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Photograph by Pieter Van Hattem.
Jan/Feb 2009
Popular Articles
Daily News
Holocaust Memoir Found to Have Been Fabricated
by Staff
Online Only, posted 1.05.09
The publication of a memoir by Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat has been canceled after the author admitted to having embellished his story.
Finally Finalized: Beyond Baroque Gets the Lease
by Staff
Online Only, posted 12.29.08
Just days before the end of its fortieth-anniversary year, BeyondBaroque finally signed a lease with the Los Angeles City Council that will allow the literary nonprofit organization to remain at 681Valencia Boulevard for the next twenty-five years.
Mad at Madoff: Booker Prize Sponsor Invested With Swindler
by Staff
Online Only, posted 12.23.08
Man Group, the investment company and hedge fund that sponsors the Man
Booker Prize, had $360 million invested in two funds linked to Bernard
Madoff.
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Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Molly Friedrich
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
Feature
September/October 2008
Known as a heavy-hitting agent willing to go to bat for her
clients, Molly Friedrich discusses how an author should choose an agent, what
she looks for in a manuscript, and what separates great agents from merely good
ones.
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Editor Janet Silver
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
Feature
July/August 2008
Having settled into her new role at Nan Talese’s imprint following her ouster from Houghton Mifflin, editor Janet Silver discusses what she looks for in a new writer and what every author should know about agents.
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Lynn Nesbit
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
Special Section
January/February 2008
With more than forty years of experience in the business, agent Lynn Nesbit discusses how she signed some of her biggest clients, how a writer can get an agent’s attention, and what’s wrong with the publishing industry.
Most E-mailed
These United States
by Joe Woodward
News and Trends
November/December 2008
As the presidential election approaches, our national hand-wringing has ramped up and everyone is once again focused on the perennial question: What makes America America? Two recent literary anthologies show just how far this popular introspection reaches into our creative communities of writers and artists.
Bock's Best-seller Offered for Free Online
by Staff
Daily News
Charles Bock's debut novel Beautiful Children hit number fourteen on the New York Times best-seller list this week, but for three days, Random House, which published the book in January, is offering a download of the book for free. Through midnight on Friday, readers can download a PDF version of the full-length novel from Bock's Web site, as well as from the online stores of Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Q&A: Twichell Passes Ausable Torch
by Kevin Larimer
News and Trends
September/October 2008
Poet Chase Twichell talks about the decision to end her
ten-year run as publisher and hand over her independent press to the nation’s
largest poetry publisher, Copper Canyon Press.
Daily News
Holocaust Memoir Found to Have Been Fabricated
by Staff
Online Only, posted 1.05.09
The publication of a memoir by Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat has been canceled after the author admitted to having embellished his story.
Finally Finalized: Beyond Baroque Gets the Lease
by Staff
Online Only, posted 12.29.08
Just days before the end of its fortieth-anniversary year, BeyondBaroque finally signed a lease with the Los Angeles City Council that will allow the literary nonprofit organization to remain at 681Valencia Boulevard for the next twenty-five years.
Mad at Madoff: Booker Prize Sponsor Invested With Swindler
by Staff
Online Only, posted 12.23.08
Man Group, the investment company and hedge fund that sponsors the Man Booker Prize, had $360 million invested in two funds linked to Bernard Madoff.
Most Read
Most Read
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Molly Friedrich
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
Feature
September/October 2008
Known as a heavy-hitting agent willing to go to bat for her clients, Molly Friedrich discusses how an author should choose an agent, what she looks for in a manuscript, and what separates great agents from merely good ones.
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Editor Janet Silver
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
Feature
July/August 2008
Having settled into her new role at Nan Talese’s imprint following her ouster from Houghton Mifflin, editor Janet Silver discusses what she looks for in a new writer and what every author should know about agents.
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Lynn Nesbit
by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
Special Section
January/February 2008
With more than forty years of experience in the business, agent Lynn Nesbit discusses how she signed some of her biggest clients, how a writer can get an agent’s attention, and what’s wrong with the publishing industry.
Most E-mailed
These United States
by Joe Woodward
News and Trends
November/December 2008
As the presidential election approaches, our national hand-wringing has ramped up and everyone is once again focused on the perennial question: What makes America America? Two recent literary anthologies show just how far this popular introspection reaches into our creative communities of writers and artists.
Bock's Best-seller Offered for Free Online
by Staff
Daily News
Charles Bock's debut novel Beautiful Children hit number fourteen on the New York Times best-seller list this week, but for three days, Random House, which published the book in January, is offering a download of the book for free. Through midnight on Friday, readers can download a PDF version of the full-length novel from Bock's Web site, as well as from the online stores of Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Q&A: Twichell Passes Ausable Torch
by Kevin Larimer
News and Trends
September/October 2008
Poet Chase Twichell talks about the decision to end her ten-year run as publisher and hand over her independent press to the nation’s largest poetry publisher, Copper Canyon Press.
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