Fear and Loathing on the Book Tour, Part 3: Postcard From Los Angeles
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Genre: Fiction
Fear and Loathing on the Book Tour, Part 2: Postcard From New York City
Ah, springtime in New York City! That ineluctable smell! What is it, exactly? Curry and fish sauce, garbage, perfume, rotten eggs, fresh bread, urine, incense, stale tailpipe, shish kebab, body odor. (I am estimating.)
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Fear and Loathing on the Book Tour, Part 1: Postcard From Boston
This is the first installment in a series of Postcards written by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott, coauthors of Which Brings Me to You (Algonquin Books, 2006), while on tour to promote their book.
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Q&A: Scott Hoffman’s Reasons to Rep
At the end of Folio Literary Management’s second month in operation, Scott Hoffman, who represents writers of fiction and nonfiction and receives between two hundred and five hundred queries a week, spoke about the role of agents in today’s publishing marketplace.
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The Contester: The Collapse of Neil Azevedo's Zoo
Two years after the failure of Zoo Press's fiction contests in 2004, founder Neil Azevedo responds about more controversy surrounding its poetry contests.
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Fight Club, Lolita, and 1984 Among Top Film Adaptations
The Guardian, the British newspaper founded in 1821, recently compiled a list of the top fifty film adaptations of books.
Jack Gilbert and E. L. Doctorow Among NBCC Winners: Postcard From New York City
On a frigid night in early March, a well-dressed crowd of around five hundred people piled into the New School’s Tishman Auditorium to witness the announcement of the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards. The membership organization of seven hundred critics and reviewers, founded in 1974, bestows awards annually for poetry, fiction, biography, general nonfiction, and criticism. This year, for the first time, autobiography (or memoir), was added as a separate category—an interesting distinction at a time when the controversy over the genre has dominated literary news.
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Publisher Drops James Frey
Lisa Kussell, a representative of writer James Frey, recently announced
that Riverhead Books has canceled the author’s two-book contract.
Riverhead, the imprint of Penguin Books that released Frey’s second
memoir, My Friend Leonard, in June 2005, has declined to comment.
E. L. Doctorow Wins PEN/Faulkner
Doctorow won the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel The March (Random House).
An Interview With Fiction Writer Jay McInerney
Perhaps no single book details the excesses of the 1980s—in particular the debauchery of the New York City social scene—better than Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Books, 1984). The author’s commercially successful debut novel was adapted into a movie, starring Michael J. Fox and Keifer Sutherland, in 1988.
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