Authors CopyKaavya: others pick up on the packaging connection By Carmen on Apr. 25, 2006 - 9:35 AM Not surprisingly, other likeminded souls are putting their heads together on how 17th Street Productions packaged Kaavya Viswanathan’s book to the point of alleged plagiarism. Says one commenter on the blog Emily Magazine, & ...
Trends Golly gee, another plagiarism story By Carmen on Apr. 25, 2006 - 8:30 AM But this one won’t garner the glut of headlines that CopyKaavya’s been getting. Still, the fact that Raytheon CEO William H. Swanson actually cribbed some of his rules in “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Manag ...
Publishing The Bluffer’s Guide to PEN World Voices By Neal on Apr. 25, 2006 - 8:08 AM So the PEN World Voices festival kicks off tonight with Orhan Pamuk’s Cooper Union lecture, where he’ll be introduced by Salman Rushdie and lightly peppered with questions from Margaret Atwood, and perhaps you’re ...
Digital Learn your language on your cell phone By Carmen on Apr. 25, 2006 - 7:15 AM Berlitz tapes? That’s so 20th century. VOCEL, a “push technology” wireless company, and Random House’s Living Large Imprint have partnered together to bring to customers the Living Language mobile applicati ...
Authors Charles McGrath’s Grand Old Men of Literature By Neal on Apr. 25, 2006 - 7:00 AM Halfway through this morning’s NYT profile of Philip Roth, it dawned on me that Charles McGrath was slipping into awfully familiar territory—and I wasn’t because I suddenly remembered that old Magazine piece on & ...
Publishing Today in Wottakar’s: Hey Tim, show us the money! By Carmen on Apr. 25, 2006 - 6:30 AM So is Tim Waterstone, the bookstore chain’s founder, really making a bid to buy the company back? HMV wants a formal offer, and it looks like he’ll be going through with it, thirteen years after walking away from the w ...
Publishing Sunday Night at KGB By Neal on Apr. 24, 2006 - 2:48 PM Suzanne Dottino (center) greets authors Martha McPhee (L’America) and Lara Vapnyar (Memoirs of a Muse) at last night’s KGB fiction reading. Later this week, Dottino and Susan Chi will launch a new literary magazine cal ...
Authors She may have, but she also had help By Carmen on Apr. 24, 2006 - 1:35 PM There’s no question that the story of the day, probably the week, is Kaavya Viswanathan and how she may have lifted passages from Megan McCafferty’s books, specifically 2001’s SLOPPY FIRSTS. And while the ‘ ...
Authors Oops, Did She Write It Again? By Neal on Apr. 24, 2006 - 11:31 AM Kaavya Viswanathan (top) felt her smooth ride to book-world celebrity end abruptly this weekend as the Harvard Crimson pored through the 19-year-old sophomore’s debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got… a Life, and cataloged lo ...
Publishing Today in Wottakar’s: Tim Waterstone makes noise, few believe By Carmen on Apr. 24, 2006 - 10:10 AM But despite that, the founder of Waterstone’s has confirmed he was trying to buy the book chain back for £280m – but only if owner HMV drops its interest in rival Ottakar’s. Waterstone, who has joined forces w ...