“It’s kinda like a big sister’s guide to life. How to deal with peer pressure and things like that, for girls. Nicole’s [Richie] writing it, and we have a collaborator as well.” Richie shops her book of ‘Life’ lessons (first item)
As in the works of many of PEN’s members, money plays a major role in the drama, but so, too, do pride, pique and principle. We should note that we view Quote of the Week much as we view happy hour. Writers at war
‘It is the kind of run of bad luck or bad judgment that allows a certain type of man in the industry to complain there is too much oestrogen around.’ Row at HarperCollins after books fail to sell
Here, it is still socially acceptable to smoke cigars, and pretty much de rigueur to get ragingly drunk. Told that all this was a central part of the Frankfurt experience, I sheepishly give it a go: after six glasses of wine, I have half-convinced a French publisher that the time is right for a Gallic-flavoured biography of Pink Floyd, and managed to get myself pencilled in for dinner in London with PJ O’Rourke. You read it here first
“[It] is an absurd distraction from Graham’s work. It is an utter misrepresentation. Norman does Graham a great disservice with his obsession with gossip … disappointing in someone who professes to be an academic, and a dereliction of Norman Sherry’s duty as a biographer. The biography is not only vulgar and poorly written but extremely dull. Norman Sherry is very like Inspector Clouseau. He doesn’t understand anything, he gets many things wrong – he is a fantasist.” ‘You’re like Inspector Clouseau, vulgar, wrong. A fantasist obsessed with sex’. ‘Bloody nonsense. Grow up’: As the world of literature met yesterday to
“Once you blurb one book,” [Scott Turow] says, “it’s like giving to charity. No good deed goes unpunished. That is the first law of blurbing. As soon as you’re kind enough to do this for somebody, then everybody in the world is there with their hand out or a manuscript.” Buried by the blurb
We find it hard to believe we’re linking to same article twice, but we liked this quote far too much to let it pass without comment: “Maybe we’re behind the times,” says [Jonathan] Galassi, who publishes such award-winning authors as [Shirley] Hazzard, Susan Sontag and Jonathan Franzen. “I just think there are too many words out there already. I hope our writers will be spending their time writing their books, not their blogs.” The husband believes each human is given a quota of pickles to be consumed in life. He reached his at the tender age of eight. Likewise, each
“It’s nice to have the books . . . visible when you come in the store. It helps to emphasize that we are a bookstore,” said Virginia France, marketing director and web administrator of the U-Store. It does lessen confusion that way. U-Store unveils refashioned layout
