In memory of Molly: Jacqueline Wilson’s new book
'She made a deep impact on me' says Jacqueline Wilson of the eight-year-old to whom she has dedicated her new novelBest-selling author Jacqueline Wilson has dedicated her new novel to Molly, an avid writer and charity fundraiser who died from cancer ag...
Harvard Bookstore Video Stresses: ‘Buy Where You Shop’
In the video embedded above, Harvard Book Store urged book buyers to stop using bookstores as showrooms to browse before purchasing books online.
“Don’t be an iPhoney. Buy where you shop,” concludes the video. How can independent boo...
Emily Brontë portrait goes under the hammer
Painting set to fetch £4,000 at auction, a month after smaller portrait of Wuthering Heights author was sold for £24,000For the second time in two months, a previously unknown portrait captioned "Emily Brontë" is to be auctioned, showing the Wutheri...
Reading Joanna Russ: Extra(ordinary) People (1984), Part 2
Yesterday we discussed the first half of Extra(ordinary) People, Joanna Russ’s 1984 collection of short fiction. I left off at the end of one of my favorite stories, the very genderqueer tale “The Mystery of the Young Gentleman,” and the potentia...
Twitter – the virtual literary salon
If you want to know what writers are saying to each other, and join the conversation, it's all just a tweet awayJudy Blume tells Margaret Atwood to wrap up warm. Bret Easton Ellis writes how he "traded laughs with Benecio, met Ryan Gosling … and felt...
Nancy Pearl Gets Her Own Amazon Line
Librarian Nancy Pearl will lead a Book Lust Rediscoveries line at Amazon, a series that will reprinting six of her “favorite, presently out-of-print books” every year.
Book Lust Rediscoveries already has a page at Amazon with two titles: Af...
McDonald’s to Put 9 Million Books in UK Happy Meals
According to The Telegraph, McDonald’s plans to hand out a staggering 9 million copies of Mudpuddle Farm books by Michael Morpurgo in Happy Meal boxes around the UK.
Would you let a fast food chain distribute your book? You can read more abou...
French Children Don’t Throw Food by Pamela Druckerman – review
Bringing up baby the French wayNew Yorker Pamela Druckerman married an Englishman and lived with him in Paris, where she had a baby, closely followed by twins. In England or the US she might have found sympathy and chummed up with similarly sleep-depri...
Cyberpunk Bowie, New Wave Bowie: A Look at Scary Monsters
Do you remember a guy that’s beenIn such an early song…So asks David Bowie at the beginning of “Ashes to Ashes.” That guy, of course, is Major Tom, the lost astronaut hero of “Space Oddity,” and when Scary Monsters was released in 1980, muc...
McDonald’s to give away books with kids’ meals
Fast-food giant will give away Mudpuddle Farm books for younger readers with purchase of foodFrom the red carpet to the golden arches: an unlikely champion in the battle to get children reading has emerged in the shape of McDonald's, which is set to gi...
