Publishing Scene @ Housing Works’ “Only Connect” Reading By Neal on Nov. 21, 2007 - 8:38 AM Housing Works played host Sunday night to “Only Connect,” a special reading co-sponsored by Words Without Borders featuring authors from around the world—including István László Geher, Heeduk Ra, a ...
Events Scene @ Shooting War Launch Party By Neal on Nov. 21, 2007 - 8:06 AM Dan Goldman (in the striped shirt) greets friends at the launch party for Shooting War, the graphic novel he co-created with political journalist Anthony Lappé, held Monday night at Sutra after their Barnes & Noble event. ...
Digital Bookvideos.TV No Longer S&S-Exclusive By Neal on Nov. 21, 2007 - 7:59 AM When TurnHere launched the Bookvideos.tv website earlier this year, its short promotional films were produced exclusively for Simon & Schuster books. That’s changed now, as Bantam Dell, Chronicle, Disney/Hyperion, Double ...
Book Biz T-Shirts Are to Sociology As Legs Are to Chick Lit: Discuss By Neal on Nov. 21, 2007 - 7:41 AM The Book Design Review‘s Joseph Sullivan has posted some of his favorite book covers from 2007, and I thought the similarities between Rob Carmichael‘s jacket design for Unmarketable and Helen Yentus‘s for Well-B ...
Digital Readers Chime In on the Kindle’s Specs By Neal on Nov. 20, 2007 - 2:45 PM “The Amazon Kindle is really a poorly conceived product,” emailed Jane Litte of Dear Author, who’s also been covering the newfangled gadget on her blog: “Not the device itself, which, besides being ugly, is ...
Events How To Talk About Book Parties You Haven’t Attended By Neal on Nov. 20, 2007 - 2:17 PM Bloomsbury publicist Peter Miller, the new owner of Red Hook’s Freebird Books, sends along this picture from Sunday night’s re-opening, which was also a party for Pierre Bayard, the author of How to Talk About Books Yo ...
Book Biz American Literature’s Savior Now Up for Auction By Neal on Nov. 20, 2007 - 1:34 PM Last week, a literary agent sent out the following letter to an unknown number of editors: “Today you will be receiving via messenger a package containing two completed works of non-fiction, and four proposals for non-fictio ...
Events Scene @ Regret the Error Launch Party By Neal on Nov. 20, 2007 - 1:02 PM Last week, Rhonda Shearer (right, background) opened up the Art Science Research Laboratory in SoHo to celebrate the publication of Craig Silverman‘s Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Sp ...
Book Biz Apparently Karl Rove Is At Penguin By Neal on Nov. 20, 2007 - 12:17 PM This is what my anonymous tipline says, at any rate. Of course, it’s hardly surprising, given that Leon Neyfakh has already reported that Rove was coming to town to make a book deal that we’ve all seen coming since Aug ...
Digital The Blogosphere Reacts: Kindle Changes Everything By Neal on Nov. 20, 2007 - 9:21 AM FishbowlNY‘s Noah Davis went to Amazon.com‘s Kindle-launching press conference yesterday morning: “The screen’s a tad dark and the buttons too flimsy for my taste, but it seems perfect for reading on a airp ...