Authors Joyce Carol Oates’ Literary Look at Ted Kennedy By Jason Boog on Aug. 28, 2009 - 9:23 AM As public figures remember Senator Edward M. Kennedy, his love of poetry and literature has surfaced in tributes. In a probing essay for the Guardian, prolific author Joyce Carol Oates used classic literary works by F. Scott Fitzg ...
People Where I Must Go by Angela Jackson By Jeff Rivera on Aug. 28, 2009 - 7:30 AM Angela Jackson’s Where I Must Go is today’s Featured Book of Color, Pick of the Day. Set in a world of privilege and privation during the American civil rights movement comes Magdalena Grace’s story. The setting ...
Comic Books Set the Graphic Novel Free By Jason Boog on Aug. 27, 2009 - 4:23 PM What happens when you serialize parts of your graphic novel online, for free? For the author featured in this video, that strategy helped pack his book release party with loyal fans. Magazine editors, librarians, and publishing ty ...
Editors The New Yorker Hires 26-Year-Old Amelia Lester as Managing Editor By Jason Boog on Aug. 27, 2009 - 3:23 PM News broke this afternoon that 26-year-old Amelia Lester has scored one of the most coveted editorial spots in the literary world, hired by David Remnick to serve as managing editor of the prestigious magazine, The New Yorker. In ...
Authors Remembering Dominick Dunne on the Menu By Jason Boog on Aug. 27, 2009 - 1:23 PM Today on the Morning Media Menu, we discussed the life and literary legacy of Vanity Fair correspondent Dominick Dunne. The prolific writer passed away yesterday, leaving behind an impressive collection of novels and essays. At th ...
Sponsored Content Rock Journalists’ Hardcore Memories By Jason Boog on Aug. 27, 2009 - 12:23 PM To celebrate the release of Decibel magazine’s DaCapo anthology, “Precious Metal,” the LA Times has collected some heavy metal memories from rock journalists around the country–an oral history of this stran ...
Digital One Million ePub Titles in Google Books By Jason Boog on Aug. 27, 2009 - 11:23 AM Yesterday Google announced that digital copies of one million public domain books will now be available in downloadable ePub format in Google Books. A Google blog post explains the new development: “EPUB is a lightweight tex ...
Book Biz Barack Obama’s Amazon Ranking Magic By Jason Boog on Aug. 27, 2009 - 10:23 AM After President Barack Obama announced his summer vacation reading list this week, political journalists noticed that the chief executive’s seal of approval translated to some serious Amazon sales rank increases. According t ...
Book Biz Nailing Down the Hammer Cover Art By Neal on Aug. 27, 2009 - 9:00 AM When the fall W.W. Norton catalog arrived a few months ago, we were intrigued enough by the cover art for Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underground to peruse the description and decide we wanted to see what sort of story Sara S ...
Book Biz Gretchen Lowell Has Your Number By Neal on Aug. 27, 2009 - 8:00 AM Over the years, publishers have sent us a lot of things in the mail besides books: T-shirts, fancy chocolates, earlier this year we even got a hand towel. But we were genuinely surprised to open the package that came from Minotaur ...