Monthly Archives July 2005

Publishers Weekly reported that “despite receiving 1.5 million advance orders for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Amazon only broke even on the title,

Max Barry provides some details on his website about the release date of his new book, Company.

I was never much of one for auto shop in high school, so I would have never thought to compare a woman’s anatomy to a carburetor,

There is an interesting article The Daily Telegraph that I learned about via the excellent MobyLives website.

Well, sort of. The New York Times is moving into the bookstore business and their first retail store opening not in Manhattan,

CNN has an article on what looks to be an interesting book. The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski recounts the life and death (obviously) of French chef Bernard Loiseau.

MobyLives has an interesting item about the uprising of Harry Potter fans determined to squelch criticism of their favorite book.

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this post if you plan on seeing Batman Begins and you don’t want to know about the ending.

BookSlut picked up a report from The Scotsman that said Irvine Welsh’s new novel follows the adventures of Daniel Skinner who not only discovers that his father is a gay chef working in San Francisco but he also meets an American girl and ends up falling in love.

CNN has photos of Bob Doughty, a Florida mailman, who won the recent Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition in Key West.

Also via MediaBistro, there is a BBC report that “Crime novelist Edward Bunker, who taught himself to write in prison and appeared in hit movie Reservoir Dogs,

MediaBistro noted an interesting article The Christian Science Monitor about teen literary sensations and how hard it is for them to follow up with their second book.