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JOHN ARNOLD CHARTS THE PUBLISHING VENTURES OF TWO AUSTRALIAN BOHEMIAN INTELLECTUALS IN LONDON IN THE 1920s IN Sydney in the early months of 1923 Jack Lindsay, the elder son of [...]

An overview of a symposium remembering author Isaac Asimov is presented. Science fiction celebrities including Poul Anderson, Ben Bova and Sir Arthur C. Clarke discuss their recollections of the author.

Byline: A GMJ Q&A with Rodd Wagner and Gale Muller, Ph.D., authors of Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships in Work and in Life Synopsis: [...]

Staff By Roxanna McDonald. Elsevier / Architectural Press. $39.95 (256 pages). This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man-made disasters and their effect on buildings. It [...]

One of the more persistent myths in Silicon Valley is that of the socially inept computer geek, the guy--they're assumed to be almost all men--so involved in machinery that his […]

THE HSE MANAGEMENT STANDARDS ON STRESS MADE SIMPLE Carole Spiers Group. Free to Community Care readers from soc.Workoffer@carolespiersgroup.com This seven page free-to-download article looks at the implementation of the Health [...]

..... In November the author Geoffrey Perret forlornly wandered the talk-show circuit, finding that discussions of his new biography of John F. Kennedy, Jack, were being bumped by war news. […]

He wrote, most often, late into the night, in a modest study cluttered with heaps of books and papers and looking out onto a garden. The Oxford don, harried by […]

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, an e-mail letter sent out to friends by Tamim Ansary, an Afghan-American author (mostly of school history books) living in the Bay Area, [...]

Bestselling inspirational author Deepak Chopra has been racing to complete a book offering comfort and solace to those battered by the events of September 11. It is The Deeper Wound: [...]

William faulkner turned 47 in 1944. After two decades of writing, he didn't have much to show for his efforts. All but one of his 17 books had fallen out [...]

Wilhelm, Katie Gertrude (USA, 1928-) NOVELS More Bitter Than Death (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963) The Clone (with Theodore L. Thomas) (New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1965) The Nevermore […]

Ric Edelman, the author of 'The Truth About Money: Because Money Doesn't Come With Instructions,' surveyed 5,000 of his predominantly middle-class clients to help pen his latest book, 'Ordinary People, [...]

Melvin Burgess breaks another taboo with his latest novel for teenagers Melvin Burgess, author of such hard-hitting novels for teenagers as Junk and Bloodtide, will certainly be attracting more controversy [...]

Among the top 10 selections on the newly released Spring/Summer Book-Sense 76 Children's List is a little book from a very small publisher about a tiny creature with a large [...]

That would be Bantam Books and sister company Delacorte Press--both placed new books on the charts this week. Landing in the fifth spot this week is Elizabeth George's 11th mystery, [...]

...are looking especially rosy at this point, as Neil Gaiman's American Gods has been garnering excellent reviews and is being supported by publisher Morrow's aggressive and innovative marketing campaign. Thanks [...]

Dominick Dunne's latest bestseller, Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments, collects some of his high-profile Vanity Press features spanning more than 20 years. Included are essays about murders still in the [...]

Jane Green Babyville (Michael Joseph) Jane Green, author of Mr Maybe and Bookends, has written a new novel about three women whose lives and relationships change when they have children, [...]

TV'S BEEN GOOD FOR NOVELIST HENRY BROMELL THE IMAGE OF THE UGLY American has become such a cold war cliche that it's hard to remember how glamorous those blue-eyed bravehearts […]

A quintet of authors and illustrators are off to promising beginnings, in their spring debuts An Na A Step from Heaven (Front Street, Apr.), An Na's absorbing first novel, chronicles [...]

You might not naturally think fiction and Bible study go hand in hand, but many groups around the country are finding fiction a great resource for just that. One large […]

romance the way it's meant to be Spotlight on Dianna Crawford Dianna Crawford lives in Southern California with her husband, Byron, and the youngest of their four daughters. Although she […]

Catherine Palmer's two new books may differ, but each offers a retreat worth taking. "the wonderful thing about being a writer," Catherine Palmer says, "is that you get to try […]

During the mid-1920s, a strange jungle fever swept much of the world. from Japan to Iceland and Latin America, thoroughly modern citizens imagined themselves as lords of the jungle swinging […]

Beverley Nichols was more than just a 'garden writer.' His books covered everything, from pets to plays to poetry. THE ENGLISH WRITER BEVERLEY NICHOLS first turned up on my literary [...]

I TAKE OUR TOPIC to require from us an account as to how the imagining of a work of literary art begins, and whether the body's five antennae--of sight, hearing, [...]

Plume's new January title, Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction, edited by Carol Taylor, has debuted in the #9 slot on the January 24 L.A. Times paperback fiction [...]

She's back. Bright and sassy bestselling author Terry McMillan returns after a four-year hiatus with another blockbuster bestseller, A Day Late and a Dollar Short PWs starred review noted that [...]

What a difference a day makes. Last Wednesday, Oprah announced Joyce Carol Oates's The Last of the Mulvaneys as her first book club selection of 2001. About half an hour [...]

He's Richard Rayner, whose The Cloud Sketcher, a sweeping love story set in the New York era of skyscraper construction in the 1920s, coming put in February and is already [...]

Kent Haruf's Plainsong was one of Knopf's favorite bestsellers last year. It was handsold by everyone in the house and had a 14-week run on PWs charts, getting as high [...]

CITING THE POPULARITY of his e-book Riding the Bullet and expressing a touching degree of faith in human nature, best-selling novelist Stephen King plans to release another e-book--this time in [...]

The publisher lands a new novel on the hardcover fiction list and a new self-help title on nonfiction. Stephen Harrigan's The Gates of the Alamo was launched with a 60,000 [...]

Hailed as 'the female John Grisham' by People magazine, bestselling author Lisa Scottoline has six critically acclaimed legal thrillers under her belt, including the Edgar Award-winning Final Appeal. Her seventh, [...]