Reviews NYT Echoes Its Own Aeneid Coverage By Neal on Oct. 30, 2006 - 9:00 AM If Charles McGrath’s profile of Robert Fagles (right) in Monday’s NYT arts section seems familiar to you, perhaps it’s because you remember a 2004 article by Chris Hedges which mines much of the same territory, n ...
Trends Bypassing the bookstore By Carmen on Oct. 30, 2006 - 8:33 AM Though the Seattle Times’ piece on authors like Mitch Albom going to Starbucks has been done before, of particular interest was the fact that Albom’s day in town, which began by reading to about 600 employees at Starbu ...
Events “Lit Chick Invasion” Takes Overs KGB By Neal on Oct. 30, 2006 - 8:20 AM Novelists Emily Maguire (Taming the Beast), Heather O’Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals), and Sarah Hall (Haweswater) relax before the official kickoff to Harper Perennial’s “Lit Chick Invasion Tour” la ...
Authors Political Race Turns into Ugly Literary Debate By Neal on Oct. 30, 2006 - 8:08 AM Here at GalleyCat, we can usually steer clear of most political hullaballoos and leave them for more appropriate blogs, but the latest twist in the Virginia Senate race between George “Macaca” Allen and James “Ji ...
Bookselling WSJ Love Letter to B&N By Neal on Oct. 30, 2006 - 8:00 AM To be fair, a significant portion of Jonathan Laing’s enthusiasm for Barnes & Noble builds off the opinion of Pershing Square hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who’s carved out an 8% stake in the bookseller because h ...
Authors Joyce Maynard wants you to forget about J.D. Salinger…or does she? By Carmen on Oct. 30, 2006 - 7:51 AM Well, at least she says she does, in talking to the SF Chronicle’s Justin Berton, but when she began the event to hawk her new book, INTERNAL COMBUSTION, she spent the first 20 minutes on a post-mortem of sorts about the rel ...
Bookselling The Barnes & Noble Book Club By Carmen on Oct. 30, 2006 - 7:27 AM We have a little more detail about the bookstore chain’s newest attempt to bring readers together, the Barnes & Noble Book Club. Authors currently in the midst of such discussions include Diane Setterfield, Carl Hiaasen, ...
Book Biz Jayson Blair’s Publisher a Hip-Hop Architect? By Neal on Oct. 30, 2006 - 7:02 AM Little did I suspect when I started reading yesterday’s NYT story about the rediscovery of the Incredible Bongo Band that the funk collective would turn out to have been assembled by Michael Viner, best known to the publishi ...
Awards Make way for the Story Prize By Carmen on Oct. 30, 2006 - 6:47 AM The third annual Story Prize, the book award for short story collections written in English and published in the U.S., will be returning to the New School’s Tishman Auditorium on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. The ...
Publishing A Strong Fourth Quarter for Pearson By Carmen on Oct. 30, 2006 - 5:35 AM The parent company of Penguin Books reports that its first nine months were particularly strong, with total sales up 11% and operating profit up 26%. Underlying sales went up 5% and underlying operating profit up 15%, its highest ...