Book Biz Gotham Gets Adria Bio By Ethan on May. 30, 2008 - 4:40 PM Bill Shinker at Gotham has bought North American rights to a definitive biograpy of Catalan super-chef Ferran Adria, to be written by Colman Andrews – whose book Catalan Cuisine (originally published in 1988 by Atheneum and ...
Book Biz BookExpo America Is Underway… By Neal on May. 30, 2008 - 10:23 AM …and I’ve already had one full day of attending panels, including the two discussions in which I was an active participant—both of which went really well, and I was really glad to see both rooms filled to capacit ...
Book Biz The Man Behind the New Bond Girl Gallery By Neal on May. 29, 2008 - 11:14 AM Did you see Monday’s post about the new James Bond covers? (No worries if you didn’t; I know most of you had the day off.) As I was writing that item, I dashed off a few questions to the artist, Michael Gillette, who w ...
Sponsored Content A Puppet Show That’s Not for Children By Neal on May. 29, 2008 - 11:13 AM Warning: This book trailer contains NSFW situations as enacted by shadow puppets. I think I might have written something a while back about how I thought straight-up music videos might be an effective book trailer technique, and t ...
Publishing Scene @ Teachers & Writers Office Party By Neal on May. 29, 2008 - 10:54 AM To the best of my recollection, I’ve never been namechecked at a reading before (at least, not one I wasn’t already hosting), but one of the first things Elizabeth Hand did went she got up to read from Generation Loss ...
Events Scene @ Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater Party By Neal on May. 29, 2008 - 10:11 AM GalleyCat correspondent Amanda ReCupido swung by the Mercer Hotel Tuesday night for the paperback launch of Jeremy Scahill‘s New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. & ...
Book Biz Frommer’s Goes Mobile, Helps BEA Attendees By Ethan on May. 29, 2008 - 9:36 AM Frommer’s just announced a new relationship with mobile strategist and developer, eMbience Inc. In the coming months, Frommer’s will introduce off-the-beaten path travel content to the mobile community using eMbience&# ...
Book Biz Summer Book Roundups By Ethan on May. 29, 2008 - 9:31 AM I was going to call it a “beach read roundup” but I don’t know how many of us can afford to go away on vacation this summer, but we can always find a book to escape into. NPR features Susan Stamberg’s annua ...
Events Scene @ Ed Park’s Personal Days Party By Neal on May. 29, 2008 - 9:13 AM Last month, when Ed Park was kind enough to take part in the launch of my reading series, his novel, Personal Days, was still a few weeks away from publication. The official launch party came last week at the New York Society Libr ...
Book Biz Bentley Binds Bond Book By Ethan on May. 28, 2008 - 5:36 PM Today is Ian Fleming’s 100th birthday and pub date for Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks writing as Fleming. In celebration of this landmark, Doubleday has created a limited edition of the book produced in conjunction with ...