Set the Timer on Your VCR
Or, get your Tivo ready, however you do that. I’m going to rely on my new-fangled laser disc machine to record me some primetime literary humor. Fresh off their bouts with Scientology and censorship, the boys at South Park are zeroing in on James Frey. Premiering Wednesday night at 10pm, “Towelie gets over his drug addition and writes a moving…
continue readingLiterary Ambulance Chasers
Or maybe that should be hearse chasers. On Wednesday, March 22, the body of Selmer, TN preacher Matthew Winkler was discovered at his family’s home. His wife, Mary, confessed to killing her husband on Friday, March 24. On Friday, April 14, Publishers Weekly reported that St. Martin’s signed a book deal with Edgar-nominated author Diane…
continue readingPredictable and Obvious
When you go to the movies, do you always select the Disney offering where the cute [insert animal here] goes home and finds his family? Or do you favor the sports movie where the underdog inevitably wins the championship? Do you like movies-of-the-week where all the conflict is predictably resolved and tied up in a…
continue readingStill More Lawsuit News
The LA Times picked up a Bloomberg News report about still another literary lawsuit. Former Yale Law School researcher John Lott is claiming that Steven Levitt and HarperCollins Publishers Inc. damaged his reputation with the publication of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. In the book, Levitt writes that other scholars had been…
continue readingRecycling Titles
Hillel Italie, AP National Writer, examines the frequency of publishers using recycled titles.
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