Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Tessera Judy Erkanat, +1-408-952-4414 jerkanat@tessera.com or JHG Townsend PR for Tessera Lori Scribner, +1-858-457-4888 Tessera_team@jhg.com Logo: http://www.tessera.com Tessera Technologies, Inc.
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
mediabistro.com founder Laurel Touby is speaking at the National Writers' Workshop Conference this weekend, along with literary agent Jane Dystel , Scribner editor Colin Harrison , and authors like Jonathon King and Barbara Parker , and Les Standiford , among many others. There's just one problem: Touby will be talking about "Best Practices in Freelancing," but she admits that she hasn't really freelanced...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Fine Just the Way It Is By Annie Proulx Scribner; 221 pages; $25 A truism to start: The American West abounds in myth. There's John Henry, Wild Bill and Bunyan and Babe. The enormousness and ferocity of the landscape makes the West ripe for these myths,...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 By Annie Proulx Scribner, 221 pages, $25 Annie Proulx’s fiction tends to sneak up on you. Her characters, like her writing, start off deceptively slow and deliberate, but then before you know it, you’re weeping over a singular detail—a bloodstained shirt hung on a nail in a trailer, with another shirt placed inside of it, as in her 1997 story “Brokeback Mountain.”...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Downtown Owl, the new Chuck Klosterman novel due Sept. 16 from Scribner, is the celebrated cultural critic's first full-length work of fiction. It might also be the first book ever ...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Fine Just the Way it Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx Scribner, 240 pages, $25 In an award-studded writing career now in its third decade, Annie Proulx has made the remarkable transition from east-coast-based Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist to much lauded Wyoming short story writer, and she's brought her devoted readership along with her. Who says the short story is dead? In Proulx's formidable...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Something to Tell You By Hanif Kureishi Scribner; 376 pages; $26 Hanif Kureishi's fiction is juicy. The blithe, exuberant and world-hungry Karim Amir, the narrator of his first novel, "The Buddha of Suburbia," was gleefully bisexual, thrilling in public-...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
By DEIRDRE FLEMING It's a battle between history and natural history that has raged for several years. But soon the Scribner Mills Preservation will get its answer from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and will find out whether it can put a dam in the Crooked River.
Jeff Weintraub (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Andrew Sullivan nicely calls attention to a remark of Abraham Lincoln's on punctuation (quoted from " Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln " in Scribner's Monthly , 1877): "With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semi-colon; it's a very useful little chap." Absolutely right. => The context is also...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
SOMETHING TO TELL YOU By Hanif Kureishi Scribner. 376 pp. $26 A good piece of advice to authors of first-person novels comes from John Dowell, the hapless narrator of Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." Trying to decide how best to tell his story, Dowell settles on a tried-and-true approach. "S...
Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
The three finalists for the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor have been announced . They are Larry Doyle, for the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper (Ecco); Patricia Marx, for the novel Him Her Him Again the End of Him (Scribner); and Simon Rich, for his collection of vignettes, Ant Farm (Random House). The announcement was made Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, by Thurber House, a national literary center...
The Jew and the Carrot (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
New York Times book critic Janet Maslin recently picked Adam Gollner’s new book, The Fruit Hunters (Scribner: 2008), as a top summer read—and it’s easy to see why. Gollner writes mellifluously about his extraordinary (writ extraterrestrial) experiences traveling the world in search of fruits and the wacky people who devote their lives to this quest. In [...]
prudent investor newsletters (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
`` Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.” - Charles Scribner Jr. It feels soooo good to be vindicated, even if it is just a partial vindication, especially coming from an onslaught of skepticism. Partial because I can be temporarily right today but risks from an adversarial outcome especially from a shock may overwhelm us again. But so far, so...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
For the Wall Street Journal, novelist Andrew Klavan named a five best list of psychological crime novels. One title on his list:The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes Scribner, 1913 This is a wonderful read and a forgotten genre classic. Robert and Ellen Bunting are retired servants on the brink of disaster: The respectable façade of their middle-class London life is about to collapse into poverty.
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
Stephen King has long wanted to break free of traditional publishing, and CBS would love to show there's some synergy between its oldest and newest media. So rather than just release another scary story in book form only, publisher Scribner -- a unit of Simon & Schuster -- and CBS are trying a new approach : Convert an unpublished novel "N." into a series of 25 video episodes distributed by CBS on...
