Book Biz Harris O’Malley: A Wink and a Smile By Ethan on Jun. 30, 2008 - 1:50 PM I was trolling through Gawker the other day when I stumbled on this great illustration by Harris O’Malley and wondered which books lent inspiration to the work. Here’s what he had to say: I did this piece as part of a ...
Book Biz So Who Peed in Dan Savage’s Cornflakes? By Neal on Jun. 30, 2008 - 9:00 AM When Judy McGuire noticed that this year’s “Queer Pride” issue of the Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger bore some strong visual similaritie to How Not to Date, the relationship advice handbook she published ...
Events Progressive Book Club Launches With Rooftop Shindig By Neal on Jun. 30, 2008 - 9:00 AM Director of operations Dede Kinerk and chief operating and marketing officer Michelle Berger greet guests at the launch party for the Progressive Book Club, held last Wednesday night in the rooftop bar of the Gramercy Park Hotel. ...
Events VIDEO: Karl Meyer’s Seen it All Before in the Middle East By Neal on Jun. 30, 2008 - 9:00 AM Last Tuesday night, former World Policy Journal editor Karl Meyer spoke to a small group of friends and colleagues gathered in a conference room at the HSBC tower in midtown Manhattan to celebrate the publication of Kingmakers: Th ...
Adaptation Can You Sell One Story By Telling Another? By Neal on Jun. 30, 2008 - 8:03 AM Technically speaking, this Hellboy cartoon isn’t a “book trailer,” but an animated adaptation of a comic book that serves as prologue to The Golden Army, the movie that opens at the end of next week. But I think ...
Publishing Scene @ Opium‘s Literary Death Match in the Park By Neal on Jun. 30, 2008 - 8:00 AM Top: Amy Shearn, Debbie Kuan, and Gabrielle Mitchell-Marell; Bottom: John Williams in action Amanda ReCupido went to last week’s Opium-sponsored “Literary Death Match” in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, “braving wa ...
Events Your Party Photos: Sway & Gaspipe Launches By Neal on Jun. 30, 2008 - 7:01 AM Two weeks ago, I jokingly suggested President Bush should read Sway, a book by Ori and Rom Brafman about “the deep-seated forces that influence behavior and cause people to make irrational choices.” That prompted an em ...
Bookselling Everything Must Go at the Strand’s Downtown Annex By Neal on Jun. 30, 2008 - 6:37 AM Strand Books announced late last week that their Fulton Street annex will be shutting down for good at the end of August. That means that starting today, everything in the store is discounted 20 percent. It’s got good select ...
Book Biz Book Coverage Slashed… Again By Ethan on Jun. 27, 2008 - 2:59 PM Well, we’re here again. Rachel Deahl just reported on PW that Sam Zell, the new owner of the Tribune Company, would likely try to sell the buildings that two of the chain’s marquee papers–the Chicago Tribune and ...
Digital It’s the End of the World As We Know It? By Ethan on Jun. 27, 2008 - 2:25 PM Dennis Overbye at the NY Times reports lawyers for the federal government argued this week that a so-called “doomsday suit” intended to prevent the startup of a the world’s most powerful particle accelerator shou ...