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Jay McInerney, literary chronicler of New York City, stood in his large window struggling with a broken shade. He wasn’t actually paying attention to the view–he’d seen it many times before: the wide expanse of water towers and fire escapes, the blossom of Wall Street, and the Twin Towers lurching out of the sea. Focusing [...]

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Max Barry’s entertaining new novel was reviewed by Stanley Bing in Sunday’s Washington Post. Bing liked the novel tremendously. Although he felt the characters were a little hollow, which undercut some of the reader’s emotional investment in their lives, the book was still “laugh-out-loud funny, its humor driven by all the pleasure that a true shock [...]

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  I was in Las Vegas a couple of weekends ago and I kept thinking about the literature of that city. Of course, my affinity for John O’Brien’s Leaving Las Vegas is well known. But I also kept thinking of a novel that you might have forgotten, or perhaps never knew about in the first place. [...]

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  I have no idea how the editors of the New York Times decide what books to review and how prominently to feature those assessments. I’m particularly intrigued by the choices they make when they revist a book with multiple reviews. This week, the Times featured reviews from two books that caught my attention. In [...]

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Gawker received a leaked email from Conde Nast Publications yesterday detailing their email problems. According to the Executive Director of Information Systems & Technology, the publishing goliath is “experiencing unusually long delays in the delivery of out-going email from several of our New York offices.” Which absolutely explains why I haven’t received my acceptance from The [...]

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I’m always intrigued by the people who endeavor to auction on eBay the rights to publish their manuscript. Or, sometimes, you’ll see someone seeking to sell the film rights. Often, they’re folks, like this industrious author, that may have self-published other books. The eBay entry mentions a couple of previous books printed through AuthorHouse and now [...]

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  Cheap, hastily produced, awfully written self-help books are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Doesn’t matter if it’s about handling menopause, how to get Tabby the cat to lose weight, or liberating an inner child, I”ll read it. They make me grin, they make me thankful for my life, and yeah, I suppose I [...]

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Hi everyone, Somethings have come up unexpectedly, so I’m afraid we won’t have any posts today. But have a great day and please check back tomorrow!

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  Also on the always informative Publishers Marketplace was a news announcement that Andy Summers, guitar player extraordinaire and former member of The Police, signed a book deal in Britain for his autobiography. Entitled One Train Later, the book goes “from his early days on the Bournemouth and London music scenes to the height of world-wide [...]

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  No doubt salivating at getting the Scott & Laci Petterson crowd to open up their wallets again, book folks are already encircling the Neil Entwistle case. Publishers Marketplace ran a report yesterday that Brian McDonald has sold an untitled nonfiction book on Entwistle, the British man accused of murdering his wife and baby in Massachusetts to St. [...]

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Stephen Graham Jones was one of the first authors to grace us with an interview and his work is always a blessing. His new book, Demon Theory, is scheduled for release later this spring and his shiny new website is up and running. And to top it all off, there is a fantastic interview with Stephen over [...]

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  I really wanted to like Utterly Monkey: A Novel by Nick Laird. I’m a sucker for anything with a British accent of any sort and this book got some rave reviews. However, it also got some pretty negative comments as well. Unfortunately, I turned out to be on the more negative side of the [...]

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