Booked: A Reading, Signing, & Music Demo on American Social Change
The week is more than half over and there's plenty of literary events to look forward to thanks to our Facebook users. Here is today's Booked feature.
Dick Weissman will be doing a reading, signing, and music demonstration on music and social change...
Bad Jobs in Novels Hashtag Sweeps Twitter
The "bad jobs in novels" hashtag has generated a ton of literary hilarity in the Twitter universe for the past 24 hours. Curtis Brown literary agent, Nathan Branford created the hashtag after contemplating about the jobs innkeepers have to perform ...
Dave Eggers and Marlon James Win the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Dave Eggers and Marlon James win this year's Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The recognition for Eggers' nonfiction title Zeitoun and James' fiction title The Book of Night Women awards each author $10,000. Justine Hardy earned the runner-up title in nonf...
Tao Lin Parodies Jonathan Franzen’s Time Cover
First Jennifer Weiner lead the Franzenfreude movement. Then Emperor Franzen charged in with his twitter satire feeds. It seems that everyone wants to take a stab at the latest author to be inducted into Oprah's book club, Jonathan Franzen. Novelist...
Why the ‘Why?’ Behind a Lit Agent’s Rejections are Often Left Out
Literary Agent Rachelle Gardner (pictured, via) explains why literary agents don't usually write "a word or two" on the reasoning behind manuscript rejections. First off, adding an extra two words for every rejection would mean hours of more writing fo...
Should Authors Dance?
Last night, David Hasselhoff became the first to be booted off the Season 11 cast of Dancing with the Stars. Entertainment Weekly's Breia Brissey made an interesting observation: in eleven seasons there has never been an author featured on a cast for t...
Fall 2010 Literary Movies Round-up
The autumnal equinox will take place tomorrow on September 23rd officially initiating the fall season. Hollywood has been a busy bee with several literary movies lined up for the upcoming months. The embedded video trailer depicts scenes from the f...
Shania Twain Inks Book Deal
Country singer Shania Twain (pictured) has signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster's Atria Books. The untitled autobiography will share details about Twain's tragic past, her divorce with music producer Robert 'Mutt' Lange, and the career struggles sh...
Terry McMillan’s Advice to Young Authors: ‘Focus on Your Stories, Not the Fame’
With millions of books sold and fans already salivating over news that a film version is in the works for her latest release Getting To Happy, Terry McMillan has accomplished feats in publishing that most scribes could only dream of.
So, what's the...
Video Spoofs Amazon Pool Ad
Amazon is getting spoofed with toilet humor. There is a new video up on YouTube which plays on the recent Amazon pool ad.
In the video, two guys are reading while going to the bathroom in a forest. One is reading a book and one is reading an iPa...
