-A book review of The Feminine Mistake: "Are stay-at-home mothers putting themselves—and feminism—at risk?" (via The New Yorker)
-Edith Wharton: "From ugly upper-class duckling to literary queen." (via The New Yorker)
-Publisher FSG lets its brand name do all the work (via GalleyCat)
-How did Gabriel García Márquez get that shiner? (via New York Times)
-The first rule of promoting Chuck Palahniuk's new book is: You do not talk about Chuck Palahniuk's new book! (ChuckPalahniuk.net via Bookninja)
-PopMatters reviews Sheridan Hay's upcoming The Secret of Lost Things (via PopMatters)
-Mitch Albom's secret? Keyboard shortcuts. (via Yankee Pot Roast)
*Update: Is The Namesake based on a man author Jhumpa Lahiri briefly dated? Probably! (via New York Magazine)
-T.S. Eliot wrote, "April is the cruelest month." It's also National Poetry Month. That dovetailed quite nicely. (via Cruelest Month)
-Gawker exposes what we already knew: You don't have to read a book to blurb it. (via Gawker)
-Shocker: The New York publishing industry is harsh! (The Rejecter via 101 Reasons to Stop Writing)
-At HarperCollins, Lisa Sharkey replaces ousted editor Judith Regan (via GalleyCat)
-Author films are the new "author tour" (via Bookninja)
-But without author tours, how will book nerds meet and fall in love? (via GalleyCat)
-Bookforum interviews edgy author A.M. Homes (Bookforum via Bookninja)
-2007 Million Writers Award for best online fiction is now accepting nominations (via storySouth)
Lest we forget infamous publisher Judith Regan and the cancelled O.J. Simpson book, NBC airs a new episode of Law & Order tonight about a "high profile publisher"...found murdered.
Scoff if you will, but have you ever inspired a crime drama episode? Or even, say, a chick lit tell-all?
According to publishing insiders, Sharon Stone is shopping around a memoir.
Wow. I can't think of anyone less qualified to write (admit it, ghostwrite) an autobiography.
Today marks the beginning of New York Fashion Week, which--for us cubicle folk--really only means more traffic on 42nd St. Here's my list of fave fashion-related novels from the poignant and literary (Didion!) to the guilty pleasures (Weisberger).
-Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada
-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
-Mary Gaitskill, Veronica: A Novel
-Jennifer Egan, Look at Me
-Elmore Leonard, Mr. Paradise
Read at your own risk: New York magazine dishes the details behind the aborted O.J. Simpson book and its controversial publisher, Judith Regan.
I bet that O.J. Simpson is out there somewhere thinking to himself, "What did I do to deserve this bad press?"