tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68285461237165999852024-03-05T11:42:56.608-08:00Spreading The WordPulp Books: bringing book junkies togetherPulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-50967565396261722092011-11-03T03:36:00.000-07:002011-11-03T03:36:07.048-07:00NYT Glowing Review for the iBio
After Steve Jobs anointed Walter Isaacson
as his authorized biographer in 2009, he took Mr. Isaacson to see the
Mountain View, Calif., house in which he had lived as a boy. He pointed
out its “clean design” and “awesome little features.” He praised the
developer, Joseph Eichler, who built more than 11,000 homes in
California subdivisions, for making an affordable product on a
Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-28055945967624211552011-07-29T01:23:00.000-07:002011-07-29T01:23:03.769-07:00Ready to RumpusMaurice Sendak, author of 'Where the Wild Things Are,' is back after 30 years with a new book called Bumble-Ardy.
Bumble-Ardy is the first book Maurice Sendak has both written and illustrated in 30 years. I called him the other day to talk about it, and we were both surprised it had been that long. “Jesus,” he said. “What have I been doing?” We went through a list. He designed operas here andPulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-58715011716839553782011-07-13T00:14:00.000-07:002011-07-13T00:14:59.645-07:00Penguin's Great Food SeriesGreat Food is an original series that brings together the sharpest, funniest, most delicious writing about food from the past four hundred years. Featuring twenty authors, the series is a heady mixture of recipes, literature and simple pleasures of hearing from distinctive voices from history. This series celebrates food writing as writing, revives forgotten, inspirational chefs and writersPulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-84691574690485753542011-07-12T06:41:00.000-07:002011-07-12T06:41:22.356-07:00Rock on When Sammy Hagar appeared at Left Bank Books in St. Louis in March to autograph copies of his memoir, it was not a typical book signing.
Sammy Hagar's memoir, “Red,” sold at least 61,000 copies in hardcover. Mr. Hagar, the former Van Halen lead singer, started sipping tequila as soon as the event began. Police officers were hired to provide Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-10787949248663657542011-06-21T03:48:00.000-07:002011-06-21T03:48:26.525-07:00Why Bedtime Will Never Be The Same The nightly climb up the stairs to Bedfordshire is supposed to be a time of parent-child bonding and sleepy tranquility. The little darlings dress themselves obediently in their pyjamas and clutch hot water bottles dreamily to their chests murmuring: "I love you, Mummy and Daddy."
In reality they want "just one more" repeat of Come Dine With Me. When they have Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-52218542112113924512011-06-08T23:53:00.000-07:002011-06-15T08:57:15.391-07:00The Tiger's Wife: Orange Prize 2011 winnerWeaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Obreht, the youngest of "The New Yorker's" 20 best American fiction writers under 40, spins a timeless novel about a young doctor who confronts the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death.
"... highly original, funny and frightening ... Her writing is remarkable, but she doesn't show offPulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-5459545599348307542011-06-01T01:14:00.000-07:002011-06-01T01:14:32.930-07:00Man with a Pan “Man With a Pan,” edited by the cartoonist, writer and New Yorker editor John Donohue, is a rangy, toothsome, timely and occasionally wince-inducing collection of essays by kitchen dads, men who do most of the cooking in their families. “Man With a Pan” contains essays (and recipes) by marquee names including Stephen King — isn’t it time he set a scary novel in a Hardee’s? — and Mario Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-9739429031805683952011-05-30T08:27:00.000-07:002011-05-30T08:27:33.107-07:00Rocking ReadsDo you sometimes feel like taking copious amounts of drugs, drinking whisky with your cornflakes, wearing too much eye makeup and wrecking your hotel room?
You’re not alone. But instead of ruining your health/breakfast/skin/favourite furniture, you can live vicariously through the ones who do it best.
Bringing you the best of the best rock ‘n’ roll biographies ... www.pulpbooks.co.za. Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-26663916118051294312011-05-20T04:06:00.000-07:002011-05-20T04:06:39.406-07:00E-readers 'a threat to impressive-looking bookshelves'ELECTRONIC reading devices are not as good as real books for making you look clever, it was claimed last night. E-readers like Kindle are rapidly replacing traditional books, but unlike a shelf full of intimidating hardbacks about poetry, string theory and Russian actors who committed suicide, they can never make you look more intelligent than you really are.
Publisher Tom Logan said: "Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-83765909419963321532011-04-21T02:02:00.000-07:002011-04-21T02:09:03.882-07:00Killing Kebble now in its 3rd printKilling KebbleMandy WienerPaperback, 386 pagesEAN 9781770101326Pan MacmillanAvailable to order
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In September 2005, Brett Kebble, a prominent South African mining magnate, was killed on a quiet suburban street in Johannesburg in an apparent “assisted suicide”. Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-69137545135296576432011-04-15T04:15:00.000-07:002011-04-15T04:15:12.062-07:00Read the first chapters of the Orange Prize shortlistBrowse the synopses of the shortlisted titles and read the first chapters here.
Room - Emma Donoghue
Jack is five and excited about his birthday. He lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures eleven feet by eleven feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him,Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-5964532180818733272011-03-18T04:50:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:50:59.264-07:00Modernist Cuisine (hard to lift, but gobsmacking, delicious)Hailed as 'revolutionary' and 'the book to end all cookbooks', the Modernist Cuisine is a six-volume, 2,438-page set that is destined to reinvent cooking. The lavishly illustrated books use thousands of original images to make the science and technology clear and engaging.
“This book will change the way we understand the kitchen.”
— Ferran Adrià
Explore the tome here.
Check out Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-26559651071840056202011-03-16T04:33:00.000-07:002011-03-16T04:33:10.183-07:00Sex Before the Sexual RevolutionSimon Callow explores life behind closed doors before the pill.
'The book is superb on courtship and premarital sex, which was of course haunted by the universal dread of unmarried pregnancy, and on the elaborate structures and codes of behaviour that governed such matters. Equally absorbing are the criteria for attractiveness. Despite the development through the 1930s of a new body Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-43914744047145527822011-01-26T11:40:00.000-08:002011-01-26T11:40:44.919-08:00Extreme Book CoversSetting fire to fields, tangling with tarantulas: it's all in a day's work for a book jacket designer.
I used to think book jacket designers were sensitive, aesthetic types whose idea of sustained physical effort was flicking through the pages of Creative Review with one hand while lifting an espresso to their lips with the other. But I appear to have got things totally wrong.
I recently Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-24442181117592069082010-12-10T07:21:00.000-08:002010-12-10T07:21:43.983-08:00Win some pretty stuff!Angie from Lucky Pony is giving away some need-to-have-now trinkets for Christmas, one of which Pulp Books has sponsored.
Go visit! Maybe you'll win and make us proud.Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-61103891630666098842010-12-08T00:44:00.000-08:002010-12-08T00:44:28.541-08:00Notable Crime Books of 2010Choosing books for picky friends can be humbling. There’s always one smarty-pants who has read not only the gift book but everything else in the author’s oeuvre. Another recipient refuses to consider any story about “some stupid girl.” And how about that ingrate who scorns the genre altogether, claiming to have developed more mature tastes? I’m speaking, of course, about buying books for Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-40293383371027376912010-11-29T23:41:00.000-08:002010-11-29T23:41:53.667-08:00Vote for Paige Nick's charity blogging and the Bookery could win R20K.Don't think, just do it!
Vote here.
The Bookery strive to help children get books.
“We want stocked, serviced libraries in every single school in South Africa.” These are the words of Richard Conyngham, the co-ordinator of The Bookery.
Interviewed on the premises of The Bookery, Conyngham, a former UCT student who has also completed an MA at Cambridge, stresses what he means by stocked Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-9968186600319399922010-11-29T12:48:00.000-08:002010-11-29T12:48:29.644-08:00Books of the yearJonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Julian Barnes
Unfit for life, unsure of love, unschooled in sex, but good at washing up: Philip Larkin, in Letters to Monica (Faber), lays out his all-too-self-aware catalogue of reasons for being Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-68669315566770437832010-11-16T03:09:00.000-08:002010-11-16T03:09:06.654-08:00Stray Cat BluesHe’s been a global avatar of wish fulfillment for over four decades and managed to eke more waking hours out of a 24-hour day than perhaps any other creature alive (thanks, Merck cocaine and amphetamines!). As Keith puts it: “For many years I slept, on average, twice a week. This means that I have been conscious for at least three lifetimes.”
You better believe it. This cat put the joie in Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-52455268139042857612010-10-12T08:55:00.000-07:002010-10-12T08:55:45.989-07:00Following the Booker: The Long Song by Andrea LevySynopsis
“You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed... July is a slave girl who livesPulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-30043378248810180342010-10-12T08:50:00.000-07:002010-10-12T08:50:11.778-07:00Following The Booker: C by Tom McCarthy<!--StartFragment-->Synopsis
Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body - which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the rest of his life. Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-90486613473852630132010-10-04T05:17:00.000-07:002010-10-04T05:17:29.117-07:00Following the Booker: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Synopsis
He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' - Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-14816104950529207302010-09-23T09:56:00.000-07:002010-09-23T09:56:34.622-07:00Following the Booker: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Synopsis
When my countrymen imagined America, they thought of savages and bears and presidents who would not wear wigs. Who among them could have conjured Miss Godefroy in all her beauty of form and elegance of mind, her wit, her delicacy, her slender ankles amid those mad red leaves?
An exploration of the great adventure of American democracy, it thrillingly brings to life two Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-46927342632125862072010-09-16T03:04:00.000-07:002010-09-16T03:05:15.839-07:00Following the Booker: Room by Emma Donoghue
Synopsis
Jack is five.
He lives in a single room with his Ma.
The room is locked.
Neither Jack nor Ma have a key.
The novel opens as Jack turns five. Jack has never been outside of Room, as he calls it, and although he and Ma have access to a TV, Jack believes that everything he sees on the screen is make-believe: as far as he’s concerned, Room is the entire world. He’s happy enough with his Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6828546123716599985.post-71531326934970571002010-09-09T03:28:00.000-07:002010-09-16T03:05:52.203-07:00Following the Booker: In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Synopsis
There is a moment when any real journey begins. Sometimes it happens as you leave your house, sometimes it’s a long way from home…
A young man makes three journeys that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a Pulp Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488843761240629215noreply@blogger.com0