Halloween is my Christmas
So last night I paid twenty bucks then stood in line for better than two hours to finally get to stumble and cringe and scream my way through a haunted house.
Happy Halloween!
I’m afraid (no pun intended) that my horror knowledge is woefully lacking. Aside from the trauma that Disney’s The Headless Horseman inflicted upon me as a small boy growing up on a horse farm,
Interview: Richard Lange, Author
It’s been a while for me. Fiction hasn’t been moving me much lately. And even my love of short stories had let me down.
Slowhand Quickly Ascends the Bestseller List
Eric Clapton’s Clapton: The Autobiography debuted at #2 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List.
Akashic Celebrates 10 Years
If you’re in New York City tonight, be sure to swing by the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library (Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza) to help the great Akashic celebrate ten years of publishing fantastic books.
The Arkansas Traveler Finally Notices Fratire
The Arkansas Traveler Online Edition website, from the University of Arkansas’s school newspaper, finally notices the trend of fratire.
Ouch
Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic of The Chicago Sun Times eviscerates Ian Christie’s Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga.
The Chores of Copyeditors
Mark at The Elegant Variation has yet another great post about what happens to a book before it hits the store shelves.
Bat Segundo Interviews Saunders
The great Bat Segundo has posted another round of stellar podcast interviews recently. The most notable of the bunch (although they’re all good) is George Saunders,
Why Does it Take So Long for a Book to Hit the Shelves?
Mark at The Elegant Variation has an absolutely fantastic post about all the things that have to happen after a book is accepted for publication.
Richard Lange’s Dead Boys
I posted a brief mention of Richard Lange’s Dead Boys: Stories over at Beatrice yesterday.
Krakauer Sues Publishers
There were reports yesterday that bestselling author Jon Krakauer sued his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Co, and a printing company.
Iron Chef and Author
I don’t believe I’ve ever read a review of a cookbook. But this article at SeattlePI does a great job at both briefly reviewing Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto’s new cookbook,
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