The winners of the 2007 National Book Awards have been announced. The fiction winner is store favorite Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson. The Young People's Literature winner is Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian--which is also #5 on our Uptown Bestsellers list this week. Rounding out the winners are Tim … Continue reading The Nationals
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Aim High
It's official. Oprah has announced her next book pick, and the world must sit up and take notice. This time around it's Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth. The novel tells the tale of the building of a twelfth-century English cathedral and promises "a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against … Continue reading Aim High
Sing, Sing a Song
Can't get the theme from The Brady Bunch out of your head? Then you're experiencing one of the more benign forms of what author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, calls "musicophilia." His latest book of the same name, recounts the … Continue reading Sing, Sing a Song
Musings from Magers and Quinn 