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Brick Lane inhabitants want Brick Lane: The Movie stopped

The east London borough of Tower Hamlets is up in arms again against Booker-nominated author Monica Ali and her novel Brick Lane. Now that a movie's in the making, they're really pissed. According to a ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Shelter kids denied access to library books: for shame!

By Cassandra Drudi

In a scandal broadcast far and wide by book-blogs Bookslut and Bookninja, children from homeless shelters in Indiana's Porter County are having their library cards taken away and their lending priviliges revoked, according to the ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Adventures in book packaging

By Leigh Anne Williams

The controversy over Kaavya Viswanathan's plagiarism keeps picking up speed, so here's a quick recap. The Harvard student scored a $500,000 advance for her debut chicklit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and ... Read More »

April 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

On propaganda and fiction

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Tyee has a piece suggesting that Michael Crichton's State of Fear – an action thriller based on the premise that environmentalists are misinformed at best and downright sinister at worst – could herald a ... Read More »

March 1, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Tales of two cities

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times looks at the reaction in Venice to John Berendt's latest book, City of Falling Angels, a non-fiction account of "local secrets and scandals," in the words of Times reporter Elisabetta Povoledo. ... Read More »

February 17, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

ReFreyed

By Leigh Anne Williams

Well, now we know why James Frey cancelled his appearance in Toronto, which was scheduled for Thursday. We may have assumed he was simply going into low-profile mode, but it turns out something else came ... Read More »

January 26, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

We apologize in advance for flogging a dead horse

By Scott MacDonald

Given current levels of inspiration following last night's election results, In Other Media sees fit to return, one last time, to the well-worn comfort of the James Frey fiasco. Remember when Frey appeared on Larry ... Read More »

January 24, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

A million PR nightmares

By Scott MacDonald

An article in today's New York Times collects the responses, or lack thereof, to the allegations that James Frey falsified much of the content in his bestselling memoir A Million Little Pieces. The publishers of ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

This just in: more fraud

By Scott MacDonald

Another recent article from The New York Times maintains that James Frey is not the only popular author who faked a hard life. Times writer Warren St. John may have answered a question vexing literary ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Like daytime television (on PBS)

By Scott MacDonald

Often, the stories behind books are almost as interesting as the books themselves. In the case of lost manuscripts, speculation abounds concerning the contents of books – in the words of Stuart Kelly, "The lost ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

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Search Results by tag: Scandal

Brick Lane inhabitants want Brick Lane: The Movie stopped

Shelter kids denied access to library books: for shame!

Adventures in book packaging

On propaganda and fiction

Tales of two cities

ReFreyed

We apologize in advance for flogging a dead horse

A million PR nightmares

This just in: more fraud

Like daytime television (on PBS)

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