Downing book deal announced
After posting yesterday about hard rock books, I saw an announcement about yet another new release. According to Blabbermouth, former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing will release a memoir in September of this year. His co-author on the project is noted rock writer Mark Eglinton. Downing was one of my favorite interviews for my book…
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Wolff teases easter egg in megaselling book
As if Michael Wolff hadn’t already made enough money off Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, he’s just guaranteed some new sales. Or, at a minimum, some people flipping through their existing copies again. In an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, Wolff claims that President Donald Trump is having an affair…
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Vance will not run for Senate
On Friday, multiple outlets reported that author J.D. Vance had announced that he would not run for Senate in Ohio. As just one example, here is the way that CNN covered the writer’s statement. Propelled by the success of his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis, Vance became…
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The Ice Wagon’s Wheels Come Off: Mavis Gallant and Sadia Shepard in The New Yorker
Yesterday I learned that an short story featured in the January 8, 2018 issue of The New Yorker??Foreign-Returned? by Sadia Shepard?bore a more than casual resemblance to the late Mavis Gallant?s story, ?The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street.? (Gallant?s story was also originally published in a 1963 issue of The New Yorker.) Francine Prose,…
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How the Milo edits benefit us all
The lawsuit that Milo Yiannopolous filed against Simon & Schuster is available for viewing, which means you can read his book without purchasing it, in case you’re interested but don’t want to contribute to his cause. Click here to see the exhibits. Publishing industry observers have focused on editor Mitchell Ivers’ more aggressive comments about…
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