Richard Lange’s Dead Boys
I posted a brief mention of Richard Lange’s Dead Boys: Stories over at Beatrice yesterday. I’ll have more on this enjoyable book in the next couple of days. And we’ll have an interview with Lange appearing soon. For now, check out the Beatrice post and be sure to pick up this great new story collection.
continue readingKrakauer Sues Publishers
There were reports yesterday that bestselling author Jon Krakauer sued his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Co, and a printing company. His suit alleges the companies “made more than 1.2 million ‘unauthorized and impermissible’ reproductions of Into Thin Air‘ in a textbook.” What’s interesting to me about this is that it illustrates all the various mechanisms in which a…
continue readingIron 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, Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking in addition to also providing an update on the scene at a recent author signing in Seattle. Cool article…
continue readingThe Ineffectiveness of Agents
Bookninja points to an interesting article about just how impossible it is to get a literary agent and how ineffective they are once you do actually procure representation. “The problem is that there are many more writers than the market can bear, and to most publishers writers are about as important as farmers are to Tesco…
continue readingDybek Receives MacArthur Grant
Short story author Stuart Dybek is among this year’s recipients of MacArthur Foundation grants. It’s weird. I love short stories. However, I haven’t read much of Dybek’s work. I remember his collection The Coast of Chicago but that’s about it. And of ocurse there’s his great story Death of the Right Fielder. I do recall…
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