Garth Stein’s New York Times Bestseller, Art of Racing in the Rain is moving from page to the big screen, with Thomas Bezucha signed on to direct the film.
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New Director Named for Film Adaptation Garth Stein’s Art of Racing in the Rain
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Best Selling Travel Writer, Andrew McCarthy, Shares Tips and Insight – Visiting Hawaii!
For Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way Home Honolulu, Hawaii is near and dear to his heart. As a longtime resident, Andrew’s knowledge for all things local is highlighted as part of the “Intelligent Travel” feature of this week’s National Geographic.
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Jamie Ford’s Songs of Willow Frost in Montana’s Best Books
The Great Falls Tribune has collected some of this year’s best books about Montana, or by Montana authors. Included among them is “Songs of Willow Frost” by NYT bestseller Jamie Ford. Catch it here!
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NYT bestseller Jamie Ford in Tanzania
This past year, NYT bestselling author Jamie Ford (Songs of Willow Frost) took a break from a literary celebrity’s touring lifestyle to take a different sort of trip. Read More »
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Garth Stein Races in the Rain!
Garth Stein, favorite author of Raven Stole the Moon, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Stories, and The Art of Racing in the Rain (which has sold 3 million copies in teh US and another 3 million abroad) was recently featured in a Seattle area news magazine. And what better way to explore Garth Stein’s most successful and celebrated title – by racing in the rain, of course. Literally. King5 correspondent Saint Bryan challenged Garth Stein to a few laps around the PGP Motorsports Park in Kent, WA, and ruminated on the many teachable moments within the book, such as, “Your car goes where your eyes go,” and “What you manifest is before you.”
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A Conversation with Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us: How to Engage Your Readers
Reyna Grande, author of Across a Hundred Mountains, Dancing with Butterflies, and The Distance Between Us, is a sought-after speaker at middle/high schools, colleges and universities around the country. Born in Mexico, Reyna was raised by her grandparents after her parents left her behind while they worked in the US. She came to the US at the age of nine as an undocumented immigrant and went on to become the first person in her family to obtain a higher education. We spoke with Reyna about her most recent book, The Distance Between Us, and her thoughts about how to engage readers, particularly students.
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In the Flesh or Between the Lines? The Benefits of Including the Author
As many all-campus and community reads organizers begin finalizing their decision for 2014 program titles, the account managers here at Books in Common often field an important question: why is it so critical for the author to participate, in person? We’ve worked with hundreds of event planners, on thousands of programs around the country. With nearly 100% agreement, the clients we work with say that having the author in the flesh dramatically increases the success of their programs.
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Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way Home, Interviews Paul Theroux: “I Hate Vacations”
Speaking with one of his favorite writers Paul Theroux, Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way Home, talks candidly about the craft of travel writing, and the big difference between traveling and vacationing. Both men are avid journey-takers, and their definitions of what it means to be in a foreign place shed light on their work. When Andrew McCarthy asked Paul Theroux how he felt about traveling, Paul replied, “When I’m traveling, I feel small. You see how big the world is, how small you are, how you don’t really matter, how you can’t effect much change, you can’t bring something back.” Check out the wonderful interview here.
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Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford Released to Advance Praise
Jamie Ford’s much-anticipated second novel, Songs of Willow Frost, was released this month to advance praise. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, this historical novel is a powerful tale of a Chinese-American boy with dreams for his future, and a young woman trying to escape her haunted past and the cultural confines of her race. With many “teachable moments” embedded throughout this story of hope, forgiveness, and reaching for your dreams, Songs of Willow Frost is a wonderful book for students, and will appeal to a wide community audience.
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Biographies vs. Beach Books: Trends in All Campus Reads Selections
In the last decade, common reading programs have become a mainstay for library programming, literary organizations, and college campuses. The rise in First Year Experience, Freshman Reads, and All Campus Reads programs seems to correspond to the decline of core curricula in higher education — as colleges distance themselves from core curricula they find that students still need to have something in common academically. Books in common type programs on campuses have been a convenient answer to that need.
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