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Archive for the 'Books and Reviewing' Category
Tue, November 22nd, 2011
What Happens When You Invite a Booklist Editor to Your Book Launch
Posted by: Daniel Kraus
Being celebrated by the literati as the most venerable of critics, we editors are inevitably invited to stand before the assembled gala crowd, looking smashing in our tuxes and holding our martinis, to give our opinion of the about-to-be-published book. Sometimes this goes well. Other times it goes really, really, really badly. To give you [...]
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Fri, September 23rd, 2011
Getting Excited
Posted by: Ilene Cooper
I’ve always said it will be time to quit this job when I don’t feel at least a tingle as a new season’s books starting arriving. Spring 2012, a trickle of books a few weeks ago, has turned into a steady stream, and everywhere I turn, there’s something new I can’t wait to read. Meg Rosoff is [...]
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Tue, September 20th, 2011
More Book Crimes
Posted by: Ian Chipman
Earlier this year, my esteemed colleague Dan Kraus wrote a manifesto (My 2011 YA Wishlist) outlining the seven things we need to see less of in teen fiction. Well, in the spirit of making this a regular feature around here, here’s another report from what we’ll be calling the Booklist Book Crimes division. Think of it [...]
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Wed, August 17th, 2011
What It’s Like to Work at Booklist
Posted by: Daniel Kraus
Decided last night to watch The Best of Everything (1959), a Valley of the Dolls-style movie about three young secretaries slaving away at a New York City publishing house and trying to work their way up to the vaunted position of “EDITOR.” I was dumbstruck by the movie’s unfaltering realism. Why, this is exactly how [...]
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Fri, July 22nd, 2011
The Three (or Possibly Four) Rules of Book Reviewing
Posted by: Keir Graff
Robert Pinsky had a great piece in Slate yesterday about a literary hatchet job . . . from 1818. The lessons we can take from it, however, are timeless. In “How Not to Write a Book Review,” Pinksy enumerates the three rules of book reviewing: 1. The review must tell what the book is about. [...]
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Thu, June 16th, 2011
Sanctuary Re-Released!
Posted by: Daniel Kraus
Readers who followed along to “Desperately Seeking DeSario,” my article about tracking down the forgotten author of one of my all-time favorite novels, take note: Joseph P. DeSario’s Sanctuary is now available in a brand-new e-book edition. Random House has a collection of links where you can buy it from a variety of retailers, including [...]
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Mon, May 2nd, 2011
The Case of the Missing Author: Solved!
Posted by: Daniel Kraus
If you haven’t read the Mystery Showcase feature “Desperately Seeking DeSario,” read it right this instant. Don’t do it for me; do it for Joseph P. DeSario, the author of Sanctuary–I novel I fell in love with when I was 15 and read repeatedly until three months ago when I tracked down DeSario and discovered [...]
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Thu, January 20th, 2011
Fiction Reviewers Wanted
Posted by: Keir Graff
( . . . and we sure don’t say that very often.) Booklist seeks experienced fiction reviewers with critical acumen and knowledge of public-library audience. E-mail writing samples (preferably published work) and reviewing preferences (general, crime, historical fiction) to Joanne Wilkinson, editor at large, at jwilkinson@ala.org. Good luck!
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Mon, January 3rd, 2011
My 2011 YA Wishlist
Posted by: Daniel Kraus
The Booklist hallway. Where are we? Off writing our 2011 manifestos. It is entirely possible that we in the Booklist youth brigade read more YA books than anyone else in the freakin’ world. You can’t do this and not start to feel a pang of despair when you’ve seen the same plot device, character quirk, [...]
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Wed, November 17th, 2010
More about Harlan Coben Than Is Strictly Necessary
Posted by: Keir Graff
Three years ago, I made a public vow (well, it appeared on this blog, anyway) to read a book by Harlan Coben. I had read a profile of him in the Atlantic (“Paperback Writer,” by Eric Konigsberg) that, while not damning him as some have damned James Patterson, did portray Coben as being a guy who cared as [...]
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