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Punctuation cage match

Herman Melville was for them; Raymond Chandler was against. Donald Barthelme thought they were ugly as a tick on a dog's belly. His contemporary, Kurt Vonnegut, called them transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. Yet another ... Read More »

August 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Random House pushes the envelope, then pulls back

By Stuart Woods

Presumably, the U.K. arm of Random House Children's Books knew what it was getting into when it published the latest children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson, titled My Sister Jodie, in which one of the characters ... Read More »

August 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

By Scott MacDonald

U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama is at the center of a burgeoning publishing world brouhaha, with Barnes & Noble on one side and Amazon.com on the other. According to the Associated Press: Chelsea Green Publishing, ... Read More »

August 20, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

NAR: Greatest American litmag ever published?

By Scott MacDonald

The legendary American literary editor Ted Solotaroff died last week, and in the days since there have been a number of heartfelt tributes to the man. One of the most recent is from Solotaroff's friend ... Read More »

August 20, 2008

Rycroft in her own words

By Sara Forsyth

As Quillblog recently reported, Nicole Rycroft, the executive director of Markets Initiative, took part in a pro-Tibetan demonstration late last week wherein she and four others spread a banner that read "Free Tibet" over an ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Lytton’s had enough!

By Sara Forsyth

The winner of the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening line of an imaginary novel was announced last week (the winner wrote something about passion in a New York City taxi). However, ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Partisan publishing

By Stuart Woods

Slate columnist Timothy Noah takes on a new book by right-wing journalist Jerome R. Corsi, calling it an unambiguous smear-job against presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Nicole Rycroft of Markets Initiative busted in Beijing

By Stuart Woods

Nicole Rycroft, the executive director of Markets Initiative, has been arrested in Beijing for her part in a pro-Tibet demonstration. According to her spokesperson, Bruce Walsh, Rycroft scaled a wall near the China Central Television ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Event photo: Coady, Robertson, and Babstock in Prague

By Nathan Whitlock

You may think, looking at the photo below, that this is a shot of two unsuspecting tourists about to be fleeced by a suspicious-looking con man. But in fact it is authors Lynn Coady, Ray ... Read More »

August 14, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Books are every bit as exciting as movies, say scientists

By Scott MacDonald

The next time someone tries to tell you that movies are a more visceral, exciting medium than literature, you can counter their arguments by pointing to a new scientific study that has just been released ... Read More »

August 13, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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Punctuation cage match

Random House pushes the envelope, then pulls back

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

NAR: Greatest American litmag ever published?

Rycroft in her own words

Lytton’s had enough!

Partisan publishing

Nicole Rycroft of Markets Initiative busted in Beijing

Event photo: Coady, Robertson, and Babstock in Prague

Books are every bit as exciting as movies, say scientists

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