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     |  KD is a friend of the blog and and the author of a couple of great novels (especially Ghostfires – wow). This is his memoir about new fatherhood and learning to cook for his daughter. Check out the piece he wrote for the When We Fell In Love Series. Continue reading Notable New Releases 5/10/2011  2) Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart I was thinking about Shteyngart’s most recent novel the other day, in comparison with another future-set satire, James Boice’s The Good and the Ghastly. There’s a review in there somewhere, about the relative strength of the plots beneath the satires. Continue reading Notable New Releases 5/3/2011  Thanks to everyone who entered Thursday’s contest. I haven’t drawn winners yet, but I will Saturday morning, so get your entries in. In the meantime, here are the book covers already mentioned for your perusal. Continue reading Covers from Thursday’s Contest  Yes, it’s been three years since we rolled out this blog. Since April 28, 2008 we’ve reviewed some 450 books, interviewed dozens of authors, and had more than 60 authors contribute to our When We Fell In Love series. We’ve also welcomed JE as the fourth guy and Morgan, Jennifer, Tory and Chris on board as regular contributors. If you want to relive the good old days, check out our very first post, a three part review of Mark Sarvas’s novel Harry, Revised. Continue reading Three Years of Three Guys + Really Cool Giveaway  As I approached the ceiling height bookshelves I was relieved to see that my cloth bound books were safe. They’re in a closed network, just me and the writer. There were about a thousand writers on those shadowed shelves in their beautifully washed-out cloth covers. The writers’ lives extended out over centuries and continents in an complex and unique combination of creative intelligences that only I could have devised. Because of all the libraries in the world, no library looks just like mine, just like no library looks just like yours. And I thought of all the libraries all over the world that night, none of which looked exactly like mine, each with it’s unique take on the human adventure. And I wanted to protect them all. Continue reading Invasion of the Book Snatchers  Thanks to our friends at Ecco (they’ve had a great year for fiction, haven’t they?), we’ve got five copies of The Sisters Brothers ready to giveaway. So tell us about a favorite western novel, and by “western” I don’t just mean the genre, I mean the territory, so there’s a lot of literary turf available. On Monday, I’ll pick five winners at random from the entries. Continue reading The Sisters Brothers Giveaway  Here they are: Egan, Foner, Chernow, Mukherjee and Ryan Continue reading 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced  DH: PW Daily and Media Bistro, among others, noted recently that ebook sales had exceeded any other segment of the trade book market. This reminded me of one of my favorite paintings, The Rape of the Sabine Women by Poussin. It’s at the Met. Go take a look if you’re in the vicinity of NYC. Continue reading The Rape of the Book  1) Mr. Peanut Adam Ross Published by: Vintage We’ve spilled a ton of ink on this book, and it deserves every line. Brilliant and fun, Adam Ross seems to be digging into some part of your brain, reminding you what you know about his characters. Continue reading Notable New Releases 4/19/2011  For years, on Bainbridge Island, there was this great little record store called the Glass Onion. The dude who owned it was named Jeff, and he loved his job. Basically, by buying a record store, he bought himself into a low paying job for life. Or so he thought. He was smart, passionate, and informed in a dizzyingly wide array of musical genres, and always managed to be on the cutting edge, without necessarily looking like a guy who lived on the cutting edge. Is this sounding familiar yet? Continue reading Why Brick and Mortars Still Rule the Book World, and Why We Must Shop at Them Even If It Costs a Couple Extra Bucks and Few Extra Minutes  1) Collected Short Fiction V.S. Naipaul Published by: Everyman’s Library Continue reading Notable New Releases 4/12/2011  Does that ring any bells? It did for me, so here’s what we’re going to do…First, I’m going to name a couple of naturalistic novels that I’ve liked. Then, if you want to receive one of three copies of The Bee-Loud Glade from our new friends over at Atticus Books, tell me about one you like. Continue reading The Bee-Loud Glade Giveaway  1) What You Have Left Will Allison Published by: Free Press Upon reading Will Allison’s second novel, I was struck by how much it felt like an intense fictional cousin to Darin Strauss’ Half a Life. Continue reading Notable New Releases 4/5/2011  What You See in the Dark Manuel Munoz; Manuel Muoz Published by: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Edition: Hardcover (ISBN #9781565125339) Continue reading Notable New Releases 3/29/2011  Dubus speaks with that hard Boston lilt, that “whatchew gonna do bout it?!” vocal swagger popularized recently by The Fighter, and he really turns it on when he’s reading. His body, too, is animated by a fighter’s bravado. When he’s really hitting on a point, he affects a boxer’s physical nuances: a pulling back, a bracing, a short fast jab. Continue reading Morgan Macgregor: Andre Dubus At Book Soup | |||
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