Publishers Weekly reported that “despite receiving 1.5 million advance orders for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Amazon only broke even on the title, the result of deep discounting and shpping incentives.” Many people have wondered why booksellers were discounting the Harry Potter novel at all since clearly readers would pay full price, heck, probably […]
Max Barry provides some details on his website about the release date of his new book, Company. The author of Syrup and Jennifer Government says that his new novel will be out January 17, 2006. You can already pre-order it on Amazon so click here. Let’s build up Harry Potter-like pre-orders for all our […]
I was never much of one for auto shop in high school, so I would have never thought to compare a woman’s anatomy to a carburetor, but that’s exactly what gearhead Dan McKay in Fargo, North Dakota did to win San Jose State University’s annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
A CNN article states “‘As he stared […]
There is an interesting article The Daily Telegraph that I learned about via the excellent MobyLives website. It seems that some major British publishers are returning to the slush pile with renewed interest. “Publishers are increasingly alert to sources of undiscovered gems that in the past might have slipped through the net,” the article states. […]
Well, sort of. The New York Times is moving into the bookstore business and their first retail store opening not in Manhattan, not in Los Angeles, not in Chicago, and not in DC, but rather Lexington, Kentucky. My home sweet home. In October, the newspaper will open the doors to a 1,738 square-foot retail store […]
CNN has an article on what looks to be an interesting book. The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski recounts the life and death (obviously) of French chef Bernard Loiseau. Driven to perfection, obsessed with his Michelin rating, Loiseau lived a tumultous life until his suicide in 2003. As a bit […]
One of the problems with reading so much is, simply, that you read so much. It’s easy to fall into a rhythm where nothing is exciting, where the books you finish is kind of like munching on saltine crackers, no real taste exactly, no real excitement, just swallow it, take a sip of water, and […]
MobyLives has an interesting item about the uprising of Harry Potter fans determined to squelch criticism of their favorite book. David Kipen panned Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and said that the problem isn’t that the novel is dull per se because there are moments resembling suspense but rather “the main problm is that […]
This heatwave is really starting to piss me off. Seriously. I’m beginning to take this personal like. I walk to work and by the time I get to my office, sweat is dripping off my face and pooling in my keyboard. But my grandma always told me to count my blessings so I think how […]
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this post if you plan on seeing Batman Begins and you don’t want to know about the ending.
I was recently re-reading a section of Fight Club and I was struck by the similarities to the new Batman film. For those of you who aren’t concerned about spoilers, read more after […]