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Cookbooks and books about food sell by the millions each year, and even those who don’t cook are often fascinated by food-related titles. (Check out such books as Skinny Bitch, Eat This Not That, and The Pleasures of Slow Food, among others.) Many book-lovers are food-lovers as well. But what about authors? Well, it turns [...] Nothing like a night out with the girls, smellin’ like a paperback. A company has taken it upon themselves to bottle “new book smell,” ostensibly for spraying on a Kindle. [via Lemondrop] Nerve reviews The Girlfriend Experience, through the eyes of a real high-end call girl and client. [via [...] A New Zealand boys’ school is taking drastic steps to get boys to read more: bribery. Rongotai College in Wellington offers boys a can of soda if they can prove they’ve read two books, a voucher from Subway for five books, and a movie voucher for ten books. The dedicated few who are able to [...] In memory of a lost loved pop star: The R.I.P. Menagerie of Michael Jackson Book Covers. [via Inkwell Bookstore] Looking for a book recommendation? Consider the source (and then check out BookSeer.com). [via Book Ninja] Do the publishing industry’s low starting salaries limit the literature produced? Willing Davidson thinks so, and [...] Shilpa Agarwal, a Mumbai-born professor at the University of California, comes from a family uprooted by the Partition of India in 1947. Her intimacy with this displaced, disenfranchised generation has informed her first novel, Haunting Bombay, which deals with the literal and figurative ghosts of a Bombay-based family in the 1960s. In this interview with [...] A stoop, a book, and a summer day. What more could you ask for? -Allison Geller Photo by Philip Greenspun/ Philip Greenspun Those of us who occasionally (or frequently) scoff at photos of panty-flashing, brazenly drunk starlets in tabloids might be interested in Paula Uruburu’s new acclaimed biography, American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the “It” Girl and the Crime of the Century. The book examines the life of Evelyn Nesbit, a model and [...] A book, and a ray of light in the darkness. –Allison Geller Photo by banjhing / al fritz ermac via Flickr.com Neil Gaiman’s young adult novel The Graveyard Book has been shortlisted for the 2009 British Fantasy Award. (One has to feel some sympathy for the other nominees—being up against Neil Gaiman, whose most recent novel has already received the coveted Newbery award and others, must be pretty daunting.) [Via McNally Robinson] Spend enough time in the self-help section of the bookstore, and you might come across the 24,504 Worst Pieces of Advice Ever Published. [via Cracked] A group of artists called INK has manufactured 40 books that previously existed only in the literary worlds of other books. [via Bookslut] Shared Worlds recently picked [...] |
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