A publishing bonanza has erupted. Every living literary luminary one can think of has a novel coming out soon in either hardback or paperback: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Jeffrey Eugenides to name just three of the heavy-weight men. Of the giants of popular non-fiction, Anthony Beevor is back for another series with his one volume history of the second world war (a competitor for Max Hastings’s revered All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945, which is available in paperback as well as on digital platforms.) In the video above, Beevor explains why you should read his book.
Of the fairer sex, Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, is publishing her new novel, Black Box, in snippets of 140-characters, via the New Yorker’s twitter feed. In an interview
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