The public trial of John Roberts - Shreveport Times
25 May 2012, 2:28 am
Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a ...

The obnoxious public trial of Justice John Roberts - Tacoma News Tribune
25 May 2012, 2:14 am
WASHINGTON - Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to ...

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan to publish short story on Twitter - YAHOO!
24 May 2012, 6:43 pm
Twitter isn't just for headlines and humblebrags. At 8 p.m. Thursday, The New Yorker magazine will begin tweeting a short story by the novelist Jennifer Egan in 140-character installments. The magazine's fiction department—@NYerFiction—will blast out ...

Clarice Lispector: Four novels form a picture of Brazil novelist - Los Angeles Times
24 May 2012, 4:27 pm
For a handful of people, Clarice Lispector's "A Breath of Life" being published in English for the first time is very good news. Sadly, that handful is fairly small. Lispector, an extraordinarily gifted writer who revolutionized Brazilian letters, was ...

David Mitchell talks about Cloud Atlas film at the Hay Festival in Segovia - Daily Telegraph
24 May 2012, 4:20 pm
The producers of Cloud Atlas, the film adaptation of the 2004 Booker Prize-nominated novel thought they were reassuring the author when they told him that they would stick faithfully to the style and structure of his book. But the idea filled him with ...

Henry Denker, prolific playwright and novelist, dies at 99 - Washington Post
24 May 2012, 9:24 am
Henry Denker, a prolific novelist and playwright who may be best known for writing a long-running radio dramatization of the life of Jesus, “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” died May 15 at his home in New York City. He was 99. The New York Times reported ...

Graphic novelist chronicles Civil Rights era Alabama through eyes of Argentinian immigrants (Q&A) - Birmingham News
24 May 2012, 8:49 am
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama-- When Lila Quintero Weaver was 5-years-old in 1961, she and her family emigrated from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Marion, Ala., in the heart of the Black Belt and segregation. The author and illustrator (and University of Alabama ...

A novelist's dilemma - The Daily Star
21 May 2012, 12:41 pm
Humay-un Ahm-ed is a popular novelist among Bangla-speaking readers in Bangladesh and elsewhere. At the February 21st book fair at Bangla Academy, Humayun's novels have long been bestsellers. Whenever, at any of the bookstalls of Ekusheyr Boi Mela (21st ...

Swedish crime novelist hopes for U.S. breakout - USA Today
19 May 2012, 6:56 pm
When Swedish crime novelist Camilla Lackberg was 16, she came across an old photograph album of her father's. It was shocking. There were pictures of Jens Lackberg as a young man with a wife and infant child. She knew he had a previous marriage ...

Carlos Fuentes dies at 83; Mexican novelist - Los Angeles Times
15 May 2012, 3:47 pm
If Carlos Fuentes could have invented the perfect character to star in one of his novels, he might have come up with a protagonist named Carlos Fuentes. That character would be a glamorous global citizen who was born in Panama as a diplomat's son, then ...