Book Biz Amazing Psychic Powers orMastery of the Obvious? By Neal on Sep. 13, 2005 - 8:53 AM Galleycat, last Friday: John Barry’s Rising Tide is “hovering around #15 [on Amazon]–and I’m betting it cracks the top ten tonight… when C-SPAN airs a live, one-hour special.” PW Daily, yesterda ...
Authors Staking Out the Territory By Neal on Sep. 12, 2005 - 3:50 PM I don’t know if there’s an exact parallel in publishing to the film studio practice of moving your blockbusters around so they don’t compete with somebody else’s blockbusters, but in this fall’s chick ...
Adaptation Books-to-Film Wowing ‘Em in Toronto, Venice By Neal on Sep. 12, 2005 - 1:38 PM Reports are coming in from the Toronto Film Festival, and Lloyd Grove is one of the many attendees who’s just wild about the film version of Christopher Buckley’s Thank You For Smoking–which, he reports, proved s ...
Authors Gabbo! Gabbo! Gabbo! By Neal on Sep. 12, 2005 - 9:07 AM Isn’t it funny how, just two weeks after his debut novel, Indecision, got front-page coverage in the NYTBR–heralded as “the funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years,” no less–Benjamin Kunkel ...
Trends Whither “Reality Books,” Revisited By Neal on Sep. 12, 2005 - 9:00 AM Last week, I noted a mounting debate over nonfiction books in which the author deliberately subjects himself or herself to an ordeal for the sake of a story, like Barbara Ehrenreich in Bait and Switch. AJ Jacobs made a case for th ...
Sponsored Content Beginner’s Luck By Neal on Sep. 12, 2005 - 9:00 AM The most impressive detail in the Sunday Styles piece on Same Sex in the City co-authors Lauren Levin (left) and Lauren Blitzer isn’t that the two landed their first book deal (as WWD reported last month) at 24, but that Lev ...
Authors Some Inappropriate Hyperbole to Carry Us Out… By Neal on Sep. 9, 2005 - 3:40 PM From The Times of India: “Controversy has erupted over the 24-hour-old, inexplicable, so-called ‘literary award fatwa’ imposed on Salman Rushdie, whose magnificent, multi-national, much-hyped, four-day-old novel ...
Publishing We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful By Neal on Sep. 9, 2005 - 11:12 AM According to Publishers Lunch, Nadine Haobsh just signed a two-book deal with Morrow’s Carrie Feron. The first book, according to the item, is described as an untitled memoir, ” in which the Ladies Home Journal associa ...
Publishing Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again By Neal on Sep. 9, 2005 - 11:08 AM Here’s another tidbit from the Publishers Lunch deal roundup which answers Elizabeth’s “not entirely rhetorical question” as to who’d get a Katrina book out first: “Tulane University professor a ...
Authors The Franz Experiment By Neal on Sep. 9, 2005 - 9:06 AM PW Daily has heard about the October issue of Harper’s, and predicts offended sensibilities throughout the literary community over an essay by Ben Marcus (left): “Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishin ...