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Bookmarks: Meet Soft Skull Press’ new editorial director, and more

Sundry links from around the Web: "I'm just an old school punk rock girl with a love of smart thinking, good writing, and culture both highbrow and gutter low," says Denise Oswald, the new editorial ... Read More »

May 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

And you thought you’d heard the last from Holden Caulfield…

By Suzanne Gardner

Sequels are always difficult to pull off. Everyone pits your new effort against your old one, and rarely will your latest come out ahead (The Empire Strikes Back excluded). It's even harder to succeed when ... Read More »

May 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

You betcha: Sarah Palin to pen memoir

By Nathan Whitlock

Late-night comedy writers must be ecstatic over the news that Alaska governor and former vice-presidential no-hopeful Sarah Palin has signed with HarperCollins U.S. to write a memoir. The size of the advance “ really, is there ... Read More »

May 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

How you know you’re in a recession, Part MMCXIIV

By Steven W. Beattie

Quillblog is well aware that hard economic times have a disproportionate effect on writers (who aren't usually in the top earning brackets to begin with) but it's a sign that things have become untenable when ... Read More »

May 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Twilight sequel script found in trash

By Steven W. Beattie

It was a blunder worthy of CSIS. In 1999, Canada's spy agency had egg on its face after top-secret documents were stolen off the back seat of a parked car while the car's owner attended ... Read More »

May 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Author tweets his way back into the limelight

By Suzanne Gardner

Author and former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum is attracting attention with an essay about his tenure at the prestigious magazine in that he's posting on Twitter. Baum began his story this past Friday ... Read More »

May 11, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Bookmarks: HarperCollins revenue way down

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: HarperCollins reports a decline in revenue of nearly 20% in the last quarter The Save Al Purdy's House campaign has a website The race to digitize historic manuscripts is ... Read More »

May 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

New Web forum will look at Google Book Search settlement

By Stuart Woods

A new project is underway to foster public discussion about the ramifications of the Google Book Search settlement, the New York Law School announced this week. The initiative will see the launch of a new ... Read More »

May 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Widget allows book clubs to occur anywhere on the Web

By Suzanne Gardner

The Book Oven blog has brought to our attention a unique social networking site called BookGlutton that seeks to provide users with a new way to read online. According to the website, the application allows ... Read More »

May 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

James Frey vs. Oprah: Frey strikes back

By Suzanne Gardner

Bright Shiny Morning, the third book by Oprah-blacklisted author James Frey, is arriving in paperback next week with an added passage that seems to be based on Frey's appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show three ... Read More »

May 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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