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Keir Graff and editors from Booklist's adult and youth departments write candidly about books, book reviewing, and the publishing industry

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Fri, October 30th, 2009
Weeklings: Loss Leaders, Unpaid and Unhappy Book Reviewers, and the Power Trio of the Future
Posted by: Keir

Nook, vook, blook, p-book, wovel, poegel . . . am I forgetting anything?
Some in the publishing industry say that, thanks to e-readers such as the Kindle, people are reading more books (”E-Book Fans Keep Format in Spotlight,” by Brad Stone, New York Times). Who, exactly, says this? Well, the manufacturers of the Kindle, but that’s [...]


Fri, October 30th, 2009
Let’s Get Romantic
Posted by: Donna

I have a confession to make. I was among the many who thought romance novels were silly. Formulaic, pure fluff. Damsels in distress. Ladies in long dresses and painful bodices. Men in puffy shirts. Then I became Booklist’s romance editor. I scrutinized the wonderfully varied array of romance novels that arrived in the mail. I attended a Romance Writers of America [...]


Fri, October 23rd, 2009
Bill Ott’s The Back Page: Book Party Like It’s July 2009
Posted by: Keir

You may recall that, way back in the middle of last summer (or thereabouts), Time Out Chicago hosted a book launch party for Bill Ott’s new book, The Back Page. Well, Daniel Kraus, whose fingers must be smoking from all the videos he’s been editing of late, put together a nice overview of the event. Unfortunately [...]


Tue, October 20th, 2009
E. Lockhart’s 2009 Printz Speech
Posted by: Gillian

Author E. Lockhart isn’t afraid of a good argument, as she made clear in her acceptance speech for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks at the 2009 Michael L. Printz Awards (administered by ALA’s Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by Booklist).  Readers have had wildly different responses to the book’s title character, a prep-school sophomore [...]


Wed, September 30th, 2009
M.T. Anderson’s 2009 Printz Speech
Posted by: Gillian

There’s no question that the Printz Honor–winning Octavian Nothing duet presents readers with an intellectual challenge. In his National Book Award acceptance speech for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume One: The Pox Party, Anderson himself described the books as “a 900-page two volume historical epic for teens, written in [...]


Mon, September 21st, 2009
Writing Off Into the Sunset
Posted by: Kaite

The American West, without a doubt, is one of the most fascinating and intriguing regions of the United States. The vast openness, stark prairies, sheer cliffs and rock faces, and lethally beautiful deserts have a hold on Americans, as well as many people of the world, that is mysterious and unfathomable. The West is the [...]


Fri, September 18th, 2009
How to Self-Promote Your Book on Our Blog
Posted by: Keir

On Thursday, September 10, Daniel Kraus gave a thumbs-up to a 30-second spot touting Laurie Ann Levin’s God, the Universe, and Where I Fit In. On Saturday, September 12, Bonita Rodriguez posted the following comment:
This is a good one; we viewed it in lit class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuALxOAL0Ok
The link leads to a trailer for Eva’s Confessions: The MOOD [...]


Fri, September 11th, 2009
Weeklings: Books by the Numbers
Posted by: Keir

It’s been so long since I’ve posted that I had to dust off the blog’s dashboard before I could start. And, somehow, my fingers got stuck inside the computer monitor, and it was hours before the IT department could come to my desk and set me free. Very embarrassing.
The real problem has been a combination of late-summer [...]


Tue, September 1st, 2009
Is Alice Munro Stupid?
Posted by: Brad

Where were you when you heard that Canadian uber-fiction writer Alice Munro has withdrawn her latest collection of stories, Too Much Happiness, from consideration for the annual Giller Prize? (The Giller is the Canadian literary award that has more money attached to it than any other Canadian literary prize: $50,000, that is.) That Munro has [...]


Fri, August 28th, 2009
Dominick Dunne, R.I.P.
Posted by: Kaite

Some reviewers and readers may find this hard to believe, but I will miss Dominick Dunne (”Dominick Dunne, Chronicler of Crime, Dies at 83,” by Enid Nemy, New York Times). He has always been a favored writer on my reading list. I would call him a guilty pleasure author except his writing and storytelling were [...]





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