Profile of James Frey
CNN has a good profile of James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces and, most recently, My Friend Leonard. I loved Frey’s first book and, as a side note, I thought it had one of the coolest covers in a long time. Haven’t read his new one yet, but I’m looking forward to it.…
continue readingBidding War for Potter Mistakes Down Under
eBay has an interesting battle going on between two sellers in Australia. One person, located in Rowville, Victoria, AU is offering a copy of the new Harry Potter printed upside-down, back-to-front. Asking price? $10,000 AU (which is approximately $7,492 American). The seller wonders if the boy wizard cast a spell on the book. But there’s…
continue readingLibraries for Coffee Shops?
MediaBistro picked up an interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that highlights the shocking disappearance of books from college libraries. Thomas H. Benton (a psuedonym of a professor at a Midwestern liberal arts college) writes “What does it mean when the University of Texas at Austin removes nearly all of the books from…
continue readingTrident Media Seals Deal
The folks at Trident Media Group are definitely some of the more accessible, approachable, and generous agents that I’ve come across, so I was pleased to see that Melissa Flashman and Jenny Bent signed a great deal with Houghton Mifflin in a pre-empt recently. How to Be Useful: A Beginner’s Guide to the Meritocracy by…
continue readingImpressive Showing from Cormac
It’s easy to get overlooked in all the Harry hoopla, but an encouraging note is that Cormac McCarthy’s new novel, No Country for Old Men actually has a sales rank of #21 this morning. Officially released tomorrow, McCarthy’s novel is lagging behind 7 different Harry Potter entries, the ubiquitous Da Vinci Code, and a handful…
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