Real Estate Buyers Don’t Care About Beat Authors
Jack Kerouac’s former Hyannis, MA home sold for $300,000 after five months on the market. Ida Perry, one of the buyers, said she wasn’t familiar with Kerouac’s work. The house was originally listed at $356,000 and was assessed at $322,000. The author of 1957’s classic On the Road lived in the house in 1966. Kerouac also…
continue readingHarvard Author Agrees to Change Book Passages
Last Thursday, I mentioned the news about Kaavya Viswanathan signing a huge book deal at such a young age. At a time when most kids are saving the rent money for their prom tuxedo, she cashed in on a two book deal. Over the weekend and on Monday, questions began popping up about similarities between…
continue readingClevenger Audio Interview
The guys at Misnomer have struck again. This time, Logan scores a great interview with Craig Clevenger, author of Dermaphoria and The Contortionist’s Handbook. One of the things about this discussion that really got my attention is Clevenger’s loyalty to publisher MacAdam/Cage and to the craft of writing. He mentions he’ll never get rich from writing fiction…
continue readingEudora Welty’s Home
The great Maud Newton points out an article in the Clarion Ledger about Eudora Welty’s home. The an article includes a slideshow of images from the author’s house and garden which will be open to the public for two days, April 29-30.
continue readingBooks, Fo Shizzle
The Book Standard reported that Snoop Dogg’s first novel, Love Don’t Live Here No More is due out in October. Published by Atria, the novel is the story of a young man in Southern California struggling to succeed in the world of hip-hop. The article quoted Kathleen Schmidt, vice president and director of publicity of for…
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