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Hot Tip: Where The Food Critics Dine
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011We Love Airport Bookshops
Friday, January 14th, 2011
Here’s a nice line about The Hundred-Foot Journey from a blogger, Lauren McDuff, who picked up my book while passing through the airport in Auckland, New Zealand: “Every once in a while, a book comes along that makes you want to forget about everything else that is nagging and pulling at you in life, to just read it.” For the full review, click here.
New UK lit-blog
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
The Book Caterpillar, an interesting new lit-bog in the UK, has just emerged from its cocoon. The site’s author, Laura Pilcher, did an interesting short on how The Hundred-Foot Journey all came about. Check it out here.
Doings Down Under
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
The Australian cover from Allen & Unwin
Australia/NZ is shaping up to be an important market for The Hundred-Foot Journey, which is due out in December Down Under. Publisher Allen & Unwin has done a terrific job drumming up pre-pub buzz. Here the latest from Booktopia, the nation’s top bookseller, which has already given 100 Foot a rave.
Steve and Cokie Roberts: political lessons in 100-Foot Journey
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Cokie and Steve Roberts
Two of the premier political commentators in the United States – who happen to be married to each other for the last 40 years – have picked up on a thread in The Hundred-Foot Journey to make a point as relevant to America as it is to Europe. Check out French Lessons For The United States, the latest column by Steve and Cokie Roberts.
As usual, the DC commentators used their down-to-earth common sense to nail our growing fiscal crisis on the head. Their deadly accurate call: “Unchecked entitlements will devour America’s future.”
Modern societies provide their citizens with entitlements, it’s a fact Republicans need to get their heads around, but so is the reality our economic pie is finite. We must live within our means. If our politicians don’t deal with the reality of our deteriorating national finances, it’s a matter of time before the markets will force the issue on them – a la Greece.
Join the Facebook page for The Hundred-Foot Journey
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The UK Cover
Interested in following The Hundred-Foot Journey‘s own mysterious walkabout this earth? If so, I welcome you to join the Facebook page dedicated to The Hundred-Foot Journey, created to keep publishers, booksellers, agents, film producers, and, most importantly, readers informed of the book’s own road trip around the globe. Find the FB page here.
UK’s Independent catches 100 Foot tweet buzz from food critics
Monday, July 19th, 2010
The quality Independent - caught the buzz
Today’s report from the quality UK newspaper, The Independent:
“The Hundred-Foot Journey, a novel written by Richard Morais and published in July, is captivating foodies and chefs around the world from Anthony Bourdain to New York Magazine‘s ‘insatiable critic’ Gael Greene.
“Foodies have moved on from Julie & Julia ($8/€6) and Eat, Pray, Love ($24.95/€19) to The Hundred-Foot Journey ($23/€18), a story about a middle-aged Indian Muslim chef who finds his calling as a haute cuisine chef in Paris and relives the journey.”
Check out the full piece at The Independent and the buzzing tweets that caught the quality newspaper’s eye.
Ode To A Bookish Mom
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Wall Street - after the 1929 crash
Many people ask me how I became a writer, and what led me to pursue this strange life. The reasons are manifold, of course, but nothing is more fundamental a drive than the unfulfilled hungers and dreams of a family. For each generation of family born into this world sets out, in some important way, to complete the unfinished story of the previous generation, before it’s their turn to hand the unfinished text over to the newly rising family members. Here is my Huffington Post blog on two of the key literary influences of my life.
Official “blog tour” verdicts are in
Friday, July 16th, 2010
While more blog reviews will be rolling in over the course of the summer, the “official” tour has just ended. Here are the blog reviews of The Hundred-Foot Journey that have appeared so far, warts and all.
Last but not least…
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Rob of BOOKS ARE LIKE CANDY CORN
Smack my hand. For some reason the final participant of the blog tour, book-fiend Rob of Hawai, was left off the master list. My apologies to Rob. So the last two days of “official” book blogging posts are -
July 14 -http://www.rundpinne.com/
July 15 – http://bookscandycorn.blogspot.com/
Today’s question and answer and review at BookNaround.
