May
17
Brooklyn Book Festival
May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A lovely time was had by all at theBrooklyn Book Festival Literary Mingle, held to announce and celebrate second annual The Brooklyn Festival on Sunday, September 16, 2007. I couldn’t say it better then Galley Cat’s Ron Hogan who gave a shout out to yours truly amoungst my fellow Brooklyn Literary Council members. From Ron: [...]
May
13
Viennese Sex Hotline to Help Library
May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
LITERARY BODICE RIPPERS FOR A GOOD CAUSE A novel idea for municipal fundraising involves an Austrian actress reading from works of erotic literature. For the benefit of lonely people who hide with old books in the rear stacks — or anyone who likes literate smut — Vienna City Hall now runs an “Eros-hotline” to benefit [...]
May
3
Authors who hate their book’s package, how Argentina’s financial crash created a publishing boom, and my first substantial friendship as introduced via MySpace. Not in that order…
May 3, 2007 | 2 Comments
I’ve really enjoyed GalleyCat’s coverage of Book Jackets over the past few months, especially the recent coverage of the renegade efforts of a debut novelist who hated his jacket so much, that he commissioned a new one and proceed to slap it on over the original one, doing so store to store. In trying to [...]