If you’re a Milan Kindera fan listen up: HarperAudio announced this morning that beginning May 15 it is releasing 15 of Milan Kundera’s fiction/nonfiction titles as unabridged downloadable audiobooks. These titles never have been available previously in any audio format. The publisher said that the series will launch with The Unbearable Lightness of Being and [...]
She Needs More Book Reviewers!
April 25, 2012 By 1 Comment
NEW YORK. April 24, 2012. Library Journal (LJ) Book Review’s senior editor, Margaret Heilbrun, otherwise known as @magsthebookie, was found by book review colleagues today buried under galleys awaiting review assignment in her cubicle in LJ‘s west Soho offices. Upon seeing her colleague thus encumbered, Henrietta Thornton-Verma (also known as @ettathornton), LJ Book Review’s reference editor (see her [...]
Geeky Friday: JAWS on Blu-ray, The Dark Knight Rises, Remembering Bram Stoker
April 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Universal FINALLY has announced that a super-restored edition of JAWS is coming on Blu-Ray August 14—YES! YES! YES!!! Thank the maker! The studio has posted this documentary snippet about the film’s meticulous restoration. WARNING: To my fellow diehard JAWS fanatics, buckle your seatbelts and grab hold of something, boys, otherwise you might fall out of [...]
Beantown Bids: Karin Slaughter’s Library Campaign Comes to Boston
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In the year since best-selling author Karin Slaughter launched her Save the Libraries campaign with a March 2011 fund- raising event for the Decatur County Public Library, Decatur, GA, her organization has raised $150,000 and is on target to hit its $250,000 mark by the end of 2012. Now the tireless Slaughter and some of [...]
Hemingway for Sale: The Shameful Whoring Away of a Literary Genius
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It’s quite fitting that Hemingway was fond of whores because he’s become one, thanks to his relatives, most of whom never met him. Along with a line of furniture, shoes, and, my favorite, a shotgun bearing his name (someone should have told the firearms manufacturer that the W. & C. Scott birdgun they copied was [...]
“God Bless David Bowie,” and Let’s Still Save Publishing: A First-Timer’s Adventures at the London Book Fair
April 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
WARNING: I’m going to make a series of statements that will smack of nervy newbie to the sales, marketing, and consulting professionals who’ve been attending the London Book Fair (LBF) for years, but this post isn’t for them. Well, it is, but read at your own peril. Here goes: LBF is decidedly not a show [...]
Audio Publishers Association Announces Audiobook of the Year Finalists
April 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) April 17 announced its finalists for the Audiobook of the Year and Distinguished Achievement in Production awards. The Audiobook of the Year finalists are: American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, by Neil Gaiman, Narrated by Neil Gaiman, Dennis Boutsikaris, Daniel Oreskes, Ron McLarty, Sarah Jones and a full cast (HarperAudio) [...]
Titanic Library Memories
April 13, 2012 By 3 Comments
LJ Book Review senior editor, Margaret Heilbrun, and LJ reviewer Megan Hahn Fraser met as colleagues in the manuscript department at the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) library. Now they work together again, with Megan contributing book reviews to LJ, including her recent roundup of books published to mark the centennial of the sinking of Titanic (click here to read it). Here, they chat about Titanic library memories.
Geeky Friday Extra Edition: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Snags Hobbit Tie-in Titles
April 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
My pal Megan over at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt just slipped me the early intel on something that should make your little geeky hearts skip a beat. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has snagged the rites to five tie-in titles connected to December’s big-screen debut of the first film based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit being directed by [...]
Geeky Friday the 13th!: Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, Kevin Smith’s Tough Sh*t, the Titanic Meets Godzilla
April 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to the Friday the 13th edition of GF (try not to get a machete in your face). The annual über geekfest known as the San Diego Comic Con has been the official Mecca for comics/sci-fi/fantasy/horror/cosplay/movie fans for decades. Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, the Super Size Me guy, has put together an insider’s look at [...]
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