Authors That Must’ve Been Some English Class! By Neal on Jun. 30, 2006 - 11:22 AM Novelist Elizabeth Benedict (left) dropped us a line saying she’d been turned on to GalleyCat by fellow author M.J. Rose, who turns out to be “my long lost but recently found high school pal.” She also wanted to ...
Digital Should Slate Lay Off Bush Already? By Neal on Jun. 30, 2006 - 10:47 AM Last week at the linguistics blog Language Log, Mark Liberman raised a compelling criticism of Bushisms, the Slate feature created by Jacob Weisberg to call attention to what the liberal intelligentsia views as some of George W. B ...
Digital More Scenes from Eisner’s Spirited Life By Neal on Jun. 30, 2006 - 10:26 AM You may dimly recall our item from early May on Bob Andelman, the author who looks like a terrorist. Well, we’ve got slightly happier news about Andelman this time around: He’s promoting Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, h ...
Adaptation Satanic Fashion Film Opens Nationwide By Neal on Jun. 30, 2006 - 9:52 AM Wait, The Devil Wears Prada isn’t a horror flick? OK, let’s try that again… It’s interesting to see how much of the initial reaction to the film echoes the thoughts of Fashion Wire Daily’s Lauren Davi ...
Authors Well, That Clears That Up By Neal on Jun. 30, 2006 - 8:02 AM Remember yesterday, when I skeptically asked where the model who wrote her memoirs at the Apple Store was saving the documents? My colleague Dylan Stableford at FishbowlNY put the question directly to Isobella Jade, and she told h ...
Authors Digging into The God Factor By Neal on Jun. 29, 2006 - 12:16 PM When I met with Chicago Sun-Times religion columnist Cathleen Falsani (left) earlier this week to chat about The God Factor, her collection of interviews with celebrities about spirituality, we started out by discussing some of th ...
Book Biz SF Publisher Jim Baen, 1943-2006 By Neal on Jun. 29, 2006 - 10:22 AM In a sad update to our story a few weeks ago about Jim Baen’s stroke, the founding editor and publisher of Baen Books (left) died yesterday, reports author David Drake, who pays tribute to Baen on his website. “Jim had ...
Authors Apple Store Replacing Starbucksas Writers’ Grazing Spot? By Neal on Jun. 29, 2006 - 9:56 AM When our colleagues at FishbowlNY forwarded us a press release yesterday about a model who wrote her memoir at the Apple Store, my first reaction was that it was an update of Harlan Ellison’s old gimmick of cranking out shor ...
Adaptation Coming in 2008: Chabon Film Festival? By Neal on Jun. 29, 2006 - 8:15 AM From Romancing the Tome, a blog that specializes in news about upcoming movies based on books, comes the news that Michael Chabon’s first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, is going to be made into a movie starring Max Ming ...
Authors Greenberg Succeeds in Recovering After Tumble By Neal on Jun. 28, 2006 - 12:53 PM Monday afternoon, FishbowlNY alerted us to Herb Greenberg’s collapse during a speech that morning where he was discussing his latest book, Succeed on Your Own Terms. It certainly sounded as if Greenberg (right) recovered qui ...