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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 104 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Jun-2009
  • Leidėjas: ALA Editions
  • ISBN-10: 0838909973
  • ISBN-13: 9780838909973
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 104 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Jun-2009
  • Leidėjas: ALA Editions
  • ISBN-10: 0838909973
  • ISBN-13: 9780838909973
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Where else can you find an entertaining book filled with the miscellany of the publishing world? Readers can discover everything from the meager to the important in Bill Ott's ""The Back Page"", part readers' advisory and part commentary on the world of books and literature, good and not so good. Filled with humor and occasional defiance to the conventional, ""The Back Page"" delights readers with anecdotes, stories, quizzes (which are almost impossible to answer without cheating) and a host of insights into what makes books what they are - those wonderful and magical sources of great thoughts. A compendium of the literal back pages of ""Booklist"", a column that has been published in the magazine since 1991, readers will enjoy essays about books and authors, genre fiction, life at ""Booklist"" and so much more.
Foreword: Confessions of a Back Page Junkie ix
Joyce Saricks
Preface: Booklist, the Back Page, and Me xiii
Books and Authors
Golden Ages
3(2)
What I Read on My October Vacation
5(2)
The Cruellest Month
7(2)
Perfection
9(3)
Sharing Sputnik
12(2)
Character Eduction, the Postgraduate Course
14(2)
Big Wheels
16(2)
Jazz Biography
18(2)
Train Weasels
20(2)
Blame It on My Youth
22(3)
Pandora in Blue Jeans
25(3)
Dancing to the Music of Anthony Powell
28(2)
Hearing and Seeing the Music of Time
30(2)
Extolling Impurity
32(3)
A Failure to Communicate
35(2)
Higher Numbers
37(2)
Inadmissible Evidence
39(2)
Outside In and Inside Out
41(2)
The Irony in Irony
43(3)
Eighteen Straight Whiskeys
46(2)
The Seabiscuit Sweepstakes
48(3)
Trying to Read Stendhal
51(2)
Short Lists, Apples, and Oranges
53(3)
Fighting the Good Fight
56(5)
Genre Fiction
Detective of the Heart
61(2)
Michael Connelly's Los Angeles
63(3)
Washington, D.C., through Pelecanos' Eyes
66(2)
Hard-Boiled Chicago Just around the Corner
68(3)
It Began with Beck
71(2)
Himes Comes to Harlen
73(2)
007 Turns 100
75(3)
Violent Novels in a Violent World
78(2)
Remembering George Higgins
80(2)
Michael Dibdin
82(2)
Magdalen Nabb
84(2)
Real Politik, Ross Thomas-Style
86(2)
Smiley's Beginnings
88(3)
Zen and the Art of Series Maintenance
91(2)
Noir Is Where You Find It
93(2)
Strangers in the Night
95(2)
Jim Thompson under the Tuscan Sun
97(6)
Life At Booklist
Best American Fiction from the Last 25 Years
103(3)
Blood on the Tracks
106(3)
Mea Culpa
109(2)
I Hate These Meeses to Pieces
111(2)
He's Still a Lifeless, Fat Pig
113(3)
Barbara Duree and Booklist
116(2)
The Books That Got Away
118(5)
Life Beyond Books
Diagramming Sentences
123(2)
Going Rogue
125(2)
Travelin' Light (or Not)
127(3)
Bill's Excellent Adventure---at the White House
130(2)
Cupcakes in My Go-Pak
132(3)
Why I Hate Crafts
135(2)
Parsing the Paradigm Shift
137(2)
It Was 40 Years Ago Today
139(2)
No! in Thunder
141(2)
A Not-So-Wonderful Life
143(2)
Alas, Poor XyWrite, I Knew Him Well
145(3)
Books Ruined My Life
148(2)
Catfight in the Newsroom
150(2)
Jury Duty
152(5)
Quizzes
Trust Your Instincts---NOT
157(1)
Working Titles
158(2)
Swan Songs
160(2)
Libraries and Librarians in the Movies
162(2)
``Rosebud''
164(2)
Useless Information, Poorly Organized
166(2)
Their Side of the Story
168(2)
Literary Real Estate
170(2)
Art Imitates Life
172(2)
Getting and Spending
174(2)
More Than the Facts, Ma'am
176(2)
Writers in Love
178(2)
First Firsts
180(2)
Hard-Boiled Kissers
182(2)
Puppy Love
184(2)
Too Many Morals
186(2)
Goin' Hollywood
188(1)
Poetic Last Lines
189(1)
Great Lines
190(2)
Poems for a Sunday Afternoon
192(2)
Sex with Dead Presidents
194(2)
Dentists and Movie Stars
196(1)
Index 197