Wed, August 17th, 2011
What It’s Like to Work at Booklist
Posted by: Daniel Kraus
Decided last night to watch The Best of Everything (1959), a Valley of the Dolls-style movie about three young secretaries slaving away at a New York City publishing house and trying to work their way up to the vaunted position of “EDITOR.” I was dumbstruck by the movie’s unfaltering realism. Why, this is exactly how [...]
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Tue, January 13th, 2009
Quickly: Penguin Memoir, Obama Bucks, Abusive Blurbs, All Work and No Play
Posted by: Keir Graff
Tom Tomorrow tackles the memory crisis (“This Modern World,” Salon). A bunch of publishing types speculate on how much money Barack Obama will earn for his memoirs (“How Much Will Obama Get for His Memoirs?” New York). Funny, funny, funny: Larry Kirshbaum, agent and former CEO, Time Warner Books: “With Dow 9,000 as a base, [...]
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Mon, July 14th, 2008
Dastardly Plan Foiled by Librarians
Posted by: Keir Graff
I don’t know why, but this made me think of Michael Gruber’s excellent Book of Air and Shadows. Oh, wait, I know why. (Although this is more Donald Westlake than Gruber.) New tag: Life Imitates Art. (Although we know where Art gets his ideas.) From the Guardian (“Man held over theft of Shakespeare first folio,” by [...]
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