Authors Stan Berenstain, 1923-2005 By Neal on Nov. 29, 2005 - 8:37 AM Drawn!, a blog focusing on illustrators, is reporting the death of Stan Berenstain some time yesterday; no further details were available by the time I wrote this and went to bed late last night. Berenstain was the co-creator, wit ...
Authors Welcome to the Daily Grind By Neal on Nov. 29, 2005 - 8:35 AM Con Coughlin, the British journalist perhaps best known in the States for his book Saddam: His Rise and Fall, used to be the executive editor of London’s Sunday Telegraph. Starting Thursday, he’s going to be the “ ...
Publishing Previewing the new LBF Premises By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2005 - 8:31 AM The London Book Fair is leaving Earls Court behind for a bigger, more spacious place over at the Docklands. Will it work? The Bookseller’s Herbert Lottman went to scope out the premises, and see if the Fair’s claim tha ...
Book Biz Interesting Elevator Conversations, I’m Sure By Neal on Nov. 29, 2005 - 8:30 AM One of the problems with writing nonfiction about people and places on the contemporary scene yet is that the story always changes. Why, just last month, as Michael Gross was making the rounds to promote 740 Park, his exposé ...
Reviews Writing Bad Sex means never having to say you’re sorry By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2005 - 8:29 AM …because chances are, if you’re inflicting one of these turgid passages on the world, you really have no clue how people are reacting to such prose. Yup, it’s that time of year again, and the award for worst depi ...
Book Biz Bum-med Out By Neal on Nov. 28, 2005 - 1:25 PM Last month, we told you about the wave of hobo cartoons inspired by John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise. Just before the holiday, Jawbone Radio posted a disturbing update: some of the pictures are getting bounced from t ...
Sponsored Content Look Out, She’s Got a Contract! By Neal on Nov. 28, 2005 - 1:14 PM Newsweek reports that Alex Kerry got a book deal for a memoir about life following her father on the presidential campaign trail last year, “a companion piece to the documentary she’s making from 300 hours of footage s ...
Publishing Puzzling Evidence By Neal on Nov. 28, 2005 - 12:40 PM Those insidious folks at Penguin slipped a copy of Penguin Sudoku 2006 into their latest crate of review copies, and let me tell you: it’s not as if I was expecting to get a lot done over the holiday weekend anyway, but damn ...
Book Biz The NYTBR has got a little list By Carmen on Nov. 28, 2005 - 12:05 PM And where there’s a list — specifically, the 100 Most Notable books of the year as chosen by the Book Review — there are stats, things noted, and other sorta-kinda-unusual stuff: 61 of the books are non-fiction; ...
Revolving Door Blades leaves Ballantine — and publishing altogether By Carmen on Nov. 28, 2005 - 10:30 AM The executive editor of Ballantine Books, Joe Blades, evidently spent Black Friday calling up some of his notable authors to inform them that he’d be leaving his post. Why? Though Blades hadn’t responded to email queri ...