From the pen of a French beggar, a bestseller is born
Chad Felix
Jean-Marie Roughol, a panhandler on the streets of Paris for 27 years and running, has sold upwards of 50,000 copies of his memoir, My Life as a Panhandler: A Life on… Read more »
Jean-Marie Roughol, a panhandler on the streets of Paris for 27 years and running, has sold upwards of 50,000 copies of his memoir, My Life as a Panhandler: A Life on… Read more »
The crime writer Ruth Rendell died on Saturday 2nd May at the age of 85. Rendell was best known for her 24 Inspector Wexford books, which she began writing in 1964,… Read more »
In a comment piece for The Telegraph, the writer and author Radhika Sanghani argues that Mills & Boon is undergoing radical change. According to Sanghani a crop of new novels… Read more »
A church in Seattle is answering some uncomfortable questions after proof surfaced that they had paid an outside firm over $200,000 to ensure the placement of a book by their pastor… Read more »
Back in September the sensationally successful, bestselling author James Patterson pledged $1 million of his personal wealth to independent bookshops across America (we covered the story here). Yesterday, Patterson announced… Read more »
James Baldwin was the number one New York Times bestseller on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. It’s a habit I have, to look back at the lists… Read more »
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Why the long face?” The horse answers “Because a book by Rush Limbaugh, ostensibly for children, is currently the #1 book… Read more »
Sometimes people embark on reading projects that I envy, like A Year of Reading the World, and sometimes I hear about a project that I admire, but for which life… Read more »