Sponsored Content VIDEO: Parag Khanna’s Second World Launch Party By Neal on Feb. 27, 2008 - 1:08 PM Last night, at a party hosted by ICM agent Jennifer Joel, Parag Khanna celebrated the publication of The Second World, based on his globe-spanning travels to suss out the shifting power balances in the new world order. “It&# ...
Book Bix More Reactions to Reed Biz Info Sales Plans By Neal on Feb. 27, 2008 - 11:03 AM One literary agent thought my characterization of Reed Business Information as “a portfolio of industry-specific information brands that are already staking out territory online” was overly charitable: “Dude, Pub ...
Book Biz Beautiful Children Joins the Free Book Movement By Neal on Feb. 27, 2008 - 9:00 AM Following last month’s hoopla over Charles Bock, reviewers were sharply divided over the actual merits of his novel, Beautiful Children…and then there were the people who just hated Bock on general principle, without w ...
Adaptation No, It Doesn’t Have Dinosaurs; That’s Land of the Lost By Neal on Feb. 27, 2008 - 7:56 AM One of my favorite nonfiction books last year was Joan Druett‘s Island of the Lost, a tale of two 19th-century shipwrecks on opposite ends of the same island I consider, in the words of the PW reviewer, “a fine additio ...
Publishing May I Introduce to You The One and Only Owen Sheers By Neal on Feb. 26, 2008 - 2:35 PM Sunday night, poet Owen Sheers read from his first novel, Resistance, at KGB, pairing off with Richard Gwyn for one of the first events of Wales Week USA, an eight-day celebration of Welsh culture featuring, among other events, mu ...
Authors Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Suburban Cops Go Commando for Rushdie Lecture By Neal on Feb. 26, 2008 - 2:19 PM FishbowlNY spotted a story about Salman Rushdie‘s recent lecture at Widener University, located in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester. Apparently the local police thought the author, who’s still the object of death thr ...
Authors Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Ordinary Spy Goes Hollywood By Neal on Feb. 26, 2008 - 12:03 PM FishbowlLA has a Q&A with Joseph Weisberg, the author of An Ordinary Spy, an espionage novel that was recently optioned by Oscar-winning screenwriter/producer Paul Haggis and Oscar-nominated producer Michael Nozik for the movi ...
Trends Digital Media Freedom, Shine on Me By Neal on Feb. 26, 2008 - 9:00 AM Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson offers a sneak preview of his next book, Free!, with a cover story in this month’s issue of the magazine (which he’s convinced Condé Nast to give away 10,000 copies of) about & ...
Awards Scene @ Books for a Better Life Awards By Neal on Feb. 26, 2008 - 8:59 AM As the pre-ceremony reception for this year’s Books for a Better Life Awards wound down and guests made their way through the Millennium Hotel for the presentation, I spotted New York Times columnist MP Dunleavey and got out ...
Publishing No Future for Print? So Says GalleyCat Reader By Neal on Feb. 26, 2008 - 8:01 AM “The sale of Publishers Weekly and the other print publications is a clear sign about the mindset of their owners,” emailed one book editor after reading yesterday’s post about the announcement that Reed Business ...