There’s something sort of unfathomably awesome about being able to make the statement “while I was interviewing BGB-beloved first novelist Rivka Galchen to see what she’s been up to in the year...

Did you ever wonder what happens to all the people who live in a touristy beach town after the summer season is long over?  It turns out they have lives, just like the rest of us.Rosie and...

Have I mentioned that I love Dave Eggers?  Just last week I was getting all geeked out about his upcoming novel The Wild Things.  It turns out he has another book coming out before that one. ...

It’s hard to believe that 2009 has come and is almost gone.  I guess it is true that the older you get, the faster time goes by.  When I first sat down to compile my “best of” list, my initial thought was that this was not such a great year for...

Russ’s Top 3 Novels of 2009, In An Order That Is Completely Arbitrary But Also Alphabetical: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (my review) Goolrick did it and did it well with this novel: a period piece, a love story and a mystery with fantastic...

It is lists week here at BGB.  Our contributors will be posting lists of varying length and descriptions about our favorite books that we’ve read in 2009.   I’m kicking things off with a traditional top 10 list.   While most of my favorites were...

China Miéville is another is those authors that I’d been meaning to get around to reading.  I had vaguely remembered coming across glowing reviews of his past books somewhere or other.  When I came across his latest book,  The City and The City, ...

Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody) posts an interesting take on the future of bookselling: Got that? Lower prices will lead to higher prices, and cheap books threaten to reduce the range of ideas in circulation. And don’t just take the ABA’s word...