Author: Scott McKenzie

A Paperback Da Vinci… Finally

  After literally years of speculation about when a paperback version of The Da Vinci Code would be released, details began to trickle out on Friday about an Anchor Books mass-market edition. Publishers Weekly reported that Anchor will release the paperback on March 28, 2006 and although details are closely guarded by the publisher, estimates…

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Hundreds and Hundreds of Pages

  This is gonna be a big, massive, door-stopper of a book… A item on Publishers Marketplace last week reported that “Lawrence Ross’s expose that looks at every aspect of the adult film industry from the African-American perspective while analyzing the sociological, psychological, and physical effects that pornography has on its participants and viewers” recently sold…

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Sony Unveils New E-Book Reader

  As all card-carrying gadget geeks know, the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now, bringing visions of a techie utopia to everyone who lusts after the latest cellphone, bluetooth gadget, plasma television, or motorized floating rafts. Myself, I freaking hate cellphones and still lug around my old bag phone that I…

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High Praise for Debut Novel

  Michiko Kakutani, who I sometimes think of as the Mikey (you know that chubby kid from those old cereal commercials who won’t eat anything) of the literary world. It’s tough to get compliments from this critic. But in a rave New York Times review today, Kakutani writes “Question: what do you get if you…

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More on the Identity of JT Leroy

  Like researchers lining the shores of Loch Ness, determined to prove the existence of a sea monster or equally driven to show that it’s all a hoax, more and more people are wading into the JT Leroy question. In Who’s That Boy/Girl?, Laura Barton and The Guardian add in their research to the mix.…

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