Good, or is it bad, timing? . . .
Dennis Johnson
The creative forces behind a new opera based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four are finding they “did not have to work hard to make George Orwell’s nightmarish vision of a… Read more »
The creative forces behind a new opera based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four are finding they “did not have to work hard to make George Orwell’s nightmarish vision of a… Read more »
A revealing portrait of David Rieff appears in the New York Observer in an article by Suzy Hansen. Rieff, author of acclaimed books on Bosnia and the human rights movement,… Read more »
A deep meditation on the state and availability of poetry “chapbooks” appears in the current issue of the American Book Review. The essay (available online as a .pdf), by the… Read more »
“It’s tempting to say that Charles McCarry’s The Tears of Autumn is the greatest espionage novel ever written by an American,” says Brendan Bernhard, apparently by way of politely avoiding… Read more »
Confessions of Max Tivoli author Andrew Sean Greer has been awarded the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award for emerging authors, according to a brief Associated Press wire story.… Read more »
The 18th annual Tehran Book Fair, set to begin Wednesday, certainly has its work cut out for it, at least according to some. As a story from Mehr News reports,… Read more »
A 65-year-old retired Christian theologian has begun getting some attention for a book he published a year ago, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11,… Read more »
It’s been rumored for months, but now it appears official: “Sources at the L.A. Times confirm the buzz that Steve Wasserman is out as editor of the LAT Book Review,”… Read more »
Mega-selling author and newspaper sports columnist Mitch Albom has apologized for lying in his Detroit Free Press column last month . . . sort of. In his Saturday column, Albom… Read more »