Authors Insert Your Own “Desert Island Reading” Joke Here By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 9:46 AM So this is cool: Michael Swanwick, who has published both a new novel (The Dragons of Babel) and a new collection of short stories (The Dog Said Bow-Wow) in the last four months, unwinds by writing short-shorts, sealing them in a ...
Sponsored Content I’m Not in the Trailer? Dang! By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 9:19 AM I’m one of the several hundred contributors to Not Quite What I Was Planning, a collection of “six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure” assembled by SMITH magazine, tucked away in the back half of the book ...
Publishing It’s All Too Much?: More on the “Disappearing” Bestseller By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 9:01 AM Remember last Wednesday, when I told you about an anonymous tip on a national bestseller that allegedly isn’t getting any additional printings? Well, another tip from another source came in Sunday afternoon about the same ti ...
Events Scene @ Spiegel & Grau Launch Party By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 9:00 AM If you look closely in the bottom left corner, you can just make out Lee Siegel walking in the dim light behind Liza Monroy, whose debut novel is coming from Spiegel & Grau this June. Among the many other attendees at the pack ...
Book Biz A Quick Peek Inside the Sausage Factory By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 8:27 AM Ever wonder what a book looks like before the pages are turned into a book? Harold Davis discusses the imposition proofs for his forthcoming Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers on his blog: “Each of the large shee ...
Publishing Tell Us How You Really Feel, Ursula K. Le Guin By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 8:02 AM “Books are social vectors, but publishers have been slow to see it. They barely even noticed book clubs until Oprah goosed them. But then the stupidity of the contemporary, corporation-owned publishing company is fathomless: ...
Sponsored Content Can’t Wait for the I Can Has Cheezburger Book? By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 7:46 AM If you need LOLcat print action now, you’re in luck! Prominent online cartoonist Adam Koford, better known as Ape Lad, has just compiled a batch of the best panels from The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, a comic strip that, according ...
Authors Where’s Dan Brown’s Book?, Part Two By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 7:09 AM Friday’s WSJ article wondering where Dan Brown‘s next book is set off another round of enquiry and speculation on the other side of the Atlantic. The Sunday Times of London quotes John Sutherland‘s suggestion tha ...
Events Scene @ I’m Looking Through You Party By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 7:05 AM Shortly after I arrived at the party for Jennifer Finney Boylan‘s new memoir, I’m Looking Through You, she introduced me to cartoonist Tim Kreider (left), and reminded me that I’d written about him before. Really ...
Events Scene @ Burns Night in Williamsburg By Neal on Jan. 28, 2008 - 7:03 AM Dewars and The L Magazine teamed up last Friday night to celebrate the 249th anniversary of Scottish poet Robert Burns’s birth at the Williamsburg bar Iona, and GalleyCat correspondents Erin Vollmer and Amanda ReCupido were ...