Grisham Donates Millions to Hurricane Relief
This was actually in Tuesday’s Publishers Marketplace but I missed it… native Mississippian John Grisham donated $5 million to create the Rebuild the Coast Fund Organization to help uninsured people from Mississippi rebuild homes and businesses. “We don’t normally publicize gifts. It’s something we keep extremely private. But in these very, very rare circumstances–this tragic…
continue readingBooker Shortlist Announced
All the book blogs are talking about this, so I’ll be brief on this post. Here’s an article from Guardian Unlimited about the trimming down of the 17 books on the Booker Prize longlist. John Banville, Julian Barnes, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, and Zadie Smith all made the cut. The winner will be…
continue readingRock Novels
Michael Schaub presents a pretty exhaustive list of rock novels over at Bookslut. He even breaks down the list into Punk Rock Novels, Science Fiction Rock Novels, Indie and Alternative Rock Novels, Rock Industry Novels, 1980’s Rock Novels, Rock Star Novels, Amateur/Garage Band Rock Novels, The Best of Rock Novels, and New and Forthcoming Rock…
continue readingBoD: Lords of Chaos
Feuding rappers from the East Coast and West Coast don’t have the market covered when it comes to musical warfare. So here’s our Book-of-the-Day, Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind recount the story of how nearly 100 churches were burned and desecrated, while suicide,…
continue readingGreat Quotes
Agent Noah Lukeman’s 2000 book The First Five Pages: A Writers Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile has some fantastic advice and tips we can all use. We’ll talk about that in a future post. But for now, we’ll focus on the great epigraphs that Lukeman provides at the start of every chapter.…
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