Books - News and Articles

• John Steinbeck - on the art of fiction - Nathaniel Benchley
• The making and unmaking of originals - Karen Emmerich

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• A couscous of world literature - Judith Thurman
• A literary pilgrimage through the streets of Dublin - Fergal Keane
• At first, 'Moby Dick' was a total flop - Chris Gaylord
• Book mountain - BBC
• Book people, everywhere - Sasha Weiss
• Books lost to time - Megan Gambino
• Can Dostoevsky still kick you in the gut? - David Denby
• Creating edible books? - 60 Second Idea
• Everything is fiction - Keith Ridgway
• Fall books preview: 20 new books to check out - Barkhorn and Fetters
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez unwell - BBC
• Hemingway country: Polished roughhewn - Brad Leithauser
• How Chappaquiddick inspired my novel: Joyce Oates - Talking Books
• How New York pay phones became libraries - John Metcalfe
• Kindle Singles: Longer than an article, shorter than a book - Rebecca J Rosen
• Libraries' surprising Special Collections - Kristin Ohlson
• Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for literature - BBC
• On the future of the book: Tim O'Reilly - Jon Bruner
• Over-analyzing Alice in Wonderland - BBC
• Reading in an age of distraction - Mark O'Connell
• Real places behind famously frightrning stories - Robin T Reid
• Scary books to read in the dark - Jen Doll
• Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty - plunge down the falls - Imogen Foulkes
• Storm over young Goethe - JM Coetzee
• Tangier's Beat generation heritage - Fast Track
• The adventures of the real Tom Sawyer - Robert Graysmith
• The enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes - BBC
• The only footage of Mark Twain in existence - Thomas Alva Edison
• The return of the novella - Joe Fassler
• The splendour of Thoreau's 'Autumnal Tints' - John-Manuel Andriote
• Videobooks: A dispatch from the Frankfurt fair - Deenah Vollmer
• What kind of book reader are you? - Jen Doll
• With this machine, you can print your own books at the bookstore - Peter Osnos

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• Amitav Ghosh on "River of Smoke" (audio) - OnPoint
• A stunning $800 atlas - Maria Popova
• Beach reads - Daily Candy
• Can illustrated e-books match the magic of print? - Buzz Poole
• Essential books for the fashion set - Hannah Elliott
• Five management classics - Rick Wartzman
• Moving towards a physical archive of the world's books - Jared Keller
• Umberto Eco's glimpse into the art of the novel - Adam Kirsch
• World's highest paid authors - Jeff Bercovici