Oprah’s Book Club Summer 2005: A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying; The...
Oprah's right: Faulkner, believe it or not, is perfect summer reading. His prose — which includes some of the most disturbing and gorgeous sentences written in the twentieth century — demands to be...
View ArticleOprah’s Book Club Summer 2005: A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying; The...
Oprah's right: Faulkner, believe it or not, is perfect summer reading. His prose — which includes some of the most disturbing and gorgeous sentences written in the twentieth century — demands to be...
View ArticleThe Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
Faulkner is in a class of his own, and this is his best work. Moving seamlessly from its opening incoherence to its revelatory finale, it's almost as if he is teaching you how to read the novel as you...
View ArticleBook News for Friday, July 17, 2009
Ashes to Ashes: Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt is in failing health, according to his brother: Malachy McCourt said that his 78-year-old brother, best known for the million-selling Angela's Ashes...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Norberto Fuentes
Describe your latest project. Norton has just published The Autobiography of Fidel Castro, a novel that took seven years of my life to complete as I got inside the skin of Fidel. Perhaps it will take...
View ArticleBook News: Kirkus Wins in Overtime, Fake Philosopher Fools Real One, and More
In Memoriam: Former U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson passed away on February 10th in Texas, at the age of 76. The "flamboyant 12-term East Texas Democrat" is perhaps best known for his 1980s crusade...
View ArticleInfluences
I always love to hear what people are reading, and from writers, what books they surrounded themselves with while working on a particular project. Each book, in my opinion, exists in a network of other...
View ArticleNeil Patrick Harris: What I’m Giving
At Powell's, we feel the holidays are the perfect time to share our love of books with those close to us. For this special blog series, we reached out to authors featured in our Holiday Gift Guide to...
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