Informers Trailer Released
. The film version of Bret Easton Ellis’ Informers is scheduled for release next month and the movie trailer is beginning to make the rounds on the Internet. You can see view the trailer and sign up for email alerts at this website. Although I’ve heard the film dropped the vampire subplot from Ellis’ book,…
continue readingClimbing Fifty-Two Stories
This weekend, I spent some time catching up with the Fifty-Two Stories website produced by HarperPerennial. Complaining about the lack of outlets for short stories has, unfortunately, become a favorite pasttime for literary folks lately. More and more of the major magazines are cutting back on their fiction slots and the tough economic times have…
continue readingCountdown to a Book Deal
MSNBC has an article about a guy working a job in every state in the nation. Daniel Seddiqui gets a gig in each state’s most famous industry, works there for one week, meets the people, and explores the surrounding area, before moving on. This quest is similar to Sean Aiken’s adventure working a different job…
continue readingWhy Won’t a Publishing Book Work?
Recently, the New York Observer wondered if there is any glamour left in publishing. The article generated a healthy amount of discussion amongst the book blogs and I didn’t initially think I had anything else to offer on the subject. But some of the ideas expressed in this article have really been festering away for…
continue readingFunny Line
In a piece about Wallace Stegner’s birthday, Timothy Egan recalls a hilarious interaction between an irritated author and an editor. Here’s the bit: Norman Maclean, the Montana native whose gin-clear prose makes “A River Runs Through It” an American treasure, certainly carried some of the Stegnarian chip on his western shoulder. After the success of…
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