Sep 09 2008: The Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. Notably absent from the list is Salman Rushdie, who UK 'bookies' had tipped to win.
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White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes ...
Sep 09 2008: The McCain-Palin team is continuing its pushback campaign against stories about VP nominee Sarah Palin banning books while mayor of Wasilla, and in particular to a lengthy list of books that it is said she banned (which is now known to be false - as some of the books ...
Sep 08 2008: Mary Ellen Baker, the librarian at the center of the Sarah Palin book-banning controversy, may not be talking to the press, but librarians around the country are voicing their concerns about having an alleged censor on the Republican ticket — through a blog called "...
Sep 08 2008: The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation ...
Sep 08 2008: Editor and publisher Robert Giroux, who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century (including T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Susan Sontag and Virginia Woolfe) and ultimately added his name to one of the nation’s most distinguished ...
Sep 06 2008: Publishers Weekly provides top line stats from the Veronis Suhler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast, including the following:
109: Hours adults spent reading a book for pleasure, 2007
85: Hours persons 12+ spent playing videogames, 2007
1,613: Hours ...
Sep 04 2008: Sherry Jones's The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the life of Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives who married him when she was nine years old, will be published by British publisher Gibson Square next month.
Publisher Martin Rynja says:
"In an ...
Sep 02 2008: Stephanie Meyers, author of the blockbuster Twilight series for teens has decided not to complete the last volume in the series, Midnight Sun, but instead has posted a partial draft on her website after one of her drafts was illegally posted on the Internet and virally ...
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