The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me by Pico Iyer – review The Guardian The last acknowledgement at the end of Pico Iyer's 10th book is to the man within his head, "to the author who, almost in spite of himself, taught me and so many others how to move around the world and even how to hazard trust".
The pros and cons of a book at bath-time Linlithgow Journal & Gazette This, I discovered was a Kindle – an e-book reader. Now, I like reading, but I could never understand what I would want with 40000 books on one little electronic device. After all, I can only read one book at a time. However, all my friends started ...
Book review: Reading Literature Today Daily News & Analysis Comprised of “two complementary essays and a conversation,” this book examines the experience of the reader at a time when, as Khair describes, “publishing companies suffer from a strange combination of the democratic values of the Left and the market ...
Little Professor Book Center writing its final chapter in Eldersburg Baltimore Sun When Frank Spruill first looked into franchises more than 30 years ago, he found three options: fast food, automobiles or books. "It was a no brainer," Spruill laughed this past week, standing inside his Little Professor Book Center in Eldersburg.
Book-turned-movie a cliched romcom The Dominion Post ''Cliche'' doesn't even do the phrase justice anymore, but I'll repeat it anyway: good books seldom yield good movies. Popular books, bad books, extended short stories; all of these give themselves up to a decent writer and director like pipis at low ...
Get passionate about books Worcester News Twelve local authors will be attending to showcase and talk about their books, which they will also be selling and signing. They include genres ranging from picture books for the very young and young adult books for teenagers to local history books.
Jaynarayan Vyas's books released Daily News & Analysis By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA A collection of four books written by health and tourism minister Jaynarayan Vyas was released by noted litterateur Gunvant Shah on Saturday. Editor of Gujarati encyclopedia 'Vishvakosh', ...
A fiction fox welcomed to the Litfest henhouse Edmonton Journal The biggest name coming to this year's non-fiction book festival in Edmonton is a very big name indeed. He's also about as far from non-fiction as one man could possibly be. LitFest organizers will veer from the festival's raison d'être and welcome the ...
