Patti Smith talks books with Jonathan Lethem
Valerie Merians
Here’s an interesting interview with Patti Smith, hosted by the PEN America Center back in May. Smith, who just won the National Book Award in non-fiction for Just Kids, her… Read more »
Here’s an interesting interview with Patti Smith, hosted by the PEN America Center back in May. Smith, who just won the National Book Award in non-fiction for Just Kids, her… Read more »
In a review for the Washington Post, Michael Dirda notes that the newly translated Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy “provides a harrowing portrait of a marriage … not to mention a… 4 / Read more »
Ingrid Betancourt, the Colombian presidential candidate who was kidnapped by FARC rebels and held hostage for over six years until she was rescued in a dramatic military sting operation, has… Read more »
No offense to Michael Cooper, but was anyone going to read his book anyway? It seemed a desperate ploy to get in on some of the action (aka money) from… Read more »
A handwritten memoir by “the 18th century lothario, spy, writer and adventurer whose name has become an international synonym for lover”—Jacques Casanova—that “that shocked publishers two centuries ago,” and “was… Read more »
Kathleen Rooney’s book of “autobiographical essays,” some of which were about her time as a “mid-level aide” to Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin and her “frustrations as a political office worker… 6 / Read more »
Politicians write books. Its just a fact of life. Many of these books go on to be bestsellers (need I reference Bill Clinton, or god-forbid Sarah Palin?). But many of… Read more »
“Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee (PAC) to buy up thousands of copies of her book, “Going Rogue,” in order to mail copies of the memoir to… Read more »
A homeless man who has lived on the streets of Queens, New York, for a decade “is banking on an unlikely ticket off the street: a book deal. Sounds crazy?… Read more »
Random House and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs have settled a lawsuit over a $300,000 advance given to Combs for a memoir he never wrote. In an Associated Press wire story,… Read more »