Authors Augusten Burroughs’ Hipster Cred Rises 10 More Points By Neal on Aug. 29, 2008 - 1:56 PM When fans of the Spin Book Club meets at Housing Works next Thursday night (Sept. 4) to talk with Augusten Burroughs about his new memoir, A Wolf at the Table, there’ll be an added bonus: Tegan Quin (of Tegan & Sara fame ...
Adaptation Where’s Aaron Sorkin Getting His Facebook Info? By Neal on Aug. 29, 2008 - 12:31 PM So you’ve probably seen all the fuss that’s been made on the blogosphere the last few days about Aaron Sorkin getting himself a Facebook account so he can be better prepared to write the Facebook movie—which ordi ...
Digital Book Blogger Appreciation Week Is Coming! By Neal on Aug. 29, 2008 - 12:01 PM Nominations are now being accepted for the Book Blogger Appreciation Week awards, in two dozen categories ranging from “best general book blog” to “best design,” “most eclectic taste,” and even ...
Revolving Door Flaxman Legs mediabistro.com For Her Own Editorial Shop By Neal on Aug. 29, 2008 - 8:01 AM Stefanie Flaxman, the office administrator for mediabistro.com’s Los Angeles branch for the last ten months, announced to her colleagues that she is leaving the company today. Flaxman will be applying her newfound free time ...
Awards Nancy Mairs Declared “Literary Treasure” in Arizona By Neal on Aug. 29, 2008 - 8:01 AM Poet and essayist Nancy Mairs was selected for the third annual Arizona Literary Treasure Award, created by the state’s humanities council “to celebrate the significant impact of the poets, writers, publishers, and sto ...
Comic Books Glue Is A Paper Engineer’s Best Friend By Neal on Aug. 29, 2008 - 8:00 AM Everybody loves pop-up books, but how many of us know the technical details that go into making them? Last year, graphic designer Sam Ita created a graphic novel adaptation of Moby Dick with pop-up elements; this fall, he’s ...
Book Biz For Books Connected to Music Scene, a Rising PR Star By Neal on Aug. 28, 2008 - 12:39 PM Last week’s party at Beauty Bar for rock’n’roll advice columnist Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna (right) and her new lifestyle handbook, Cherry Bomb—packed wall-to-wall and out onto the sidewalk—was also a tri ...
Book Biz Betcha They Still Won’t Host His Book Party, Though By Neal on Aug. 28, 2008 - 11:20 AM Cast your memory back to late spring, when Michael Gross and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had a misunderstanding over photo rights, which ended on an optimistic note when the Met told GalleyCat Gross wasn’t be ...
Authors So, Did Random House Censor Sherry Jones? By Neal on Aug. 28, 2008 - 9:00 AM Stanley Fish caught up with the controversy surrounding Sherry Jones‘s still-unpublished The Jewel of Medina, and wanted to remind NY Times readers that, whatever else you might say about Random House‘s decision to avo ...
Awards Literary Prize Blacklists Random Over Medina By Neal on Aug. 28, 2008 - 9:00 AM Here’s an interesting sidenote to the Sherry Jones situation: The Langam Charitable Trust has issued a statement deploring Random House‘s cancellation of Jones’s novel so strongly that “until The Jewel of M ...