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The Independent’s Twitter Coverage of the National Book Festival
by Susana Olague Trapani
by Josh Trapani
Susana and Josh Trapani "live-tweeted" the National Book Festival; check out a timeline of their pictures, tweets, and retweets of others.
Patricia Bochi begins our fall season of slow reads with The Wine of Solitude by Irène Némirovsky.
Diana Parsell wins the Mayborn Biography Fellowship!
"At Politics & Prose, employees will soon have to shift from tackling piles of books in the storeroom to tackling the slush pile."
August Exemplars features a new book by Jorie Graham and a list of recommended books that make significant contributions, and are Exemplars for the Collector's Choice.
"Do I really need to keep so many books in the age of e-books and print on demand?"
I have never been particularly impressed with my own imagination.
Gerard Woodward's August, published in 2001 in the UK, is our August Slow Reads recommendation.
