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Twitter Book Club: "The Believers" by Zoe Heller -- TONIGHT at 9 p.m. Eastern!
Get out your copies of "The Believers" and line up your questions, Twitter Book Club members -- tonight we'll be chatting with author Zoe Heller about her latest novel, and I know she's game since I interviewed her last week.
Who'd a thunk we'd be in Month Six of Twitter Book Club now? If you're reading this and you have no idea of what I am talking about, take a look at our info page -- it should make things fairly clear. If they're still not after you read that page, feel free to email me: thebookmaven at gmail dot com. If you've never been on Twitter, don't let that stop you from joining us! It's simple, free, and can be a lot of fun -- if you find it's no fun for you, you have no obligation to continue.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 8:30am A Conversation with Zoe Heller
Regular viewers of our videos may notice that this one looks a tiny bit different; due to schedules, we had to tape my interview with Zoe Heller out of our regular studio. I'm mentioning that right up front because it shows how badly I wanted to interview Heller, whose most recent novel "The Believers" was front-and-center at this year's DCJCC Jewish Literary Festival.
If you've never read Heller's work, you may have seen it on screen: "Notes on a Scandal" was an acclaimed film starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, adapted from Heller's "What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal."
Read more »Best of 2009 Roundtable: The Critics Speak
I'm going to push this one live without too much commentary for the moment, because I want everyone to have the chance to watch and laugh along with me, Ron Charles (fiction editor for The Washington Post), Louis Bayard (book reviewer and bestselling author), and Maureen Corrigan (book reviewer for NPR's Fresh Air).
Try to stay until the very end, because we do discuss...#fembook! Why weren't more women on the Best of 2009 lists? Some interesting opinions, here.
I hope you'll let me know what you think of this roundtable, because we'd love to have this group back to The Book Studio. If you prefer to email rather than leave a comment: thebookmaven at gmail dot com. Thanks!
Read more »Everyone Else's "Best Books" List
Looking over everyone's "best of" lists for 2009, it's wonderful to see how many of the notable books and authors of the year we featured here on The Book Studio.
New York Times Read more »The Book Maven's Top 10 Books of 2009
Choosing my Top Ten books of the year has been agonizing. I wish I had an office full of colleagues to argue with, but for this year at least the list is all my responsibility.
You'll note that many of these books appeared on The Book Studio in one way or another. For some, I conducted interviews with the authors; for others, I wrote reviews. That is not deliberate deck-stacking; it's a function of the fact that I try very hard to choose books that I believe will be strong -- but also books that intrigue me and that I want to read.
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