Nick’s Books

Slam in Vanity Fair

Check out the mention of Slam in this month’s Vanity Fair!
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/10/hottype200710

Add comment September 17th, 2007

RE-reading Hornby

People around the country are RE-reading Hornby:
http://www.sunherald.com/160/story/128474.html

Add comment August 27th, 2007

Nick Hornby to be a judge for new award

Nick Hornby will be a judge for a new award for graphic short stories.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/41805-cape-opens-graphic-prize.html

Add comment July 11th, 2007

Reading groups all over are adopting Nick Hornby books for their discussions. A Long Way Down is featured this week at the Metairie Barnes & Noble Contemporary Fiction Reading Group in Louisiana.
http://www.nola.com/books/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1183872985229090.xml&coll=1

Southern Methodist University has chosen Nick Hornby’s How to be Good as their summer reading pick for incoming freshmen.
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/jul/09/smu-wants-incoming-students-know-how-be-good/

Add comment July 10th, 2007

Nick reads at American Library Association convention

More than 20,000 school, public, and academic librarians attended the American Library Association convention in Washington, D.C., earlier this week. Nick Hornby was in attendance to announce the publication of his first Young Adult title, Slam (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, October 16). On this event-filled day, more than 200 people attended his reading, 500 people attended his author panel program, and another 300 librarians eagerly and patiently waited in line for an autographed galley of Slam.

Add comment June 29th, 2007

Nick Hornby to publish his first Young Adult novel!

Slam, a novel for readers of many ages, revolves around Sam who—after falling hard for a very pretty girl—ultimately finds his way through conversations with a larger-than-life poster of his idol, champion skater Tony Hawk.

Penguin Young Readers Group will publish the book in hardcover in October 2007. And simultaneous paperback editions of the novel will follow from Riverhead and Penguin Young Readers in 2008.

Add comment March 13th, 2007

Campus Life

Nick Hornby visits the University of Memphis: http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=3303

Add comment January 2nd, 2007

High Fidelity, The Musical

High Fidelity, the musical, based on the novel by Nick Hornby and the Touchstone Pictures film, will have its world premiere in Boston, MA, on September 26, 2006.
A New York Broadway premiere will follow in November 2006.

Score by Tom Kitt and Amanda Green, book by David Lindsay-Abaire (Fuddy Meers, Rabbit Hole) and directed by Walter Bobbie, the Tony Award-winning director of Chicago.

Musical’s website: topfivebreakups.com

Listen to an NPR piece with the playwright, composer, and lyricist of the High Fidelity musical, and hear a Boston record store owner’s reaction.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6270820

July 26th, 2006