Authors Here’s to You, Nicola & Bart By Neal on Dec. 28, 2005 - 11:08 AM As LAT staff writer Jean Pasco tells the tale, a Southern California book collector stumbled onto a letter from Upton Sinclair that rather deflates the martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti: “Sinclair met with Fred Moore, the men& ...
Publishing The biographer-subject relationship just got a bit more contentious By Carmen on Dec. 28, 2005 - 10:34 AM Canadian Celtic singer Loreena McKennitt (who I must admit is one of my all-time favorites) hasn’t liked the fact that a former friend of hers, Neima Ash, self-published a biography of the singer. So much so that she spent o ...
Book Bix It’s a Mailbag Morning… By Neal on Dec. 28, 2005 - 8:59 AM First off, we’ve got literary agent Janet Reid answering our call for information on 2005’s notable university press books. “How about [Northeastern University Press’s] The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Mus ...
Reviews Talk about long distance editing By Carmen on Dec. 28, 2005 - 8:52 AM But when the cause is to maintain an independent arts & culture magazine in a country that, to say the least, frowns on that sort of thing, there’s no stopping editor and Johns Hopkins graduate student Irina Vidanava: [& ...
Book Bix Looking Back, Looking Forward: Let’s Begin! By Neal on Dec. 27, 2005 - 11:25 AM Last week, we asked you to tell us what you’ll remember most about 2005, as far as the publishing industry’s concerned, and what your resolution (or hope) for next year will be. We’ll be running your responses al ...
Trends Cancel That Order of Freedom Fries? By Neal on Dec. 27, 2005 - 11:01 AM Over at Reason’s “Hit and Run” blog, Matt Welch conducts a highly unscientific survey of pro- and anti-Europe books. After checking the Amazon sales rankings for the most significant titles in “that whole F ...
Publishing On the good ship Book Fair By Carmen on Dec. 27, 2005 - 9:59 AM This idea might seem really cool to some, or really strange, depending on your vantage point. But in any case, the Logos II ship has opened for business with a sizeable book exchange: After days of controversy, the Logos II floati ...
Authors Though some promises are made to be broken By Carmen on Dec. 27, 2005 - 9:54 AM Compare the headline of the Mirror’s story: 7TH HARRY IN 2006, VOWS JK — to the actual contents: She wrote: “2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series. “I contemplate the ...
Authors Now it’s official: blogging is dead By Carmen on Dec. 27, 2005 - 9:29 AM I say that because Amazon’s decided to get in on the act with its new Amazon Connect, designed to “enhance the connections between authors and fans,” according to Edward Wyatt’s piece in the NYT. Folks like ...
Book Biz College Libraries Still Safe for Communism By Neal on Dec. 27, 2005 - 8:45 AM Remember last week, when I wasn’t so sure about the college student claiming his library request drew heat from the feds? Turns out my suspicions were well-founded, as late last week the kid admitted it was all a lie and tha ...