Grassroots Bookselling

Greg Michalson at Unbridled Books has an interesting post on his blog about the importance of independent bookstores pushing lesser known works. He discusses the problem surrounding “how are you to discover a wonderful book you don’t already know about—that you haven’t specifically gone into the store, on a mission, so to speak, to track…

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Another Journalist Defending Sources

When a judge demands that you give up the source for a maple-glazed ham recipe, you’d damn well better give it to him. Otherwise, as this piece points out, you’ll be a journalist in jail like Judith Miller.

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Novelist Loses Election

Caleb Carr, author of The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, and others lost his bid to become a county legislator for Rensselaer County in the Hudson Valley area.

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Blog Book Sold

I should probably make a note of this so when this book is published, I can learn what in the hell I’m doing… Publishers Marketplace reported that Jonathan Yang sold a project entitled Rough Guide to Blogging to Andrew Lockett at Rough Guides. Lilly Ghahremani at Full Circle Literary represented the deal.

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RIP John Fowles

British author John Fowles, who wrote masterpieces like The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus, passed away at the age of 79. There have been a number of small articles and obituaries popping up in the media. –The CBC ran this obituary about Fowles. –The Times Online provided this overview of Fowles, including some good…

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