Bookdwarf

Since I manage to be offending people left and right with my potty mouth and insults to Worcester (I really have no bad feelings toward the town), I’ll stick to books here. I finished a novel by Amitav Ghosh last night called Sea of Poppies, due out this Fall. I’ve never read him before, but [...]

I’m stealing this post from Mr. Bookdwarf because he’s written a better version of our Friday night than I could have: Despite the looks my co-workers gave me when I told them my Friday night plans last week, there are plenty of valid reasons to want to go out to a shooting range. I feel [...]

Would you look at how great Amazon is, promoting the hell out of the debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, which they discovered. You can’t hear me saying this out loud, so you might not detect the sarcasm. According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, “driving that unexpectedly heavy demand has been [...]

The 2008 Million Writers Award top ten online short stories have now been selected and voting on the top story of the year has begun. Voting will run through the end of the day on July 17. The stories are available here. Robert Birnbaum has thrilling interview with Dagoberto Gilb, author of The Flowers. Norton [...]

The Christian Science Monitor loves it. Janet Maslin at the NYT calls it “the most enchanting debut novel of the summer.”

My friend Mike created The Big LOLbowski. Yes, the Big Lebowski told through LOLcat. Pretty hilarious.

Mr. Bookdwarf read The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and discusses on his blog. Also, Entertainment Weekly gives it an A, for whatever that’s worth. And a Sunday Washington Post review by Ron Charles.

Danielle of Powells has nicely posted about her time at BookExpo last week including coverage of the Prince party I missed (no, I’m still not over it). She’s even got photos of Prince’s handsoap!

Powell’s has posted this great conversation between Gil Adamson, David Wroblewski, and Dave Weich. I’m on record for having loved both Adamson’s Outlander and Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Sawtelle made me cry in fact. It’s the kind of book that makes you irritate your friends when you won’t shut up about it. I’m [...]

Many things got posted while I was away. Here’s some of it: There were many articles about Harvard Book Store being for sale, including The Crimson, The New York Times, The Cambridge Chronicle and The Globe. Nothing has happened yet. Frank Kramer wants to find the right person/people to run the store. Here is the [...]

I managed to get rid of my pasty New England skin by spending a little time outdoors in LA. I It was a good trip overall. I didn’t get back until very late last night so I’m trying to get through all the many emails. LA was more mellow than I expected. The only crazy [...]