Monday, May 24th, 2010

Serial novelist…ONLINE

Why buy the whole book when you can get the chapters (one at a time) for free? Charles Dickens published novels in serial form, or chapter by chapter, in newspapers and magazines. The idea continues today as newspapers serialize longer works. Fans can read the book chapter by chapterĀ  in the newspaper, on the web, [...]

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Grab a book on your break

Spring Break is here – time to pick up some vacation reading! Here are two suggestions. Lethal Legacy Murder in the library? The New York Public Library? Not quite, but the NYPL is the setting for much of Linda Fairstein’s 11th legal thriller starring sleuth Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper. Cooper thinks she is investigating [...]