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Based on a True
Story : This year the source material in the Best Adapted
Screenplay Oscar category is fiction-free. All five finalists turned for
inspiration to nonfiction — memoirs, reportage, even earlier screenplays.
Can You Make
Kids Love Books?: Have high schools replace novels with
nonfiction, and other dubious prescriptions for creating a nation of readers.
Mick Jagger
Blasts the Idea of a Memoir : "If someone wants to know
what I did in 1965, they can look it up on Wikipedia."
Reading Books is
Fundamental : Charles M. Blow in a "New York Times"
op-ed. "The first thing I can remember buying for myself, aside from
candy, of course, was not a toy. It was a book."
The Author Life
in a Digital Age : We used to know what it took to be a writer –
you had to publish a book. But electronic publishing is piling pressure on
myths of the author's life.
Vintage
to Pub Snowden Book
Vintage Books has acquired U.S. rights to a new book about Edward Snowden by Guardian reporter Luke Harding called The Snowden Files. The investigative work will, Vintage said, be the "first in depth look at the Guardian's scoop" and it will "tell the story of the individuals behind the biggest intelligence leak in history and the forces that tried to stop them." Vintage will release its paperback edition on February 11. more »
Vintage Books has acquired U.S. rights to a new book about Edward Snowden by Guardian reporter Luke Harding called The Snowden Files. The investigative work will, Vintage said, be the "first in depth look at the Guardian's scoop" and it will "tell the story of the individuals behind the biggest intelligence leak in history and the forces that tried to stop them." Vintage will release its paperback edition on February 11. more »
Strong
Holiday Sales Power Upbeat Wi9
The first full day of the American Booksellers Association ninth annual Winter Institute, which began on January 22 at the Seattle Westin, kicked off one of the most vibrant bookseller gatherings in several years. As ABA president Steve Bercu, owner of BookPeople in Austin, Tex., noted at the opening plenary breakfast, “independent bookselling is strong, vital, and growing.” A new generation of booksellers, who seemed to make up nearly half of attendees, are giving the conference a new purpose and vitality.
The first full day of the American Booksellers Association ninth annual Winter Institute, which began on January 22 at the Seattle Westin, kicked off one of the most vibrant bookseller gatherings in several years. As ABA president Steve Bercu, owner of BookPeople in Austin, Tex., noted at the opening plenary breakfast, “independent bookselling is strong, vital, and growing.” A new generation of booksellers, who seemed to make up nearly half of attendees, are giving the conference a new purpose and vitality.
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