Last weekend’s Brooklyn Book Festival fell on just the right day, cooler and crisper than the preceding Saturdays. The area outside the Brooklyn Courthouse flooded with people who wanted nothing more than to shell out cash for books. Readers, writers, and other city-dwellers just looking for something to do came out to the tenth annual […]
Last semester, I wrote an article about my newfound passion for graphic novels, and I provided a list of some of the best ones I had read at the time. I’m continuing my quest to read all of the great graphic novels out there, and below, I present you with ten more authors and their […]
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ~ Mark Twain I have watched my young cousin go from drawing nonsensical scribbles to laboring over writing each letter of a word to reading long books. She is in fifth grade now, and a few months ago, she told […]
When was the last time that you read a book—textbooks excluded—with lots of pictures in it? I bet you had to think back to elementary school. Well, my answer would be four days ago, and no, it wasn’t a children’s picture book. It was a graphic novel. A graphic novel is essentially a comic book […]
On an exceptionally sunny and warm first day of autumn, book lovers from all over the city came to Brooklyn for the eighth annual Brooklyn Book Festival. Brooklyn’s enthusiastic Borough President, Marty Markowitz, created the event to celebrate local writers, though it has expanded to include writers from outside the borough. At “Bookend” events, held […]
Pottermore Launched in Early April Harry Potter fans will be happy to know that Pottermore, the interactive website dedicated to the wizarding world of Harry Potter, finally launched on Saturday, April 14th. Pottermore was supposed to open to the general public last October. However, after receiving feedback from the early Beta users, the site administrators […]
Amazon Publishing Snubbed by Fellow Booksellers Chain bookstores Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million and Chapters Indigo (Canada’s top bookseller) have announced that they will not carry titles published by any of Amazon’s publishing imprints. In an effort to expand its reach in the book market, Amazon has created seven imprints since 2009, including AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Montlake […]
November is National Novel Writing Month! November 1st is the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, a 30-day challenge for writers. Participants aim to write 50,000 words of a novel in a month; anyone who finishes is declared a winner. The first NaNoWriMo, held in 1999, had only 21 participants, but the event has grown […]
