The Game Enters NYT Bestseller List
Neil Strauss’ The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists entered the New York Times bestseller list this weekend. It’s a riot. Keep your eyes open for the Slushpile interview with Strauss which I hope to have posted this week.
continue readingMore Katrina Books
Publishers Marketplace reported more Hurricane Katrina deals at the end of last week. The folks at CNN sold a book called CNN Reports: State of Emergency, a chronological account of the network’s coverage through transcripts and photos for publication in mid-October 2005. CNN announced it will donate all royalties to hurricane relief funds and the…
continue readingGo All in at Powell’s
For all of you in the Pacific Northwest, you might want to grab your bankrolls and head down to Powell’s today. Poker chamption Annie Duke is signing How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker today. Duke is the top ranked female poker player in the world…
continue readingComputer: Friend or Foe of Books?
A few days ago, I mentioned the fantastic Bookmark Now: Writing in Undreaderly Times, a collection of essays edited by Kevin Smokler. The essay A Computer Ate My Book by Douglas Rushkoff raises some interesting questions and some pointed criticisms of publishing. Rushkoff begins by brushing aside all the-sky-is-falling complaints of how the Internet is…
continue readingThe Steinbrenner of Horse Racing
This has nothing to do with books, but longtime readers of Slushpile know that I grew up in Kentucky on a horse farm and this news item is just mind-boggling to me. The Keeneland September Yearling Sale recently closed and most of the attention focused on Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. Determined to win…
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