Are you searching for a book for that hard-to-please person on your holiday gift list? To help you narrow down your choices here are a few recommendations of recent books by a number of writers who visited the Writers Institute in 2013. The list represents different genres and subject matter that should appeal to a wide range of tastes and interests. And while you are looking for that special gift for someone else, you just may find something for yourself....
More: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/wiholidaylist13.html
Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Writers Institute Holiday Book List
Thursday, November 29, 2012
New York Times 100 Notable Books
Numerous Writers Institute visitors are featured in this year's edition of the New York Times 100 Notable Books.
Recent visitors (who have discussed the new books featured on the list) include Lauren Groff (Arcadia), Shalom Auslander (Hope: A Tragedy), Junot Diaz (This is How You Lose Her), David Quammen (Spillover), and Robert Caro (Passage of Power).
Other past visitors with new books on the list include Colm Toibin, Nathan Englander, Sherman Alexie, Steve Stern, Richard Ford, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Eggers, Toni Morrison, John Irving, Louise Erdrich, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Kevin Young and David Nasaw.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Books That Authors Love to Give and Receive
The New York Times tells which books a number of authors love to give and receive.
Francine Prose, who visited in February 2010, favors artful objects like Robert Walser's Microscripts and Brassai in America.
Former New York State Poet Billy Collins says, "Because I’m still an only child, I have trouble thinking deeply enough about other people to be any good at figuring out what they would like for a gift." For himself, he likes the Animal Series from Reaktion Books.
Jane Smiley, who visited in 2005, sensibly advises us to get gift certificates for our friends.
More.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Books as Art Objects
The New York Times has an article about how, in an age of e-books, publishers are attempting to sell physical books as giftable, displayable art objects, much as they were a century ago.
"If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading." More.
The article also makes mention of the "deep red endpapers" of Dava Sobel's new book on Copernicus, A More Perfect Heaven.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Ethan Allen Named a "Best Biography" in the WSJ
Carl Rollyson talks up Willard Sterne Randall's Ethan Allen in the Wall Street Journal "Gift Guide: Best of Biography" last month. Randall visits Tuesday, December 6.
"With every publishing season hailing another biography of some already well-documented Founder, it was a pleasure to descend into the trenches of American history with Willard Sterne Randall. His absorbing and comprehensive "Ethan Allen: His Life and Times" (Norton, 617 pages, $35) puts a good deal of flesh on the New England hero who captured the British-held Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775. A spirited man, Allen was, like many of his contemporaries, not averse to profiting from land speculation and accumulating family wealth in ways that allied him as much with the old world as the new. Allen was also notable for his unconventional guerrilla warfare and his searing accounts of his time as a British prisoner of war." WSJ
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