Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for September 9, 2013.
Author Scott Anderson on "Lawrence in Arabia"
11:55 AM PDT, September 9, 2013
This summer, I met the author Scott Anderson at The Half King, the New York bar that he co-owns with Sebastian Junger. We were there to talk about his book Lawrence in Arabia, which was published this August, and I was thrilled to sit across from Scott and listen to him talk about a book that had kept me reading during many a late night.
The book was eventually selected as an Amazon Best Book of …
› Read more
Big Appetites: Tiny People in a World of Big Food
9:00 AM PDT, September 9, 2013
It can be argued that photographer Christopher Boffoli has one of the cooler jobs in the world, as evidenced by his new book Big Appetites: Tiny People in a World of Big Food. We reached out to Boffoli to learn more about the photos he takes and where he gets the ideas behind them. Read on to see what he had to say about his work on Big Appetites (the book publishes on 9/10):
…
› Read more
Jonathan Lethem on "Dissident Gardens" and Exile
7:11 AM PDT, September 9, 2013
Last May, I spoke with Jonathan Lethem at BookExpo America about his new novel, Dissident Gardens, his long-distance affection for New York City, and his obsession with New York Review Books Classics.
So tell me about the book.
Well, this book is kind of a family saga set in Queens. The central figure is a matriarch, a woman named Rose who has some DNA in common with my grandmother, who also lived…
› Read more
