en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286.html?nid=3385 Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use October 13, 2008 http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/270029027.html?nid=3385 I think Peter Ackroyd started it in 2001 with London: The Biography: that is, the idea that places and things have biographies rather than historie... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1870028587.html?nid=3385 What’s in My Bookbag: The Forever War (Knopf, Sept. 17). New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins’s account of his time as a corresponden... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1850028385.html?nid=3385 Yesterday, The London Telegraph published the results of their poll of “the greatest novels of all time.” In the #1 position was ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/30027803.html?nid=3385 Met with Brenda King from Yale yesterday to go over the press’s fall list.The press turned 100 this year, and its upcoming lead title is by n... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1340027734.html?nid=3385 I spent last night waiting for David Sedaris. The Barnes & Noble in Union Square was the first stop on his 29-cities-in-29-days tour for his ne... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/700027070.html?nid=3385 What’s in My Bookbag: Al Silverman’s The Time of Our Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors (Tr... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/820026482.html?nid=3385 We're going through the 1000+ applications we've received via our call for PW reviewers. Took a break and read Sara Nelson's post re: publi... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/880026288.html?nid=3385 What’s in My Bookbag: Benny Morris’s just-published 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War (Yale Univ.), in honor of Israel&rsqu... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1670026167.html?nid=3385 We're looking for a few good readers here at the Bookroom. Here's our ad on Mediabistro. Reviewers ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1610025961.html?nid=3385 It goes without saying that I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes a good book re-view. In general, it requires a smooth blend of descript... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1260025726.html?nid=3385 After an article in the NY Times detailing a new openness in discussing personal finances, I feel ok in not letting the topic go. Here's a ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1080025508.html?nid=3385 The Junot Diazes of 2028 are already honing their literary skills in high schools around New York City. And I might have just read a short essay by... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/190025419.html?nid=3385 Recall, friends, that The $ Question is an occasional feature here on Notes where we talk about how writers support themselves. (Here's the... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1400025140.html?nid=3385 Even normally obscure scholarly books can benefit from a blast of publicity. Witness anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj’s Facts on the Ground: A... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1450024945.html?nid=3385 Blistering Ange Mlinko on National Poetry Month: "De rigueur jokes about T.S. Eliot's 'cruelest month' notwithstanding, the Nationa... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1770024977.html?nid=3385 I just got in the review for Invisible Fences, a debut horror novella by Norman Prentiss. My reviewer noted that Cemetery Dance is publishing it as... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1800024780.html?nid=3385 Our April 21 issue will have a q&a with E. Fuller Torrey about his new book, The Insanity Offen (Norton, June). Torrey, head of the Treatment ... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/80024608.html?nid=3385 Read with a smile our Soapbox this week from an anonymous flack. Let me recount a similar anecdote from the other side. I finish a profile;... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1570024557.html?nid=3385 Thanks for all your fascinating comments on last week's "Strictly for the Fans" post! It sounds like readers mostly end up in one of thes... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1300024530.html?nid=3385 President Bush’s proposed 2009 budget eliminates all the funding for Reading Is Fundamental’s book distribution program that has, since... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/500024450.html?nid=3385 Trust the intelligent design folks at the Discovery Institute and their ideological kin to keep looking for ways to get ID into the classroom. I... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1130024313.html?nid=3385 Trying out a new occasional feature here on Notes: The $ Question. Fiction requires money. This features asks novelists how, at... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/1950024195.html?nid=3385 I have one reviewer who only reads stand-alone books, and I'm starting to understand why. This past week I had not one but two reviewers return ins... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/740024074.html?nid=3385 When I lived in Paris during my senior year of college, I had wbat I thought of as “my” places, which so far as I knew, my friends didn... http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/840023884.html?nid=3385 Just put the finishing touches on a Q&A with author Darin Strauss, whose third novel, More Than It Hurts You, pubs with Dutton in June. H...