Bookdwarf

I’m still coughing and finally went to the doctor after 8 nights of interrupted, cough-ridden sleep. I’ve been given some drugs which hopefully will help. Meanwhile, I flipped through Ingram’s Advance Magazine. Mostly it’s a list of books coming out that month, but the first 10 pages or so have some good interviews and whatnot. [...]

I’ve got an assortment of links here: The Fourth Annual New York Round Table Writers’ Conference will be on Friday April 11th and Saturday April 12th. The line up looks great–Charles Bock, Alice Hoffman, Joshua Ferris just to name a few. Also the PEN World Voices conference will be from April 20th to May 4th. [...]

Winter must have heard I was talking trash because I’ve developed a cold in the last few days. That’s okay with me because it gives me a chance to do some reading. I’ve read two interesting books that I don’t know quite what to make of yet. The first book is The Secret History of [...]

I first heard about the website Stuff White People Like at the panel on which I particpated with Sarah Boxer. The third panelist Sharon, who writes the blog Word Up for the Boston Phoenix, brought it up. Since then, not a day goes by that someone doesn’t mention it. I knew it was over when [...]

As Dan Green mentions, the Litblog Co-op has disbanded. It was fun project that I enjoyed, but we all lead busy lives and it took a lot more work than you’d think. Here are Ed’s thoughts about the whole matter.

I’m officially sick of Winter. Cold days begone! The buying season is almost over for me. I’m waiting for my last sales rep right now. This is the end of my very first buying season as the Head Buyer. I think it went well. It’s hard to tell since not many of the books I’ve [...]

Want a fast-paced chilling historical thriller? Than this is your book. Tom Rob Smith has recreated the world of Stalinist Russia, right down to the smothering paranoia and hypocrisy. All of the details feel creepily real. Theoretically all of the Russian people’s needs are met; They’re fed, clothed, sheltered and employed. Under Communist logic then [...]

Another busy Monday here. I’ve got five rep appointments in three days. Whew! At least I’m at the end of the buying season. Here’s a few links for your reading pleasure: My pal Mike has posted an interview with Bret Anthony Johnson, author of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. An [...]

I was fortunate enough to recently conduct my very first interview with James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and most recently the novel World Made by Hand. MS: What made you decide to write a fictional account of The Long Emergency? JHK: Two things, really: first I wanted to vividly and graphically depict [...]

The browns and burnt umbers on the galley cover echo the feeling of mud that spans this debut novel. Mud that slows and traps, echoing the lives of the characters in Mudbound. Jordan won the inaugural Bellwether Prize for her first novel, which depicts the Jim Crow South post World War II. That’s why the [...]