Kerry Lauerman

Kerry Lauerman
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Editor in Chief, Salon.com
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Email me at: kerry-at-salon-dot-com (I'll never dig out of my Open intra-mail, I'm afraid.) I tweet at twitter.com/kerrylauerman

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AUGUST 23, 2010 5:13PM

New Reading Club starting -- along with some free books!

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We're about to announce our second book in our Salon Reading Club this  Sunday, and as we did the last time, we want to alert Open Salon readers first -- and give you a crack at a free copy of the book!

Like last time, if  you're interested in participating in the club, blogging and  commenting along as Laura Miller posts her Saturday column, send us your name, the URL to your Open blog, and your mailing address to: readingclub@salon.com.

We'll send 20 or so of the first responders a free book.

We also hope you'll send in your own thoughts and questions (again, to readingclub@salon.com) because at the end of the month the book's author will come in and answer a selection of the best ones.

What is the new book? All will be revealed soon. (I'll tweet the announcement.) But I can report that it is a book already garnering attention in the most important circles of power. (Guesses encouraged in the Comment section. If you're right, everyone will know soon enough.) 

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I just sent the email. Very interested.

I review for LibraryThing and a regional publication (Chronogram) and I read closely and voraciously. Very enthusiastic about this.

Did I mention I am excited about this?
Greg Correll
August 23, 2010 06:22 PM
The International Writers Program is beginning it anual Fall in Iowa City in about 2 weeks. They always meet with the public. But what makes me so sad, sometimes I am the only audience. When you see them on TV the crowd is other writers from the program. Americans it seems are only interested in American writers and what they have to say. This should be frightening since WE are the leaders of the free world. Or do I mean the free library.

My favorite book is 1984. Too bad you can't channel to Orwell, but thanks anyway for trying.
mary gravitt
August 23, 2010 08:31 PM
Interesting on having the author come in and answer questions.
vanessa seijo
August 23, 2010 09:21 PM
Sounds "Freedom" to me. I hope so! (I won't tell Oprah, if you don't)
Steven Axelrod
August 23, 2010 09:59 PM
me! me!
sent email..did it go thru?
free is GREAT to a single parent :)

bonus: i love love to read
Ali R
August 23, 2010 11:34 PM
This better be Jonathan Franzen...
Grace Hwang Lynch
August 24, 2010 12:15 AM
"Most important circles of power." Next guess, the new Rhonda Byrne book.
Juliet Waters
August 24, 2010 09:49 AM
Count me in -- love a literary discussion!
Liz Waters
August 24, 2010 12:29 PM
I won't hazard a guess. I won't be able to join in on this one due to a pressing time factor. However, it does sound very interesting.
Poor Woman
August 24, 2010 05:19 PM
The Zeroes? I know, I know, he's my son. But it is a great book! :)
Lea Lane
August 24, 2010 06:50 PM
I just posted about my summertime reading as a teenager:
http://open.salon.com/blog/mark_pritchard/2010/08/25/my_reading_summers_in_a_frantic_search_for_kicks_and_truth
Mark Pritchard
August 25, 2010 04:27 PM
Books are sent! If you get one -- enjoy. If you sent in a request and don't -- hope you'll still participate, and hope we'll get to you next time.
Kerry Lauerman
August 27, 2010 09:41 AM
Richard Brautigan, the baby of the City Lights crowd, was exposed in Vanity Fair after his death. He died alone. He had used his fame to seduce any number of women, and infected them with herpes. At the time, herpes was one of the creepier, permanent STDs. While he should be credited with many interesting novels that "mashed" genres together earlier than others, it appears that he will live on as a footnote in history. I pulled out Trout Fishing in America a couple of weeks ago. If you have some of the later poetry volumes, they go for $$$ on-line.
nolalibrarian
August 30, 2010 07:57 PM
Got it! Look forward to reading and discussing it. This'll be fun!
E. Magill
September 01, 2010 09:51 AM
got mine got mine!!

doing the summer bumgirl dance.
Foolish Monkey
September 02, 2010 03:58 PM
I just saw this. Am I too late?
NSisifo
September 08, 2010 07:58 PM
Must be Freedom. Which I have. And started. And love. If I could write like Franzen I could adequately describe how beyond great this book is. For now, I'll just leave it at sounding like a 12-year-old with a crush on Justin Bieber. OMG. Really. Awesome.
Sherry Kronenfeld
September 12, 2010 03:55 PM
If it's Freedom, I'm scared that I'll be disappointed after all the hype. :)
Nick Leshi
September 13, 2010 10:12 AM
Oh merde! am I too late?
I really wanted to take part of it... damn!
hugs to you guys... next time then
Mauricio Betancourt
September 20, 2010 12:35 AM
Are you coming to NY?
bob skye
September 25, 2010 06:37 PM
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dfg fgh
September 29, 2010 08:28 AM
Just a mom whom loves to read and share the reviews gaining knowledge while meeting new people grand adventures along with taking flight to new lands and mystical places.
Excited to read new material.
daisy fabelo
October 02, 2010 12:54 AM
I'm in! Well, at least I hope I'm in. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Liz Carson
October 07, 2010 07:26 PM
I do not know if I could still have a chance to get the free book. But I am trying my chance. All the best for the book club.
Anu Lal
October 08, 2010 09:18 AM
I want to say that Byron Ayanoglu's Istanbul to Montreal is a splendid read.
Algis Kemezys
October 18, 2010 03:21 AM
I am very pleased with the thought and don’t feel like adding anything in it. ....
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millerw 2k2010
October 18, 2010 10:50 PM
Well, I'd love to participate, but I don't have a blog... (Simply my postings here.)

Thoughts?
mynameise
October 28, 2010 09:48 AM
Read a best selling novel before Hollywood ruins it. Just kidding now.
Algis Kemezys
October 29, 2010 12:09 PM
I didnt even see the first book lol
daisy fabelo
November 01, 2010 11:15 PM
What is going on in nonfiction makes fiction pale by conparisone. The International Writers Program is finsihing up in Iowa City. IC was declared Literature City by UNESCO. We have the Writers Workshop based at the University of Iowa, but it seem that no one can tell you how to get an agent.

I almost forgot, we also have LIVE FROM PRARRIE LIGHTS where writes come to read their ware. Anytime you are in the Midwest between I-80 and 320, drop in and see what us Hawkeyes are doing.
mary gravitt
November 02, 2010 06:45 PM
Late as always....
Shall be following from now. Interesting.
Traveller1
November 08, 2010 07:57 AM
Well, Michiko Kakutani picked Keith Richard's book as the most fun read of the year, and I wouldn't want to get on her wrong side. So, I'm going with "Keith Richards: Life." (p.s. I sell used books for a living; please recycle your reads.)
Tony Spade
November 27, 2010 12:47 PM
good article, good information, thanks.
Tarot
January 11, 2011 03:43 PM

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