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So, What Do You Read?Richard Rushfield's Book Party
Richard Rushfield's book party was in a swanky English pub downtown. The kind of place where the shepherd's pie is served with a baby green salad in a tangy vinaigrette. Anyway, the place was packed for the release party of Rushfield's college memoir "Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost." And yes, in keeping with the theme of the book, we had trouble finding the place. Pictured above is Gawker editor and author Richard Rushfield and Love Junkie author Rachel Resnick. More photos after the break... Are The Mega-Chain Bestseller Price Wars Illegal?The ABA seems to think so: The Board of Directors of the American Booksellers Association today sent the following letter to the U.S. Department of Justice requesting that it investigate practices by Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, and Target that it believes constitute illegal predatory pricing that is damaging to the book industry and harmful to consumers. On the other hand, isn't paying more than $8.99 for Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" a crime of another kind? Read the ABA's angry letter after the jump- Book Soup is Being Bought by Vromans
Tyson Cornell, Book Soup's general manager, declined to comment on the impending sale. But like most of his customers, he worried that a new owner would change the atmosphere and guiding principles of the store. Shocker, people who work at a book store don't want things to change. We like Vromans. We're happy Book Soup isn't been turned into an organic tattoo parlor or something. A locally grown, whole grain, doggy day care or teeth whitening acting school...oh it could be MUCH worse. Dr. Phil Wannabe: I Need a 'Name' WriterCraigslist is good for our psyche. This next Dr. Phil calls himself a "renegade shrink," which sounds like a euphemism for what too much booze and/or cold water does to the male anatomy. Wasn't that a Seinfeld episode and/or season? Anyway, enjoy: The "Next Dr. Phil" Seeking Established Published Author (anywhere) Date: 2009-10-06, 11:13PM PDT Reply to: job-hdgzu-1410133727@craigslist.org Jezebel's Artistic Analysis of Palin's Book Cover
Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue," which sounds kind of like public urination, but sure whatever. The cover for her first book, er a book about her written by someone else, like John McCain's books. Not like the books written by and about Barack Obama she criticized during the campaign. Anyway, Jezebel has what they are calling an artistic analysis of the book jacket: While we might have expected Palin to choose a bold and unadorned font like Impact (or perhaps Comic Sans), Palin's team went instead with Linotype Didot. According to Typedia, the Didot family of fonts comes from the Didot family, who lived and worked in Paris in the 19th Century. While Pierre Didot published books and prints, Firmin Didot designed the typefaces. Linotype Didot was added much later, drawn by Adrian Frutiger in 1991. Typedia informs us that this font, with its vertical emphasis and bold strokes, is the "right choice for elegant book and magazine designs, as well as advertising with a classic touch." However, as Anna notes, for all its elegance, Didot is only one "i" away from idiot. And you'd think that is one association she'd rather avoid. Read the whole post here. Banned Books WeekIt's Banned Books Week, and the American Library Association wants you to celebrate by reading something that would piss off your Sunday school teacher. Course that's not exactly how they put it: Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States. More info at the ALA website and BannedBooksweek.org Getting Literary With Ms. Huffington
The site's newly minted editor, Amy Hertz, a Penguin editor at large under their Dutton division, will have to balance the fortnightly magazine's 5,000-word essays and thoughtful articles based on multiple publications with book reviews written by HuffPo readers, HuffPo co-founder editor in chief Ms. Huffington confirmed with the Observer. The article reports that Arianna is still deciding between three of her favorites for the book club's first selection. It also goes on to make the obligitory Oprah Winfrey reference - as does every other article we've seen on the subject. Why must another powerful woman promoting a public interest in literature through a book club be reduced to a catfight? A Cultural History of the Vagina
Naomi Wolf is going back to her roots. The journalist and author, who has seemingly been on a break for the past couple of years from writing books on the kinds of feminist themes that made her famous in the early 1990s, has signed on with the Ecco Press for a project tentatively titled A Cultural History of the Vagina.
Official Book Club SelectionComedian Kathy Griffin's new book hits shelves today, and we're looking forward to reading it. Cause we haven't yet. Read it. Sure, you'd think being dear friends with her ghost writer Robert Abele would have earned us an advanced copy, but no. The guy did nothing for us. And we mean nothing. He spent six months hanging out with Griffin, and he didn't bother stealing us a pair of her panties, a lock of her hair or even her toenail clippings - how hard are those to get? Some friend.
![]() Worst Book Promo Ever
We're not germ phobes or anything but we washed our hands after taking this photo. This is in the women's restroom at Netroots Nation. A public bathroom book? Gross. Gross. Gross. If we were Michael Huttner and Jason Salzman we'd be pissed. (And yes after several minutes of deliberating on toilet jokes, that's the one we went with.) PreviouslyThat's Thomas Pynchon Talking On The "Inherent Vice" Trailer The Story Behind Michael Jackson's Autobiography "Moonwalk" Hey, How'd You Do That Julie Powell? Oprah is Getting Sued for One Trillion Dollars by a Poet Will Laura Ling and Euna Lee Get a Book Deal? Rachel Maddow Runs Carrie Prejean Book Spoiler Carrie Prejean (Of Course) is Writing a Book Rachel Resnick is Teaching a Memoir Class! Sandra Tsing Loh is Getting a Divorce in a Multi-Media Format Amazon.com CEO Declares Books Outdated Technology WI Christian Group Seeks to Burn Local Author's Book Billionaire Meg Whitman Penning a Book About Values Twitter and 'Working on My Novel' Best Ending Line of a Panel at FOB - Ever LAT FOB: Media: Where Do We Go From Here? Panel LAT FOB: Memoirs with a Twist Panel Part Two LAT FOB: Memoirs with a Twist Panel LA Times Festival of Books: The Writers The LA Times Festival of Books "What is Your Self-Worth?" Book Party Part Two: Sightings "What is Your Self-Worth?" Book Party 2009 Indies Choice Book Award Winners Worst Book Promo Ever - Even for Tori Spelling! We Have Forgotten Just About Everything Useful About the Vietnam War...Acts of Piracy for Example 6 Projects That Could Change Publishing for the Better Hometown Pasadena Launches a Blog Happy 105th Birthday, Dr. Seuss! What Was I Thinking? Reading at Borders Buy How to Date Like a Grown Up Get Free Swag Bag Another Slate V and What Was I Thinking? Crossover What Was I Thinking? on The Today Show The Bloom County Library Is Coming What Was I Thinking? Video on Slate.com What Was I Thinking? Book Party Carrie Fisher is Freaking Funny Now Sarah Palin Will Be Able to Name At Least One Book... The Mystery Bookstore Has New Owners and an Open House Upcoming Hefner Biography Chronicles 'Romance'? Yeah, We Got Some Charmers 'round Here George Orwell is Blogging and It's Assumed Big Brother is Reading It A Pirate Swing Band and Profiting From the Rapture The First Generation and the Next Generation Books Signing With Slash...We Think Jeff Gannon Thinks Scott McClellan Has No Credibility Scott McClellan is a 'Tellan' All, Almost Oprah Says James Frey Lied About What She Said After the Show To Confront Him About His Lying Festival of Books - The Audio Books Panel Nerd Heaven Descends on LA--Turns Out Its Hot As Hell Director of "Basic Instinct" Writes Book...About Jesus Thomas Kohnstamm Reminds Our Readers of Mike Davis Lonely Planet Feeling Isolated After Author Admits to Faking It Lost Your Shirt? Write a Book! So What Do You Read, Stephen Randall?* |
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