Reviews Times Shuts Down Univ. Presses By Neal on Dec. 26, 2005 - 4:47 PM While everybody’s been yapping about how this year’s NYTBR list of notable nonfiction seems to have an awfully high number of contributions from NYT staffers, letter-writer Bruce Baum points out a more substantial prob ...
Book Biz The ones that got away By Carmen on Dec. 26, 2005 - 11:16 AM I must admit that when I saw Kate Figes’ piece in the Guardian Review, my heart sank just a little bit — because this is an idea I’ve been kicking around for ages but hadn’t gotten around to implementing. S ...
Publishing The rime of the ancient editor By Carmen on Dec. 26, 2005 - 8:56 AM Authors don’t get edited — it’s the kind of straw man that gets repeated ad nauseum. But even if it’s true, longtime editor Michael Fishwick finds it has some long-ago antecedents: “BOOKS JUST DONR ...
Authors Million dollar babies By Carmen on Dec. 26, 2005 - 8:32 AM The newest It Deal Girl has to be Diane Setterfield, whose debut THE THIRTEENTH TALE netted her a cool 800,000 pounds from Orion (and potentially over $1M in the US, though the auction had yet to close as of this writing.) SheR ...
Book Biz Holiday Reflections By Neal on Dec. 23, 2005 - 12:25 PM “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a ro ...
Book Biz Take out a book along with your Chinese food By Carmen on Dec. 23, 2005 - 9:16 AM That’s the new initiative that the Great Reading Adventure has come up with in the county of Devon, and while it’s too early to tell if it actually works, it’s a pretty intriguing concept: A Devon council has com ...
Authors The headaches of hedge funds By Carmen on Dec. 23, 2005 - 8:52 AM Financial planning puts a great many people into a tizzy, and hedge funds are certainly no exception. But Barton Biggs, a former Morgan Stanley strategist, is here to save the day for the seriously frazzled — and his new boo ...
Authors Intelligent Design Gets a Failing Grade By Neal on Dec. 23, 2005 - 8:49 AM In the months since Sarah and I took over Galleycat, one of our most popular items has been the story of the Flying Spaghetti Monster book deal. Naturally, when “intelligent design” zealots lost their Pennslyvania cour ...
Digital Atheist Launches Book Project During Holidays By Neal on Dec. 22, 2005 - 12:36 PM For his new book, a history of atheism called Without Gods, NYU journalism professor Mitchell Stephens is opening up the creative process. “By writing a blog while writing the book,” he says, “I hope to improve m ...
Authors Marketing Anne Rice proves challenging still By Carmen on Dec. 22, 2005 - 9:03 AM When her newest book, CHRIST THE LORD, was published, many in the industry wondered how it would fare because it was — at least on the surface — markedly different from all those vampire books of years past. But as Jef ...