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Book Of A Lifetime: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, by Elizabeth Smart (Independent) In choosing a book that has shaped and changed my life, I have dithered between classics, none of them contemporary and all of them novels. For me the significant book will always be a novel, although I do have a soft spot for The SAS Survival Guide, and particularly the section on camp craft. A River Called Time, by Mia Couto trans David Brookshaw (Independent) Mia Couto from Mozambique has witnessed his country's tumultous struggle for independence, the drama of revolution, and a protracted civil war as a journalist and editor, a poet and novelist, and an environmental biologist. His novels bind national history to ancestral mythology. They are a vindication of how oral legends can be received in any language. Michael Smerconish: Summer's most sinful treat (The Philadelphia Inquirer) IPREDICT poor sales for trashy novels this summer. Suntan without Danielle Steel in Sea Isle. Summer sans Sidney Sheldon in Ocean City. No need for Nora Roberts in North Wildwood. Irish troupe to present savage satires of Beckett (The Star-Ledger) The work of seminal Irish writer Samuel Beckett follows a declining trend: the more he wrote, the less he wrote. That is to say, Beckett began his career penning bulky novels, then plays and novellas, then sketches and radio plays, and finally short films without dialogue. Three debut novels stir up Salem's dark magic (USA Today) Something witchy is brewing in bookstores this summer. Three debut novels share a link to Salem, Mass., site of the infamous witch trials of 1692. Two occur in modern times, and the third is set in the 17th century, when escalating hysteria led to the imprisonment of more than 150 men, women and children and the deaths of at least 20 people. Amazon Kindles Sales as Readers Demand Novels Online (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Donald Graham , chief executive officer of Washington Post Co. , travels almost every week and says he hardly ever leaves home without his Kindle digital book reader from Amazon Inc. The 60-Second Interview: Jackie Collins (New Orleans Times-Picayune) Jackie Collins is the pre-eminent chronicler of the lives of the rich and famous, of which she is now certainly one. She has written 25 novels and sold more than 400 million copies of them. That there is a success story. "Missy" and "Telex From Cuba": Hidden worlds in history (Seattle Times) Two debut novels, "Missy" by Chris Hannan and "Telex from Cuba" by Rachel Kushner, infuse historical fiction with a new vitality, as they bring to life, respectively, a drugged-up bad girl of the 1860s American West and an American corporate enclave in 1950s Cuba. 'Twilight' hits Hollywood (Entertainment Weekly) By Nicole Sperling Can the author's vampire novels do for moviegoers â?¨what they've done for readers? The first book in the series comes to â?¨theaters in December. EW was on the set Iron Hunt Is Urban SF Fantasy (Sci Fi Wire) Best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu told SCI FI Wire that most of her novels have been published as romances with paranormal elements, but her latest novel, The Iron Hunt , is very much a fantasy novel, with a dash of science fiction thrown in. | |
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