Book Biz And yet more dispatches from the strike-indisposed By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2005 - 5:49 PM How long do we have to keep doing this, Ron? I’m willing to bet for a few more days, unfortunately…but if that means amusing stories like what one anonymous tipster provides, there might be a strange silver lining: Dri ...
Book Biz Did You Bother Coming to Work Today? By Neal on Dec. 20, 2005 - 11:59 AM Like most bloggers and freelance writers, both Sarah and I are working out of our respective living rooms this morning, but what about all you publishing industry types—did you try to make your way into the city despite the ...
Reviews Cut the NYTBR Some Slack? By Neal on Dec. 20, 2005 - 11:03 AM We weren’t the only bloggers to comment on Times public editor Byron Calame’s prodding of the NYTBR policy towards reviewing books by the paper’s other staffers. The Literary Saloon, which has been consistently c ...
Book Biz Little Red Book Crackdown… or Hoax? By Neal on Dec. 20, 2005 - 10:12 AM I almost ran with the story of the U-Mass student busted for reading Chairman Mao yesterday, but certain details in the newspaper account didn’t ring true. For example, there’s the fact that there’s nothing from ...
Authors Two Galleycats, One Washingtonienne and an East Village Bar By Neal on Dec. 20, 2005 - 8:57 AM How did Galleycat Sarah end up in the photo at left with Jessica “The Washingtonienne” Cutler? Well, when I mentioned being unsurprised by Cutler’s blog entry last week saying she “didn’t love [Dog Da ...
Authors Just another day on the set of the Simpsons By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2005 - 8:52 AM The Los Angeles Times’ Steven Barrie-Anthony got to hang out at a very special recording session for the popular cartoon show, thanks to the notable guest stars slated to appear for the episode in question: Tom Wolfe is scre ...
Book Biz Kirshbaum’s Two-Step to the other side By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2005 - 8:52 AM I’m not sure when the last time Edward Wyatt did some actual in-depth interviewing, but he takes that torch and runs with it — to some degree — in today’s profile of former Time Warner Books CEO Larry Kirsh ...
Comic Books Marvel’s Stop-Pulling Plans for 2006 By Neal on Dec. 20, 2005 - 8:44 AM The Scottish Sunday Herald isn’t one of the usual sources for news about major comic book projects, but this story’s about local hero Mark Millar and his latest Marvel project, which sounds like a digitally-enhanced fo ...
Publishing Hey, those Goldfish cookies are still available, right? By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2005 - 8:31 AM Note to publishers: don’t piss off Hershey. Because you do something they don’t like, they get rather annoyed: The distinctive chocolate bar on the dust jacket of a new book about the founder of Hershey violates its tr ...
Authors Maira Kalman Finds Inspiration in Grammar By Neal on Dec. 19, 2005 - 2:18 PM From now on, when you see the logo at left, it’ll accompany an item referencing an article on another part of mediabistro.com, whether it’s one of our other industry-themed blogs, an original feature, or details from o ...