Reviews Guest Book Review: Ad Hudler on The Score By Ethan on Jun. 25, 2008 - 9:08 AM When I heard about The Score: How The Quest For Sex Has Shaped The Modern Man by Faye Flam, I realized I needed a man’s man to tackle a review of the book so I turned to Ad Hudler who’s forthcoming Man Of The House mad ...
Publishing The Further Acoustic Stylings of Strauss and Coulton By Neal on Jun. 25, 2008 - 9:00 AM When I showed you the video of Darin Strauss and Jonathan Coulton singing “Sweet Caroline” yesterday, you might recall that I mentioned the duo had played a two-song set. What about that other song, you ask? And thus, ...
Authors Les Paul Conquers Milwaukee, from Bookstore to Museum By Neal on Jun. 25, 2008 - 8:05 AM Tommy Haack and Doug Lady of Hal Leonard Publishing posed with Robb Lawrence, the author of The Early Years of The Les Paul Legacy , and the guitar legend himself during a recent signing at Milwaukee’s Harry Schwartz Book Sh ...
Events FishbowlNY @ Another Arianna Huffington Book Party By Neal on Jun. 25, 2008 - 7:01 AM FishbowlNY editor Noah Davis ventured to Domenico Vacca‘s Upper East Side storefront for a party celebrating Arianna Huffigton‘s new book, Right Is Wrong… where, as he notes, Portfolio blogger Jeff Bercovici aske ...
Book Biz FishbowlNY: Jezebel’s Kid Lit Blogger Gets Book Deal By Neal on Jun. 25, 2008 - 7:00 AM FishbowlNY‘s Glynnis MacNicol heard the news from HuffPo‘s Rachel Sklar: HarperCollins has signed up poet and litblogger Lizzie Skurnick for a book based on her weekly Jezebel column about classic children’s and ...
Sponsored Content Tony O’Neill’s X-Rated BookExpo Adventures By Neal on Jun. 25, 2008 - 7:00 AM Want to get Slash to read your book? Here’s how Tony O’Neill, the author of the forthcoming Down and Out on Murder Mile, tipped the scales in his favor when he and his wife, Vanessa, ran into the Guns’n’Ros ...
Publishing Darin Strauss Plays the Hits of Yesterday! By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 1:41 PM Before he became a famous literary author, Darin Strauss used to play in a band called Supergroup with indie singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton. Last night, after Strauss read a chapter from his new novel, More Than it Hurts You, ...
Videos Who Doesn’t Love an Elephant Wearing a Hat? By Ethan on Jun. 24, 2008 - 1:40 PM Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam appeared on bloggingheads.tv and decided partway through that they weren’t doing enough shameless self-promotion of their wonky book about the future of conservatism, Grand New Party. The result ...
Publishing The Shack, and How to Get It By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 1:13 PM Some of this morning’s commentary on Motoko Rich‘s article about The Shack focuses on the notion that the NY Times is coming late to the story of the “surprise bestseller” about a man who spends a weekend w ...
Publishing Nebraskans Get Sneak Preview of Sittenfeld’s Latest By Neal on Jun. 24, 2008 - 12:43 PM You may recall Emily’s short interview with Curtis Stittenfeld last month about her new novel, American Wife. Well, Timothy Schaffert sent along this picture of what we’re told is Sittenfeld’s first public readin ...