- 2/26/13 /
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Variety Will Soon Stop Releasing Daily Editions
Also, they're removing their paywall.
Publishing
- 2/23/12 /
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J.K. Rowling Signs Deal for New Novel for Adults
Miss U, Harry Potter.
- 11/14/11 /
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Get Ready for Reality Weekly Magazine
Haven't you ever wondered what Us Weekly doesn't run?
- 3/23/11 /
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Elizabeth Taylor’s NYT Obituary Was Written by Someone Who Is Also Dead
And has been for years.
- 1/12/10 /
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New York ‘Literary Idol’ Releases Debut Novel!
We ran an excerpt from a then-untitled novel; it didn't take Maaza Mengiste long to get a book deal.
- 12/10/09 /
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First They Came for the Trade Publication: Kirkus Closes
Kirkus was always known, to the booksellers and industry reporters who relied on its write-ups of forthcoming titles, as the cranky review house.
- 11/18/09 /
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Memoir: A History’s Ben Yagoda on What Is ‘Nearly the World’s Oldest Profession’
On Palin's new book: "I can only imagine how many typos will make it through."
- 10/29/09 /
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Broke Writers Rejoice After the 25th Whiting Awards
Crashed cars! Publishers running off solar power! Tennyson quotes!
- 10/27/09 /
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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."
- 10/22/09 /
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Microsoft Joins the War on Books
Free Kindle software with the new Windows!
- 9/15/09 /
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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.'"
- 9/2/09 /
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History’s Most Anticipated Thriller Protected by State-of-the-art Chain-link Fence
Two whole locks?
- 8/26/09 /
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Coming Soon: Jane Friedman 3.0
Resurrecting the specter of synergy for an Internet era.
- 7/27/09 /
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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."
- 7/21/09 /
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Borders Finally Realizing That This Whole Twilight Phenomenon Could Help Sales
They are beginning to roll out teen-specific sections in their stores.
- 7/7/09 /
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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.
- 6/30/09 /
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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.
- 6/25/09 /
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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.
- 6/24/09 /
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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?
- 6/12/09 /
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Novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum on The Scenic Route and Life Under the Radar
"Women narrators are supposed to be likable, and my characters are not necessarily nice and/or likable. But they are funny."
- 6/10/09 /
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Adventures in Publicity: ‘Psychiatric Reports’ for Critics
We were clobbered over a feature we wrote, and now suffer from "nyctophobia"?
- 6/1/09 /
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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.
- 5/29/09 /
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BookExpo Another (Good) Excuse to Cry, ‘The Sky Is Falling!’
The once-joyous red-letter events of the cultural calendar reduced to doom-y article ledes.
- 5/29/09 /
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Steven Tyler ‘Rocks’ BookExpo Keynote, Confuses Chuck Klosterman
Topics included raccoon hunting, African cranes, harmonic fifths, and growing up in the Bronx with big lips.
- 5/13/09 /
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Sarah Palin Book Deal a Chance for Saul Bellow’s Son to Shine
Adam Bellow finally has a chance to prove his genius.