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"11th Hour" debuts at top of bestsellers list
17 May 2012 at 12:18pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "11th Hour," jumped straight to the top of Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "11th Hour" by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99) - 2. "Bring Up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel (Holt, $28) - 3. "Deadlocked" by Charlaine Harris (Ace, $27.95) 1 4. "In One Person" by John Irving (Simon & Schuster, $28) - 5. "The Road to Grace" by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster, $19.99) - 6. ...
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83
15 May 2012 at 3:07pm
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's best-known authors and a critic of governments in Mexico and the United States, died on Tuesday after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83. Fuentes wrote more than 20 novels and several collections of short stories. His best-known works include "The Death of Artemio Cruz," "The Old Gringo" and "The Crystal Frontier." "The Old Gringo" was the first U.S. bestseller by a Mexican author and was made into a movie in 1989 starring Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda. ...
Holocaust novel wins British foreign fiction prize
14 May 2012 at 11:22am
LONDON (Reuters) - The tale of an 11-year-old boy hidden from the Nazis by a prostitute has won a fiction prize which celebrates writing translated into English. "Blooms of Darkness" by 80-year old Israeli Aharon Appelfeld was awarded the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize at a ceremony in London. It tells the story of Hugo, who is brought by his mother to a local brothel, and his deepening relationship with Mariana, one of the women who work there. The book shows how the best of human nature can come to the surface even in the most horrific circumstances, Appelfeld said. ...
Book Talk: Memory and re-invention with Allison Winn Scotch
10 May 2012 at 5:19pm
TOKYO (Reuters) - A fear of flying inspired bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch's latest book, centering on a woman who awakes in a hospital with total amnesia, one of two people left alive after a massive plane crash. "The Song Remains the Same" follows Nell Slattery as she tries to piece together her former life even as her nearest and dearest - her husband, mother and sister - all feed her information about who she was in line with their own personal agendas and issues. Scotch spoke with Reuters about her book, identity and who we are without our memories. ...
Book Talk: Memory and re-invention with Alison Winn Scotch
9 May 2012 at 9:09pm
TOKYO (Reuters) - A fear of flying inspired bestselling author Alison Winn Scotch's latest book, centering on a woman who awakes in a hospital with total amnesia, one of two people left alive after a massive plane crash. "The Song Remains the Same" follows Nell Slattery as she tries to piece together her former life even as her nearest and dearest - her husband, mother and sister - all feed her information about who she was in line with their own personal agendas and issues. Scotch spoke with Reuters about her book, identity and who we are without our memories. ...
Nobel winner Pamuk opens novel museum in Istanbul
27 Apr 2012 at 1:17pm
ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) - Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk realizes a long-nurtured dream on Saturday with the opening of an actual "Museum of Innocence" - a collection of relics of a half-century of ordinary life - as depicted in his 2008 novel of the same name. Pamuk set out "not to do a spectacular or monumental museum but something in the backstreets, something that represents the daily life of the city," he told a news conference after a press preview. ...
"The Innocent" soars to top of bestsellers list
26 Apr 2012 at 11:49am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Baldacci's latest novel, "The Innocent," shot to the top of Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "The Innocent" by David Baldacci (Grand Central, $27.99) - 2. "The Witness" by Nora Roberts (Putnam, $27.95) - 3. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham 1 4. "Unnatural Acts," Stuart Woods (Putnam, $26.95) - 5. "Guilty Wives" by James Patterson & David Ellis (Little, Brown, $27.99) 2 6. ...
Book Talk: 15 cars that shaped American life
26 Apr 2012 at 4:20am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author and journalist Paul Ingrassia is a passionate car buff who covered the automobile industry for more than 25 years, working for the Wall Street Journal and winning both a Pulitzer Prize and Gerald Loeb Award with Joseph B. White in 1993. In his new book, "Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars," Ingrassia, now the deputy editor-in-chief of Reuters, looks at autos such as Henry Ford's Model T, the Chevy Corvette and the Chrysler Minivan and how each uniquely impacted American life. ...
Steve Harvey tells moviegoers how to "Think Like a Man"
20 Apr 2012 at 11:58am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Steve Harvey is a veteran of stand-up comedy and television with programs like his sitcom "The Steve Harvey Show" and the game show "Family Feud," which he currently hosts. This Friday, his 2009 bestselling, non-fiction book "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment" gets the big screen treatment in comedy film, "Think Like a Man." With an all-star cast including Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Romany Malco, hip-hop singer Chris Brown and Oscar nominated actress Taraji P. ...
Grisham's "Calico Joe" debuts at top of bestsellers
19 Apr 2012 at 1:59pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - John Grisham's new novel, "Calico Joe" debuted at the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham - (Doubleday, $24.95) 2. "Guilty Wives" by James Patterson & David Ellis (Little, Brown, $27.99) 2 3. "Come Home" by Lisa Scottoline- (St. Martin's, $27.99) 4. "The Lost Years" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $26.99) 1 5. ...
Author tracks tales of India's technicolor youth
19 Apr 2012 at 8:22am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A scriptwriter living with his girlfriend in Mumbai is put on the spot when the disapproving parents turn up. A doomed call centre worker lives in a cloud of numbing drug addiction financed by his high salary. These are just a few of the lives chronicled by author Palash Krishna Mehrotra in his non-fictional account of the changes that have swept over India over the last three decades, specifically how the lives of its youth have changed. ...
Book lovers react bitterly to no fiction Pulitzer
17 Apr 2012 at 4:01pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disappointed book lovers and the publishing world lashed out on Tuesday at the refusal to declare a Pulitzer fiction winner, saying it would hurt sales and gave the impression that 2011 was a bad year for novels. Monday's lack of a decision by the Pulitzer board could also hurt an industry accused of fixing prices for e-books, critics said. It was the first time since 1977 that no fiction winner was chosen for the prestigious awards that usually spells guaranteed free publicity and a boost in sales for the author who wins as well as their publisher. ...
Marcel Beyer revisits post-war Germany in "Kaltenburg"
17 Apr 2012 at 10:31am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marcel Beyer's latest novel takes place in postwar Dresden, but the award-winning German author didn't actually set foot there until the mid-1990s. When he did, he knew "from the very first day" that he had a book to write. That book is "Kaltenburg." Originally published in Germany several years ago, it was released in the United States on Tuesday and is Beyer's latest book to be translated into English by the writer who the New Yorker magazine designated as one of the current best young European novelists. ...
"The Lost Years" tops bestsellers list
12 Apr 2012 at 12:31pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "The Lost Years" soared to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "The Lost Years" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $26.99) - 2. "Guilty Wives" by James Patterson & David Ellis (Little, Brown, $27.99) 2 3. "Sacré Bleu" by Christopher Moore (Morrow, $26.99) - 4. "The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection" by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $24.95) - 5. ...
JK Rowling's first adult novel will be "blackly comic"
12 Apr 2012 at 8:38am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling's first book for adults will be a "blackly comic" novel set in an idyllic English town where all is not what it seems, its publisher said on Thursday. The title of the closely guarded 480-page novel by the prolific "Harry Potter" author will be "The Casual Vacancy." It and will be available worldwide in English on September 27 in hardback, e-book and in audio form, Little, Brown and Company said in a statement. The publisher promised it will be "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising," and offered some general plot details. ...
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