Or 20, really, since we do 10 novels and 10 non-fiction books.
There are years when I’m absolutely burning to put up my top 10 lists, like I want to chisel them on a tablet and come down a mountain with them and proclaim them …
Books
Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto—Why Do We Love To Invent Languages?
Invented languages do more than cause lively debates among Star Trek fans. Esperanto, and other international tongues, are meant to repair the plague of Babel. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and its ilk help readers escape deep into …
Marcel the Shell Gets His Book On
Jenny Slate, creator of the viral video hit, talks about her new children’s book and debuts a new Marcel the Shell video.
“'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false-righteousness.”
Galley Girl: The Week in Publishing
Once a week, publishing reporter Andrea Sachs will recap the most interesting news in book publishing.
IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME
A high-school classics teacher sends a manuscript of her first novel to an agent in Manhattan, …
My Five Things: Wicked Novelist Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and the new Out of Oz, picks the five things he’s really enjoying right now.
It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why.
There’s no point in trying to summarize Inferno, because it’s a book written against summaries. It’s an anti-summary.
TIME Recommends: Joan Didion’s Blue Nights
In her new memoir, Didion writes about how magical thinking no longer seemed possible following the loss of her daughter.
Mark Whitaker Takes A Long Trip Home
In his new memoir, a CNN editor turns his reporting skills on his own family.
How 11/22/63 Fits Into Stephen King’s Ever-Expanding Universe
At one point in 11/22/63, Stephen King’s new novel about a man who travels back in time to try to stop the JFK assassination, the main character Jake Epping crosses paths with a pair of characters from his 1986 book It. I mention this in my review of the novel in this week’s issue of TIME, on stands this weekend.
Amazon Makes Like a Publisher With Kindle Singles
Correction appended: November 9, 2011
In January, Amazon.com, the world’s largest online bookseller, launched its Kindle Singles sales campaign. The mini-eBooks were specifically designed for the company’s popular eReader …
The Recipe Project Will Make You Hungry For Music
Every once in a while you come across a project and think, I can’t believe no one has done this before. That’s how I felt when I heard about The Recipe Project, a cookbook that takes recipes from established chefs like David …
In Stephen King’s Latest, Trying to Stop Lee Harvey Oswald
I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read The Long Walk, one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read The Dark Half, which taught me a word I have …
