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The Real Victims Of Climate Change Have No Voice In Copenhagen (PHOTOS)

Alun Anderson | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Melting Ice, Walrus, Copenhagen 2009, Books, Arctic Ocean, Carbon Dioxide, New Books, Arctic, Greenhouse Gasses, Ice Caps, Narwhals, Carbonhagen, Polar Ice, Polar Bears, Climate Change, Slideshow, Alaska, Copenhagen, Global Warming, Books News
Alun Anderson

Look north and you will see the biggest and fastest change to our planet ever caused by humans. It won't go away as a result of talk or promises. The frozen Arctic seas are melting away now.

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Learning English from Obama

Jerry Weissman | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Barack Obama Oratorical Skills, Speeches, The Power Presenter, Barack Obama, Jerry Weissman, English, Language, Obama Nobel Speech, Learning English, The Speeches of Barack Obama, Books, Japan, Books News
Jerry Weissman

Since Obama took office, there have been many articles in the Japanese press about how the Japanese are learning English from him.

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Kidnappings Of Expatriates Increase Worldwide, Says Author

Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Kidnappings, Expats, Somalia, Pakistan, Nicholas Schmidle, Mexico, Npr, Books, Expatriates, Nigeria, To Live or to Perish Forever, Books News

Nicholas Schmidle, author of "To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan", his account of his years as an expatriate in Pakistan, ...

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"Stones Into Schools": Greg Mortenson On His New Book

USA Today | Bob Minzesheimer | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Islam, Greg Mortenson, Muslims, Stones Into Schools, Education, Pakistan, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson Stones Into Schools, New Books, Pacifism, Afghanistan, Books, Kidnapping, Books News

Greg Mortenson has written a sequel to his 2006 best seller, Three Cups of Tea, about his efforts in Pakistan. Mortenson, 51, who lives in Montana, sp...

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A Failure of Civic Friendship

Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Women in Politics, Female Praxis, American Politics, Civic Friendship, Books, Just Politics, US Foreign Policy, On Civic Friendship, Foreign Relation, Books News
Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach

A state in which there is no civic friendship can never be a just one. If there is no institutionalized background of good will in a society, citizens can and inevitably will perceive themselves to be unfairly treated.

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RFK's Assassination, The Reagans Dancing, The Clintons Kissing: The Photographs Of Harry Benson (PHOTOS)

Harry Benson | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Photography, Bill Clinton, Harry Benson, Ronald Reagan, Books, R. Crumb, New Books, Rfk, Photographs, Richard Nixon, Truman Capote, Slideshow, Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Books News
Harry Benson

I followed Bobby out through the kitchen. I heard the scream and it told me everything I needed to know. I knew this was it. We had walked out of happiness into hell.

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"Bitch Is The New Black": Author Of Upcoming Book On The Struggles Of Young Black Women (VIDEO)

Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Bridget Jones's Diary, Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black, Black Women, Authors, New Books, Sex and the City, Author Interviews, Books, Books News

Helena Andrews, author of the upcoming book "Bitch Is the New Black", was profiled today in The Washington Post, which reports that the film rights fo...

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Publishing's Winner's Curse

Nathan Bransford | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Book Publishers, Books, Frank Norris, Advances, Bestsellers, Authors, Blink, Agents, Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco, Death Valley, Celebrity Books, Celebrities, Publishing, Publishers, Winners Curse, Books News
Nathan Bransford

If publishers can no longer accurately guess at an audience even for formerly safe categories like adult trade nonfiction, will they continue to gamble so much money on big advances for a small number of books whose success is increasingly difficult to predict?

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The Onion: Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children's Picture Book Series (VIDEO)

Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Comedy, The Onion, Reading, Kids' Books, Green Man, Twilight, Humor, Books, Children's Books, Harry Potter, Bestsellers, Picture Books, Books News

On The Onion News Network: Following a trend of cross-generational popular literature such as "Harry Potter" and "Twilight", a children's picture book...

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Jonathan Safran Foer Interview: "Eating Animals" Author On The Morality Of Vegetarianism

USA Today | Elizabeth Weise | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, Everything Is Illuminated, Books, Agriculture, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Author Interviews, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Jonathan Safran Foer is known for acclaimed novels such as Everything Is Illuminated. Foer was an on-again, off-again vegetarian for years. But the bi...

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Steig Larsson's Companion of 30 Years Gets Nothing After His Death

Los Angeles Times | Henry Chu | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, Steig Larsson Death, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Books, Eva Gabrielsson, Steig Larson Will, The Girl Who Played With Fire, Steig Larsson, Books News

Because Larsson never made a will, everything he owned, including the rights to his work, passed to his father and brother. The woman who was at his ...

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Andrew Ross Sorkin Daily Show Interview: Take The Crack Pipe Away From Wall Street (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Wall Street, Jon Stewart, Too Big to Fail, Authors, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Author Interviews, Bank Bailouts, Books, Wall Street Bailouts, The Daily Show, Bailouts, Books News

Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times reporter who runs the influential business blog Dealbook, was a guest on The Daily Show last night to promote h...

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Obama's Nobel More Deserved Than Teddy Roosevelt's?

James Bradley | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Russia, Nobel, Theodore Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Books, Obama Nobel, Russo-Japanese War, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Roosevelt Nobel Peace Prize, Monroe Doctrine, Barack Obama, Teddy Roosevelt, Nobel Prize, Wwii, Japan, World War II, Roosevelt, Books News
James Bradley

Theodore Roosevelt won the Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and Japanese to the negotiating table to end the bloody Russo-Japanese War. In fact, Roosevelt did little to abet peace.

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Julie Powell Gets Negative Reactions To "Cleaving", Tries To Explain Them

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Tmi, Cleaving, Julie Powell Cleaving, Infidelity, Books, Julie & Julia, Cleaving Reviews, Memoir, Julie Powell, Butchery, Books News

Julie Powell, author of the extremely successful book-into-movie, "Julie & Julia", has a new memoir, "Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsessi...

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The Power of Positive Negative Thinking

Tom Alderman | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Existentialism, Pessimism, Optimism, Pessimism: Philosophy Ethic Spirit, Power of Positive Thinking, Barbara Ehrenreich Bright-Sided, Books, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joshua Foa Dienstag, Bright-Sided, Dienstag, Books News
Tom Alderman

There are thoughtful folks among us like Joshua Foa Dienstag who says we should embrace, or at least, form an acquaintance with the alternative to positive thinking -- PESSIMISM!

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"Geek Love" Author Fights Off Purse Snatcher

The Oregonian | Andy Dworkin | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Trader Joe's, Purse Snatchers, Katherine Dunn, Portland, Geek Love, Authors, Oregon, Books, Muggers, Books News

Author Katherine Dunn spent more than 10 years training with the fighters of Knott Street Boxing Club in Northeast Portland's Matt Dishman Community C...

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New Yorker Writer James Wood's Best Books Of 2009

The New Yorker | James Wood | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Saving God, James Wood, The Spare Room, New Yorker, The New Yorker, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Best Books of the Year, Books, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Best Books, Best Books of 2009, Geoff Dyer, Lydia Davis, Books News

I was excited, this year, by Lydia Davis's "Collected Stories" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a beautiful collection of original writings. Though Davis is...

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The Worst Books Of The Decade

Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Worst Books of the Decade, Best Books of the Decade, On Chesil Beach, Twilight, Worst Books, Books, The Da Vinci Code, Booker Prize, Guardian Worst Books, The Guardian, Books News

The Guardian, sick of all the "best of" lists, decided to figure out what the worst books of the decade have been. Asking for reader suggestions, Guar...

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Suketu Mehta: Bombay's Biographer

Christopher Lydon | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Thoreau, Indian Writers, Cities, Suketu Mehta, Bombay, Gandhi, Balzac, Bhagavad Gita, Authors, Martin Luther King Jr., India, Author Interviews, Bollywood, Books, Mumbai, Books News
Christopher Lydon

Suketu Mehta's masterwork, Maximum City, did for Bombay what the immortals Dickens and Balzac did for London and Paris.

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"Mommy, Why Is There A Server In The House?" And Other Unconventional Children's Books

Kid Crave | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: It's Just a Plant, Unconventional Children's Books, Kids' Books, Weird Children's Books, Mommy Why Is There a Server in the House, Books, Children's Books, Bizarre Kids' Books, It's Not the Stork, Books News

Children's books don't just help our kids develop better reading skills, but they can be extremely important in shaping their value and helping them u...

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Publishers Hold Back eBook Editions Of New Books

Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: eBook Pricing, Publishing, Simon and Schuster, Book Publishing, New Books, Publishers, Books, Book Publishers, Ebooks, New eBooks, Hachette, Books News

Simon & Schuster is delaying by four months the electronic-book editions of about 35 leading titles coming out early next year, taking a dramatic stan...

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The Art of the Idea: Delving Into John Hunt's New Book

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Creativity, John Hunt, Art, Tbwa, Books, The Art of the Idea, Business, Ideas, Books News
Robert Rosenthal

John Hunt's new book, The Art of the Idea, is an inspiring collection of astute observations culled from years of cultivating and nurturing ideas around the world. It is unassuming, yet powerful.

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AP: The Decade In Books

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Founding Brothers, A Million Little Pieces, The Audacity of Hope, Best Books of the Decade, Twilight, Threatening Storm, Bestsellers, Favorite Books, Books of the Decade, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, Harry Potter, Books, Best Books, The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, Books News

Some representative books of the 2000s – about fear of the real world and dreams about other worlds, whether the historical past, the unreachabl...

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Poetry So Bad It's Good

Poetry Magazine | Abigail Deutsch | Posted 12.08.2009 | Books

Read More: The Stuffed Owl, Alexander Pope, Bad Poetry, Good Bad Poetry, Poetry, Bad Poetry Contests, Susan Sontag, Books, Good Poetry, Books News

Abigail Deutsch The Poetry Foundation What are we to do with lines like these? We have seen thee, queen of cheese, Lying quietly at your ease, Gentl...

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Man Arrested For Throwing Tomatoes At Palin During Book Signing

Fox News | Posted 12.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Sarah Palin Book Tour, Throwing Tomatoes, Palin Going Rogue, Palin, Going Rogue, Books, Going Rogue Book Tour, Sarah Palin, Books News

A man was arrested for allegedly throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin from the second floor balcony during a book signing event at the Mall of America...

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