Selling new books is where the glamour (and much of the money) is. But for independent bookstores, publishing’s backlists are the main course. – Publisher’s Weekly
AND: New book chronicles the personal ups and downs of running an independent store. – Seattle Times 10/21/99
Author: Douglas McLennan
PIGGING OUT ON LIT CRIT
Never have there been so many books and so many things written about them in so many places. And literary reviews have probably never mattered less. Has American literary criticism burned itself out? – Village Voice
JAPAN BAN
Japanese publisher says it will appeal the government ban of a book documenting with letters the homosexual love life of well-known writer Yukio Mishima, who died in 1970. – CBC
E-MEDIA
Internet media are exploding, and stories in traditional media about dot-coms are as hot as the tech IPO’s. What’s behind the hype? – Washington Post
GENDER GAP
Why no women artists in the Museum of Modern Art’s first segment of its “radical rethinking” survey of modern art? Village Voice
NATIONAL GALLERY gets new curator –
– of modern and contemporary art. Washington Post
ENHANCING THE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
Intel and the Whitney Museum team up with an interactive computer tablet to make looking at art in a museum an interactive multimedia experience. New York Times
“The LION KING” –
– opens in London to raves. BBC
BROADWAY AS NFL?
Credit card company Visa signs a deal to market Broadway theater across the US. The theater industry is looking to broaden its audience. We’ll promote it just as we do our sports portfolio, says a Visa exec. Backstage
RENT DISPUTE DIVORCE
The ten-year Cleveland San Jose Ballet partnership comes apart in money dispute. – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)