Wylie Interviewed in Le Monde
Andrew Wylie is arguably one of the three most influential literary agents in the business. And he prefers to keep a low profile so you ain’t gonna see him popping up on a panel at the Serial Killer Romance Writers of Greater Tupelo Mississippi Area Book Conference anytime soon. However, he did grant a rare interview to French media…
continue readingLiterary Double-Wides in Book Trailer Park
The folks at The Book Standard have launched a blog dedicated to literary videos, Book Trailerpark. Looks like the blog will have lots of cool stuff and discussion. Just remember, in the event of a funnel cloud, drop all your books, close your video clips, and “leave the trailer park and take cover on low-protected…
continue readingMcCarthy’s The Road Reviewed in Times
William Kennedy provides a big review of Cormac McCarthy’s new novel, The Road, in Sunday’s New York Times. I really enjoyed the novel, especially when I was on the verge of not enjoying the novel. Let me explain. As the NYT review explains, the novel is about a father and son’s lengthy trek to the coast in…
continue readingProtecting Your Blind Side Is Worth Seven Figures
Variety reported that the film rights to Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game were won by Twentieth Century Fox in “in a heated bidding war that pushed the price past seven figures.” Although Lewis’s previous best seller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game dealt with baseball, his newest book looks at college…
continue readingPessl at Pitkins
Maud Newton and Lauren Cerand point out that Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics will appear tonight at Mo Pitkin’s in New York as part of The Reader’s Room reading series. The event starts at 7pm and also features Lorin Stein, who translated Gregoire Bouiller’s book The Mystery Guest: An Account. Should be a…
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