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Book Publishers Really Love The Word ‘Tiger’ Right Now
2011 may be the year of the rabbit, but it seems like every book we read about nowadays has the word ‘tiger’ in the title. Okay, that’s an exaggeration. But only mildly. We already know these things...
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New Novels About Wives, Interrupted
In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” Geoffrey Chaucer writes about a queen who offers a lascivious knight the following option in court: if he can discover what women most desire within a year, his life will...
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Téa Obreht Wins the Orange Prize for Fiction with 'The Tiger's Wife'
Exciting book world news: It was announced this afternoon that Téa Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife (which we reviewed here). At just 25 years old,...
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10 Spectacular Modern Fabulists
We don’t know about you, but there’s something about winter, and particularly the holidays, that makes us crave fables and fairy tales — though whether it has to do with wanting to recapture the...
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Flavorpill’s Most Fascinating People of 2011
Another year, another uninspired list of “fascinating people,” courtesy of Barbara Walters. Babs’ 2011 list seems frightfully behind the times: Aren’t Simon Cowell, Katy Perry, Derek Jeter, and the...
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The Morning News 2012 Tournament of Books Is Live!
It’s a really exciting day for book worms: The eight annual TMN 2012 Tournament of Books has officially gone live! Click through to see which 16 “of the most cherished, hyped, ignored, and/or...
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Are Book Covers Different for Female and Male Authors?
This week, we read a great article by Meg Wolitzer in The New York Times about the ways in which novels written by men and women are perceived differently — both by readers and by publishers. She has...
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50 of the Greatest Debut Novels Since 1950
For a reader, there’s something magical about picking up a first novel — that promise of discovery, the possibility of finding a new writer whose work you can love for years to come, the likelihood of...
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