Powells.com has profiled Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. The article focuses on the author herself, rather than on her expose of the international bloom trade. (You can read about that in the most recent New York Times Sunday Book Review.)The Powells interview … Continue reading Think Spring

The Vancouver Sun has published an article entitled "What does it take to be a bestseller?" It's interesting, if you have a taste for the behind-the-scenes workings of bookselling, but I'll give you the dinner party nugget: The number four book on the British Columbia bestseller list is a book about chainsaws. I kid you … Continue reading Take Off, Eh?

Orhan Pamuk's in New York, as you know if you're a regular reader. Now comes word that stalkers of Martin Amis will need to put Manchester on their travel schedules. He's accepted a teaching post there.