Events Scene @ Jack’s Widow Party By Neal on Oct. 31, 2006 - 11:22 AM PR chief (and Lunch at Michael’s regular) Peter Brown threw a reception at his Central Park West digs last night to welcome Eve Pollard, the former editor of London’s Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express, and celebrate the ...
Publishing Finally, a Fake Writer We Can Admire! By Neal on Oct. 31, 2006 - 10:00 AM Rohan Kriwaczek (right), whose An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin has charmed publishing observers on both sides of the Atlantic with the sheer thoroughness of its hoax, dropped in on McNally Robinson a few da ...
Book Biz Obama Not Quite So Goody Two-Shoes? By Neal on Oct. 31, 2006 - 9:17 AM Peter Osnos was the publisher at Times Books back in the 1990s when literary agent Jane Dystel approached the house about a memoir by one of her clients, a Harvard law school grad named Barack Obama. That, as you might recall, led ...
Trends Telling Tales for Fun and Profit By Carmen on Oct. 31, 2006 - 8:49 AM The LA Times’ Johanna Neuman reports on an increasing trend of Washington politicos publishing their memoirs – warts and all, and the warts usually belong to other people. These days, Neuman writes, book parties have r ...
Comic Books Soap Opera with a Superhero Twist By Carmen on Oct. 31, 2006 - 8:36 AM What with the staggering success of AS THE WORLD TURNS’ 50th anniversary tie-in mystery novel, OAKDALE CONFIDENTIAL, it’s no surprise that Proctor & Gamble, the soap’s parent company, would want to repeat the ...
Authors Spin Control kicks in for Rubenfeld By Carmen on Oct. 31, 2006 - 7:54 AM With the post-mortem on how and why Jed Rubenfeld‘s much-hyped debut novel THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER didn’t meet its expectations now a few weeks old, it’s time for the spin to take over. But since Bookscan re ...
Authors AP Comes Late to the Pessl Party By Neal on Oct. 31, 2006 - 7:53 AM Jed Rubenfeld isn’t the only author the Associated Press has taken its own sweet time getting around to covering. Another story went out over the wire yesterday afternoon profiling Marisha Pessl two months after everybody el ...
Book Biz Probing YA Writer’s Absence from Borders Shelves By Neal on Oct. 31, 2006 - 7:30 AM As FishbowlLA co-editor Kate Coe has discovered, Jim Webb isn’t the only novelist getting grief for racy prose—Veronica Mars writer Aury Wallington has published a young-adult novel called Pop!, and she’s getting ...
Publishing She decides what gets stocked at Asda By Carmen on Oct. 31, 2006 - 7:01 AM Though the Bookseller’s feature on head book buyer Steph Bateson ran a few days ago, it’s still very much worth repeating. For how did a 30 year old PhD candidate become one of the biggest players in the UK publishing ...
Authors Marine Corps Memoirist Defends Webb’s Fiction By Neal on Oct. 30, 2006 - 2:59 PM After preparing my initial summary of the artificial controversy over Jim Webb’s novels late last night, I glanced over at my bookcase and spotted my copy of Nathaniel Fick’s One Bullet Away, which longtime readers may ...