Sponsorship information

What's New for Book-Lovers

This page points to the hypermail What's New archive, which tells you about new Internet resources related to books.

Past archives:

WARNING: the hypermail software sometimes garbles the titles and authors of messages as rendered into hypertext. Please be patient! We hope to move to new software reasonably soon.

Submitting An Item to What's New for Book-Lovers

Please be sure to tell us about your interesting new site, or about significant new content on an existing site, so that we can add you to the current What's New page (see link above). We will also check you out for consideration as a possible "featured site" on the IBIC homepage.

The best way to submit an item to What's New for Book-Lovers is to send an e-mail to ibic@bookviews.com with a subject line like "What's New: [descriptive phrase]." Make sure the subject line is self-explanatory, as opposed to cryptic. Example: "What's New: The Shakespeare Server."

N.B., generally: the technology developed by the fine folks at Yahoo, InfoSeek, and elsewhere is much better at keeping laundry lists than any individual can be, and if you are an author, bookseller, or publisher who wants to make sure your site's on the map, we strongly recommend that you register yourself with the major directory services.


Editor's Recommendations, Summer 1996

In this inaugural edition of IBIC's Featured Books, I'd like to draw your attention to several titles which have helped to shape my life and thinking.

  • When I was around fifteen, I came across Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's science fiction novel, INFERNO. This '70s remake of Dante's classic describes science fiction writer Allen Carpentier's descent into Hell. It's still a very fresh, accessible take on the classic. What a great movie it would make!
  • The Niven/Pournelle INFERNO immediately inspired me to read the original Divine Comedy. I've read a number of translations over the years, but my favorite is the one by Dorothy Sayers (INFERNO; PURGATORY; PARADISE). The notes are excellent, and Sayers had such a knowledgeable and witty mind that reading her prose is a pleasure in itself. (For those interested in a more contemporary translation, I should mention that Robert Pinsky received excellent notices for his 1995 THE INFERNO OF DANTE : A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION; it's a very handsome book.)
  • I also want to tell you about the late Henry Fairlie's THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS TODAY, which probably did more than any other single book to galvanize me into a lifetime interest in Christianity that led me, eventually, to faith. Ironic, because Fairlie was a self-proclaimed agnostic socialist! But reading between the lines of this insightful and deeply feeling book, one realizes that the love of God cannot have been far from Fairlie's heart.
  • Finally, I should draw to your attention a more recent acquisition, the very handsome NIV STUDY BIBLE (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) from Zondervan, indexed and bonded in leather in IBIC's theme color, burgundy (black and brown are also available). The notes to this Bible are amazing. They appear to provide you with a very substantial portion of what you need to know to have an intelligent layman's appreciation of the linguistic and historical issues involved in understanding Scripture.

IBIC now provides seamless links to the on-line ordering system at Amazon.com Books. To order a book, just click on an underlined title. As a default, we link to paperback rather than hardcover editions of a particular title (although we may modify this rule if a hardcover edition looks to be a particularly good deal). Our editorial philosophy is to put your interests first.

Comprehensive Table of Contents | Help

Copyright © 1996 Internet Book Information Center, Inc.

Send a Letter to the Editor