Comic Books The Exciting World of WebComics By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 1:48 PM When I was at Comic-Con a few weeks ago, I decided one morning that I would try to see what was going on with webcomics, strips that reach their primary audience online. Well, okay, I was “inspired” by the huge booth w ...
Authors James Ellroy to Thomas Wolfe: Screw You By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 1:00 PM James Ellroy mines his Los Angeles past yet again, this time for a feature in the LA Times Sunday magazine, West, in which he describes some of the details of his “three-year crack-up” brought on by “long transit ...
Authors Give F. Paul Wilson His Next Plot! By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 10:58 AM F. Paul Wilson has crafted a series of novels around “Repairman Jack,” a one-man supernatural A-Team, or, as his website puts it: “He dwells in the interstices of modern society, has no official identity, no soci ...
Authors Rejecting the Gray Flannel Suit for Literary Tweed By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 10:41 AM Our sisterblog, mbToolbox, scores an interview with James P. Othmer and learns how the former Young & Rubicam creative director worked his advertising background to his advantage in the reviews for his debut novel, The Futuris ...
Book Biz The publishing equivalent of Madlibs? By Carmen on Jul. 31, 2006 - 10:08 AM Or at least, an honest-to-goodness blind item in the form of a book so embargoed that HarperCollins doesn’t want you to know who wrote it and what the subject matter’s about. The publicity one-sheet to booksellers (whi ...
Authors Brick Lane Drives Wedge Between Writers By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 9:48 AM The controvery surrounding the Brick Lane movie has turned into a genuine literary feud, as Salman Rushdie takes his best shot at Germaine Greer. It all started when Greer lent support to Monica Ali’s detractors by suggestin ...
Authors Getting rich, the Felix Dennis way By Carmen on Jul. 31, 2006 - 9:03 AM To say that there isn’t anyone quite like the magazine baron responsible for Maxim (and thus, its many knockoffs) would be an understatement. But the Bookseller’s Joel Rickett was caught seriously off-guard while inter ...
Authors NYC Writers Reading for Peace By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 8:18 AM “A friend emailed me from California: TURN ON CNN. HAIFA IS BEING BOMBED,” recalls author Leora Skolkin-Smith. “From then on, my shock and sickness didn’t come from watching the places I walked as a chil ...
Reviews NYTBR Embraces Collapse of Genre Distinctions By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 8:11 AM Pleasing as Gary Kamiya’s review of Scott Smith’s The Ruins is—since, unlike Michiko Kakutani, Kamiya knows better than to reveal key plot secrets in a review—it raises an interesting question. “The R ...
Book Biz Hemingway’s Ghost a Crazy Cat Lady? By Neal on Jul. 31, 2006 - 7:55 AM The Associated Press reported late last week about a controversy brewing at Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home—the place is overrun with cats. “More than 50 descendants of a multi-toed cat the novelist received as ...