Cover Designs For Books That Don’t Exist
Some will see this as an excellent idea for generating the all-important buzz for your book project. Others will this as yet another example of just how far publishing has turned it’s head from literature towards the omnipotent product. Either way, I have to admit this is a pretty damn cool book jacket. Jared Paul…
continue readingRoth Wins PEN Award
Philip Roth was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for his lifetime literary achievement. The author of Portnoy’s Complaint, The Plot Against America, and others will receive a payment of $20,000 in conjunction with the award. Winners of other PEN awards included Linda Gregg, Amy Butler Greenfield, and Christopher Coake. Roth is also the recipient of two…
continue readingHomes to Appear at Powell’s
A.M Homes is scheduled to appear at Powell’s in Portland, OR tonight at 7:30pm. The author will be signing her new novel, This Book Will Save Your Life, at the famed bookstore’s Burnside location. Call 1-800-878-7323 for more information or visit the Powell’s website.
continue readingKotzwinkle’s Premonitions
The recent literary scandals sent me scurrying to the Slushpile.net library. Fraudulent identities and plagiarized words… someone spoofed this very situation. So I pulled down William Kotzwinkle’s hilarious 1996 novel The Bear Went Over the Mountain. A decade ago, this writer satirized the publishing industry with a plot that, at the time, required a massive suspension…
continue readingHarvard Author’s Novel Pulled
Little, Brown, and Co. announced Thursday evening that it will withdraw Kaavya Viswanathan’s disputed novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. The Associated Press reports that the publisher instructed retail and wholesale outlets to cease sales and to return unsold copies. A move that, according to the Washington Post is “fairly unheard…
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