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Puppy School for Misbehaving Authors

The lives of literary publicists have gotten so much harder in recent years. Where once the biggest threat to an ...

Five Books to Watch for in January

New year, new reading resolutions, new additions to the TBR list.  Hope you’ve finished reading some of those holiday gifts ...

Handicapping the Nobel Prize in Lit: Philip Roth vs. E.L. James?

Let it not be said that the folks at Ladbrokes don’t have a sense of humor. There, at the end ...

5 Books to Watch for in September

A colleague recently lamented in a Facebook post that another well-known literary site’s Big Books of Fall list was basically ...

Good Writers, Bad Blurbs: A Top 8 List

For obvious reasons, established writers are usually very selective about which novels they’ll blurb. Perhaps, sometimes, they should be more ...

A Bookish Compatibility Test

Recently, Book Rioteer Rebecca posted some useful tips on how to join bookshelves when you move in with a significant ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: The Jersey Shore Booktionary, Volume III

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. __________ ...

Betting the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature

Ladbroke’s, one of those English gambling houses that seem to have a prop for everything, has an extensive board for ...