Gianna LaMorte is the sales manager for the University of Texas Press. Previously, she worked as a sales manager with Random House for about eight years or so until Liz Sullivan made her life so miserable she had to change jobs. They are now married, have nine children, and vote Republican. They are not happy. Check out her blog at http://lizandgianna.blogspot.com/.
Liz Sullivan of Liz & Giana's Adventures in Bookland recently caught up with Seamus McGraw recently to talk Playboy, music, and more.
Melanie Benjamin has done what very few authors are able to do -- take a little known piece of history and craft a fully developed, complex, and intriguing page-turner. Part love story, part literary mystery, Alice I Have Been leads us on an unforgettable journey.
Critically acclaimed author Dan Chaon is back with an outstanding collection of short stories, Stay Awake. And if you think you don’t like short stories, this haunting collection will change your mind.
It is a question book lovers ask each other often: “What book has changed your life?” The answer, of course, changes with age and with life experience. For me that book has been Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell’s Let’s Take the Long Way Home.
Max Barry’s hilarious near-future tale called Jennifer Government should have been a bestseller. But generally speaking, if I love a book, I mean if I go nutty over it, the book is doomed to not make it very high up -- or at all -- on a major bestseller list.
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
A Read for Realists: Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
World War Z: Now Coming to an eReader Near You
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami
Abigail Pollak
Allyson Pearl
Andrew Agudo
Jen Marshall
Joe Muscolino
Rita D. Jacobs
