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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart talks about the fine art of the essay.
Mentioned in this podcast: Chris Baldick’s The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms; Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan, eds. The Best American Essays of the Century; Gore Vidal’s United States: Essays 1992-2000 and The Last Empire. Essays 1992-2000; [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s resident book reviewer Michael Cart talks about a new book by Emily Bazelon called Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. What are the best ways to defeat bullying? Not surprisingly, developing a sense of [...]
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In his latest podcast, Michael Cart, Infopeople’s book reviewer par excellence, gives an historical overview of the field of adult books for young adults. Oh, and he also has a new book of his own that recently came out: Cart’s Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults: Two Decades [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book guy, Michael Cart, talks about the bestsellers of 2012 and the current state of e-book reading … and a bonus bit about Walt Kelly and Pogo!
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In his first podcast of the new year, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart reports on the retirement of celebrated novelist Philip Roth and muses about favorite words.
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In this holiday-ish themed podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart talks about the best books of 2012 and takes a sentimental look at (and reads an excerpt from) one of his favorite holiday books.
Mentioned: the phenomenon of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy, Edward Streeter’s Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, Hilary Mantel’s [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s bookmeister extraordinaire Michael Cart talks about a relatively new category of commercial fiction known as “new adult” fiction. But as he points out, this new genre has a lot of the same characteristics as another older genre: crossover books. Coincidence? Michael thinks not.
Some examples of [...]
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In his latest podcast, Michael Cart offers a podcast potpourri of book and publishing news and features.
Mentioned in this podcast: Merriam Webster’s new words for 2012, Publishers Weekly’s list of the most difficult books to read, the top 100 teen books as compiled by NPR (Michael [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s Michael Cart offers a fond tribute to the late, great man of letters, Gore Vidal, who passed away on July 31 at 86.
Titles mentioned in this podcast: Vidal’s American Chronicle sextet (Burr, Lincoln, 1876, The Golden Age, Washington, DC ) and his [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart reports on Americas new Poet Laureate and continues his discussion of the impact of technology on publishing.
Mentioned in this podcast: New Laureate Looks Deep into Memory (NY Times, 6/6/12), Room for Debate (NY Times 6/6/12), BEA 2012: Self-Published [...]
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