Orange (Sur)Prize As if often the case, the U.K.’s Orange Prize honoring fiction by a woman written in English confounded expectations, naming Andrea Levy’s SMALL ISLAND as the winner of the $55,000 award. She beat out favorites “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood and “The Colour” by Rose Tremain, as well as others including National […]
Lunch for Tuesday, June 8
Releases on Reagan Releases Press releases about Reagan related books (mostly reprints) are coming at a fast pace. In the accelerated publishing schedule column, Sentinel has moved up REAGAN OFF THE CUFF: Personal Recollections of The President, to july 26. Written by longtime Reagan aide Jim Kuhn, whose positions included serving as executive assistant to […]
Lunch for Monday, June 7
A Small Note I’m back, but still exhausted, and on top of the last few days’ reports there is so much new information to share. Which is my lame excuse for presenting a lengthy, and no-doubt typo-filled, meal. (If this is getting too Deluxe to handle, you should tell me.) BEA In a Few Final […]
BEA Lunch for Saturday, June 5
Chicago, B.C. I’m really, really tired of chicken. I’m slightly annoyed, in the kindest way, at my friends at Little, Brown, because I can’t get their slogan for the new Malcolm Gladwell book, “Don’t think — BLINK” out of my mind. But Gladwell’s book is also about trusting your intuition, so there you have it […]
BEA Lunch for Friday, June 4
Work in Progress As many of you have noted, I’m posting direct to the PublishersMarketplace home page whenever I can. The downside of this constant activity is that I haven’t had time to be as reflective/analytical as I usually like. And I don’t even have time right now for my usual disclaimers about how hard […]
Lunch for Thursday, June 3
Chicago, B.C. At least psychologically, Bill Clinton’s upcoming keynote address tonight at BEA has turned this year’s convention around, particularly given that the idea of a return to Chicago B.C. (before Bill) was not particularly stirring. Anticipation of the speech continues to dominate press coverage and chatter among attendees; the big question is whether, after […]