Monday, November 28 FICTION Debut LA ICM talent agent Margaret Marr’s HOLLYWOOD GIRLS CLUB, the story of the intertwined adventures of four women in the stiletto-wearing, black-card carrying upper echelons of the entertainment industry, “Entourage for women meets Candace Bushnell,” to Shana Drehs at Crown, in a significant deal, for two books, by Andrea Barzvi at ICM (NA). University of Virginia Poe/Faulkner fellow and NYT journalist Taylor Antrim’s THE HEADMASTER RITUAL, focusing on the political machinations inside a prestigious prep school as experienced by a first-year history teacher, to Webster Younce at Houghton Mifflin, in a pre-empt, by Joe Veltre […]
Archives for December 2005
Lunch for Friday, December 2
Looking to January The new Book Sense picks and notables have been posted. The top selections: 1. THE COLONY: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai, by John Tayman GENTLEMEN & PLAYERS: A Novel, by Joanne Harris THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES: A Novel, by Paul Auster THE THINKER’S THESAURUS: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words, by Peter E. Meltzer ARTHUR & GEORGE: A Novel, by Julian Barnes THE WORLD TO COME: A Novel, by Dara Horn THE LIFE ALL AROUND ME BY ELLEN FOSTER, by Kaye Gibbons BLINDFOLD GAME: A Thriller, by Dana Stabenow A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, […]
Lunch for Thursday, December 1
More Lists The NYT has posted their Top Ten books of the year early on the web: Fiction Haruki Murakami, KAFKA ON THE SHORE Zadie Smith, ON BEAUTY Curtis Sittenfeld, PREP Ian McEwan, SATURDAY Mary Gaitskill, VERONICA Nonfiction George Packer, THE ASSASSINS’ GATE: America in Iraq Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, DE KOONING: An American Master Jonathan Harr, THE LOST PAINTING Tony Judt, POSTWAR: A History of Europe Since 1945 Joan Didion, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING NYT Meanwhile, USA Today recommends books for gift-giving in six categories: Gift books, plane reads, picture books, hidden gems, coffee talk, old faves, […]