Thanks for the nice feedback on our updated Lunch design (and remember to expect Weekly and Daily Deals to switch over to the new format next week). Our development pipeline has been especially busy lately and today we are rolling out a new site refinement we hope you will find useful. Ever since we launched the Dealmakers interface, it has been our most-visited data collection in the aggregate. All along, the Dealmaker lists have surfaced the most active buyers and sellers across about 70 categories and sub-categories. As the industry has finally started to diversify more meaningfully, we wanted to […]
Hilderbrand to Retire from Fiction Writing in 2024
Elin Hilderbrand tells the AP that she plans to retire from writing novels in 2024, indicating that she wants to stop while her work is in demand. “A lot of people will follow a writer for a long time and then inevitably they will turn out a book that is not as good as the others,” Hilderbrand told the AP last month. “I’ve always said to myself, ‘I will not do that. I will make each book better and better or different in some way.’ I feel myself coming to my natural end of my material.” While Hilderbrand will definitely […]
Behold
Yes, as noted briefly last week, this looks different. And with luck, better! After many months of development, we are pleased to introduce a fresh look and improved coding for our daily newsletters. The initial, and primary, goal was to make Lunch display better on mobile viewports and across the wide variety of common email services (all of which have their own special ways of mangling email code). As with most renovations, that starting point quickly turned into an opportunity to rethink and revise a lot of our common features and ways of presenting information every day. At the same […]
Forthcoming: Smith Due In November
Will Smith‘s book, written with Mark Manson, will be titled Will and published by Penguin Press on November 9. Katie Couric will have a live tour promoting Going There, publishing October 26. Produced by Live Nation, the tour opens at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on October 28 and will visit 11 cities.
More on Frankfurt
The European Union has finally agreed to recommend that member states lift travel restrictions on visitors from the US, though individual countries will still be able to set their own requirements. But at least the possibility of visiting Europe for a trade show has become easier, if that’s on your agenda. For the record, the Frankfurt Book Fair has asked us to point to their statement (our italics added) that, “Visitors must provide a report of their current health status on the day of entry (more details will be provided when you purchase a ticket). Depending on the regulations in […]
Bolton Gets to Keep the Money
Memorialized in a brief filing with the Federal Court of Wednesday, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice dropped the Trump administration’s witch hunt against former National Security Advisor John Bolton. They dismissed the civil lawsuit looking to recover Bolton’s earnings from publishing THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED without formal, written clearance from the government. And according to Bolton’s lawyer, the government also dropped a grand jury investigation over the book’s publication. Previously, US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth had indicated a strong inclination to support the government’s case, though full evidence had not yet been presented. Earlier this year, Lamberth […]