Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for February 11, 2014.
Fitness Guru Tony Horton on "The Big Picture"
When I moved to Seattle in 2008, I was a self-employed writer, struggling to finish my next book. I had no friends, I worked long hours in a basement prone to flooding, and I quickly learned that Seattle summers are beautiful but short, that running in the rain gets old fast. So I made a new friend, Tony Horton, whose infomercials for his P90X workout DVDs were late-night TV staples. Those DVDs--…
Amazon Asks: Daniel Suarez, Author of "Influx"
Not to be too cinematically cliché about it, but imagine a world... one in which your wish list of futuresque inventions actually existed. Imagine now that an organization has suppressed the items on your list, hidden them away so that nobody knows they're really possible. Worse yet, imagine you're the one who invented something world-changing.
That's the sort of …
The Best Books About Getting Eaten
Claire Cameron's new novel, The Bear, opens on a very dark night: On a family camping trip, a savage attack from a 300-pound black bear orphans five-year-old Anna and her younger brother, sending them on a terrifying flight for survival through the Canadian wilderness. The novel, written in the honest and unfiltered voice of the young girl, is a compact, tense survival story (and as …
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