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Over at Goodreads, they have an a write up of Simon Winchester’s favorite bedtime books about the sea! Winchester will be at Live Talks on November 18 at Track 16 in conversation with Patt Morrison. This event will benefit the new — to be launched in early 2011 — Los Angeles Review of Books. Starting…
Continue ReadingVideo from our event with P.J. O’Rourke discussing his new book, Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards is now in our video section of the site…
Continue ReadingVideo from our event with Robert Reich discussing his new book, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future with Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace is now posted. Feel free to take the embed code and share….
Continue ReadingThe Telegraph has a book review on Simon Winchester’s new book that he will be discussing at Live Talks on November 18 at Track 16. Here’s an excerpt: As knowledge of the ocean and what lay beyond grew, men set out to reap its fortunes. For Simon Winchester the Atlantic is to modern civilisation what…
Continue ReadingSir Michael Caine who will release his second autobiography, The Elephant to Hollywood, says his next book project will be fiction. Why, you may ask? He tells the UK site for book lovers, LoveReading…. …his next book will be a work of fiction because he’s “sick” of lawyers telling him what he can and can’t write about…
Continue ReadingAn excerpt from Tea with the Financial Times: Michael Caine. Michael Caine says he felt his career was winding down, he was “getting increasingly involved with his restaurant businesses and enjoying the easy life in his new apartment in Miami’s South Beach. And then, wouldn’t you know it, Jack Nicholson called. “He was the catalyst,”…
Continue ReadingHere’s the video from our event with Ken Follett discussing his new book Fall of Giants. The video below is the whole program, and here is a short clip on his reaction to the television mini-series adaptation of Pillars of the Earth.
Continue ReadingWith the elections a few weeks away — actually on the day that we host Lewis Black at Live Talks, Nov 2 — we thought we’d share some video of Lewis Black at the Aspen Ideas Festival talking about religion. Also, here’s the introduction and first chapter of his new book, I’m Dreaming of a…
Continue ReadingSimon Winchester appears at Live Talks on November 18 at Track 16 in conversation with Patt Morrison. Here’s an in depth interview with Winchester from C-SPAN.
Continue ReadingLewis Black says it is not to early to start taking about Christmas. He will be at Live Talks November 2 in conversation with Craig Ferguson discussing his new book, I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas. Here’s a video of Black talking about Christmas.
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