Reading Copy Book Blog

The Sunday Times’ property section has an article on publisher Peter Kindersley – the man who brought us The Joy of Sex, which has sold an incredible eight million copies. Property-focused but still very interesting.

I’m going to create a crazy blog and then wait for the megabucks book deal. Cue article in the NY Times. Stuff White People Like is a very clever blog – as a middle-class white person, I think it is very funny. The amazing thing is that this blog has only been around since January. [...]

Margaret Atwood salutes Anne of Green Gables in Saturday’s Guardian. To the outside world, Margaret is Canadian literature so I suppose The Guardian had to ask her to write it. Anne of Green Gables was first published in 1908, a year before my mother was born, so when I first grinned and snivelled my way [...]

Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, is interviewed at The Guardian.

Jhumpa Lahiri is profiled at the New York Magazine. Her new book is Unaccustomed Earth.

Over in the UK, there are several stories this morning….the Orange Prize for Fiction is paying a price for recruiting a flakey celeb as a judge. While at The Bookseller magazine, If You Want Closure in your Relationship, Start with your Legs has won the oddest book title of the year award – I don’t [...]

Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind, and Martin Luther King had a lot in common says the Daily Telegraph.

America remains safe and secure after author and artist Sebastian Horsley was turned away last week. Thankfully, some of the most incisive citizens of the United States are keeping watch. They also asked him what he was keeping in his hat, to which he replied: “My head.”

In the old days, there were just cookbooks. Now there are more books about food and eating than you can shake a truffle at. So says a lady in the Eugene Register-Guard in Oregon. She’s quite right – last night I started reading just such a book…. Heat by Bill Buford. I love these kind [...]

The Independent had an article last Saturday about ‘superbooks.’ We have featured a lot of these very expensive, very high-end, very limited edition books before on this blog…usually because they get a fair amount of media attention. A slice of celebrity helps for this market. G.O.A.T: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali – Champ’s Edition by [...]