Authors It’s not easy being Brown By Carmen on Apr. 24, 2006 - 9:20 AM Making his first public appearance since the copyright infringement trial ended in London, Dan Brown told the capacity crowd at Portsmouth, NH’s Music Hall (and the Boston Globe’s David Mehegan reported back) about his ...
Trends Book Parties are So Over, Sniff Sniff By Carmen on Apr. 24, 2006 - 9:00 AM I had two thoughts while reading Rachel Donadio’s piece in the Book Review: first, I could have sworn I read this exact article not long ago, and second, it’s a fun and frothy little piece but uh, what is the exact poi ...
Trends Libraries at the workplace — what a novel concept! By Carmen on Apr. 24, 2006 - 8:30 AM Though as it turns out, recent research conducted in the UK showed that 91% of staff would probably use library or book-club facilities at work – if they were available. But only 23% of workplaces actually thought to put suc ...
Authors Another Round of Hottie Literati By Neal on Apr. 24, 2006 - 8:14 AM Your suggestions about writers attractive enough to appear in fashion magazines keep coming in, and though I suspect many of you have forgotten the age restrictions from the original solicitation, we’re not as uptight about ...
Authors Deep Throat’s many secret lives By Carmen on Apr. 24, 2006 - 7:30 AM Now that W. Mark Felt’s memoir (co-authored with John O’Connor, the Vanity Fair contributor who broke the story of Deep Throat’s real ID last year over the scooped Washington Post) is out in stores, the aforement ...
Book Biz Thriller Writers, Grab Your Notebooks By Neal on Apr. 24, 2006 - 7:02 AM At the beginning of April, security technology expert Bruce Schneier (the author of Beyond Fear) announced a “movie-plot” terrorism contest, in which entrants were invited to come up with “the most unlikely, yet ...
Publishing I Bet She Finds Our Lack of Faith Disturbing By Neal on Apr. 21, 2006 - 5:04 PM Have you heard the one about Lori Jareo? She thought she could get away with self-publishing a Star Wars novel called Another Hope and selling it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble because she figured, “If it’s not a com ...
Authors More Writers Too Cute for Words By Neal on Apr. 21, 2006 - 1:18 PM After this this morning’s call for attractive young authors auitable for a fashion shopping magazine spread, we got a note from Rachel Kramer Bussel reminding us that the proposed Lucky article in question sounds an awful lo ...
Publishing Sunday’s Looking Pretty Moody By Neal on Apr. 21, 2006 - 12:49 PM I spoke earlier this week with Cedering Fox (left), the producer of WordTheatre, a series of literary short stories read by celebrities, about the show she’s producing this Sunday afternoon at the Cutting Room to celebrate t ...
Book Biz Writers Too Cute for Words By Neal on Apr. 21, 2006 - 9:27 AM Late yesterday afternoon, Gawker leaked a call for literary babes from a Lucky staffer seeking “an attractive female author…between the ages of 25 and 35 [who] has written a sophisticated/intelligent book” for th ...