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Joy Of Sex Gets Makeover For Generation That Found Viagra
books.guardian.co.uk

35 years after Dr Alex Comfort introduced the world to the joys of sex, his seminal manual on how to pep up love lives is itself being spiced up to appeal to a 21st-century readership

Books Lost And Found
books.guardian.co.uk

Once dismissed for their bourgeois domesticity, the 20th-century female writers championed by Persephone are now enjoying stealth success

Twelve - Betting On A Dozen Books Each Year
www.npr.org

One US imprint that got its start just last year has already had a string of hits with a philosophy of 'less is more'

Melvyn Bragg: And The Award For Longevity Goes To...
www.independent.co.uk

For 30 years Melvyn Bragg has prided himself on the egalitarianism of 'The South Bank Show'. In ITV's current chilly commercial climate he's had to pare back his team – but he'll never stop being a guardian of the arts

Letters Cast New Light On Misunderstood Poet Ezra Pound
www.independent.co.uk

Letters add impetus to literary historians' reassessment of Pound as perhaps the greatest poet of the last century

David Baddiel Struggles With Fiction In Translation
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

'However great the translation, I always think I am missing something'

The Author Who Fought The Shoe Shop
www.timesonline.co.uk

Novelist Joan Brady blames a shoe shop for toxins that she says gave her nerve disease. Her son describes her five-year fight

Critical Condition
www.prospect-magazine.co.uk

Literary journalism needs to get better if it is to survive

Why Milton Needs Restoring To Glory
www.telegraph.co.uk

Educationalists hate our European heritage of shared classical literature

The Two Faces Of Amis
www.independent.co.uk

So who is the real Martin Amis?

When Ignorance Is Bliss
www.newstatesman.com

The epidemic of misery in the English-speaking west has been caused not by rampant consumerism, but by our addiction to therapy culture

The English Critic All America Fears
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

James Wood, the critic who picks off the literary establishment with the accuracy of a hunter stalking his prey

A Life Of Their Own
books.guardian.co.uk

From Jane Eyre to Jean Brodie, David Copperfield to David Brent, whether solidly realised or lightly sketched, fictional figures can be as vivid to us as real people. But just what, exactly, is a character, asks James Wood

Melvin Burgess Sees His Characters Come To Life On The Internet
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Bestselling teen author explains how he adapted his new book, Sara's Face, for the internet

Art Attack
www.newstatesman.com

Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him is an increasingly influential movement of political artists operating outside the mainstream

Walter Mosley
online.wsj.com

On Book Publishing, Mysteries and Yiddish

It Seems It Ain't Art If It Ain't Ethnic
www.timesonline.co.uk

'The Arts Council has never offered to translate my books into Urdu. Or Jilly Cooper's...'

Xiaolu Guo's Cultured Revolution
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Xiaolu Guo's journey far from home is typical of the new generation in her country

Stop This Stream Of Sob Stories From Self-pitying Middle-class Writers
books.guardian.co.uk

Another month, another sob-story; the embellished memories of some poor ickle depressed or alcoholic oofums

'If Children Are To Become Readers For Life, They Must First Love Stories'
www.telegraph.co.uk

We are in a muddle about literacy. We worry endlessly that children in Britain are not becoming readers

Ladies, Why You Must Write The Wrongs
www.telegraph.co.uk

In the world of high-profile gender wars, forget all that Mars-Venus stuff. The law of the jungle prevails. As top men revert to the satiric behaviour of ape-like ancestors, their forsaken women do something much more modern and clever. They write about it

The Book Is Dead. Long Live Facebook!
comment.independent.co.uk

Novels may decline, but not creativity. A publisher foresees a revolution in reading

Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Normal Life Taken To The Max
www.telegraph.co.uk

The Spanish novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte explains why he writes about war

John Milton: The Poet Who Gave Us 'Star Trek' And 'The Matrix'
news.independent.co.uk

Without him nothing would be terrific, nobody would be sensuous, and we would never have gone into space

E-books Read Well, But Paper's More Palatable
www.reuters.com

The number of people subscribing to newspapers may be shrinking as they flock to the Internet, but electronic book readers won't shred the market for ink, paper, glue and binding anytime soon


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A Book Publisher's Manifesto - Part IV
thedigitalist.net

Customisation will not stop at bundling multiple texts together, though...

Publishing Round-up
books.guardian.co.uk

The latest news from the publishing industry

'Worst Poet' Outsells Boy Wizard
news.bbc.co.uk

A private collector has paid £6,600 for poems by the man ridiculed as "the world's worst poet"

Bloomsbury Publishing Boosted By Cost-cutting Measures
business.timesonline.co.uk

Decision to prune the number of books it produces and other cost controls has strengthened cash flow at Bloomsbury

Paperchase Giftwrapped For £50m Sale By Borders
www.telegraph.co.uk

Borders, the troubled US retailer, has appointed bankers to conduct a strategic review of Paperchase, a process that is expected to result in the sale of the stationery chain

Author Attempts To Create Amazon Buzz For Just $500
www.mediabistro.com

Author makes point-blank offer to pay people to give his new book a review

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