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Tod Goldberg writes short stories (Simplify) and novels (Living Dead Girl), in addition to just being a hilarious guy. He's also the Director of the MFA program at UC Riverside Palm Desert. BookFox had the opportunity to interview him by email for the release of his latest collection, "Other Resort

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A Tour Around One Writer’s Family Tree

Blog | www.powells.com | 2 hours 37 minutes ago

Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world. We carry an extensive collection of out of print rare, and technical titles as well as many other new and used books in every field.

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Q & A with Jasper Fforde

Blog | bookshopblog.com | 3 hours 55 minutes ago

From our friends at Viking Books, Mr. Fforde on his latest book Shades of Grey which will be coming out on December 29, 2009 Q. What is National

http://bookshopblog.com/2009/11/23/q-a-with-jasper-fforde/

Borders UK closes borders

News | www.bookninja.com | 6 hours 46 minutes ago

A few Bookseller articles outline the state of affairs at Borders UK, which is starting to look like a student with huge loans, no job, and an apartment just high enough in the building to reach terminal velocity from the balcony.Borders up for sale (much like rusty Chevy Nova on blocks in front

http://www.bookninja.com/?p=6543

More on Ellroy's Blood's a Rover

News | www.conversationalreading.com | 9 hours 22 minutes ago

I was impressed by James Ellroy about a month back when Norman Rush covered his Underworld USA Trilogy in the NYRB. Mostly I was drawn in my Ellroy's dramatically stripped-down style and his vaguely Dilloesque project of writing a fictional shadow-history of the U.S. Little more on this trilogy now

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Speculation mounts as Borders is put up for sale

News | www.thebookseller.com | 10 hours 27 minutes ago

Borders UK is once again the subject of feverish speculation after it was placed back on the market only four months after it was bought in a management buyout backed by distressed debt specialist Valco Capital Partners.

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Walmart denies the obvious, gets away with it

News | mhpbooks.com | 15 hours 46 minutes ago

Charging less than half the suggested retail price of books isnt predatory pricing, says the CEO of Walmart, because the company has already been the price leader in books for months before that program [the decision to sell bestsllers for $9 no matter the list price[ was

http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=10722

Booksellers Profit from National Bookstore Day

News | www.publishersweekly.com | 20 hours 51 minutes ago

More than 140 independent booksellers participated in the first National Bookstore Day on November 7, an initiative sponsored by PW to get customers to shop at their local bookstores—and many reported a surge in sales on that day. Better World Books, a bookseller with a store in Goshen, Ind., and a

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6708314.html

Laredo Losing Major Bookstore

Blog | slhwnotes.blogspot.com | 22 hours 27 minutes ago

Here's an interesting article from the San Antonio Express-News on Laredo losing its major bookstore. The article also addresses the soon to be closed bookstore in San Antonio's South Park Mall.<a

http://slhwnotes.blogspot.com/2009/11/laredo-losing-major-bookstore.html

Poems from the Village of the Five Senses: Pentakomo Cyprus, by Irene Koronas

Blog | dougholder.blogspot.com | Nov 22, 2009

(Poet/Artist Irene Koronas)Poems from the Village of the Five Senses:Pentakomo Cyprus, by Irene Koronasarticle by Michael Todd SteffenOn the central south coast of Cyprus, two and a half kms inland from the bay of Ayios Yeryios Alamanou lies the small village of Pendakomo, or Pentakomo, with a

http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2009/11/poems-from-village-of-five-senses-poems.html