September 2012
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“For a book lover this type of triage is never a record of what was brought along...”
– A great response to the dreaded desert island books question.
Junot Díaz - By the Book - NYTimes.com
August 2012
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Beyond Bourne: A Spy Thriller Reading List
On Monday, we asked you to recommend your favorite books about national security, intelligence, and the spy’s life. Here’s what you suggested in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter.
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John LeCarré
Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius
Restless by William Boyd
An Ordinary Spy by Joseph Weisberg
The Atrocity Archive by Charles Stross
The Fourth...
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The List List #22
Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet.
at Rolling Stone, Six Things You Didn’t Know About David Foster Wallace
at The Huffington Post, 17 Ways to “Cheat” at Scrabble
at Flavorwire, 10 Contemporary Politicians’ Favorite Books
at Biographile, Top 5 Biographies and Memoirs to Inspire Young Writers
at Salon, Books Bill Clinton Blurbed
at Flavorwire, Ten...
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Critical Linking: August 31, 2012
We so often claim to be owners when we are in fact stewards.
On letting go of books.
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But, for as many books as exist, there are also any number of different reading types a book lover (or even a book hater) might demonstrate.
What kind of reader are you? If this interests you, you are the kind of reader who cares what kind of reader you are. Nerd.
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The Guilty Pleasure of Books Not Yet Read →
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“The point is you wouldn’t call Downton Abbey a movie, so you shouldn’t call ...”
– Let’s Get Graphic: What We Talk About When We Talk About Comics
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“Literature gives us an internal compass, a way to negotiate all life’s rough and...”
– Why Books Provide Ballast
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Critical Linking: August 30, 2012
“Kobo has struck a deal to sell e-books and its line of e-readers through independent U.S. booksellers”
Google bows out of this racket, Kobo steps in. This would be a good chance for indie bookstores to set-up little Kobo kiosks to sell devices and walk customers through the process of buying ebooks through their local indie.
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Federman suggests Union Square Café as a...
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Buy, Borrow, Bypass: Week of August 26, 2012
And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman (William Morrow): I’ve been reading Lippman since her early series-driven mystery days, and it’s been pure pleasure to watch her writing develop and her novels grow deeper, richer, and darker. In this new novel, suburban madam Heloise Lewis faces danger when her child’s father (and her former pimp) is released from prison. While I particularly enjoy Lippman’s...
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Write Place, Write Time: Lee Woodruff →
In Write Place, Write Time, writers reveal their work spaces and reflect on the relationship between writing place and writing process. Today: Lee Woodruff’s Lake George cottage!
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Inside Author Ray Bradbury’s FBI File: Was He a... →
Adds a layer to the dystopian thing, doesn’t it?
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Kobo to Replace Google E-Books for Independent... →
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Critical Linking: August 29, 2012
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
[Note: Feeling goofy. All of my comments are movie quotes today. No prize if you guess them, just the glory].
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“I’ll go onto several forums, from the well-known forums, and post there, under my own name and under various other names and various other characters. You build this whole network of...
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“3. I don’t read books about selfish parents.
This isn’t to say that I’m on...”
– How Having Kids Changed My Reading Life
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“If someone re-made DPS today: here are a few unavoidable additions and...”
– DEAD POETS SOCIETY Live-Blog
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The Close-Read: “The Best Book Reviews Money Can... →
Riot editor in chief Jeff O’Neal digs into the story that revealed authors paying BIG money for Amazon reviews and the “reviewers” who take the cash to write about books they often don’t even read.
“You must write as if your parents are dead.”
– Philip Roth’s advice to Ian McEwan.
“I knew just what he meant. You mustn’t worry about upsetting your parents.”
(via hmhbooks)
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Critical Linking: August 28, 2012
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro is working on a new book with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
The American edition will surely be titled “Boy Are These Guys Pains in Our Asses.”
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Got a big book collection and don’t really want to take the time to catalog the entire thing? If you snap a photo of your books into Evernote, it’ll create a searchable inventory for...
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Larsson v. Brown: A Thriller Phenom Throwdown →
Does 50 Shades’ domination of the best-seller lists have you nostalgia for the days when Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson were the literary punching bags of choice?
We pit them against each other to determine: Who has better heroes? Sidekicks? Cockamamie plot devices?
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Riot Recommendation: A Matter of National Security... →
Jason Bourne and Alex Cross may be the spies du jour, but readers’ fascination with subterfuge in the name of national security is hardly new. After all, Double-Oh-Seven himself (Bond, James Bond) began between the pages of a book! In this edition of the Riot Recommendation, we want to know all about your favorite clue-following, interrogation-conducting, crime-fighting super spies.
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“Larsson, himself an investigative journalist, wraps his central investigative...”
– Larsson v. Brown: A Thriller Phenom Throwdown
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Critical Linking: August 27, 2012
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
Today, corporate-minded university presidents spout platitudes about “outcome metric” and “game-changing” technologies, while faculty members struggle to piece together a living with multiple part-time jobs, and students search for marketable skills that, they hope, will help them pay off their education debt.
Running colleges...
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“I remain at least a little optimistic I may, someday, tackle the tome. A...”
– One Book, 12 Years on My Bookshelf
What’s the longest a book has sat unread on your shelves?
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