Authors UnBeige: Eggers Takes on the Art World By Neal on Mar. 28, 2008 - 8:00 AM Stephanie Murg of UnBeige, mediabistro.com’s design blog, previews “Lots of Things Like This,” the Dave Eggers-curated art exhibition opening at downtown Manhattan’s apexartgallery next week, which is proba ...
Book Bix This Is Why We Have Fake Editors By Neal on Mar. 28, 2008 - 7:53 AM “[Fake editors] are most definitely not an urban legend,” a freelance editor emailed me yesterday. “A company that I worked at in the ’90s not only sent out rejection letters under a fake editor’s nam ...
Book Biz The New Trend in Women’s Fiction Covers By Neal on Mar. 28, 2008 - 7:49 AM Passing the time in an airport Borders, Jen Miller spotted a new trend in the book jackets for mainstream women’s fiction. (And it’s spreading: As Miller observes, John Grisham‘s latest novel has men in the exact ...
Book Bix This Fake Editor Story Is No Bull By Neal on Mar. 27, 2008 - 12:00 PM This morning’s item about rejection letters sent out under false names sparked another recollection about the way things used to work in publishing. Colleen Lindsay, an agent with Fine Print Literary Management, recalls an e ...
Revolving Door Collins Stockpiling of Executive Editors Continues By Neal on Mar. 27, 2008 - 10:09 AM When Collins hired Adam Bellowas an executive editor two weeks ago, one of my first, private reactions was that if the hiring of Nancy Miller had been announced on January 24, and that of Gillian Blake on February 27, Bellow’ ...
Book Biz What’s With the John Hughes Nostalgia? By Neal on Mar. 27, 2008 - 7:56 AM First NPR reprints Adrian Tomine‘s “The Donger and Me“, a strip about the cartoonist’s resentment of the gross stereotypes perpetuated by the character of Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles and now, in a prom ...
Book Biz Apparently, Fake Editors Aren’t an Urban Legend By Neal on Mar. 27, 2008 - 7:45 AM Yesterday afternoon, I briefly ran an item based on a tip from a reader who was convinced that he’d gotten a rejection letter from a non-existent editor—and a very badly written one at that. Shortly after the item was ...
Book Biz I’ll Be Speaking at the Ann Arbor Book Festival By Neal on Mar. 27, 2008 - 7:06 AM I’m happy to announce that I’ll be one of several guest speakers at this year’s Ann Arbor Book Festival Writer’s Conference on Friday, May 16. It’s an all-day sequence of workshops that includes sessi ...
Publishing How’s Book Publishing Handling the Election? By Neal on Mar. 26, 2008 - 2:13 PM GalleyCat‘s Amanda ReCupido swung by NYU’s Center for Publishing for a panel on “Publishing and the Election: the Books, the Blogs, and the Bold New Media Tactics” that brought together Newsweek‘s Jon ...
Authors So What Do You Do, Dominick Dunne? By Neal on Mar. 26, 2008 - 11:42 AM Diane Clehane, mediabistro.com’s “Lunch at Michael’s” columnist, chats with Dominick Dunne about his multi-platform media career—and now that he’s finished writing about the inquest into Princes ...