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Some Sand with Your Proust?

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

In USA Today, Jack Murnighan, author of Beowulf on the Beach, shows his readers advisory chops by making the case for the classics as the best beach reading (but, not Proust, actually; Remembrance of Things Past takes too much concentration).

Murnighan will make you want to pack Moby Dick in your beach bag (”one of the funniest books of all time”).

Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits
Jack Murnighan
Retail Price: $15.00
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press – (2009-05-19)
ISBN / EAN: 0307409570 / 9780307409577

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THE HELP is a ‘Book We Like’

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

NPR’s “Books We Like” picked Kathryn Stockett’s The Help yesterday.

As we mentioned earlier, the book recently broke into Amazon’s top ten. It’s also climbing print lists, rising to its peak position after six weeks on the new USA Today list (#94). We hear it also rises on the 7/12 NYT Hardcover Fiction list to #12 (from #15).

Such slow-building titles are rare these days. Generally, books hit their peak in their first week on sale and then begin to slide, sometimes precipitously.

Reminder: Stockett will be at ALA, appearing at the ALTAFF Gala Author Tea (Monday, 2 to 4 p.m.) along with Lisa Scottoline, Jill McCorkle, Gillian Flynn and Jane Stanton Hitchcock.

She will also be at the Penguin booth, #2020 on Monday, July 13th, from 11:00 to noon. For the many authors appearing at the Penguin booth, check their full schedule.

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