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Barack Obama is everywhere: Men's Vogue, Ebony magazine, not to mention BarackOblogga.com...Let's face it; his name is Bic-tattooed in a giant heart on America's collective ankle.
If you're still jonesing for your Obama fix, check out his book here. More on Barackmania from the contrarians at Slate.
"I love writing books. Movies are a collaborative medium, and everyone is second-guessing you. When you do a novel you're on your own. It's a freedom that doesn't exist in any other medium." -Sidney Sheldon
Check out the latest issue of Esquire for napkin-sized flash fiction by authors Daniel Alarcon (War by Candlelight), Rick Moody (The Ice Storm, The Diviners), T. Jefferson Parker (The Fallen), and more.
Writers scribbling on bar napkins. Yes, Esquire kicks it old school, just like Dylan Thomas at White Horse Tavern.
Via NPR: "Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, lives a reclusive life. But this past week, she ventured out to the University of Alabama for the presentation of annual awards to high school students for a To Kill a Mockingbird essay contest."
So Harper Lee briefly emerged from her hermitage. Mr. Salinger, your move...
-The New Yorker considers Google Book search
-Edgar Award Nominees announced (highlight: A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger)
-National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award finalists announced (highlight: Rough Crossings by Simon Schama)
Read at your own risk: New York magazine dishes the details behind the aborted O.J. Simpson book and its controversial publisher, Judith Regan.
I bet that O.J. Simpson is out there somewhere thinking to himself, "What did I do to deserve this bad press?"
On my list of things to do is to check out how the original book version stacks up against the film adaptation. Thoughts about The Pursuit of Happyness, anyone? (Or Little Children, for that matter?)
Last year, I did manage to pick up Brokeback Mountain. Proulx, you genius.
On Friday, Oprah announced her new book club pick, spiritual memoir The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier.
Granted, we all love Mr. Tibbs...But a spiritual memoir? Her pick before this was high school reading requirement Night by Elie Wiesel…Seems like Ms. O is still going out of her way to distance herself from last year’s pick, gritty fiction-as-memoir A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (pictured).Unless The Smoking Gun has anything on Poitier—who has won an Oscar and has been knighted—I think Oprah’s in the clear.
Our blog has now been enabled for video functionality. Expect to see some cool, original book-related TV from us soon, but meanwhile, here's an ad for one of bestselling author James Patterson's latest: