Publishing There Go My 15 Minutes By Neal on Dec. 20, 2006 - 9:38 AM Radar started listening to the Judith Regan show on Sirius this morning and, well, I don’t appear to be on the program anymore. So you won’t get to hear all that stuff I mentioned in my description of the hearing. I ...
Publishing The Regan Report: OJ Lawsuit Filed, Regan Keeps Radio Show By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2006 - 9:37 AM While many news outlets – AP, the New York Times, the LA Times, ABC News, you name it – have the story, The Smoking Gun has the document, where you can read all about the Goldman family’s lawsuit against OJ Simps ...
Publishing The Regan Report: ADL Condemnation, Shearer on Sirius By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2006 - 9:27 AM To the surprise of no one, the Anti-Defamation League has condemned Judith Regan‘s alleged remarks about a “Jewish cabal” at HarperCollins. “If Ms. Regan did make the charge that a Jewish cabal was conspiri ...
Bookselling Oldest Mystery Bookstore to Close December 31 By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2006 - 8:34 AM Murder Ink, the first (and oldest) independent mystery bookstore, will shut its doors on its Upper West Side location on December 31, as will its younger sister store, Ivy’s Books and Curiosities. The New York Times’ J ...
Reviews Sam Tanenhaus Gives Good TV By Neal on Dec. 20, 2006 - 8:06 AM As you can imagine, with all the hoopla that’s been going on in the industry since Friday afternoon, I didn’t get a chance to actually watch the BookTV special on a day at the New York Times Book Review when it aired S ...
Reviews Do You See What I See? By Neal on Dec. 20, 2006 - 8:01 AM Michael Bierut of Design Observer noticed a visual pun in the Abbott Miller cover art from the November 29 issue of the NYTBR, accompanying Liesl Schillinger‘s review of Against the Day. How about you? I have to admit, the f ...
Book Biz A Memoir for Dell’Olio By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2006 - 7:18 AM Nancy Dell’Olio‘s name probably means little to Americans, but in Britain? Boy oh boy. Being former England national football team owner Sven-Goran Eriksson‘s on-again, off-again girlfriend opens a lot of doors, ...
Publishing On the Children’s Book Beat By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2006 - 7:09 AM The Washington Post’s Bob Thompson spotlights the New York Review‘s new Children’s Collection, which aims to bring back notable kids’ titles into print to the tune of eight or 10 out-of-print books a year. ...
Publishing “Difficult” market affects HMV, WHSmith, UK retailers By Carmen on Dec. 20, 2006 - 6:07 AM The BBC reports that entertainment retailer HMV has warned that tough trading conditions mean its annual profits are set to come in at the bottom end of forecasts, adding that while efforts to improve sales are “working effe ...
Events Writers Studio Celebrates 20th Anniversary By Neal on Dec. 19, 2006 - 1:18 PM Congratulations to the Writers Studio, which recently celebrated twenty years of providing personalized instruction in the craft of writing. What started out in Philip Schultz‘s apartment has now grown into a series of works ...