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I am focusing hard on the corporate work these days—doing the projects that arrive, finding the projects that don't even know they need me yet. Beth the Marketeer. Beth (yes, some of them call me this) the Machine.
We do what we must.
There'll be little time for my own literary work during these days, and so I look forward to easing my mind away from work pressures with books I bought or acquired long ago and never had the time to read. Books like Rachel Kushner's
The Flamethrowers, Kevin Powers'
The Yellow Birds, Ruth Ozeki's
A Tale for the Time Being, Louis Greenstein's
Mr. Boardwalk, Jayne Anne Phillips'
Quiet Dell, Katherine Boo's
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Violet Kupersmith's
The Frangipani Hotel, Jess Walter's
Beautiful Ruins, Tea Obreht's
The Tiger's Wife.
I owe these writers my time. I feel like less than me because it has taken so long. If it still takes me a terrible (not beautiful) forever to report back on these books, know that I am doing all I can.
So far, I can tell you this: 50 pages into Kushner and I'm in awe.
By: Jason Boog,
on 3/25/2013
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The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has picked 15 writers and journalists as its annual fellows.
Selected from a pool of 313 applicants, this is the 15th class of fellows for the center. These writers will get a stipend, a private office in the Cullman Center and support from the library staff.
With a diverse array of people originally from Nigeria, Turkey, England, Argentina, and Serbia, the class of 2013 includes: The fiction writers Tea Obreht, Rajesh Parameswaran, Paul La Farge, and Uwem Akpan. The historians Linda Colley and Anthony Grafton. The journalists Arthur Lubow, Elizabeth Rubin, Elif Batuman, and David Grann.
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By: Jason Boog,
on 4/6/2012
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The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has revealed the winners of the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, books that show “the spirit of independent bookstores.” Below, we’ve linked to free samples of all the winners.
In an odd turn of events, brother and sister authors Maile Meloy and Colin Meloy tied for the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award this year.
ABA CEO Oren Teicher had this statement: “After a month of voting by the owners and staff at independent bookstores across the country, we have an outstanding list of winners that reflects the types of books independent bookstores champion best … We look forward to saluting the winners and honor recipients at the Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon on June 5 at BEA.”
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Part mystery, part folktale, part dark fable, The Tiger's Wife is wholly original. Set in the Balkans, this atmospheric novel follows a young doctor who works in an orphanage and has just lost her grandfather. Trying to make sense of his death, Natalia begins to unravel the meaning behind twin folktales — The Deathless Man [...]
By: Jason Boog,
on 1/23/2012
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Do negative reviews stop people from reading your books? Over at her blog, novelist Shiloh Walker disputed that claim in a passionate essay.
Check it out: “That negative review isn’t going to kill your career. Will it stop a few people from buying your book? Possibly–because that book may not be right for them. And FYI, one of the rants lately was that negative reviews discouraged people from reading … readers aren’t discouraged by ‘bad’ reviews. And guess what–that negative review may be the very thing that entices another reader to buy your book.”
We were so inspired by her work that we checked negative reviews of ten authors at Amazon–counting the massive amount of one-star reviews received by bestselling authors. Twilight topped the list with 669 one-star reviews. Read this list before you complain about your next bad review.
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By: Jason Boog,
on 1/23/2012
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Do negative reviews stop people from reading your books? Over at her blog, novelist Shiloh Walker disputed that claim in a passionate essay.
Check it out: “That negative review isn’t going to kill your career. Will it stop a few people from buying your book? Possibly–because that book may not be right for them. And FYI, one of the rants lately was that negative reviews discouraged people from reading … readers aren’t discouraged by ‘bad’ reviews. And guess what–that negative review may be the very thing that entices another reader to buy your book.”
We were so inspired by her work that we checked negative reviews of ten authors at Amazon–counting the massive amount of one-star reviews received by bestselling authors. Twilight topped the list with 669 one-star reviews. Read this list before you complain about your next bad review.
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The Huffington Post announced today that they are launching a book club. They are hoping to “create a unique intersection between the digital and physical world,” with their use of Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, allowing readers to interact and discuss the selections. The first official selection for the book club is a title that is already being hailed as one of the best books of 2011, THE TIGER’S WIFE by Tea Obreht. Obreht was one of New Yorker’s 20 under 40 and was was a 2011 National Book Award Finalist.
The Huffington Post Book Club will feature ten books in 2012, starting with The Tiger’s Wife. The club will officially begin on January 3rd and on February 7th they will host a free event at St. Mark’s Bookshop featuring Tea Obreht.
By: Maryann Yin,
on 10/5/2010
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Since 2006, the National Book Foundation (NBF) has hosted the “5 Under 35″ award ceremony to highlight the achievements of five young fiction writers.
Today, the NBF has narrowed down this year’s pool to five honorees. This year recognizes the following titles:
The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
Like last year, the “5 Under 35″ celebration will take place in Brooklyn’s powerHouse Arena at the start of National Book Awards Week on Monday, November 15. Musician/Author Roseanne Cash will act as the event’s host. Music journalist Rob Sheffield will be the beat-master in charge as DJ. Author Amanda Stern will conduct interviews with the honorees, winners and finalists during the party.
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