Reviews Why Is This Man Not Smiling? By Neal on May. 24, 2006 - 10:01 AM Fellow witnesses with whom I discussed the NYTBR BookExpo panel observed that Sam Tanenhaus seemed aggressively defensive about his paper’s “best American fiction” project even before blogger Ed Champion picked a ...
Authors Graphic Memoir Explores Combat High By Neal on May. 24, 2006 - 9:21 AM While I was at graphic novel publisher NBM’s BookExpo booth, I met up with journalist David Axe, who was there to promote War Fix, a memoir of his combat reporting from the Iraqi frontlines created in collaboration with arti ...
Book Biz Queen of the literary partyhoppers By Carmen on May. 24, 2006 - 8:54 AM One story that got lost amidst the BEA shuffle was Sheelah Kolhatkar’s Observer profile of Lila Zanganeh, a 29 year old Iranian-born Parisian writer who, as Kolhatkar puts it, turns up everywhere – the annual P.E.N. ga ...
Authors Fudging on Memoirs Leads to Payback By Neal on May. 24, 2006 - 8:08 AM Our BookExpo coverage prompted Joni Rodgers, who writes the Bookwoman blog for the Houston Chronicle, to write in and share her thoughts on another publishing industry hot topic near to our hearts: memoir writing. As the author of ...
Bookselling Today in Wottakar’s: prices slide but they still want HMV to bid By Carmen on May. 24, 2006 - 7:43 AM Although sales at Ottakar’s have been sliding in recent weeks, the bookstore chain still wants a quick answer with regards to whether HMV still wants to take them over, the Guardian reports. Yesterday’s trading update ...
Publishing Bertelsmann really, really doesn’t want to go public By Carmen on May. 24, 2006 - 6:40 AM That’s the only conclusion to draw from the latest news that the giant media conglomerate (which owns Random House) said it wants to buy out the 25% shareholding stake held by GBL, which announced earlier this year that it w ...
Sponsored Content The Books I Scored This Weekend By Neal on May. 23, 2006 - 10:51 AM The one book I went down to D.C. knowing that I wanted to take back with me from BookExpo was Fly By Night, a YA fantasy set in the 18th-century England of an alternate universe where there’s a gazillion pagan saints and boo ...
Book Biz Dateline BEA: last gasp of links By Carmen on May. 23, 2006 - 9:00 AM Business Week attended former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s lecture Thursday afternoon and reports back on what she said. Me, I’m still amazed she can be held up as an example of good management when…ah, so ...
Events One Last Batch of BEA Party Shots By Neal on May. 23, 2006 - 8:34 AM Carolyn Turgeon (right) was in a celebratory mood at the Unbridled Books party last Saturday night, and why not? Her forthcoming debut novel, Rain Village, was a surprise breakout among the hundreds of ARCs floating around the con ...
Bookselling Pondering the future of independents By Carmen on May. 23, 2006 - 8:30 AM The Guardian (and it’s purely coincidental that I pulled almost all of today’s items from the same paper, honest) had a great feature yesterday looking at the state of independent bookselling in the UK, focusing specif ...