Articles tagged "fall books"

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Publishers always trot out signature releases in autumn, but this year is extraordinarily crowded

by Laurie Hertzel [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[26.Aug.09] :. Shall we list some of the great authors who have novels coming out this late summer and fall? Let’s do that. Let’s list them in alphabetical order, so we don’t get...

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Get under the covers ... with a good book

by Allen Pierleoni [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Oct.08] :. If the summer reading season lacked focus, the fall season is about to bring a landslide of much-anticipated books by A-list authors. No surprise there. In the $23 billion book industry, fall is...

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Fiction and nonfiction books for fall

by Mary Ann Gwinn; and Michael Upchurch [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Sep.08] :. There’s a tradition in publishing that says the reading public gets distracted during an election season - best to stay away from “major” book releases. Like so much else, this...

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Some of the season’s most promising new titles feature the arts

by John Mark Eberhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[27.Aug.08] :. Literature is a wellspring for all the arts. I intend no arrogance. It’s just that writing is one of the older art forms—more mature than films, sound recordings and so on. Shakespeare...

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Presidential race brings out big names in political commentary

by Jane Henderson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[27.Aug.08] :. Forget autumn’s same old yellow, orange and brown. The coming book season favors red, white and blue - plus green. With the White House awaiting a changing of the guard, it’s no surprise...

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A season’s worth of reading, fiction and non

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Sep.07] :. Will Philip Roth’s “final” Zuckerman novel finally be final? Can Alice Sebold triumph with another spectacular-first-sentence tale (“When all is said and done, killing my...

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Fall promises a bumper crop of good reading

by John Mark Eberhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Aug.07] :. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading,” British writer Lady Mary Wortley Montague wrote two centuries ago, “nor any pleasure so lasting.” Book lovers would argue nothing...