by | Sep 4, 2011 | Literary News, Mirth
from BuzzFeed Roald Dahl’s Weird And Hilarious Letter To A Class Of Children CULTURE BUZZ: When a group of students sent a letter to Roald Dahl asking him questions about his short story collection “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More,” this was the...
by | Sep 3, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from PaperSpecs Going Forward with the Flipbacks August 30, 2011 Hodder & Stoughton, a UK publisher, recently introduced a paperback book format that’s the size of an iPhone. Called Flipbacks, the books are one-third the size of traditional books. They’re...
by | Sep 1, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Idolator Madonna’s ‘Sex’ Book Still The Most Sought-After Out-Of-Print Title Long before Lady Gaga crafted her book of 350 black-and-white photos with Terry Richardson, Madonna unleashed her scandalous watercooler tome Sex. And even though it was released nearly...
by | Aug 31, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Rolling Stone Petra Nemcova, James Frey Remake Iconic Maxell’s Commercial Cassette culture is revived and well: all it needed was a supermodel, controversial author and ironically, an iPhone app to breathe new life into it. A new ad from Booktrack features...
by | Aug 29, 2011 | Literary News, Projects
from SELF Magazine Summer Beach Read: The Power of Six Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 1:12 PM | posted by Laura Brounstein The Power of Six, “by” Pittacus Lore, is the latest book from James Frey’s Full Fathom Five and, like its predecessor, I Am...
by | Aug 26, 2011 | Literary News
from The Wall Street Journal ‘I’m Done Writing Books,’ Says Frey By MIKE VILENSKY Booktrack, a new start-up that adds soundtracks to e-books, launched in style Wednesday night at Yotel in Midtown. The company, backed by Facebook co-founder Peter...
