literary pimpage (updated)
Some new books by excellent writers out today (or is it yesterday? damn time zones...):
Poison Sleep by tapratt. The next book in the Marlaverse, and sequel to the enormously fun and sexy Blood Engines. Bantam has posted an excerpt of the book on their site, and is offering a free download of the Marla story "Pale Dog" on their Facebook page.
The Magician and the Fool by barthanderson. Magic and tarot, from a guy who knows an awful lot about both. If you order from DreamHaven Books, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a 20-page tarot reading written personally for you by the man himself.
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer. An incredible travel writer, Iyer has been following His Holiness around the world for about 30 years, and I can't wait to see what insights and observations he's recorded. World Hum has just interviewed him about the book.
And in non-book, but still literary, news:
The Virginia Quarterly Review special issue "South America in the 21st Century" co-edited by Daniel Alarcón has been nominated for a National Magazine Award (the Pulitzers of the magazine world) in the category of Best Single Topic Issue. Unfortunately, the issue is sold out, but much of its content all of its content (plus a half-dozen works that were only released online) is available on the VQR website. [Update thanks to Waldo Jaquith at VQR.]
Mary Robinette Kowal is up for a Campbell Award this year, and is the only writer on the ballot to be nominated for her short fiction rather than for a novel. And since her stories are kinda hard to find, she's done the incredibly smart thing of putting together a fiction sampler as a free download.
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Affiliate links to the books above are through BookSense.com, which acts as a portal to participating independent bookstores all over the States. By clicking on those links, you are helping to support your local indie bookshop and promote the good customer service and knowledge of literature that the staff at those shops are so well-known for. I also get a tiny cut of the transaction as a thank-you for pointing people to the site.
Poison Sleep by tapratt. The next book in the Marlaverse, and sequel to the enormously fun and sexy Blood Engines. Bantam has posted an excerpt of the book on their site, and is offering a free download of the Marla story "Pale Dog" on their Facebook page.
The Magician and the Fool by barthanderson. Magic and tarot, from a guy who knows an awful lot about both. If you order from DreamHaven Books, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a 20-page tarot reading written personally for you by the man himself.
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer. An incredible travel writer, Iyer has been following His Holiness around the world for about 30 years, and I can't wait to see what insights and observations he's recorded. World Hum has just interviewed him about the book.
And in non-book, but still literary, news:
The Virginia Quarterly Review special issue "South America in the 21st Century" co-edited by Daniel Alarcón has been nominated for a National Magazine Award (the Pulitzers of the magazine world) in the category of Best Single Topic Issue. Unfortunately, the issue is sold out, but much of its content all of its content (plus a half-dozen works that were only released online) is available on the VQR website. [Update thanks to Waldo Jaquith at VQR.]
Mary Robinette Kowal is up for a Campbell Award this year, and is the only writer on the ballot to be nominated for her short fiction rather than for a novel. And since her stories are kinda hard to find, she's done the incredibly smart thing of putting together a fiction sampler as a free download.
...
Affiliate links to the books above are through BookSense.com, which acts as a portal to participating independent bookstores all over the States. By clicking on those links, you are helping to support your local indie bookshop and promote the good customer service and knowledge of literature that the staff at those shops are so well-known for. I also get a tiny cut of the transaction as a thank-you for pointing people to the site.