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Happy Holidays to all. Now get off the computer and go spend time with your family! Clocks that put our season of excess into perspective. Major moves online at the LATimes. Some great reasons to love NYC. In memory of the 64 journalists who died on the job this year. My favorite book of the […]
Robert Mack teaches us about Sweeney Todd.
Stephanie O’Cain’s favorite book is Written on the Body.
Greg Galant’s favorite book is The Power Broker.
The incarnations of Sweeney Todd.
Erin Cox shares her favorite books with us.
Dylan Moulton’s favorite book is…
I have never finished reading my favorite book. This may sound incongruous, but the truth is that any time I “finish” Sartre’s ‘The Words’, I simply start it again. For many years, I have always been somewhere in the process of reading this quietly brilliant book. Sartre’s memoir is one of paradox.
Earlier this week I spent an enjoyable hour being interviewed on the Wisconsin Public Radio show “At Issue with Ben Merens.” Though our topic was ostensibly the New Oxford American Dictionary’s choice of ‘locavore’ as Word of the Year, we soon ventured into other word-related matters, such as ‘O’.
The staff at OUP-UK tell you about their favourite books of 2007
Yesterday, Robert Mack, the editor of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, wrote about the unknown author of Sweeney Todd. Today Mack looks at Dickens’s influence. This post first appeared on Powell’s. The original publisher of Sweeney Todd, Edward Lloyd, in whose journal The People’s Periodical and Family Library first appeared in 1846-7, […]
Jaime Morganstern’s favorite book is Love Story.
Anatoly divulges how seasons make up the year.
Bethany Heitman’s favorite book is In Cold Blood.
To celebrate the holidays we asked some of our favorite people in publishing what their favorite book was. Let us know in the comments what your favorite book is and be sure to check back throughout the week for more “favorites”. Mark Sarvas runs the literary blog The Elegant Variation. His criticism has appeared in […]
Who wrote Sweeney Todd?
