Reviews NYTBR Victim of Awkward Juxtaposition By Neal on Oct. 27, 2006 - 3:10 PM So I’m looking at my advance copy of this weekend’s New York Times Book Review, and I don’t get more than a few pages in before wondering—how did an ad for Jonathan Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone wind ...
Book Biz Indie Publisher As Coffee Entrepreneur? By Neal on Oct. 27, 2006 - 12:28 PM BrooklynPapers.com has a story up about Vox Pop, “a stridently anti-corporate Ditmas Park coffeehouse” with plans to build itself up into a rival to Starbucks. Oddly enough, although the interview with CEO Sander Hicks ...
Events Fishbowlers Make the Party Scene in NY, DC By Neal on Oct. 27, 2006 - 12:04 PM GalleyCat isn’t the only mediabistro.com blog bringing you news from the book world. Our Fishbowl correspondents have also been coming up with some good stories—over at FishbowlDC, for example, Patrick W. Gavin has pic ...
Comic Books The NBA “Comic Book” Backlash Begins By Neal on Oct. 27, 2006 - 10:56 AM In response to the nomination of Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese for the National Book Award for young people’s literature, the Wired News copy chief would like to remind us that “the comic book does not deserv ...
Authors Could this rookie author be Starbucks’ next choice? By Carmen on Oct. 27, 2006 - 9:19 AM When PW Daily’s Edward Nawotka reported on the staggering success of Mitch Albom‘s FOR ONE MORE DAY as a result of being sold in practically every Starbucks outlet in America (with, according to the chain, almost 50,00 ...
Publishing GalleyCats to Speak at Writers Conferences By Neal on Oct. 27, 2006 - 8:57 AM If you’re an aspiring writer in the New York area with no plans for the end of next week, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses is collaborating with the creative writing program at the New School, the literary agenc ...
Book Biz Madonna’s Malawi Adoption mere Book Promo? By Carmen on Oct. 27, 2006 - 8:26 AM So speculates Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily, noting the incredible coincidence of Madonna‘s controversion adoption of a young boy from the African country of Malawi with the release of her latest ENGLISH ROSES chil ...
Authors Dem’s Shining Star Wows Rare Book World By Neal on Oct. 27, 2006 - 7:57 AM Sen. Barack Obama (right) isn’t just one of the names most bandied about by prognosticators of the next Democratic Party presidential primary cycle, he’s also an accomplished author…and one whose books can comman ...
Publishing Penguin Canada commissions Green Gables Prequel By Carmen on Oct. 27, 2006 - 7:20 AM Penguin Canada issued a press release late last night that they will undertake a major Canadian and international publishing program in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery‘s debut novel ANNE OF GREEN ...
Bookselling On the boldface name bookselling front By Carmen on Oct. 27, 2006 - 6:44 AM Mina Hemingway, Ernest’s granddaughter, has found a new occupation: bookstore owner. On September 14, according to Bookselling This Week, Bookstore at the Pavilion in Naples, Florida, officially became Mina Hemingway’s ...