Another Journalist Defending Sources
When a judge demands that you give up the source for a maple-glazed ham recipe, you’d damn well better give it to him. Otherwise, as this piece points out, you’ll be a journalist in jail like Judith Miller.
continue readingNovelist Loses Election
Caleb Carr, author of The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, and others lost his bid to become a county legislator for Rensselaer County in the Hudson Valley area.
continue readingBlog Book Sold
I should probably make a note of this so when this book is published, I can learn what in the hell I’m doing… Publishers Marketplace reported that Jonathan Yang sold a project entitled Rough Guide to Blogging to Andrew Lockett at Rough Guides. Lilly Ghahremani at Full Circle Literary represented the deal.
continue readingRIP John Fowles
British author John Fowles, who wrote masterpieces like The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus, passed away at the age of 79. There have been a number of small articles and obituaries popping up in the media. –The CBC ran this obituary about Fowles. –The Times Online provided this overview of Fowles, including some good…
continue readingWhat is Being an Expert and What is Protecting Your Turf?
Back in early August, I ran a bit about some controversy surrounding the Washington Post book review of John Irving’s most recent novel, Until I Find You. The uproar at the time was that the newspaper ran a book review written by a critic who had a personal relationship with Irving. The newspaper acted to…
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