Book News for Monday, April 27, 2009
Oh, the Places He Went: Tom Bissell writes in The New York Times Book Review about the late David Foster Wallace's somewhat legendary 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address, which has been republished as...
View ArticleKids’ Q&A: Todd Parr
Describe your latest project. The I Love You Book and The Earth Book. Neither are the expected. I Love You captures a lot of the little forgotten reasons that parent love their kids. The Earth Book is...
View ArticleBook News: The Rooster Awakens, Jolie Becomes Scarpetta, and More
Here Come the Rooster Jokes: Of all the yearly book awards, the one we most look forward to is always The Morning News's Tournament of Books. (We've even had Powell's staff participate in past...
View ArticleBook News: García Girls Invade PDX, John Irving’s Favorite Thriller, and More
In Memoriam: National Book Award-winning poet Ai, whose collections include Vice and Greed, passed away last Saturday at the age of 62. Her newest collection, No Surrender, will be published in the...
View ArticleBook News Friday: Franzen Frenzy, Birthdays for Bradbury and “Green Eggs,”...
Hard to believe it's been nearly ten years since Jonathan Franzen made a splash with his novel The Corrections. I don't have a clue how well it has held up (one problem with socially relevant novels is...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Theresa Weir
Describe your latest book. In 1975 I was a naïve hippie. While working at my uncle's bar in Illinois, I met an apple farmer and three months later we were married. I fully expected to live this kind of...
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