Events Scene @ Sloane Crosley’s Helmut Lang Book Party By Neal on Apr. 23, 2008 - 4:00 PM Sloane Crosley checks in with party organizers as guests begin to arrive at the Helmut Lang shop in the Meatpacking District for the launch of her essay collection, I Was Told There’d Be Cake. As the room filled up, while th ...
Book Biz Ballantine Deals By Ethan on Apr. 23, 2008 - 2:30 PM For Ballantine Trade Paperbacks, Jill Schwartzman has acquired NYT bestseller Gotcha Capatalism and MSNBC contributor Bob Sullivan’s Ten Things Every Consumer Should Know, which explores why America’s corporate culture ...
Book Biz Steel Yourself For James Frey’s First ‘Bright Shiny Morning’ Reading! By Glynnis on Apr. 23, 2008 - 1:52 PM Who else did a double-take at the ad on the 17th page of this week’s New Yorker? “JAMES FREY Reads From His New Novel Bright Shiny Morning, Tuesday May 13 7 pm,” it reads. “Blender Theater at Gramercy, 127 ...
Book Biz The Most Important YA Novel of This Election Year By Neal on Apr. 23, 2008 - 12:13 PM Security expert Bruce Schneier has a fun column in this month’s Wired about the mindset it takes to succeed in his line of work: Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I re ...
Authors Babies Having Babies Books By Ethan on Apr. 23, 2008 - 11:59 AM According to the Associated Press, Miley Cyrus, the 15 year-old daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and star of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana,” will write her memoirs. Wait, what? Cyrus hopes “to motivate mother ...
Authors If They Gave Out Pulitzers for Understatement… By Neal on Apr. 23, 2008 - 9:00 AM “I guess winning the Pulitzer Prize in History is a dream come true,” Daniel Walker Howe writes on the Oxford UP blog, a few weeks after his history of the early United States, What Hath God Wrought, was tapped for tha ...
Publishing Get Your Nouvelle Cuisine On By Neal on Apr. 23, 2008 - 8:42 AM Remember the brouhaha back in January over the two books both named Saucier’s Apprentice? Raymond Sokolov, who wrote his back in 1976, is going to be talking about nouvelle cuisine at an Astor Center lecture tonight, and app ...
Digital Small Beer’s Second Free Download of the Month By Neal on Apr. 23, 2008 - 8:00 AM After making a splash last week by releasing The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, a new collection by science fiction writer John Kessel, under a Creative Commons license with a free electronic edition, Smal ...
Authors From Stage to Book By Ethan on Apr. 22, 2008 - 3:25 PM Frank Anthony Polito’s first play, “John R” was produced in New York City in 2001 starring the then pre-Tony Award-nominee, John Tartaglia (Avenue Q). Polito’s coming of age/coming out story caught the atte ...
Digital Nat Rich’s Book Has A Very Fancy Website By Glynnis on Apr. 22, 2008 - 2:35 PM No, there are no dioramas. But the website for Nathaniel Rich‘s debut novel ‘The Mayor’s Tongue’ does have a fun gimmicky conceit of its very own: Because the novel is about a fictional, mythic (and prolifi ...