Comic Books Top Cow Moo-ving On Up By Neal on Feb. 28, 2006 - 12:30 PM Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada made a brief announcement at a Saturday morning Comic-Con panel about a new co-production deal with independent comics studio Top Cow. And I do mean brief; he showed a few slides of sample art fr ...
Authors Sinclair Not Fake Leftist Writer After All By Neal on Feb. 28, 2006 - 12:06 PM At the very tail end of last year, reports emerged that Upton Sinclair had discovered Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty. Now Sinclair biographer Kevin Mattson has some advice regarding the way commentators, especially conservatives, ...
Awards Books for a Better Life By Carmen on Feb. 28, 2006 - 11:34 AM Even though your humble Galleycats arrived at the Millenium Broadway Hotel not long after cocktails (and an incredible food spread) began yesterday evening, the hotel bar was already jammed up with some of publishing’s bigge ...
Authors So that’s how Judith Regan can cash in on this By Carmen on Feb. 28, 2006 - 9:39 AM I suppose it was only a matter of time before James Frey and A MILLION LITTLE PIECES would be mercilessly parodied. But so soon? That’s what the Book Standard says, reporting that ReganBooks will publish A MILLION LITTLE LIE ...
Authors See, Harper Lee really did write the book herself By Carmen on Feb. 28, 2006 - 9:02 AM It’s one of the most enduring literary rumors: did Truman Capote help his first cousin with the writing of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD? And is that why she never wrote another novel? The answer, according to a letter Capote wrote ...
Events Brand New Day By Neal on Feb. 28, 2006 - 9:00 AM I first met Laura Day (left) nine years ago, when I was still a fledgling interviewer and she was promoting her first book, Practical Intuition. We’ve kept in intermittent touch since then, so I was pleased by the opportunit ...
Authors When Code and Law Collide By Neal on Feb. 28, 2006 - 8:59 AM For those of us in New York, Sarah Lyall’s NYT coverage of the Da Vinci Code trial delivers a solid overview of the plagiarism charges Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, two of the three authors of 1982’s Holy Blood, H ...
Book Biz Vampires meet High Concepts By Carmen on Feb. 28, 2006 - 8:52 AM When a book is billed as “The Devil Wears Prada & Mean Girls meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” it’s bound to make people sit up and take some notice. And since the book in question, Valerie Stivers’s BLO ...
Authors His Royalty Statements Ain’t Peanuts By Neal on Feb. 28, 2006 - 8:48 AM Jeffrey Trachtenberg’s latest article for WSJ focuses on Jimmy Carter’s self-propelled literary career, examining the “versatile writer and relentless marketer” in action. “Like other successful scrib ...
Authors A lonely voice in the short story world By Carmen on Feb. 28, 2006 - 8:39 AM Though Dinitia Smith’s profile of Deborah Eisenberg is somewhat overburdened with appearance description (the writer “looks like a large, slender bird with her heavy eyelids, beaked nose, small chin” and “w ...