UK author Lord Jeffrey Archer,
still combative and unapologetic, believes bookstores are doomed, but is
happy to continue cranking out bestsellers — as ebooks.
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The Lebanese-American novelist
Rabih Alameddine discusses the need to both belong to and be estranged from a
culture in order to be able to effectively evoke it in literature.
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More News from PP:
The Burmese Ministry of
Information announced that a new translation of Orwell’s 1934 novel, Burmese
Days, won the National Literary Award’s informative literature award.
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From the Archives:
UK consultant Kelvin Smith, author
of The Publishing Business, fears publishers have lost perspective and
their sense of mission, but believes there’s hope.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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