A 100k Rowling Book
Sotheby’s is going to auction a hand-written, hand-illustrated book by J.K. Rowling for charity. The estimate? $102,000.
continue readingLBC Winter 2007 Read This! Announced
It’s with great pleasure that my colleagues at the Litblog Co-Op announce our Winter 2007 selection, The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck. I really enjoyed this book and I’m appreciative of Dan Wickett and the Emerging Writers Network for bringing it to the group’s attention. Check out this site, as well as all the LBC member sites…
continue readingSo, the Lack of a Blurb is a Criticism?
Janet Maslin reviews John Leake’s Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer in today’s New York Times. It’s a pretty critical review and since I haven’t read the book, I can’t agree or disagree with Maslin’s complaints. But what caught my eye was her insinuation that a lack of a blurb equates to an…
continue readingSlash’s Ultimate Guitar Showdown
So most of you know that while I’m not writing books (or writing about books) then I’m daydreaming of rock guitar stardom. Never mind the fact that I don’t really play… that little detail doesn’t matter in my fantasies. But for those of you who do play, and who think you’ve got the licks to…
continue readingEck Reviewed in The Times
Uzodinma Iweala reviewed Matthew Eck’s The Farther Shore in yesterday’s New York Times. It’s not a complete homerun of a review. Iweala praises Eck’s “ability to bring us straight into the devastation, all its sights and sounds whirling around us as they whirl around Stantz and his comrades” and points out that his “writing is best when…
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