Search Results by tag: Blowhards

Signs the world is coming to an end, #10,135

One of the most tragic aspects of the publishing industry is recognizing the years of labour, research, networking, and luck that go into getting something onto shelves “ and then watching an idiot like this ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Paying writers not to write

By Steven W. Beattie

What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? An excellent start. Okay, that's an old joke, but it's indicative of a feeling in the general populace that folks in the legal ... Read More »

December 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Publisher of controversial Mohammed novel firebombed

By Nathan Whitlock

As previously noted on Quillblog, publication of the novel The Jewel of Medina was canceled by Random House U.S. due to the possibility that it might offend Muslims and perhaps initiate attacks by those at ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Shinan Govani takes on Bennett’s blue bloods

By Steven W. Beattie

Gadfly and gossip-hound Shinan Govani takes novelist Jonathan Bennett to task in the pages of today's National Post, suggesting that Bennett's portrayal of the well-heeled, monied classes in his new book, Entitlement, misses the mark. ... Read More »

September 25, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Lytton’s had enough!

By Sara Forsyth

The winner of the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening line of an imaginary novel was announced last week (the winner wrote something about passion in a New York City taxi). However, ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Partisan publishing

By Stuart Woods

Slate columnist Timothy Noah takes on a new book by right-wing journalist Jerome R. Corsi, calling it an unambiguous smear-job against presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

CNN commentator calls books for boys “emasculating”

By Scott MacDonald

Glenn Beck, a conservative political commentator who appears regularly on CNN Headline News, recently welcomed U.S. children's book author Ted Bell to his show, in order to sing the praises of Bell's new adventure title, ... Read More »

June 20, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell: for or against?

By Stuart Woods

A mild controversy may be brewing around Malcolm Gladwell, the Canadian journalist and bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, and a New Yorker staff writer. The dispute arose after The New Republic's cantankerous ... Read More »

March 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The First Annual Hooker Prize

By Nathan Whitlock

Who says booksellers are the last guardians of good taste in an ever-more tawdry world? From AbeBooks: Welcome to the Hooker Prize “ in honor of Elliot Spitzer and his fall from grace in a ... Read More »

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Happy World Book Day, dummy!

By Stuart Woods

Coinciding with World Book Day, celebrated yesterday in the U.K., Faber and Faber publisher Steven Page added his voice to the chorus of supporters of new technology, in an op-ed piece in The Guardian. But ... Read More »

March 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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