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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children to be Filmed
From The Guardian by Denis Seguin: "Rushdie's 'unfilmable' Midnight's Children heads for silver screen" — Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's panoramic 1981 allegory of the birth of modern Ind...
Sherman Alexie on the Colbert Report
Mark your calendars! Occurding to his website, author Sherman Alexie will appear on the Colbert Report October 28th (rebroadcast on the 29th)....
New from Jhumpa Lahiri
New book, new website, new publisher. A lot of news from the lady from Brooklyn. The new book is "Unaccustomed Earth" her second book. Her first book, a collection of stories called "The Interpreter...
2008 Prison Writing Contest: A Reading
PEN America Center posted this on their site: Cat Radio Cafe hosts a reading in celebration of the 2008 Prison Writing Contest. Marie Ponsot, Sapphire, Jackson Taylor, Michael Keck, Ennis Smith, Stev...
Science Fiction Novelist Author Clarke Dies at 90
Sad news science fiction fans. Beloved author Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. From NPR by Neda Ulaby: "'Space Odyssey' Author Clarke Dies at 90" — British science fiction novelist Arthur C....
Neil Gaiman chimes in about books, bookselling, and reading
Neil Gaimain, because he is Neil Gaiman, has been offered by his publisher, HarperCollins, the deal of selecting a book of his to be free as an eBook on their site. A bookseller in Alaska wrote to him...
A Basket of Leaves will be available in the US!
A Basket of Leave: 99 books that capture the spirit of Africa by Geoff Wisner will be available in the US! Yay! Indigocafe.com has been the only place to get the book in America, but now your local ...
Bill Kristol to Join New York Times, WTF?
The New York Times has made it's share of gaffs in recent years but this one takes the cake. They have just hired Bill Kristol as a regular columnist. Just what are they thinking? Maybe they like cont...
Writers who passed away in 2007
This is always a sad chore that I endure every year: the listing of writers who passed on in the previous year. I do this because I want to make sure that I remember those great individuals who are n...
Normal Mailer dead at 84
One of the last public appearance of Norman Mailer was here in NYC at the NYPL a few months ago with the author Gunter Grass. They were in conversation about Grass' new book Peeling the Onion. One t...
Doris Lessing Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Doris Lessing is now the oldest recipient of the the award. It goes to show that this award is given for a body of work and not just for recent accolades, since I don't recall many recent books from...
Soul Sister Zora Neale Hurston
\n\nZadie Smith wrote this really nice piece on Zora Neale Hurston\'s Their Eyes Were Watching God for the Guardian. It reminded me how I discovered the book. When I was a teenager a woman named Alta ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie interview on P&W
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun, was interviewed by Poets & Writers magazine for this 'online only' article about winning the Orange Prize. From a Poets & Writers interview...
Edward P. Jones reading
Thursday | September 6, 2007 7PM McNally Robinson 52 Prince Street between Lafayette and Mulberry. Closest subways are 6 to Spring, R to Prince, or B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette. 2007 marks...
Author Talk: Jonathan Lethem
Saturday | November 3 at 4 PM Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238 phone: 718-230-2100 Jonathan Lethem, the author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and is th...
VS Naipaul on Derek Walcott
VS Naipaul has written a really beautiful essay about Derek Walcott in the Guardian. Maybe Naipaul is softening up as he gets older. The eloquence by which he expresses his admiration for Derek Walcot...
Some Writing Advice from Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson offers some funny writing advice in this little essay. From an essay on the Hachette Book Group: "Making it All Up" — I've realised that with each novel I write, I lear...
Noam Chomsky Radio
Planet Chomsky is an Internet radio station dedicated to the speeches of Noam Chomsky. It boasts “over 140 hours” of Chomsky speeches, interviews, talk, and lectures. This is proof that you ...
Speculative Fiction on NPR
The NPR month-long literature series The Black Literary Imagination last Friday featured Black Science Fiction and Fantasy. Our look at the African-American literary imagination continues with a tri...
Charles Saunders, author of Imaro, needs our help
Night Shade Books, Charles Saunders current publisher, is pulling the plug on the Imaro series, after publishing only two of the five books. The reason? Poor sales. Quoted from an email sent to ...
China Mieville reads from "Un Lun Dun"
KQED's weekly reading series, The Writer's Block, featured China Mieville reading from his new book for young adults, Un Lun Dun. It reminds me a lot of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. (Too much like Neve...
Geoff Wisner's New Book Soon To Be In Stock
A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa by Geoff Wisner I just put in an order for a large shipment of Geoff's new book. So it will be in stock soon! We are importing it fr...
Clive James Poem
This is a deliciously funny poem by Clive James about a writer's professional jealousy that the Times reprinted in their blog. It's old and I've heard it before, but it's still funny! It begins: The ...
Sekou Sundiata has passed away
Spoken word artist and poet, Sekou Sundiata, passed away yesterday morning at 5:47 AM. He was 58 years old. (Recordings of his his poetry can be found at Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records.) Cards...
The Price of the Ticket
"The Price of the Ticket," the very sound of the title has weight; it's metaphysical meaning is deep and resounding. Back in 1957, James Baldwin made the long journey back to the US and returned hom...
Adventures with Geoff's New Book
Lot's of stuff has been going on with Geoff's new book A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa. The book is a collection of essays on books from every country in Africa. Geo...
Randall Robinson's New Book on Haiti
Randall Robinson read at my store and I must admit that it was one of my proudest moments and a highlight in my experiences with the storefront. He read from his book The Debt and it was at my store...
Zinn on the People's History for Children
Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States is a classic. If someone were to ask me for a book to help them understand America, this would be the book I would recommend without hesitat...
Writers Like Her
Martha Southgate had a interesting essay in this week's New York Times Book Review called Writers Like Me. In it, she asserts that there aren't enough serious writers of fiction that are black anymore...
