Significant Objects Releases Their Rankings and Doug Dorst Is #1

Recently Rosecrans Baldwin (author of the forthcoming You Lost Me There, August 2010), Sloane Crosley, Doug Dorst, and Nathaniel Rich wrote for Significant Objects, a website where talented, creative writers invent a story about an object. “Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!” Significant Objects just released a comprehensive rundown of every story written for the project (100 in total), ranked by final selling price, and Doug Dorst was on top! Check out the ranking here.

Riverhead Books on Amazon's Best of 2009 List

The “Best of 2009” lists are starting to pop up and five Riverhead books made Amazon’s list: Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked, Maile Meloy’s Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, David Owen’s Green Metropolis, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Informers (which landed in the top ten!) Plus, Aleksandar Hemon's Love and Obstacles made the top ten for short stories. Check out the full list here.

BookPage on Joel Richard Paul’s Unlikely Allies

“Unlikely Allies is an astonishing look at the sometimes seedy side of our country’s founding—a side in which a good man doing an impossible job would be painted with the brush of 'traitor,' losing his fortune, his family, his sacred honor and at last his life in service to the land he loved. Paul tells the story with the skill of a novelist, crafting a compelling tale with engaging characters, intriguing twists and a surprise ending, without having to make anything up. Now that is history!” more…

The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy Talks to Ben Yagoda About Memoirs

The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy talks to Ben Yagoda about his new book, Memoir: A History. When asked what’s driving the seemingly endless appetite for autobiographical books Yagoda answered, “There’s the longer trend of people being ok with revealing their inner life and secrets…[and] the intersection of voyeurism and exhibitionism…One final factor that people realized on the marketing end of things that a memoir is much more promotable. Traditionally somebody would write a first novel that was autobiographical.” Read the full interview here.

David Owen on Great American Cities

Featured Author : Nick Hornby

 

Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby is the author of the novels How to Be Good, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. The recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award for 1999 as well as the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award, he lives in North London.

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