Trends Reading about Reading, the New York Times way By Carmen on Sep. 22, 2006 - 7:04 AM It must be a slow day if the weekly “OMG, a trend piece!” at the NYT ends up about books that are about…reading other people’s books. And though William Grimes’ essay is perfectly serviceable and ente ...
Publishing Hodder pushes paperbacks By Carmen on Sep. 22, 2006 - 6:16 AM The Bookseller reports that Hodder is making a concerted effort to focus more attention upon its paperbacks, and to that end, has appointed former Hodder marketing director Auriol Bishop to the newly-created role of paperback publ ...
Bookselling Look Out, Oprah, Here Comes Chavez By Neal on Sep. 21, 2006 - 2:15 PM So Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez held up a copy of Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance during his speech to the United Nations yesterday, and now it’s one of the top ten o ...
Digital Memo from the Dept. of Chopped Liver By Neal on Sep. 21, 2006 - 1:42 PM So I was looking at today’s PW Daily item about the new ad for John Hodgman’s paperback, which explains how Hodgman’s parody of an old George Plimpton pitch for Intellivision “has been picked up by the cool ...
Authors Another Day, Another Fake Writer By Neal on Sep. 21, 2006 - 1:38 PM “What do you pack/To take to a war?” Dana Shuster wrote in Battle Dressing, a collection of poems about her experiences as a Vietnam War combat nurse that won her the 1999 Houston Writers League Poetry Chapbook contest ...
Book Biz This song and dance is oh-so-familiar By Carmen on Sep. 21, 2006 - 9:15 AM When Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian teen famously kidnapped in 1998 who escaped some weeks ago from her captor (who went on to kill himself) made her first TV appearance, the inevitable book deal questions began to be asked. So n ...
Awards Scene @ Rona Jaffe Awards Reception By Neal on Sep. 21, 2006 - 8:46 AM Novelist Allegra Goodman (seated) was the guest speaker at last week’s ceremony honoring the latest winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation awards, presented annually to women writers in the early stages of their literary caree ...
Authors Shafak acquitted By Carmen on Sep. 21, 2006 - 8:06 AM Finally, another farce of a trial is over with, and the author in question won’t have to face any jail or punishment time. Earlier in the year it was Orhan Pamuk; now it’s Elif Shafak‘s turn to go through the pro ...
Comic Books Is Civil War #4 Worth the Wait? By Neal on Sep. 21, 2006 - 8:01 AM So, after a month-long delay, Marvel finally released the fourth issue of its Civil War mini-series to comics shops yesterday, and frontloaded it with all sorts of plot twists: The supposed return of a long-absent hero turns out t ...
Authors Actress sees novel turned into play By Carmen on Sep. 21, 2006 - 7:55 AM Stephanie Kallos‘s debut novel, BROKEN FOR YOU, received quite the acclaim upon its release last year. But as the Seattle Times’ Misha Berson reports, this Friday night she’ll experience an unusual kind of dé ...