News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff This week’s News & Notes issue is a bit leaner than usual, because a) there wasn’t a lot of big news in the bookish world,… Read more »
Tag: Andy Weir
News & Notes – 3/04/2017
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Unemployed Aboriginal poet surprised by $165K Windham-Campbell Prize (NPR Books; more from The Guardian) Barnes & Noble Still Searching for ‘Magic Bullet’ to Stop Sales Slide (Publishers… Read more »
News & Notes – 4/30/16
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The Hugo Awards finalists for 2016 have been announced. The Sad and Rabid Puppies managed to influence some of the categories pretty heavily, but… Read more »
The Martian: A book-and-movie review
The Martian by Andy Weir Published by Crown on Feb. 11, 2014 (hardcover) Genres: Science Fiction Pages: 387 Format: Paperback Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Project Hail Mary Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now,… Read more »