Author Evan Friss tracks the history of books and how we sell them, from back in Ben Franklin’s day to the present.
Biblioracle: ‘The Bookshop’ taught me something new about bookstores
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Biblioracle: Halle Butler’s new novel ‘Banal Nightmare’ will trap you inside the millennial mind
Halle Butler is considered one of those writers who can most illuminate the lives and thoughts of her generation.
Biblioracle: Why don’t men read novels?
Novels are not instructive, but they are illustrative, and if you keep reading them, you’ll have a better understanding that there is no one way to live.
Francine Pascal, creator of beloved ‘Sweet Valley High’ books, dies at 92
Francine Pascal, a onetime soap opera writer whose “Sweet Valley High” novels and the ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other teens captivated millions of young readers, has died at age 92.
Edna O’Brien, Irish literary giant who wrote ‘The Country Girls,’ dies at 93
Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93.
Biblioracle: ‘The Wedding People’ is Alison Espach’s moving, funny latest, set at a coastal hotel
“The Wedding People” is a story of what it means to lift oneself out of one life and into another through acts of individual will and fellowship with others.
Prosecutor says the New Jersey man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie was trying to carry out a fatwa
A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader’s endorsement of a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death, prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing new terrorism charges.
Column: How folk singer Mark Dvorak found his way in his latest book ’31 Winters’
His new book is part memoir, part instructional manual, he has a new album and continues to perform around the area.
Ernest Hemingway fans celebrate the author’s 125th birthday in his beloved Key West
Ernest Hemingway spent the 1930s in Key West, Florida, and more than six decades after his death, fans, scholars and relatives continue to congregate on the island city to celebrate the author’s award-winning novels and adventure-filled life.
Biblioracle: ‘The History of Sound’ is a new book of short stories worth your time
You would not mistake Ben Shattuck’s book for a novel in terms of construction, but as a whole, it is very much an entire, immersive world.