Awards Roth Wins PEN/Faulkner Again By Carmen on Feb. 26, 2007 - 9:40 AM The Washington Post’s Bob Thompson reports that The PEN/Faulkner Foundation will announce today that Philip Roth has won its 2007 award for fiction for his novel EVERYMAN — making Roth the first writer to receive the a ...
Book Biz New York Comic-Con: Panel Report By Neal on Feb. 26, 2007 - 9:35 AM from left: Abby Denson, Alison Bechdel, Ariel Schrag When it came time for questions from the audience at the gay comics panel at New York Comic-Con, I mentioned the effort to ban Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home from a public libr ...
Digital HarperCollins Launches Embeddable Online Reader By Carmen on Feb. 26, 2007 - 9:04 AM In another move to expand the horizons of its digital warehouse, HarperCollins announced in a statement today the creation of the “Browse Inside” widget, which enables fans and authors to embed sample pages of their fa ...
Publishing The Daily Show Sells Books – Who’d Have Thunk? By Carmen on Feb. 26, 2007 - 8:33 AM The New York Times’ Julie Bosman adopts a sense of gee-whizness in this piece about how Comedy Central‘s flagship satirical show brings on serious authors – and how their books sell in massive quantities thereaft ...
Book Biz Scene @ New York Comic-Con By Neal on Feb. 26, 2007 - 8:10 AM To be honest, I could’ve spent the entire weekend at New York Comic-Con doing nothing but taking pictures of Darth Vader and the assorted stormtroopers wandering around the Javits; they’re just such awesome photogrpahi ...
Events Scene @ Allen Shawn’s Book Party By Neal on Feb. 26, 2007 - 7:51 AM Allen Shawn greets guests at the party celebrating the publication of Wish I Could Be There, which combines a layman’s tour of the science behind phobias with a memoir of Shawn’s own experiences with claustrophobia and ...
Adaptation “Original” War and Peace Slimmer, Happier, Controversial By Carmen on Feb. 26, 2007 - 7:49 AM Can’t stomach the idea of wading through Leo Tolstoy‘s 1500-plus page classic? Well, thanks to the work of scholar Evelina Zaidenshnur and the translation by Andrew Bromfield, you’ll be able to read the author ...
Publishing Pearson Profits Rise By Carmen on Feb. 26, 2007 - 6:05 AM Pearson, the world’s largest education publisher (and parent company of Penguin Books) reported a 19 pct rise in 2006 profits, ahead of market expectations, and said it expects to grow faster than its markets in 2007. Pengui ...
Reviews Looking Under the NYTBR‘s Hood By Neal on Feb. 25, 2007 - 7:00 AM The weekend Gawker team delivers an extensive summary of a Harvard lecture by NYTBR editor Barry Gewen, pulling back the curtain on the New York Times Book Review. So if you missed the Book TV documentary late last year, Gewen off ...
Publishing Proper Care and Marketing of Meg Gardiner By Carmen on Feb. 23, 2007 - 12:31 PM Thanks to Stephen King‘s lavish praise, both on his website and on the back page of the February 16 issue of Entertainment Weekly, it’s pretty damn difficult to find a copy of any of Meg Gardiner‘s books – ...