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Price-Fixing Is Bad for Both Readers and Authors

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.30.2012

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The truth is that this dispute is not about saving literature or the sanctity of the literary world, it is about the publishers' business model.

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The Challenges of Following Up a Bestselling Novel

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the publisher advanced the idea of a sequel, I felt like a kid being told I could stay up and play longer. I already knew and enjoyed hanging out with the heroes.

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Larry Ashmead Dies

nytimes.com | DOUGLAS MARTIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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A 9-year-old boy once visited his local library in Rochester to hear a mystery writer read from her book. But what particularly thrilled him was to le...

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A Non-Review for a Nameless Novel

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm in a quandary. I've been sitting on a book review that I'd written a few weeks ago, but hesitate to post. Not only is it not a flattering review, ...

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Harvard Press Was Right to Reject "The Case for Marriage"

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have news for Stanley Kurtz: The Case for Marriage was second rate and not worth publishing.

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Crumbs of Wisdom from The Bread of Angels

Jan McGirk | Posted 05.25.2011

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The complex emotional struggles that Saldana recounts in a vivid memoir of her year as a Fulbright scholar in Syria, hooked the imagination of this cynical former Middle East reporter.

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Stephen Rubin: New President Of Henry Holt

Posted 05.25.2011

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Finally, some news from the publishing world's revolving door: Macmillan announced this Tuesday that Stephen Rubin, former publisher at Doubleday, wil...

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What is Work? Balancing Creativity and Cash

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.17.2011

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After writing two work-related novels, James Othmer has written a work of non-fiction that examines the What's, Hows and Why's of advertising.

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What Lies Below: Taking Time to Consider E. Lynn Harris' Literary Legacy

Clarence Haynes | Posted 05.25.2011

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I once missed the point of E. Lynn's work, which provided a safe forum for African-American female readers to think about sex, sexuality and the realities of male desire.

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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U.S. Intelligence -- or the Lack Thereof -- on North Korea

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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How is it -- given a skyful of satellites and legions of human spies -- that we were surprised by North Korea's missile launch? Why is it that we know so little about this country?

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Green Edge 9: Tim Sanders on Greening U.S. Workplaces

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tim Sanders visited with me in New York today on a tour to promote his new book, Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go...

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Tina Brown's Next Move: "The Clinton Chronicles"

AP | Hillel Italie | Posted 05.25.2011

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Another Clinton book is on the way, this time by the best-selling author and former editor of The New Yorker, Tina Brown. "The Clinton Chronicles," t...

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