The Media Drop

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, then you’ll recognize the name Debra Galant as someone I’ve mentioned before - she’s one of the names behind the super fun local news and commentary site, Barista of Bloomfield Avenue, based on the goings-on in Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, and Montclair, NJ. In case you haven’t heard, […]

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Dan Gillmor writes about a change he noticed when shopping in an airport shop for books - a size and price change. It looks like the books have slightly gotten bigger from certain publishers, and said books are coming with approximately a $2 price increase. Ouch. Anyone else seen this?

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Back on June 3, Rachel Kramer Bussel wrote a piece in the Village Voice about the Washingtonienne, Jessica Cutler - remember her? She was the Capitol Hill staffer who wrote about her sexual exploits with other staffers, mostly her senior, on a blog archived here. Well, as it turns out that she’s back in the […]

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Across the pond pal dabitch tagged yours truly with a passalong post about books, and I’m more than happy to oblige.
Total number of books owned?
Hm, probably a few hundred. I was pretty good for about three years with our in-office library when I worked in NYC, so I tended to leave my books there […]

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Jason DeParle, writer for the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, was honored this week with the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for his work on American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare, published by Viking. DeParle’s book won […]

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When is bad news not considered good news just because it’s news at all? Probably when you’re a major software and hardware player and the producer of one of the hotter technological “toys” to hit the market in recent years - like Apple.
The San Jose Mercury News’s Dawn Chmielewski reports Friday that Apple stores […]

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Kevin Roderick points out that former Slate staffer Jason Leopold’s book, mentioned here a couple weeks ago, has been kiboshed by the publisher, Rowman & Littlefield.

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The Internet-Blogging

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Should a change in the legality of something change the text of a piece of fiction when it is republished?
Australia’s The Age has an item by Shane Green regarding a request to an author of a children’s book by her publisher to change a line in her book, most likely in order to be politically […]

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Magazines-General

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