Authors Monday Morning Freywatch: The fun continued after the show By Carmen on Jan. 30, 2006 - 9:11 AM Because it’s relegated to the bowels of cable, the extra edition of Oprah — Oprah After the Show – sometimes gets forgotten about. And it took Hillel Italie’s latest AP article — which led with Frey&# ...
Authors Monday Morning Freywatch: the opinions continue By Carmen on Jan. 30, 2006 - 9:04 AM Not surprisingly, people still have lots to say, whether on blogs, in newspaper articles or by email about L’Affaire Frey. Alison Pace, author of IF ANDY WARHOL HAD A GIRLFRIEND, got tired of watching after a while: “a ...
Authors Sherman Alexie Speaks Out on Nasdijj By Neal on Jan. 30, 2006 - 9:03 AM This week’s issue of Time includes an essay by Sherman Alexie (left) in which he discusses his early attempts to expose Nasdijj as “a literary thief and a liar,” and possibly, as he worried at the time, “a ...
Authors Monday Morning Freywatch: contests and merch! By Carmen on Jan. 30, 2006 - 8:55 AM Even though the link to Sara Ivry’s NYT story is also in the previous post, one can’t help but be tickled by Court TV’s upcoming plans: “At the National Cable Television convention later this year, it plans ...
Authors From dour to cheerful, thanks to an audience By Carmen on Jan. 30, 2006 - 8:50 AM AL Kennedy is primarily known for writing incredibly bleak novels. So what’s she doing on stage, billing herself as “Alison Kennedy” and possibly making a run for next year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival? Her ...
Publishing Wottakar’s: here, there and everywhere By Carmen on Jan. 30, 2006 - 8:48 AM In what’s seen as a surprising move, HMV — which of course, has been after taking over Ottakar’s so much that the Competition Commission is looking into it — is now the subject of a takeover bid. The culpri ...
Publishing All We Are Is Dust in the Wind By Neal on Jan. 30, 2006 - 8:27 AM BoingBoing points out an essay by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor Books, that reminds us “falling out of print is a book’s natural fate” and that what we consider eternal classics can also be seen as R ...
Publishing What, No Dirk Wears White Sox? By Neal on Jan. 30, 2006 - 8:24 AM Continuum Books late last week announced a whopping 21 new titles in its 33-1/3 series to be published in 2007 and 2008. The series, which offers novella-length examinations of seminal rock albums as seen by music critics (Jim Fus ...
Authors Ballantine Throws Nasdijj Overboard By Neal on Jan. 28, 2006 - 1:33 AM Remember how during the first few weeks of the James Frey scandal, Anchor/Doubleday was loud and proud in its defense of their bestselling author? Well, Ballantine—which is, like Doubleday, part of the Random House conglomer ...
Authors Weekend Freywatch: Another Take on Oprah By Neal on Jan. 28, 2006 - 12:41 AM So I just got through watching Thursday’s evisceration of James Frey, and kudos to Oprah for being willing to admit she was wrong. If only all the experts she rounded up to assist in Frey’s pillorization were on as sol ...