In honor of the birds chirping outside my apartment this morning, I wore my not-NorthFace coat to work. *** Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub

Lest you should be wondering about that title,  it’s the reaction I get from most people when they learn that I’ve been asked to be one of the three judges of this year’s Romantic Novel of the Year Award.  It’s generally preceded by a few moments of silence as they digest the information and

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The British Government was dealt a stunning defeat yesterday by a Court of Appeals decision rejecting tenacious arguments of state secrecy. The court forced the publication of a seven-paragraph summary of the torture of Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantánamo prisoner held in CIA custody. British officials led by Foreign Secretary David Miliband had argued that the information, furnished by the...

So apparently J.D. Salinger died last week. Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub date, imprint, genre, post-interview Amazon ranking, pre-interview ranking (if the book

Happy Friday. Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub date, imprint, genre, post-interview Amazon ranking, pre-interview ranking (if the book was mentioned on Shelf

For those of you who don’t know what this is all about, please visit the information post and sign ups. I decided back in August that I wanted to do something significant on my blog in 2010 and eventually decided on raising money to help find a cure for childhood cancer. I’m pleased that many of

Happy Friday.  Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub date, imprint, genre, post-interview Amazon ranking, pre-interview ranking (if the book was mentioned on Shelf

Read this bullshit on Martin Amis by Toby Clements in the Telegraph: The Information followed in 1995 and by now the tide had turned. Amis had had his well-publicised changes in agent and wife. He had apparently demanded and received the giant advance for the book. Perhaps these things were enough to explain the viscerally unpleasant

Happy Friday.  Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub date, imprint, genre, post-interview Amazon ranking, pre-interview ranking (if the book was mentioned on Shelf