According to its press release, Bauman Fine Books has opened a rare book store in the Shoppes at the Palazzo in Las Vegas. Bauman (you may know of them already from their ads on the back cover of every week's New York Times Book Review) already has stores in New York City and Philadelphia.The new … Continue reading So Money
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Road Trip to Grand Forks?
Salman Rushdie will speak at the University of North Dakota as part of its upcoming Annual Writers Conference, to be held March 25 to 29. Rushdie's talk will be at 7 p.m. on March 25 in Chester Fritz Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.Beyond the controversial novelist, UND's conference has quite … Continue reading Road Trip to Grand Forks?
The More Things Change…
There's been another epidemic of memoirs that have turned out to be fictitious of late. The Boston Globe has a nice summary here.Now, slate.com has brought back an old article, originally written during the James Frey fracas, which attempts to answer the question of the moment: "Why are book editors so bad at spotting fake … Continue reading The More Things Change…
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