Last week's doomsday scare was just the first of many. Mr. Camping has since revised his prediction to October 21st, and the Mayan calendar indicates that the world might end this December. All of this has inspired me to be more prepared next time
O. Henry Pun-Off World Champion John Pollack's new book The Pun Also Rises lives up to its ambitious subtitle, How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics.
We put out our thoughts, our stories, our images, our paintings --anything that makes the inner, invisible world visible to others -- and trust in their power to add grace and light and consciousness to the world.
One of the most popular events at the annual book trade show is Author Speed Dating. This 90-minute event gives authors three minutes to pitch their book with a table of potential readers and book buyers.
In his new book, David McCullough looks at the many artists, scientists, people of medicine and thinkers who made the voyage back across the Atlantic to find inspiration and knowledge in the City of Lights from roughly 1830 to the end of the century.
What's said about sausage and journalism must also be true of foreign policy: that if you knew how it was produced, you wouldn't want to consume it.
It has always seemed odd that while Los Angeles gets no respect from urbanists for its form and "livability," it is nonetheless one of the most important cities in the world.
Larry Flynt is known for controversy. And now, he's out with a brand new book about the sex lives of our presidents. I talked with Flynt about his book, sex in America and his career.
Think writing a query letter is hard? Or the synopsis for a book that you hope to have published? Welcome to the next task in presenting your book to the world: the video book trailer.
Book lovers, here's a full disclosure about reporter/bookist me and BookExpo America 2011 at New York City's Jacob Javits Center: I go for the giveaways.
This summer brings a rich collection of new spiritually-themed titles that promise to captivate both the soul and the imagination as they reveal secrets and explore dark corners of the world of faith.
Dick Cheney's autobiography In My Time will be published August 30th. His daughter Liz promises the book will capture Cheney's "sense of storytelling and sense of humor."
I am having a hard time coming to grips with whether I will ever read The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In some respects, I believe a good book finds you at the exact moment in your life when you need to read it.
I keep thinking about Rachel Carson these days, because the current efforts to discredit climate scientists look a lot like the powerful resistance that met Carson's warnings about DDT.
Funny thing about being undead. You are/more fragile than ever, extremely flammable/and they always hear your approach.
The FFJD sat down with bestselling author and power woman of People's Revolution Kelly Cutrone to discuss her new book, Normal Gets You Nowhere.
Let's all adopt a soldier and send books, candy, snacks, and, of course, homemade goodies. It's easy to do and it really means the world to our brave men and women in the military forces.
"I've already heard from people at ESPN who've gotten their hands on excerpts or in one case the whole book, and they were pleased, because they said it was an honest account, warts and all."
Age of Greed is clumsily-written and repetitious. It does not pay sufficient attention to structural problems and global challenges to America's economy. Nor does it provide clearly delineated alternatives to the misguided policies of the past.
John Lundberg, 2011.05.29
Richard C. Morais, 2011.05.28
