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Microsoft Joins the War on Books Free Kindle software with the new Windows!
By Logan Hill
ink-stained wretches
Sept. 28, 2009
By Chris Rovzar
blockbusters
Sept. 15, 2009
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.’”
By Boris Kachka
as the bookworm turns
Aug. 26, 2009
Coming Soon: Jane Friedman 3.0 Resurrecting the specter of synergy for an Internet era.
By Boris Kachka
Clinton St. Baking Company, Rocco DiSpirito Score Book Deals Rocco is publishing a cookbook inspired by his appearance on a TV show plugging another cookbook?
By Daniel Maurer
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.”
By Boris Kachka
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.
By Boris Kachka
book report
June 30, 2009
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.
By Boris Kachka
book report
June 25, 2009
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.
By Boris Kachka
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?
By Boris Kachka
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.”
By Kera Bolonik
Adventures in Publicity: ‘Psychiatric Reports’ for Critics We were clobbered over a feature we wrote, and now suffer from “nyctophobia”?
By Boris Kachka
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.
By Boris Kachka
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.
By Boris Kachka
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.
By Boris Kachka
ink-stained wretches
May 12, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
ink-stained wretches
Apr. 22, 2009
Annals of Law: New Guinea Tribe Sues New Yorker It’s just your standard-issue case involving rape, murder, and pig theft.
By Jessica Coen
A Big Day in Crap Publishing Today’s important author: 50 Cent.
By Boris Kachka
Random House Finally Exhales Dan Brown’s desperately anticipated follow-up to ‘The Da Vinci Code’ will be released in September.
By Boris Kachka
Breaking: Book Industry Hurt in 2008 An industry that sees 5 percent growth as a bubble is taking this in (gimpy) stride.
By Boris Kachka
authoritarian voice
Mar. 19, 2009
Decider Less Than Half As Valuable As Bubba Today, George W. Bush sold his book for a reported $7 million.
By Boris Kachka
National Book Critics Circle Awards Turns Into a Roast for the Industry “Here we are with one stand-alone book-review section on the East Coast, and it won’t return my calls!”
By Boris Kachka
light reading
Mar. 8, 2009
Neil Strauss and Anthony Bozza on Their New Plans to Publish ‘Intelligent Writing About Stupid Topics’ Then there’s the tale of a woman, brought up as a traditional Muslim, who became “the most depraved rock groupie you’ve ever seen.”
By Boris Kachka
light reading
Mar. 5, 2009
By Boris Kachka
wonderful news
Mar. 2, 2009
By Boris Kachka
dirty books
Feb. 25, 2009
Philip Roth: Loyal to Houghton Mifflin, Lecherous Protagonists One of two planned books features “a counterplot of unusual erotic desire”!
By Boris Kachka
The Harper’s Take on the End of Publishing Just So … Harper’s Superagent Andrew Wylie is “an ice sculpture of a tropic general, a moisturized fist of virile elegance.”
By Boris Kachka
inevitable things
Feb. 11, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
media deathwatch
Jan. 5, 2009
The Media Climate Gets Hotter and Hauter More bad signs of the times, and more publications that are pretending times are better than they really are.
By Mike Vilensky
With Apologies to Oprah: Holocaust Memoirist Confesses to Fabrication The publication of Herman Rosenblat’s Oprah-endorsed ‘Angel Through the Fence’ has been canceled, for obvious reasons.
By Jessica Coen
‘Pretty Girls Are Like Cars That Need a Lot of Oil’ The 9-year-old author of ‘How to Talk to Girls’ offers timeless advice.
By Jessica Pressler
The End Is Nigher Houghton Mifflin is halting all acquisitions.
By Boris Kachka
election hangover
Nov. 20, 2008
Joe the Plumber Gets Book Deal Do you feel like you are going to barf? Wait till you hear the title.
By Jessica Pressler
bolanopalooza
Nov. 7, 2008
Why Big Books Still Matter Is Roberto Bolaño’s masterpiece, ‘2666,’ really any more difficult than two seasons of ‘Mad Men’?
By Boris Kachka
the rage of the creative underpaid
Nov. 6, 2008
Daily Intel’s Plan for Solving the Economic Crisis The city is hemorrhaging jobs. Daily Intel knows just how to stanch the flow.
By Jessica Pressler
‘The Jewel of Medina’ Rushed to Early Release The controversial book, which has already prompted one firebombing, will hit the stands on Monday in order to thwart more acts of terrorism.
By Matthew Perpetua
today in tina
Oct. 1, 2008
Tina Fey Too Busy to Deal With Her Multi-Million-Dollar Book Deal Publishers are bidding upwards of $6 million for a nonfiction book from her — and she hasn’t even taken a meeting yet.
By Matthew Perpetua
controversy
Sept. 30, 2008
Firebomb Attack Will Not Deter British Publisher ’The Jewel of Medina’ isn’t going over well with Islamic extremists.
By Matthew Perpetua
Celebrity Chefs
Sept. 5, 2008
Bam! Emeril Lagesse has signed a ten-book deal with HarperCollins’ experimental HarperStudio imprint.
By Daniel Maurer
Jane Friedman: ‘I’m Not Done by a Long Shot!’ At an unofficial gathering last night to celebrate the former HarperCollins CEO, everyone donned fun Jane masks and did their best not to acknowledge that her exit was totally awkward and abrupt.
Found Hound to Get Book Deal? Owner hints dog “has more than enough material for a novel.” Please, God, no.
party lines
June 26, 2008
George Lois Didn’t Love Our ‘Two Guys Fisting’ Cover Also, the legendary adman and ‘Esquire’ cover designer has a new gig.
ink-stained wretches
June 18, 2008
Hearst Corp. CEO Victor Ganzi Is Out The abrupt departure leaves former CEO Frank Bennack Jr. in charge.
Jane Friedman Shoved Out Just As She Was Leaving? Let’s just say her best friend left the party and things got awkward — so she started gathering her things to leave, but not quickly enough.
Jane Friedman’s Departure: Sentimental or Suspicious? The HarperCollins CEO suddenly resigned late last night, leaving more than a few scratching their heads. Do people like her just simply retire?
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