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New York Times & Wall Street Journal Prepare To Slash Entertainment Coverage And Staff As Print Ads Vanish – Despite denials from the paper itself, the New York Times is, according to multiple sources, preparing to vastly reduce their arts coverage (they already cut their tri-state coverage earlier this fall). The Wall Street Journal ... more >
Publishing Newsassault / Author Issues / Disney / mashups / online security / privacy / Reviewing3 Comments
British Writer Tracks Down Teen Who Gave His Book a Bad Review, Smashes Her With Wine Bottle – You may remember this 2014 case – a teenage reader-reviewer named Paige Rolland gave Richard Brittain’s self-published book, The World Rose, a negative review, enraging Brittain enough to track her down and assault ... more >
Publishing Newsgender / harassment / literary award / Misogyny / negative reviews / Reviewing / stalking33 Comments
Get To Know The Finalists For The 2014 National Book Award – From Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See (another WWII-set novel) to Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven to Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, NPR features all of the 2014 National Book Award finalists. There are some ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / anonymity / Barnes and Noble / Literary fiction / Nook / Pride-and-Prejudice / Reviewing22 Comments
25 Literary Opening Lines Diagrammed on One Giant Poster – Using the Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming model, Pop Chart Lab has created a poster consisting of 25 opening lines from classic works of fiction. “Call Me Ishmael,” (Moby Dick) to “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the ... more >
Letters of Opinionauthors / publishing / Reviewing130 Comments
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of bluster in the YA community over what reviews “should be” and how they should be written and defined and what they should and should not contain. It’s a conversation that was very common in the online Romance community not so ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / Audible / audio-books / Deals / death / Reviewing / self-published20 Comments
I don’t have any beautiful eulogy to give Jobs and it’s not that I don’t believe that he deserves a beautiful eulogy. He does. He transformed our collective lives. But I have neither the connection nor the knowledge from which to give voice to a remembrance. I’ve read several and ... more >