Authors Bloggers Rally Online to Support Patry Francis By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 12:51 PM The paperback of Patry Francis‘s debut novel, The Liar’s Diary, is being released today, just two months after she was diagnosed with cancer, and has been undergoing surgeries since then. Throughout early January, hund ...
Bookselling “Written Nerd” Gets $15K Biz Grant By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 12:24 PM Congratulations to fellow bookblogger Jessica Stockton Bagnulo (far left) on winning the Brooklyn Public Library‘s annual business plan competition with her proposal for an independent bookstore, a dream she’s long nur ...
Book Bix No Secret to Charles Bock’s Media Blitz By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 12:08 PM After this morning’s post on all the attention the NY Times is lavishing on Charles Bock, a few of you emailed suggestions as to how the one-two punch of the long Sunday magazine profile, soon to be followed by a front-page ...
Book Biz Oprah’s Next Book Club Pick Comes Tomorrow By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 11:26 AM Michael Cader reminds us in this morning’s Publisher’s Lunch that tomorrow’s the day Oprah Winfrey makes her new book club selection. “The metadata currently on the web is inconsistent,” he notes, whi ...
Book Biz Oh God, Not Another Power Ballad Writing Contest By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 11:05 AM It was almost one year ago exactly that Barrelhouse invited readers to create their own power ballad, and while the literary magazine has moved on to roller derby, Algonquin Books has picked up the fascination with the songs. The ...
Authors “Greatest American Novelist” Dies, Almost Unnoticed By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 8:05 AM I’ll admit it: I’ve never read any of Theodora Keogh‘s nine novels, and chances are, given what little I know about the demographics of this blog’s readership, you haven’t, either. But Ned Rorem has s ...
Authors Oh For the Love of Bock By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 8:00 AM A couple people emailed me yesterday after reading Charles McGrath‘s profile of Charles Bock for the NYT Sunday magazine and wanted to know, as one reader put it, “Who’s Charles Bock’s damn rabbi?” Cl ...
Comic Books Captain America, Is That You? By Neal on Jan. 29, 2008 - 8:00 AM A little more than ten months after Marvel killed off Captain America, the search for someone to don Steve Roger’s costume ends with the new issue, on sale tomorrow, and the winner is… his former teenage sidekick durin ...
Book Biz Literary Magazine Takes Roller Derby As Muse By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 12:32 PM Barrelhouse is looking for your best writing about the roller derby: “fiction, essays, poems, whatever you got.” The finalists will see their work printed in the magazine’s next issue, with the winner receiving a ...
Book Biz One Step Closer to Adapting Entire Novels on YouTube By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 10:00 AM This clip has been sanitized by the producers, but people walking past your computer might be a little curious about that string of bleeps towards the end… Television actresses Autumn Reeser and April Bowlby do a scene from ...