Ann Patchett named as one of Time’s most influential people
The magazine said the author of Bel Canto, who opened her own bookshop in Tennessee, is fighting 'for the fate of the printed word'Literary novelist Ann Patchett's fight to save independent bookshops, which has seen her open her own shop in Tennessee a...
50 books for journalism students
The 50 best books for journalism students is a US-biased list that omits as many good titles as it includes.The compiler is aware of that, explaining that "some staples" have been "sacrificed while more obscure reads scored a spot."And he/she heads off...
Keep smiling… the world is doing fine, say American authors
A series of new books argues that all the essential statistics show the world is making progress, materially and ethicallyA rash of optimistic books is being published in the US, as authors do their best to lift the gloom created by a news agenda domin...
James Patterson declared world’s best-paid author by Forbes magazine
Patterson earned $84m in the year to April 2011, Danielle Steel $35m, Stephen King $28m and Janet Evanovich $22m The world's highest-paid author padded to the windows of his magnificent, yellow, colonial-style mansion overlooking the sea at Palm Beach....
Will the last reporter please turn out the lights…
Bob McChesney, the US media academic and author of many books about journalism - most especially the excellent Rich Media, Poor Democracy - has co-edited an anthology of essays entitled Will the last reporter please turn out the lights: the collapse of...
ProPublica makes history with web-based Pulitzer Prize win
The first Pulitzer Prize won by print-free investigation goes to ProPublica while the Los Angeles Times celebrates twin winsFor the first time in the history of the Pulitzer Prize – the highest honour in American journalism – the award has gone to ...
JRR Tolkien novel Mirkwood in legal battle with author’s estate
Texas case will contest the right of Tolkien's literary estate to block fictional use of the Lord of the Rings author's nameThe estate of JRR Tolkien is embroiled in a fierce legal battle over an American novel that uses the author of The Lord of the R...
What are your best magazine articles of all time?
Do you agree with the US list of the top magazine features of the past 50 years – and what else would you include?The US website Cool Tools has compiled a list of the best magazine articles of all time that has sparked much online debate.No doubt com...
Roy Greenslade: Christopher Hitchens to undergo chemotherapy
Christopher Hitchens, the iconoclastic writer, is to undergo chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus.In a short statement on the Vanity Fair website, he writes: I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course o...
Michael Wolff: ‘Rupert will do anything’ | Interview by Ed Pilkington
The acerbic Vanity Fair columnist and Murdoch biographer is not shy of making personal attacks on those in the business. But he was left shaken by the consequences of rattling Rupert's cage
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be at the receiving end of Rupert...
