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Earlier this year, Macmillan established a partnership with Scribd. Initially, the publishing house agreed to allow subscribers to access more than 1,000 eBooks.
Today, the two companies have announced that an additional 1,000 Macmillan titles will be made available at the Scribd library. According to the blog post announcement, 300 of these new additions are children’s books.
The newly added books represent a wide range of genres such as fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Readers can now enjoy works by Tom Wolfe, Hilary Mantel, and Madeline L’Engle through this eBook subscription service.
The New York Public Library is hosting an exhibit on author/journalist Tom Wolfe.
The \"Becoming The Man in the White Suit: The Tom Wolfe Papers at The New York Public Library\" exhibit will include almost two dozen works from the author’s collection. The Library acquired the collection for $2.15 million in November 2013.
The show will include: Correspondence from John Glenn with corrections to The Right Stuff; Wolfe’s insights on post-war masculinity and his experience with the culture at NASA and the U.S. Air Force. The show also features a letter he wrote to himself about The Bonfire of the Vanities, as well as a letter from Hunter S. Thompson about his “recently published novel” Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
By: Jason Boog,
on 12/4/2012
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Nancy Huston has won the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Literature Award for her novel, Infrared.
Follow this link to read an excerpt from the novel. Below, we’ve linked to free samples of all the books on the list. Now in its 20th year, the award continues a tradition of “gentle chastisement of the worst excesses of the literary novel.”
Here’s more from the journal: “For a confessional account on Bad Sex judging by Literary Review‘s senior editor Jonathan Beckman, read his piece in the Financial Times. You will also be able to read a more detailed report on this year’s shortlist in Literary Review‘s December / January double issue. For snippets from the shortlist, follow Literary Review‘s twitter account, @lit_review. The tweets are tagged as #LRBadSex2012.”
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After a long day and an even longer week, I collapsed on the couch with my
New Yorkers. Does anyone else feel this way?
My New Yorkers. I want to know what these writers know. I want to write a single sentence like they (or some of them) write. I want to give you what I read and think. For now, here is this. It's James Wood talking about Tom Wolfe's latest novel,
Back to Blood. Wood is reflecting on details that resonate, those that feel organic, and those that sour the prose with obvious, unlived research. Listen in (for the whole, buy the October 15, 2012 issue):
The important details, the ones that make fiction's intimate palpability, cannot simply be scooped up off the sidewalk. Tolstoy, praised as a realist by Tom Wolfe, took the germ of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" from an actual story about a judge in a nearby town who had died of cancer; but one of the most beautiful moments in the novella surely came from Tolstoy's imagination—or, rather, from his patient loyalty to Ivan's invented reality. I mean the moment when Ivan Ilyich, lying on his couch, in great distress and loneliness, remembers "the raw and wrinkly French prunes of his childhood, their special taste, and how his mouth watered when he got down to the stone."
Very occasionally in this novel, Wolfe gives evidence that he knows the difference between those French prunes and "Hotchkiss, Yale ... six-three." At one point, Nestor, fleeing the opprobrium of his community, ends up at a favorite Cuban bakery, where he enjoys "a whiff of Ricky's pastelitos, 'little pies' of filo dough wrapped around ground beef, spiced ham, guava, or you name it.... He had loved pastelitos since he was a boy." It's a rare passage without exclamation marks, and superficially it resembles Ivan and the prunes. But the detail about the patelitos has the whiff not of pastry but of research.
Next month, we're excited to introduce WHO SHOT THE WATER BUFFALO, the debut novel from Ken Babbs. Tom Wolfe is a fan, and so is Booklist--this week has been extra-exciting on the Water Buffalo front! Check out what they've got to say.
"Former U.S. Marine Captain Ken Babbs was a pilot who climbed from the SAMissile-killing skies over Vietnam to the LSDippy hippie highs of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters ... and lived. I know, because I saw him afterward. This book is Babbs, Part One." -Tom Wolfe
BOOKLIST
Issue: March 15, 2011
Who Shot the Water Buffalo?
Babbs, Ken (Author)
Mar 2011. 320 p. Overlook, hardcover, $25.95. (9781590204443).
Babbs sings us an ode to a marine helicopter squadron serving in Vietnam prior to the outbreak of war, when the U.S. was acting as an “advisor.” With pop-cultural quotes and allusions liberally sprinkled amid staccato prose, this first novel may feel to some a cross between Joseph Heller and Hunter S. Thompson.
Part buddy movie, part simple observation, and part existential musing, the novel lets readers see and feel the world it creates as it follows Texan Tom Huckelbee and Ohioan Mike Cochran from flight school through their time in Vietnam. Huckelbee strives to remain sane through Cochran’s unpredictable actions, a grinding schedule of sorties, R and R breaks, base politics, and the loss of flight-school friends. The strain of their circumstances builds to the final, most dangerous mission they fly. Babbs, a U.S. Marine whose service included piloting helicopters in Vietnam, brings eyewitness truth to the table as he pays homage to his fellow marines while showing how valor and duty can be embodied quite differently among one company of men.
— Arlen Bensen
Is it just me or does Tomie dePaola's character, Mister Frog, look a lot like Tom Wolfe?
Wood nailed it, no doubt. Wolfe will chalk it up to anger over his (pointless) jihad in favor of reportage and realism. So it goes.