John Hodgman Talks to San Francisco's 7x7 Magazine

John Hodgman talks to San Francisco's 7x7 Magazine about Michael Cera, a forthcoming John Hodgman-mobile, and how he’d like to get some free inhalers for becoming the poster child for the asthmatic man. Read the rest of this hilarious interview here.

Riverhead Books Longlisted For the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Five Riverhead books made the cut for the very longlist of the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Daina Chaviano’s The Island of Eternal Love, Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots, Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Informers. Nominations for the award are made by libraries in major cities from all over the world.

Los Angeles Times on Allison Hoover Bartlett's The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

In The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Allison Hoover Bartlett immerses herself in the fascinating world of antiquarian books, where provenance is an obsession and treasure hunters perpetually seek the next big prize…Tautly written, wry and thoroughly compelling, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much unfolds like a great mystery. It also offers a look at the history of book collecting, as well as insight into how book dealers assess value. Bartlett is an appealing storyteller who becomes more personally entangled in her narrative than she had wished, which adds to the drama.” more...

The San Francisco Chronicle Talks to Doug Dorst

The San Francisco Chronicle talks to Doug Dorst, whose first novel, Alive in Necropolis, was San Francisco’s 2009 One City One Book choice. If Dorst’s house was on fire and he could only grab one thing it would be “The dog - Sancho. He's some weird herding mix sorta thing. But assuming he could run out on his own, then I'd take my computer. It has all my stuff on it.” Read more about Dorst’s life 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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