Authors Kate DiCamillo’s slow rise to the top By Carmen on Feb. 21, 2006 - 8:49 AM Chances are if you’re a girl of a certain age — skewing younger, at least — you’re reading Kate DiCamillo’s backlist of books. Now that she’s touring for her newest one, THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY O ...
Authors When the President reads, trouble brews By Carmen on Feb. 21, 2006 - 8:46 AM Without getting too deeply into politics (being Canadian, I’m automatically an outsider looking in) it seems interesting that there’s a mini-plethora of stories concerning some of George W. Bush’s favorite author ...
Publishing Spilling government secrets: not such a good idea By Carmen on Feb. 21, 2006 - 8:40 AM The British Foreign Office already began to tear its collective hair out over Christopher Meyer’s DC CONFIDENTIAL. So now that Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, is about to publish his memoirs, they& ...
Authors Esquire to Rehash the Nasdijj Hoax? By Neal on Feb. 20, 2006 - 1:18 PM Remember last month when I told you about Tim Barrus’ attempts to shop his life as “Nasdijj” around publishing circles? Well, he’s still at it. In an email forwarded to GalleyCat, Barrus (who claims that &# ...
Book Biz Meet Anti-Globalization’s Latest Guru By Neal on Feb. 20, 2006 - 9:56 AM You may recall two weeks ago, I took some shots at a NYTBR Malcolm Gladwell profile for being about a year late. Yesterday, the Times business section showed the Review how to do “news about the culture” that isn’ ...
Publishing This Time, He’s Answering the Questions By Neal on Feb. 20, 2006 - 9:55 AM Since things are a little slow today because of the holiday, I hope you won’t mind if we bring your attention to a highlight from last week’s mbToolbox blog: an interview with Jeffrey Trachtenberg, the reporter who cov ...
Book Biz The Agent wears Prada By Carmen on Feb. 20, 2006 - 9:32 AM Because it’s a holiday Monday it seemed appropriate to find some frivolity, and boy, does this interview of Caroline Michel, former publisher of HarperCollins who’s now an agent with the William Morris Agency in the UK ...
Bookselling So Much for Instant Reaction to Market Forces By Neal on Feb. 20, 2006 - 9:15 AM Frank Sennett of the Spokane Spokesman-Review takes issue with Amazon’s handling of books by fake writers. Sure, he says, Amazon’s posted Doubleday’s official statement regarding A Million Little Pieces, but wher ...
Publishing Today in Wottakar’s: HMV rebuffed again and the Pack attack By Carmen on Feb. 20, 2006 - 8:51 AM the bespectacled man on the left is Scott Pack, Waterstone’s somewhat infamous head buyer who recently announced his departure from the chain in a few months’ time. But was he simply too powerful? The Telegraph reports ...
Authors Postmodernism and the serial killer By Carmen on Feb. 20, 2006 - 8:36 AM Julia Kristeva is a French psychoanalyst and writer who is considered to be an icon in postmodern theory. So what’s she doing writing mystery novels — and serial killer thrillers, at that? She explains by email to the ...