Authors What Does Courtney Read? By Elizabeth on Sep. 19, 2005 - 12:31 PM Courtney Love's reading list
Publishing Embedded in the Storm By Neal on Sep. 16, 2005 - 4:24 PM Hillel Italie of the Associated Press reports on the latest major deal for a Katrina book (after last week’s Douglas Brinkley signing), this one from New Orleans Times-Picayune city editor Jed Horne. Random House describes t ...
Authors Reality Outpaces Science Fiction By Neal on Sep. 15, 2005 - 11:59 AM On the train down to D.C. yesterday, I was reading Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson (left), a “twenty minutes into the future” novel in which a technocrat couple–he’s a senatorial aide, she works ...
Authors If Only Katrina’s Happy Ending Came This Easy By Neal on Sep. 14, 2005 - 9:10 AM Amanda Stern (left) kicks off the third ending of New York City’s Happy Ending reading series with a special charity event. Her little sister, Nina, had just enrolled at Tulane a week before Katrina came by New Orleans. R ...
Book Biz That Was Fun… By Neal on Sep. 13, 2005 - 6:09 PM Thanks to Elizabeth and Mediabistro for letting me behind the wheel here for the last few days, and to the vast majority of you readers who offered encouragement for most stories and accepted the occasional error–like the ti ...
Authors So Much for Ketchup’s Natural Mellowing Agents By Neal on Sep. 13, 2005 - 5:38 PM Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor is threatening to sue a Minnesota website called MNspeaks over its sale of the parodic T-shirts displayed at left (as noted at a few blogs, including TMFTML). The cease-and-desist notic ...
Adaptation Jerry Lewis Is Going to Be Pissed By Neal on Sep. 13, 2005 - 11:59 AM Israeli novelist Yoriam Kaniuk is no stranger to the film industry; his stories have been adapted for Israeli cinema since the late ’60s. But now, Variety reports, his 1968 novel Adam Resurrected (translated into English the ...
Publishing His Agent Is No Different Than Any Powerful Man By Neal on Sep. 13, 2005 - 11:19 AM Mark Winegardner had so much fun writing The Godfather Returns that he’s going back for seconds. The Godfather’s Revenge will “explore the role organized crime may have had in the assassination of a charismatic y ...
Authors The Way That She Feels Is No Longer NewsUPDATED By Neal on Sep. 13, 2005 - 8:57 AM Last Thursday, Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (which Michiko describes as “glorious“) made the Man Booker shortlist, much to the author’s surprise. Smith (left) had already told New York‘s Boris Kachka she b ...