http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/ en-us Copyright 2008 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:17:38 -0500 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:22:56 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=1.53 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Judith Maas SUNDAY: Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville, holds its 10th-anniversary celebration beginning at noon, with Anita Diamant, Sue Miller, Alice Hoffman, and others. MONDAY: Greg Melville discusses ‘‘Greasy Rider,’’ at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/boston_area_aut_81.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/boston_area_aut_81.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:17:38 -0500 An electric current is passing through the Pynchonian faithful as word is out that the master (Thomas Pynchon, that is) has a new novel coming out from Penguin Books. Los Angeles Times blogger Carolyn Kellogg reports on the talk. The... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/an_electric_cur.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/an_electric_cur.html Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:48:35 -0500 Henry David Thoreau is often identified with the importance of wildness and nature, although he was not a naturalist per se. Now his example and authority are called upon in a publishing project co-sponsored by Penguin Classics and the... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/after_henry.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/after_henry.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:25:00 -0500 SUNDAY: Joshua Henkin (“Matrimony”) and Ellen Litman (“The Last Chicken in America”) read at 2 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville … Bob Morris discusses “Assisted Loving,” at 2 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline. MONDAY: Poets... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/boston_area_aut_80.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/boston_area_aut_80.html Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:17:08 -0500 Coming up http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/falls_bounty.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/falls_bounty.html Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:47:42 -0500 Publishers dream of coming up with "the next Harry Potter," since J.K. Rowling's eight-year, zillion-seller kids' fantasy series shocked the world into realizing that kids do like to read books, even big long heavy novels. It's probably a safe... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/no_harry_but_in.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/no_harry_but_in.html Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:33:09 -0500 Notwithstanding our post below, there may be a delay after all in British publication of Sherry Jones's "The Jewel of Medina," after a firebomb attack on the publisher, Gibson Square. The British online newsletter, The Bookseller, reports that a spokesman... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/not_so_fast.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/not_so_fast.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:51:29 -0500 Harvard Book Store sold http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/harvard_book_st_1.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/10/harvard_book_st_1.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:51:56 -0500 Several books and Massachusetts authors about whom I or colleagues have written in the last year have been named winners of the Massachusetts Book Awards, given by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Read about the award, and the full... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/massachusetts_b.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/massachusetts_b.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:04:50 -0500 The violent campaign against Sherry Jones's "Jewel of Medina" has apparently started, according to the Times's Sarah Lyall, in a Sunday story. The first novel about a wife of the prophet Mohammad was to have been published by Random... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/fire_this_time.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/fire_this_time.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:14:03 -0500 1. Three Cups of Tea By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Penguin. 2. Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert. Penguin. 3. The Nine By Jeffrey Toobin. Anchor. 4. The Omnivore’s Dilemma By Michael Pollan. Penguin. 5. Plato and a... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/paperback_nonfi_77.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/paperback_nonfi_77.html pbnonfiction Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:07:22 -0500 1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz. Riverhead. 2. Run By Ann Patchett. Harper Perennial. 3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog By Muriel Barbery. Europa. 4. Nights in Rodanthe By Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central. 5. The... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/paperback_ficti_76.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/paperback_ficti_76.html pbfiction Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:59:25 -0500 1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2. The Forever War By Dexter Filkins. Knopf. 3. Being Catholic Now By Kerry Kennedy. Crown. 4. The War Within By Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster. 5.... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/hardcover_nonfi_77.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/hardcover_nonfi_77.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:56:47 -0500 5 under 35 fiction writers to watch (and read) http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/5_under_35_fict.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/5_under_35_fict.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:37:53 -0500 By Judith Maas SUNDAY: Ploughshares contributors and editors read at 2 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville. ... Poets Richard Hoffman and Vera Kroms read at 3 p.m., at the Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow St., Concord. ...... http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/boston_area_aut_79.html http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/09/boston_area_aut_79.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:38 -0500