Reading Copy Book Blog

While Dan Brown sits at home in Maine watching Oprah and Judge Judy, and taking little naps after lunch, and generally enjoying the life of the rich and famous, the publishing world is praying that he’ll churn out another book. After all, the Harry Potter years are over so it’s Dan Brown or nothing…. The [...]

The Telegraph has compiled a list of 100 books every child should read. In the introduction they state: “We have to stop proclaiming reading as a ladder to academic success. Treated simply as an educational commodity, some kind of pill to be taken to aid intellectual development, it is all too often counter-productive and ultimately [...]

USA Today has an interview with Stephen King about his new book, Duma Key.

Art Garfunkel’s list of every book he’s ever read. How can he remember them all? Did he write them down after he’d finished each one? I suppose he’s had a lot of time on his hands for reading since he broke up with Paul Simon.

Bobby Fischer found solace in a bookstore in Iceland.

The BBC has an interview with AL Kennedy following her victory in the Costa Book of the Year Award for her novel, Day. Right now, she’s probably in a plane over the Atlantic.

If you will be in NYC this weekend you can attend… The Manhattan Antiquarian Jewish Book Sale This Sunday, January 27, 2008 10am-4pm Workman’s Circle Building 45 E. 33rd St. New York, NY 10016 (Between Park & Madison) Perhaps you can pick up a rare Tanakh, or something like this lovely travel guide to the [...]

Ismael Beah is determined not be another James Frey – the author of A Long Way Gone fires back at The Australian newspaper with a great deal of clout after being accused of making things up.

JG Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun, writes in Saturday’s Times about his childhood in Shanghai and experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. When I was six, an old beggar sat down at the foot of our drive. I looked at him from the rear seat of our Buick, a thin, ancient [...]

Stephen King spent Christmas reading a book on a Kindle. He says the Kindle is “just fine.” King adds the method of delivery really doesn’t matter and that the story is more important than anything, including the author. Incidently, this is the book he was reading.