Annalisa Quinn appears in the following:
Book News: Hilary Mantel Has 'No Regrets' About Kate Middleton Remarks
Friday, March 08, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel is defending widely criticized comments she made in a speech earlier this year in which she compared Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton to a "jointed doll on which certain rags are ...
Book News: Who's Afraid Of Sheryl Sandberg?
Thursday, March 07, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead isn't even out yet, but it's already the most talked-about book of spring. Last month, the New York Times' Maureen Dowd dismissed ...
Book News: 'Superman' Artist Quits Amid Uproar Over Author's Views On Homosexuality
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Chris Sprouse, the illustrator slated to work with author Orson Scott Card on an upcoming issue of DC Comics' "Adventures of Superman," has dropped out of the project because of controversy over Card's views on ...
Book News: Male Authors Still Get Far More Coverage, Survey Shows
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- The results of the annual VIDA Women in Literary Arts survey, which compares the number of female and male authors featured in major literary publications, were released yesterday. The study found a strong preference for male ...
Book News: 'New Yorker' Plagiarist's Book Pulled From Shelves
Monday, March 04, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has decided that disgraced journalist and author Jonah Lehrer's second book, How We Decide, will be taken off shelves at bookstores after the publisher's internal investigation uncovered "significant problems," The Daily Beast ...
Book News: Caro Wins His Third National Book Critics Circle Award
Friday, March 01, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- The National Book Critics Circle Awards were given out Thursday night at the New School in New York. Ben Fountain's magnificent novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk won in the fiction category, and Robert Caro garnered ...
Book News: 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Author Says Next Book Will Be Tamer
Thursday, February 28, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Queen of kink E.L. James told the New York Post that her next book "won't be nearly so raunchy" as Fifty Shades of Grey, and that she will "probably write it under another name." Her "inner ...
Book News: 50 Poems From Rudyard Kipling Discovered
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Fifty previously unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling, the author of The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, were discovered by Thomas Pinney, a professor emeritus at Pomona College. The lost works by Kipling, whose most famous ...