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Book Man Steve Rubin’s Ambitions Shrink With the Industry
Rubin, ousted from Doubleday, announced he'll head the much smaller Henry Holt, and make it more "focused."
The Lost Symbol’s Daring Interior Monologue
To wit: I've got to get out of here. Jesus, where the hell are my clothes? Someone left a mannequin hand in the Rotunda?
Dan Brown Book Party Conspicuously Unmysterious
"A woman I have never met but a woman whom I love deeply: Janet Maslin of the New York 'Times.'"
Stew on Taking Passing Strange to the Screen With Spike Lee
Talking over one of the best concert films we’ve ever seen.
Martin McDonagh’s Back, Baby!
The playwright will take 'A Behanding in Spokane' straight to Broadway.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar Shrugs Off Zack Morris to Play Mark-Paul Gosselaar
This play will be both hilarious and existentially sad. Yeah, we know — 'Saved by the Bell, Part Two.'
Paul Slovak on the Paradoxical Task of Editing William T. Vollmann
'Imperial' was not actually "line-edited during a 36-hour peyote séance by the ghosts of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and Sinclair Lewis."
Exclusive: Richistan Author Sells Riches to Rags
Sob stories from former fat cats reduced to flying commercial, handled with a blend of empathy and derision.
Another Author Lets Loose Over Bad Review Via the Internet
"I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make."
James Frey Joins Team Michael Bay
Bay reportedly paid in the "high six figures" for a Frey book about a group of alien children fallen to Earth following an attack on their home planet.
McNally Jackson’s Coming Book Machine Heralds Future of Publishing (Again)
Exclusive: New York's first permanent machine will be cranking out paperbacks at Soho's McNally Jackson Books.
Roxana Saberi, American Journo Imprisoned in Iran, Redeeming Celeb Publishing?
She spent six years studying Iran from the inside, but does she have time to write the book she needs to?
Novelist Colum McCann on Let the Great World Spin and the 9/11 ‘Grief Machine’
"I live on the Upper East Side for my sins. But the thing I’m attracted to is the edges."
Adventures in Publicity: ‘Psychiatric Reports’ for Critics
We were clobbered over a feature we wrote, and now suffer from "nyctophobia"?
The Chandler Burr Name-dropping Index
There's a deluge of name-dropping in 'You or Someone Like You'; we’ve indexed all the real-life players in Hollywood, New York, and Jerusalem.
BookExpo 2009: ‘Productive Despair’
This year, having taken their meds in the form of layoffs and steep losses, publishers were in a strange mood.
Sully Aces BookExpo Appearance
With the attention of more than 100 conventiongoers at stake, Sully's heroic brevity at BookExpo landed listeners safely at the five o'clock cocktail hour.
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