundred years since Twain's death; so, in November, the University of California, Berkeley, who have stored the manuscript...
May 24 2010: Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) are up 8 percent for the year to March 2010 versus the same period in 2009. Adult hardcovers rose 3.7 percent year on year; adult paperbacks are up 23.5 percent; audio book sales increased by 14.7 ...
May 21 2010: Robert Laffont, affectionately known as the grandfather of French publishing, died on 19th May aged 93.
The son of a naval officer, Laffont first embarked unenthusiastically on a legal career. But then came the second world war and a radical change of direction. ...
May 21 2010: The celebration kicked off on May 17--some 75 days before the official July 30 anniversary date--with the launch of a dedicated website, www.PenguinBooks75.com. Festivities take place through the summer and culminate with a gala at the New York Public Library in ...
May 19 2010: This summer Amazon.com will release Kindle for Android, a free e-book application that adds e-book support for Google’s popular and fast growing mobile phone operating system.
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