Bat Segundo Interviews Saunders
The great Bat Segundo has posted another round of stellar podcast interviews recently. The most notable of the bunch (although they’re all good) is George Saunders, fresh off his appearance on David Letterman.
continue readingWhy Does it Take So Long for a Book to Hit the Shelves?
Mark at The Elegant Variation has an absolutely fantastic post about all the things that have to happen after a book is accepted for publication. He chronicles some of the things he’s working on and really gives some great insight on how publishing works for that year-and-a-half from book deal to bookstore shelves.
continue readingKrakauer Sues Publishers
There were reports yesterday that bestselling author Jon Krakauer sued his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Co, and a printing company. His suit alleges the companies “made more than 1.2 million ‘unauthorized and impermissible’ reproductions of Into Thin Air‘ in a textbook.” What’s interesting to me about this is that it illustrates all the various mechanisms in which a…
continue readingIron Chef and Author
I don’t believe I’ve ever read a review of a cookbook. But this article at SeattlePI does a great job at both briefly reviewing Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto’s new cookbook, Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking in addition to also providing an update on the scene at a recent author signing in Seattle. Cool article…
continue readingDybek Receives MacArthur Grant
Short story author Stuart Dybek is among this year’s recipients of MacArthur Foundation grants. It’s weird. I love short stories. However, I haven’t read much of Dybek’s work. I remember his collection The Coast of Chicago but that’s about it. And of ocurse there’s his great story Death of the Right Fielder. I do recall…
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