This week’s “11 New Books We Recommend this Week” from The New York Times includes the latest in the Jack Reacher series;
#TBT It’s Harold Robbins’ The Lonely Lady
In the spirit of #tbt is Harold Robbins’ 1976 novel, “The Lonely Lady.” I’d thought a lot of Robbins’s work was a slight step above dime-store schlock,
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists … and a whole bunch of other phonies
When you create a work of fiction, the world is whatever you want it to be. But “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes,
Writer blows $10k on a glass of fake Scotch
The Washington Post has an interesting article about a bestselling Chinese writer who dropped ten grand on a rare Scotch,
The Brothers: A tragedy decades in the making
Through a recent conversation about Russian politics, I learned about Masha Gessen’s 2015 book “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about Tamerlan and Dzhokhar “Jahar”
Who Murdered Fonzie?
Interesting news of a publishing deal today, via Publisher’s Marketplace:
James Boice, author of MVP has sold a comedic noir entitled Who Killed the Fonz?
NaNoWriMo: The endurance test that may lead to a bestseller
November is National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, when Great American Novelists scramble to write 50,000-word manuscripts in 30 days.
Love is a baseball field: “Shoeless Joe”
“If you build it, he will come.”
Besides “Shoeless Joe,” there are few sports novels (actually,
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