Book Biz NOLA Teens Add to City’s Literary Heritage By Neal on Sep. 9, 2005 - 9:01 AM There’s an update on the New Orleans-based Neighborhood Story Project Elizabeth mentioned earlier this week. Well, okay, it isn’t really much of an update–the Project and its Brooklyn ally, Soft Skull Press, are ...
Authors Isn’t It a Shame What the River Has Done… By Neal on Sep. 9, 2005 - 9:00 AM Elizabeth also mentioned the sudden rise in demand for John Barry’s Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, for which Simon & Schuster just ordered an additional 10,000 copies. Their ...
Awards Arthur & George Never Let Me GoA Long, Long Way By Neal on Sep. 8, 2005 - 1:36 PM The Man Booker finalists have been announced. John Banville, Julian Barnes, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, and Zadie Smith will duke it out on BBC 2 October 10th. (I’m rooting for Ishiguro, not just because it&# ...
Publishing Jon Hawks Twelve (sorry, couldn’t resist) By Neal on Sep. 8, 2005 - 1:06 PM Business Week recently interviewed Jonathan Karp about his move from Random House to Time Warner, where he’s heading up a new imprint called “Warner Twelve.” The imprint’s name derives from its publishing s ...
Authors Gonna Buy 12 Copies for My Mother… By Neal on Sep. 8, 2005 - 12:01 PM According to the AP, tomorrow’s issue of Rolling Stone includes Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide note. Or, at any rate, the memo Thompson wrote himself for motivation: “…67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more th ...
Authors I Want to Live Like Common People… By Neal on Sep. 8, 2005 - 10:45 AM Over at the Slate book club, Alan Wolfe and Tyler Cowen are debating the merits of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bait and Switch, in which she tries to find out how hard things are for the middle class by looking for work as a public ...
Book Biz People Flocked Like Cattle to Seattle… By Neal on Sep. 8, 2005 - 9:03 AM As a former Seattlite, I’m sort of sorry I missed the annual Bumbershoot arts festival last weekend, because it’s always a great mix of music and literature. Luckily, Post-Intelligencer book reporter John Marshall̵ ...
Publishing Blue Background Makes Nifty Visual Pun By Neal on Sep. 8, 2005 - 9:02 AM Oxford University Press is one of the first major publishers (that I’ve seen, at any rate) to join Typepad so it can blog about its recent and upcoming titles. Right now, it’s primarily a combination of short excerpts ...
Sponsored Content Pining for the Fnords By Neal on Sep. 7, 2005 - 12:26 PM I’ve got a story in the latest Publisher’s Weekly about the mini-industry of Dan Brown explicators (subscription required; head for the bottom), which ends with an observation that “publishers are–or should ...
Publishing On the Move By Neal on Sep. 7, 2005 - 10:10 AM Sarah Weinman, last week’s guest ‘Cat, reports that Putnam senior editor David Highfill is relocating to midtown and an executive position at William Morrow. Sarah notes the mystery and thriller writers Highfill brough ...