Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for October 15, 2013.
Man Booker Prize Goes to "The Luminaries"
She’s young, she’s talented, and she just won the Booker. 28 year-old Eleanor Catton started writing her doorstop of a novel, The Luminaries, when she was 25 years old. She must have had an idea she was good: she’d already written one book, The Rehearsal, which received critical praise, and in 2008 she was awarded a fellowship to the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
But to go on to …
Exclusive Excerpt from 'The Family,' by David Laskin
[David Laskin's The Family, a Best Book of the Month pick for October, goes on sale today. In 1922, Laskin's grandmother, Ida Rosenthal, known as Itel, founded the Maidenform Bra Company with her husband and their partner, former vaudevillian Enid Bissett. The following paragraphs describe the moment when the partners took a "breast flattener" bra and, with a few snips …
Shot to Hilarity: Behind the Scenes of "Comic Genius"
The cover seems safe enough: Good ol' Steve Martin comes off dapper and subdued, a gentleman we now know as much for his romantic comedy acting as his "wild and crazy" old King Tut days (if not more so). But with a single turn the mood becomes manic, a grid of small oddities begging for a closer look.
Award-winning photographer Matt Hoyle combined high hopes, dogged persistence, …
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