I've already blogged about Andrew Morton's publicity stunts promoting his latest celebrity tell-all Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (read it here) and the web is alight with word of suits and paternity rumors. The book itself is finally out, but slate.com saves you the trouble of actually reading it with their extracts of the juiciest … Continue reading Sound and Fury
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What They’re Reading in Reykjavik
According to the Iceland Review, homegrown crime writing is topping the charts on the North Atlantic island. Arnaldur Indridason's latest novel Hardskafi has sold a whopping 30,000 copies--in a country of only 300,000. That's the fastest selling Icelandic book ever. (Ísafold says that "Arnaldur er í toppformi.") Indridason's earlier novel Jar City is the only … Continue reading What They’re Reading in Reykjavik
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Random House has announced that Salman Rushdie's next novel, The Enchantress of Florence, will be published on June 3.According to Publishers Weekly, "Florence is a historical novel based on seven years of research set in Renaissance Florence and the court of the Mughal Empire. Random House says the book mixes political intrigue and high drama, … Continue reading More Verses
Musings from Magers and Quinn 