Awards Meet Your Orange Prize Nominees By Neal on Apr. 26, 2006 - 11:00 AM The shortlist of nominees for the Orange Prize, the largest literary award exclusively for women, is being announced today, and it’s heavy on the Brits. And while one might think the Zadie Smith vs. Ali Smith competition wou ...
Authors CopyKaavya: Crown issues the smackdown By Carmen on Apr. 26, 2006 - 9:30 AM It’s day three of the plagiarism scandal du jour, and Crown — who published the Megan McCafferty books Kaavya Viswanathan admitted to using as source material for her own book — isn’t exactly happy with the ...
Authors CopyKaavya: more on 17th Street, and another blast from the past By Carmen on Apr. 26, 2006 - 9:15 AM The Harvard Independent is doing their best to dig into the underside of 17th Street Productions, the book packager that shares the copyright on OPAL MEHTA with Kaavya Visnawathan. And to that end, the paper interviewed Lizzie Sku ...
Authors Miss Teen Wordpower Debate Enters 3rd Day By Neal on Apr. 26, 2006 - 8:05 AM I love it when a literary scandal breaks on a Monday, because then I know PW Daily will be sure to reference it in “Talk Back Tuesday,” like this week’s question about Kaavya Viswanathan. “What is the best ...
Events This Book Party Will Save Your Life By Neal on Apr. 26, 2006 - 8:04 AM Top: A.M. Homes looks upon the crowd gathered in the Bubble Lounge to celebrate the publication of This Book Will Save Your Life and finds them pleasing; the photographers from BlackBook and Gawker’s Team Party Crash gear up ...
Revolving Door Personnel changes at Harper & Morrow By Carmen on Apr. 26, 2006 - 7:25 AM The revolving door keeps going that much faster, especially since former Dutton editor Laurie Chittenden — whose authors there included Melanie Lynne Hauser, Lauren Willig, Carrie Kabak, Marisa de Los Santos, T Cooper, Amand ...
Authors Jane Jacobs dead at 89 By Carmen on Apr. 26, 2006 - 6:30 AM The author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” which transformed ideas about urban planning, has died at the age of 89 at a Toronto hospital, AP reports. She is survived by three children, James, Edward a ...
Trends Chick Lit Is Dead, Long Live Chick Lit By Neal on Apr. 25, 2006 - 12:05 PM An intrepid Variety editor slipped us a draft of this morning’s feature on the rush to declare chick lit over (which was nice, since we don’t have a subscription to the paper), so I spent some time last night looking a ...
Authors Who’s That Teacher Dissing Kaavya? By Neal on Apr. 25, 2006 - 11:57 AM The Harvard Independent continues its coverage of Kaavya Viswanathan by deducing the identity of the teaching assistant who described, in a Metafilter posting, how Viswanathan was allegedly a poor writer who fell asleep in class ( ...
Authors Viswanathan Confesses to”Unintentional & Unconscious” Echoes By Carmen on Apr. 25, 2006 - 9:59 AM The controversy surrounding Kaavya Viswanathan’s deployment of Megan McCafferty’s turns of phrase came to a head late Monday as the Harvard Crimson, which first broke the story about the problematic passages in the sop ...