Archive for June, 2009
Pics from Book Expo
By Tom Teicholz at 15 June, 2009, 12:44 pm
I’m still catching up!
But here’s some of the visual record of my trip:
Jonathan Lethem signing copies of advance reader copies of his forthcoming “Chronic City.”
Joyce Carol Oates manning the autograph booth
sitting next to…….
Gloria Vanderbilt signing copies of her erotic tale “Obsession.”
Read More >>The Haaretz experiment
By Tom Teicholz at 11 June, 2009, 2:45 pm
Yesterday Wednesday June 10, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz turned itself over to a complement of 31 poets, novelists and authors, and let their own staff of journalists take the day off. The result produced some very moving accounts by David Grossman of a night spent in a children’s drug clinic and Yoram Kaniuk’s account [...]
Read More >>Good books about the actions of stupid people
By Tom Teicholz at 11 June, 2009, 12:03 pm
This morning’s New York Times brings a review of “Crazy for the storm” by Norman Ollestad. This is a book that has been selected by Starbucks to be featured in its store and is getting a fair amount of buzz.
As a marketing niche you could describe this as an outdoors adventure tragedy genre. Not unlinke [...]
My (not so) secret trip to NYC
By Tom Teicholz at 3 June, 2009, 12:35 pm
I’ve been off the grid for about a week — and not blogging either — because I was running around New York, and I must say I jammed a lot in –
A lot of which I hope to unpack in good time
The main impetus of my trip was to attend BookExpo, the annual bookseller’s convention, [...]