Digital Teen Read Week? Make That Teen Read Month! By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 11:00 AM Next Monday, the Readergirlz website will kick off “31 Flavorites,” which takes the Young Adult Library Services Association‘s “Teen Read Week” as a starting point and then spreads out across the enti ...
Publishing Two More Guys and You’ve Got the Village People By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 9:42 AM Remember that trailer for Letters to eBay I wrote about last month? Author Paul Meadors (far left) sent me pictures of the reading he did for the book at a Borders in Fresno, California… with a little help from his friends, ...
Sponsored Content Library of America Unveils 2nd Philip K. Dick Omnibus By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 9:02 AM Jonathan Lethem, the editor of the Library of America compilation of Philip K. Dick‘s best novels from the 1960s, will be speaking about Dick at a Cooper Union lecture this Thursday night—and the Library has announced ...
Book Biz Please Excuse the Semi-Detached Tone of Late By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 9:00 AM As I mentioned in passing yesterday, I’m currently serving jury duty—which means that all of these GalleyCat posts were written last night and are slowly being released into the world while I sit in a courtroom, waitin ...
Authors Kilmer-Purcell Lets MySpace Pick His Next Title By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 8:23 AM Shortly after Josh Kilmer-Purcell turned in his second book to Harper Perennial, he discovered that the novel was known in-house both as Candy Everybody Wants and Candy Everyone Wants. He and his editor couldn’t decide which ...
Book Biz Oprah’s Next Book? I Got Nothing—You? By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 8:01 AM So here’s what we know about the next selection for Oprah Winfrey‘s book club, which will be revealed on October 5: it’s a $14.95 Vintage paperback, and it’s probably fiction. Unfortunately, that doesn̵ ...
Authors Nat’l Book Foundation Picks “5 Under 35” By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 7:29 AM For the second consecutive year, the National Book Foundation has selected five young writers to put in the spotlight with a “5 Under 35” reading the week that the National Book Awards are announced. This year’s ...
Publishing Two Humorists Team Up for Risqué Business By Neal on Sep. 25, 2007 - 7:00 AM When DC Stanfa (far left) and Susan Reinhardt first met at the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Conference, the two humor writers “bonded like Gorilla Glue and paper,” as Reinhardt recalls. As they sealed their friendship o ...
Authors How 9/11 Changed Our Relationship to the News By Neal on Sep. 24, 2007 - 1:30 PM Earlier this month, David Friend spoke as a guest of the @Google lecture series about Watching the World Change, his book about how some of the most striking images associated with the 9/11 terrorists attacks were created, and wha ...
Publishing A Two-Night Revival for Porgy & Bess By Neal on Sep. 24, 2007 - 10:40 AM Now, I’ve seen the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge, on the big screen before, nearly a decade ago—I can’t remember exactly how I managed it, but the film definit ...