Category: publishing

The former New Yorker staffer, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, succeeded founding editor George Plimpton on the latter’s death in 2003. Gourevitch “plans to return to writing full time.”

“The scientists have mostly gone online with their library needs. Cutting-edge scholars in the humanities are building new disciplines and online environments are are, in effect, libraries themselves; they are diffuse, collaborative, non-hierarchical, always changing.”

“On his radio show and cable television programs … Mr. Beck has enthusiastically endorsed dozens of novelists, a majority of them writing in the thriller genre.” While he “often selects authors whose plots or characters reflect political stances that mirror his own,” that’s not always the case.

“From Richard Holmes’s history of science in the Romantic generation, The Age of Wonder, to Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life, … Publishers Weekly’s all-male line-up has drawn the ire of a group of female writers.”

“Bring your own drink – no problem – and find a seat. There are some comfortable chairs over there by the fireplace. If you prefer more light, try something closer to the window. Kids might want to check out the play area….”

“This holiday season will be a crucial test of whether e-books can cross over from geeky novelty to mass-market must-have. Major retailers are pushing the format — and, of course, the gadgets they’ve developed to display it.”

“They are the heart of the paper, and not only the first thing anybody reads, but also, unlike headlines in real newspapers all over the world, the first things to be written. The staff devotes the first two days of every week to composing headlines, then assigns the articles that will run beneath them.”

“There is a strange affiliation between literature and jealousy. Jealousy is wordy; it gorges on language. It is hyperbolic, growing fatter on every expression of itself. This is delicious for any writer who is not an understater of emotion.”

“[B]ook applications for iPhone exceeded the popularity of games apps in the last four months, according [to a new] report. In September, iPhone books (some running on Kindle for iPhone) overtook games for the first time, while one in every five new apps in the App Store in October were books.”

“The library has acquired Proulx’s research notes, short stories, screenplays, more than 1,060 pages of holograph diary and thousands of pages of correspondence, the institution said. The [Hilary] Knight acquisition includes sketches for about 60 books, personal contracts, publicity materials, Broadway posters and reviews.”