Orlando Sentinel: Books
- Kirkus Reviews/Editor & Publisher pack it in
Thursday - 12/10/2009 - 01:21 PMOuch. A curt announcement from Nielsen heralds the departure of a couple of publishing mainstays: Kirkus Reviews and Editor & Publisher magazine.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: Stephen King's "Under the Dome"
Friday - 11/13/2009 - 08:08 PMAside from its heft (nearly 1100 pages), there are plenty of surface reasons to hold Stephen King's latest novel up against The Stand. Both are bursting with religious commentary, draw clear lines in the battle of good vs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Crumb, King, and other obsessions present and future
Wednesday - 11/04/2009 - 06:32 PMStill here, folks. Your humble head Count has been preparing for and then enjoying a vacation, and can only be blamed so much. Plenty of news simmering in the pot, though.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Literary windfall for Lake County nonprofits
Friday - 10/23/2009 - 12:45 PMSaturday's Lake section of the Sentinel will have the full story by Rosalind Jennings, but this one bears a little advance notice, so I'll sum up here.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Potter fans take on anti-gay marriage muggles
Friday - 10/16/2009 - 02:18 PMThe battleground: Maine.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: Doug Alderson's "New Dawn for the Kissimmee River"
Friday - 09/25/2009 - 06:29 PMA chronicle as enthralling and meandering as its subject, New Dawn for the Kissimmee River is one of those increasingly rare species of nature books infused with (gasp!) optimism for the environment.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Solid soundtrack for Kerouac
Monday - 09/21/2009 - 11:38 AMKerouac Films seem to have been shopping around their documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur for awhile.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Grieve in style with the Michael Jackson Opus
Tuesday - 09/01/2009 - 02:09 AMGot the press release for the Michael Jackson Opus back in mid-August, to be honest, but back then I was still a little gorged on MJ news. I can't imagine I'm alone there, and you're welcome.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Single Sentence Animations
Wednesday - 09/09/2009 - 04:41 PMPictures worth a thousand words? The hipster short story purveyors of Electric Literature aren't half that ambitious, but their approach works.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Comic book sales and shenanigans
Wednesday - 09/16/2009 - 04:56 PMA brief call to arms for any fellow indie comic book fans out there. It's gonna be a good week. Big news is the upcoming lecture by Art Spiegelman at DeLand's Stetson University.
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- Nowhere near Barnes & Noble
Tuesday - 11/24/2009 - 05:56 PMYes, you're owed a post or two. No apologies for the lack of news about Sarah Palin's book signing down at the Colonial Plaza Barnes & Noble today, though. And honestly?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bad advice for NaNoWriMo
Saturday - 11/07/2009 - 06:18 PMHey, National Novel Writing Monthers: Still meandering around trying to develop a plot with one week down? Here you go; free outline ... Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Family Guy and Muppet Babies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Laura Van Den Berg readings around town
Sunday - 10/18/2009 - 01:19 PMI'm never quite sure when an author makes that transition from "up and coming" to "established," but you'd better take the opportunity to schmooze Laura Van Den Berg while you can.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Douglas Adams fans: Don't panic
Friday - 10/09/2009 - 05:18 PMHitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fans are no doubt stocking up on the Haterade for this Monday's release of And Another Thing, Eoin Colfer's improbable, too-soon and nigh-sacreligious addition to the Hitchhikers series.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Herta Muller wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Thursday - 10/08/2009 - 02:34 PMAnnounced today, it's Romanian author Herta Müller taking home the 106th Nobel Prize in Literature.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Eugene Ostashevsky: An audio primer
Wednesday - 09/30/2009 - 05:51 PMJust stumbled across this heaping bowl of ear candy over at From the Fishhouse's archives: a great selection of readings from contemporary poet Eugene Ostashevsky.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Spiegelman at Stetson
Wednesday - 09/23/2009 - 03:13 PMA late reminder, for those who hadn't caught the flare I sent up earlier last week: Maus author Art Spiegelman will be giving a public lecture tonight at Stetson University.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: Sam Savage's "The Cry of the Sloth"
Thursday - 09/03/2009 - 04:38 PMLet's hope the writer's life has been kinder to Sam Savage than the increasingly dim outlook in his books.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The White House fan-fiction of Glenn Beck
Sunday - 09/13/2009 - 04:24 PMI wish this Salon article had been around back when I was compiling the New York Times bestseller lists for the paper.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: Pete Dexter's "Spooner"
Friday - 08/21/2009 - 06:08 PMGuest review time again, with Sentinel staffer and "Chain Gang" biker Jeff Kunerth taking a fond look at Pete Dexter's newest.
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- 2010 "Winter with the Writers" authors announced
Tuesday - 12/01/2009 - 01:05 PMJust in from Rollins College comes the lineup for their 2010 Winter with the Writers festival, and it's one of the best yet.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dave "Strat" Campbell poetry compilation
Wednesday - 11/11/2009 - 07:35 PMIt's always tough for me to recommend self-published works. Because of quantity, yes (for every book from a major publisher I get, there are a hundred press releases from pay-to-print houses) but more often because of quality.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: Chuck Klosterman's "Eating the Dinosaur"
Sunday - 10/25/2009 - 07:02 PMChuck Klosterman books need a big red "spoiler alert" sticker on the cover. If you've read any of his previous essay collections, you know this already. Not that he gives away movie plots (well, he might).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Spoken word "Revival" in town
Wednesday - 10/14/2009 - 01:33 PMThe other 99% of my job here at the Sentinel is compiling arts and entertainment listings, and I've rarely been so happy to see a late booking come across my desk: This next Monday, the Cameo Theater will play host...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: Nick Hornby's "Juliet, Naked"
Wednesday - 10/07/2009 - 05:13 PMNick Hornby's books are not "difficult," not in the usual sense of the word.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oprah's latest pick
Friday - 09/18/2009 - 05:19 PMIt's official: Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick is Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them, a selection that was scooped by the Washington Post earlier today.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bookfinder.com's would-be bestsellers
Tuesday - 09/22/2009 - 07:09 PMAnybody clearing out their bookshelves on Ebay would do well to take a look at the latest report over at Bookfinder.com.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Festival of Reading on the horizon
Sunday - 09/06/2009 - 02:04 PMGreat list of authors lined up for the St. Pete Times' Festival of Reading on Oct. 24, if anyone's planning to be out on the west coast next month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Find "The Lost Symbol" early
Friday - 09/11/2009 - 05:21 PMIn this age of Amazon, are people still lining up at midnight to grab books on the day of release? For Harry Potter, maybe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reading in the future
Sunday - 08/23/2009 - 08:47 PMOver at the UK's 5th Estate, a bunch of Harper Collins bigwigs gaze into the crystal ball with a bunch of pithy (and thankfully, not altogether grumpy) predictions of what the publishing industry will look like in 2025.
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