Kathryn Stockett never intended to write a best-selling novel. In fact, when she started writing her debut novel, The Help, she didn’t think anyone would ever read it.
‘Help’ Author Kathryn Stockett on Writing Debut Novel
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David Foster Wallace’s Posthumous Novel ‘The Pale King’
Two months after the writer David Foster Wallace killed himself, his agent, accompanied by his widow, went into his garage office to look through his papers. It was Thanksgiving weekend, 2008, and the weather was cold and gray in Claremont, Calif.
Wall Street Journal Best Sellers
Wall Street Journal Best Sellers Best-Selling Books Week Ended Oct. 2 FICTION 1. “Freedom: A Novel” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 2. “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 3. “Bad Blood: A Virgil Flowers Novel” by John Sandford (Putnam Adult) 4. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson […]
Health-care woes are terminally funny in ‘So Much for That’
Health-care woes are terminally funny in ‘So Much for That’ Just when you’re sick to death of hearing/talking/thinking about health care reform, along comes a delicious novel about … why we need health care reform. So Much for That, Lionel Shriver’s improbably feel-good black comedy, is the rare book that can make suicide, near-bankruptcy and […]
China’s Orwell
In 2005, Penguin paid $100,000 for the English-language rights to Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem, a coming-of-age tale set in Inner Mongolia.
‘Precious’ Review: Too Powerful for Tears
Because the early screening of Precious came with a warning from the publicist to bring tissues, I fully expected to be a goner.
Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta gets BlackBerry, celebrity profile
It has been 20 years since best-selling crime writer Patricia Cornwell began work on her first novel in the series chronicling the cases of forensic analyst Dr. Kay Scarpetta