Book Biz Why are Authors Selling Cars? By Ethan on Apr. 30, 2008 - 9:00 AM Ever since On the Road, there’s been a kinship between authors and cars, but recently Lexus and Hyundai have endeavored in a matter of branding gone wrong. I don’t know if you’ve caught Hyundai’s Dollars &a ...
Book Biz It’s Fun When Alternative Bands Namecheck Writers! By Neal on Apr. 30, 2008 - 8:03 AM My iPod may have room for several thousand songs on it, but I usually wind up obsessing over three or four over the course of a given week. These last few days, it’s been The Mountain Goats‘ “Lovecraft in Brookly ...
Awards And the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to… Peter Lovesey By Ethan on Apr. 30, 2008 - 7:35 AM Sarah Reidy, Director of Publicity from Soho Press, reports from Baltimore on the Malice Domestic Agatha Awards. I had the pleasure of attending the Agatha Awards Banquet for Malice Domestic XX on Saturday, alongside Soho’s ...
Publishing Hollywood Pros Who Have a Way with Prose By Neal on Apr. 30, 2008 - 7:02 AM I’m told that the “On Page & Screen” panel I moderated Sunday morning at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books went well; Tina Dupuy of FishbowlLA gave it a friendly write-up, and from my perspective at the ...
Book Biz Franzen v Kakutani By Ethan on Apr. 29, 2008 - 3:25 PM Last night at a Harvard event with fellow New Yorker staff writer James Wood, Jonathan Franzen said that “the stupidest person in New York City is currently the lead reviewer of fiction for the New York Times.” Franzen ...
Book Biz “Postcards From Yo Momma” Blog To Become A Book! By Glynnis on Apr. 29, 2008 - 2:36 PM Congrats to Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose on getting a book deal based on their Tumblr of mom emails, “Postcards from Yo Momma.” Hyperion executive editor Gretchen Young bought the book at auction, reportedly for les ...
Publishing PEN World Voices Kicks Off Tonight By Neal on Apr. 29, 2008 - 1:54 PM Just a quick reminder that PEN World Voices starts its six-day festivities tonight with, among other events, Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy talking about the situation in Darfur at the prompting of Los Angeles Times Book P ...
Events The 2008 PEN Literary Gala Was Fancy By Glynnis on Apr. 29, 2008 - 1:21 PM The PEN literary gala, a fancy fundraising dinner held under the whale in the Natural History Museum, is sort of like publishing’s prom. Editors who are there to pad out the tables their respective houses have purchased, bor ...
Book Biz The “Sullen Punk Rock” Version of Vidal & Didion By Neal on Apr. 29, 2008 - 1:06 PM When The Runner and Only Love Can Break Your Heart showed up together in my mailbox, I was impressed not only that David Samuels was getting two hardcover nonfiction books published simultaneously, but that he’d designed the ...
Authors Sometimes I Wonder If Augusten Burroughs And James Frey, Like, Hang Out Ever. By Glynnis on Apr. 29, 2008 - 12:28 PM “The enduring myth of the American memoir as a precise form is bullshit and needed to go away,” James Frey told Vanity Fair in an upcoming profile — the “last interview” Ron mentioned earlier. “ ...