Awards Three Percent Picks Best Translated Books By Jason Boog on Feb. 20, 2009 - 9:23 AM Last night at the Melville House offices, two titles were named the Best Translated Books of 2008. Tranquility (Archipelago Books) by Attila Bartis, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein won for fiction; For the Fighting ...
Digital GalleyCat Readers Rate Scribd By Jason Boog on Feb. 20, 2009 - 7:23 AM When GalleyCat reported that Scribd.com–the social networking site where writers upload and share everything from essays to novels–has grown to 50 million visitors, a number of readers wrote in with their thoughts abou ...
Authors More Than One Thousand Petition for Release of Chinese Author By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 4:23 PM On December 8, 2008, Chinese authorities arrested Independent Chinese PEN Center board member and author Liu Xiaobo. Since his imprisonment, 1092 supporters around the world have signed a petition for his release. According to the ...
Bookselling 136 More Employees Laid Off At Borders By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 2:23 PM Borders Group announced that they cut an additional 136 jobs today. The cuts will affect 12 percent of the corporate leadership in the Ann Arbor, Michigan headquarters, but only one percent of the company’s overall workforce ...
Awards Five Finalist Named for $10,000 Young Lions Fiction Award By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 1:23 PM Today the New York Public Library revealed the finalists for the ninth annual Young Lions Fiction Award. The nominees are: Jon Fasman for The Unpossessed City, Rivka Galchen for Atmospheric Disturbances, Sana Krasikov for One More ...
Book Biz Adam Begley to Write John Updike Biography By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 11:23 AM Book critic Adam Begley has inked a deal with HarperCollins for a biography of John Updike, writing about the American author who died in January. Begley edits the NY Observer Review of Books, and wrote that paper’s obituary ...
Publishing Publishing Layoff Diary By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 10:23 AM Former Scribner senior editor Colin Robinson wrote a long diary entry for the London Review of Books about his firing last December–a gloomy, insider look at what has become known as Black Wednesday. His essay takes a person ...
Authors Author Gay Talese Editing the Homeless By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 9:23 AM Author Gay Talese has handed out twelve hand-made signs to poor people asking for money on the Upper East Side, explaining that they needed “topical” wording for these tough times. Talese typed new signs on dry-cleanin ...
Adaptation Ang Lee May Direct Life of Pi Adaptation By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 8:23 AM Director Ang Lee–the filmmaker behind Brokeback Mountain and Hulk–is considering adapting Yann Martel’s 2002 Booker Prize-winning bestseller, Life of Pi. The book has come close to the big screen multiple times, ...
Adaptation Jane Austen Meets Aliens and Elton John By Jason Boog on Feb. 19, 2009 - 7:23 AM Last week GalleyCat readers watched that video about how Quirk Books created a viral blockbuster with their upcoming title, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Today, Elton John’s film company, Rocket Pictures, announced an equ ...