Authors A Young Boy’s Fantasy Becomes a Local Bestseller By Neal on Sep. 23, 2008 - 9:00 AM Three years ago, high school student Stephen Beirne was diagnosed with chordoma, a malignant tumor that forms on the spine and the base of the skull. During the months of surgical and chemotherapy procedures aimed at bringing the ...
Awards Kirk Read Wins 1st Open Door Contest By Neal on Sep. 23, 2008 - 8:00 AM Back in October, we told you about the Open Door Project, a literary contest for gay male writers launched by former Avalon Publishing Group editor Don Weise and other editors who had pioneered the mainstreaming of gay literature ...
Digital Let’s Think About Content Fragmentation, Shall We? By Neal on Sep. 23, 2008 - 8:00 AM Last week, Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg (left) went to a launch party for Luxid 5.0, billed as “a collaborative solution for analyzing and process strategic information,” and at that party, he heard Elsevier Health Scie ...
Authors A Newly Classic Example of Morissettian Irony By Neal on Sep. 23, 2008 - 7:02 AM From the New Yorker obituary for David Foster Wallace: “In his fiction, he aimed at capturing the authentic rhythms of speech and thought, even when doing so meant breaking the rules of writing (rules that Wallace, an obsess ...
Events Scene @ Edgar Bronfman’s Hope, Not Fear Party By Neal on Sep. 23, 2008 - 7:00 AM Friends and colleagues of former Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman filled the Grill Room at the Four Seasons last week to celebrate the publication of Hope, Not Fear, his action plan for a “Jewish renaissance” in American cul ...
Book Biz After a 300,000-Copy Summer, Finally: Success! By Neal on Sep. 23, 2008 - 1:37 AM Sure, we mentioned how The Story of Edgar Sawtelle became the new Oprah book when it happened last Friday, but it’s worth repeating that you readers called it—and did a better job than our so-called expert in making th ...
Authors Three of This Year’s MacArthur Geniuses Are Literary By Neal on Sep. 23, 2008 - 12:34 AM FishbowlNY already has an interview with Alex Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker and the author of The Rest Is Noise, about being named one of this year’s 25 recipients of a $500,000 fellowship from the John ...
Publishing Stuff White People Get By Jason Boog on Sep. 22, 2008 - 2:40 PM Author Tim Wise kicked up some Internet dust last week, writing about how white privilege has affected this election cycle. His ideas are perfectly primed to push everybody’s buttons about race, sex, and class during this hi ...
Trends Moby Dick Hits the Smallest Screen By Jason Boog on Sep. 22, 2008 - 12:03 PM While the Amazon Kindle has dominated headlines as the hip new way to read books, Apple has quietly entered the digital book market with the iPhone and iPod Touch. The bitty phone might seem awkward compared to a full-sized book, ...
Comic Books Batman Versus The Novelist By Jason Boog on Sep. 22, 2008 - 12:01 PM Over the weekend, novelist Jonathan Lethem returned from his fortress of solitude in Maine (with a new novel in the can, we speculate). At a time when most writers would crack a bottle of champagne, this comic-book obsessed noveli ...