St. Louis artist John Hendrix’s book on John Brown has been picked as one of the best children’s books of 2009.
Publishers Weekly magazine, which this week released its roundup of the 100 best books of the year and the 30 best…
Publishers Weekly, which surveys some 50,000 books a year, has announced its first top 10 list.
Interestingly, it includes not a single book written by a woman. (This year, Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” won the Booker award and several novels by…
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 12, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. The list is from Publishers Weekly magazine.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Last Song. Nicholas Sparks. Grand…
Every week the Post-Dispatch print a bestseller list in A&E, but limited space affects the list’s length.
It’s not a surprise that Pat Conroy’s novel made No. 1. For a review of the new Sandra Brown book, and 5 other thrillers, see Sunday’s paper…
A new “novel” by Vladimir Nabokov comes out this fall.
Well, novel is a generous term. The book by the author of “Lolita” is actually more of a collection of index cards.
Nabokov wrote on index cards. Before he died in 1977, he asked his wife…
Traditional book publishing was down 3 percent last year, but on-demand and “short run” titles soared 132 percent, according to a story by Publishers Weekly. For the first time, on-demand publishing surpassed traditional print. Overall, book publishing rose 38 percent last year.
Look…
A good number of St. Louis families have high school or middle school students are planning trips to Washington for the presidential inauguration Jan. 20. The kids I’ve talked to are very excited, of course.
Book publishers apparently think there is a…
Sports Publishing has a published a number of titles about St. Louis sports teams, particularly the Cardinals. Some of those books were written by St. Louisans. Today, Publishers Weekly says the company has been having trouble paying some of the authors, although no…
