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goodreads giveaways 12 Jan 2011 | 08:18 pm
Our current crop of Goodreads giveaways, some of which are ending shortly, some of which are just beginning: Goodreads Book Giveaway Someone Else’s Garden by Dipika Rai Giveaway ends January 14, 2...
winners of our olive editions contest 11 Jan 2011 | 08:03 pm
A while back, we ran a contest asking people which books they’d love to see as olive editions, promising to randomly pick a winner to win a set of the new ones. We let this contest go on a little long...
bob dylan + cher + rick moody + david lehman 5 Jan 2011 | 07:53 pm
So, somewhere out there in the world there existed this photo of Bob Dylan and The Band jamming with Cher: Inspired, our friends at the improvisational writing site QuickMuse asked Rick Moody and Dav...
writers on writing 4 Jan 2011 | 08:08 pm
A great video of writers talking about the writing process, featuring our very own Simon Van Booy:
harper perennial acquires adam wilson’s debut novel 29 Dec 2010 | 10:17 pm
You may have heard it on galleycat first: Harper Perennial editor Michael Signorelli has just acquired FLATSCREEN, the debut novel from Book Court bookseller Adam Wilson. You can read all the details ...
how andrew shaffer hides the holiday pickle 23 Dec 2010 | 08:06 pm
As we get ever closer to Christmas, here’s another guest post from one of our authors: the esteemed Andrew Shaffer, whose new book, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, comes out just after the new ...
the in no way official olive reader best books list 18 Dec 2010 | 01:39 am
I love best-of-the-year lists. While I don’t necessarily need to be told to put Freedom on my to-be-read pile, I do get a kick out of seeing the books on each list that don’t appear anywhere else, the...
jessica anya blau’s jewish christmas 15 Dec 2010 | 12:18 am
In the spirit of the holiday season, we’ll have a couple of our authors dropping by with guest posts over the next few weeks. But, since harper perennial books can be a little quirky, and since I myse...
the fall 2011 books I’m looking forward to most 8 Dec 2010 | 08:21 pm
As you know if you follow us on twitter, yesterday we launched our fall 2011 list. At launch, we only talk about our paperback originals, since our sales team is already familiar with the hardcover re...
books that live up to the hype 1 Dec 2010 | 08:26 pm
Yesterday, we talked about books that everyone loves that we’re just “ehh” about. There was lots of lukewarm feeling in the comments for books like One Day, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and other ti...
