Events Our Girl in Washington Takes Manhattan By Neal on Mar. 23, 2006 - 9:04 AM Michele Mitchell (right) poses with Plume editor-in-chief Trena Keating in the lobby of Action Team 1 Productions, the documentary production group Mitchell co-leads. Last night’s party, which celebrated both the publication ...
Book Biz They’re still bitching about LBF By Carmen on Mar. 23, 2006 - 8:57 AM Even though the London Book Fair took place at the beginning of the month, the move to the ExCeL so traumatized industry folk that they’re still talking about it to the Bookseller. Liz Bury rounds up some of the reactions, g ...
Awards Booker Prize sponsored for five more years By Carmen on Mar. 23, 2006 - 8:43 AM A little sponsorship goes a long way in the case of book prizes, and the Man Group, the hedge fund company that has sponsored Britain’s most prestigious literary award since 2002, will continue doing so for another five year ...
Authors Who is that Masked Man? By Carmen on Mar. 23, 2006 - 8:36 AM At the moment, one of the biggest selling books in China is written under a pen name. The 650-page WOLF TOTEM is written by someone calling himself Jiang Rong, and since 2004, the pseudonymous author has won many prizes for what D ...
Trends Sophomore Jinxing By Carmen on Mar. 23, 2006 - 8:18 AM Even though some of us — OK, yours truly — thought DBC Pierre’s debut was a pile of crap, it got enough acclaim to win the Booker Prize and set up gargantuan expectations for book #2. So it came as little surpris ...
Authors Rainy Day Academics #12 & 35 By Neal on Mar. 23, 2006 - 8:07 AM Perhaps it’s a sign of how my mind works that my first thought after reading Hillel Italie’s profile of Sean Wilentz, the Princeton historian who just won the Bancroft Prize for The Rise of American Democracy but is al ...
Comic Books Any Excuse to Say Haßwitzblattschrift By Neal on Mar. 23, 2006 - 8:00 AM Thanks to a watchful Colleen Doran, I’ve discovered that that Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest has a website, and as Doran observes of the examples given, “They just aren’t very good.” Frankly, I wouldn ...
Authors This Is It for Junior-Inspired Scandal, Folks By Neal on Mar. 22, 2006 - 12:58 PM So this morning’s Lloyd Grove column ends by quoting the girlfriend of McCauley Culkin’s father in her complaints to Us Weekly about Culkin’s novel, Junior, which features a father character widely assumed to be ...
Revolving Door The Louv Generation Is Go By Neal on Mar. 22, 2006 - 12:27 PM Jason Louv, who I “met” over the phone last fall while researching a PW feature on New Age publishing, is leaving his position as a book editor at The Disinformation Company, fellow Disinfo editor Alex Burns reports on ...
Book Biz This Galleycat returns By Carmen on Mar. 22, 2006 - 10:37 AM After seven solid fun-filled days in Bristol (for the phenomenally well-run Left Coast Crime conference, even if there were a few too many fire alarms at the Royal Marriott) and London, I’ve stumbled back onto American soil, ...