Book Bix You Pick This Year’s Best Short Story Collections By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 3:11 PM When the 2007 Story Prize judges were named yesterday, I invited you to identify some of the short story collections you thought might end up on their longlist, in addition to my early suggestion of National Book Award nominees Ly ...
Adaptation They Made a Movie of Radio Free Albemuth?!? By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 2:44 PM The Hollywood Reporter had a brief item yesterday about Alanis Morissette joining the cast of Radio Free Albemuth, a low-budget indie adaptation of a psthumously published novel by visionary science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. ...
Book Biz UnBeige: The United Colors of Alice Sebold By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 2:18 PM My colleagues at UnBeige spotted an interesting and colorful sidebar to a recent Entertainment Weekly profile of Alice Sebold, explaining just how The Almost Moon acquired that shade of red: Apparently, it came from a suggestion b ...
Publishing An Editor’s Angstful Cry Draws Mixed Reactions By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 1:43 PM This morning’s anonymous complaint about the state of publishing affairs is already drawing responses from other GalleyCat readers. “Sheesh,” countered one senior editor. “When I read that post I seriously ...
Book Biz Almost Moon Doggerel Sweepstakes Completed By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 12:45 PM With all the hoopla over just where the dead body in Alice Sebold‘s The Almost Moon went, I completely forgot about the unauthorized Almost Moon jingle contest I wrote about earlier this month. Lady T announced the winning e ...
Book Bix You Have Your Doubts About “Trick Lit” By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 12:36 PM In yesterday’s item on the so-called “trick lit” phenomenon, Seth Godin confided to me that he really didn’t have a specific book in mind when he coined a term for “a chick lit novel that pretends to ...
Authors Sure, Jerry, That’ll Defuse the Situation By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 11:55 AM I didn’t actually watch Letterman last night, but the AP has a recap of Jerry Seinfeld‘s appearance, where he ended up talking about the controversy over his wife’s cookbook. “The books came out at the same ...
Book Biz Wandering “Book Festival” Contest Goes Global By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 11:14 AM Bella Stander has a new blog entry on her suspicions about a new literary event called the London Book Festival (not to be confused with the London Book Fair). Her skepticism is provoked by the fact that this festival, ostensibly ...
Book Biz “Long Tail” Expert Gives Publicists Short Shrift By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 10:30 AM In his day job, The Long Tail author Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, where, he reports on his blog, “I get more than 300 emails a day and my problem isn’t spam, it’s PR people… Fact ...
Awards Junot Diaz Wins Sargent First Novel Prize By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 8:03 AM Junot Diaz (center) with fiancée Elizabeth de Leon and Riverhead editor Sean McDonald; photo by Christopher Peterson While I spent Monday night at the CLMP spelling bee, Beaufort Books associate publisher Margot Atwell went t ...