Pam van Hylckama Vlieg, Literary Agent, Attacked; Author Taken Into Custody
... Literary Agent Attacked By Author, Social Media Safety, Twitter Safety, Books News. Pam van Hylckama Vlieg. Police have taken an apparently disgruntled author into custody after a popular literary agent and blogger was attacked in her car Thursday.www.huffingtonpost.com
San Jose literary agent possibly attacked by rejected author
San Jose literary agent possibly attacked by rejected author. By Kevin Roderick | September 14, 2012 4:05 PM.www.laobserved.com
Most YA Bought by Adults; Agent Allegedly Attacked by Spurned Author
Today in books and publishing: Meet the oddball authority on poetry; e-book prices aren't falling for libraries; not-so-young adults; Anne Carson's new book.www.theatlanticwire.com
Germaine Greer attacks Brisbane Writer's Festival, accusing Queenslanders of ...
Brisbane Writers Festival director Jane O'Hara has no regrets in inviting the feminist to open the 50th annual event last night, saying the author and academic delivered on her brief to generate debate about the future of literary festivals. Greer ...www.news.com.au
Fall Arts Preview: Books
This time around, the weight falls on Serena Frome, a brainy and beautiful Cambridge student recruited by British intelligence agency MI5 in 1972 to infiltrate, of all things, a literary circle. Nonfiction. Mortality, by Christopher Hitchens (Hachette ...www.philly.com
RJ Ellory: fake book reviews are rife on internet, authors warn
In an outspoken attack on the so-called "sock puppeting" practice, they urged readers and the literary world to help expose colleagues who used the "underhand tactics".www.telegraph.co.uk
Litquake and San Francisco Writers' Grotto Announce Lit Camp
There's a new literary camp in town. Litquake and the San ... In fact, one of our first panels will be "Publishing: The Reality Series," and will include a publicity director from Little, Brown & Company, as well as an agent and at least one published ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Tyne Daly to Host Ron Palillo Tribute at The Triad, 10/3
Palillo died in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., on August, 14, 2012, of a heart attack. ... Performers and speakers include Broadway's Anita Gillette, Robert Bartley (Broadway Backwards), literary agent Elaine Devlin, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (Kotter's Freddie ...broadwayworld.com
Reviews For The Easily Distracted: The Words
The problem is, his work is deemed too "interior" by agents, and he ends up working in the mailroom at a publishing house to support himself and his wife Dora (Zoe Saldana).blogs.houstonpress.com
Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
It was not long before a private prosecutor tried to issue a summons against the author of The Satanic Verses to attend, at the Old Bailey, his trial for blasphemous libel.www.guardian.co.uk
Conspiracy theories for the sleuths
It's almost a decade since Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code blasted into the literary sphere, encouraging a thriller genre that mixes religion, conspiracy, secret societies, ancient history, archeology, symbolism and, often, the Roman Catholic Church.www.thestarphoenix.com
Fifty shades of red
Also, there is the small issue that I hate his wife's books, though I liked the shy, cautious woman who wrote them when I interviewed her in her agent's office a few months ago. Leonard, dressed in the grey tie and ... He was standing with Erika at the ...www.theaustralian.com.au
Israel's English authors jump on the e-publishing bandwagon
Having spent four years writing his dystopian novel depicting a ravaged Israel following a massive earthquake and an Iranian-led attack, Greenberg felt now was the time to publish his book. "I approached publishers and agents, but the lag time for ...www.haaretz.com
Bin Laden tell-all author revealed
The White House and Obama's re-election campaign have denied compromising classified information and accused Republicans of trying to "Swift Boat" the president, a reference to hardball smear tactics used to attack the war record of Democratic Senator ...www.torontosun.com
Al-Qaeda diminished, but not gone
First, as governments became more alert, al-Qaeda found it much harder to attack military and diplomatic targets - embassies, ships, national monuments - and it began to attack whatever it could. That meant it was targeting cafes and railway stations ...globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com
Navy Seals Embark on a Hellish Literary Adventure
Since its announcement last week, the book "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden," written by a pseudonymous member of that Navy SEAL team mission, has stirred up unintended controversies over its author's right ...artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
Have we finally grown out of novels that 'zip along'? I hope so
Party scenes, car chases and corporate bonding weekends seldom feature in the literary novel. What matters to the author (and, with luck, the reader) is the evocation of a consciousness through a flow of words. Whether a character is killed, gets ...www.independent.co.uk
Literary treasures under threat at India's oldest library
... Updated: Saturday, Sep 8, 2012, 15:17 IST By Dean Nelson | Place: New Delhi | Agency: The Daily Telegraph ... A campaign to save the library has been launched with the support of some of India's leading writers and scholars, including the critic ...www.dnaindia.com
Has Martin Amis gone soft?
His apparent preference for things American (another American girlfriend soon to become wife, his selection of a supposedly cut-throat American literary agent, and his resort to an American dental specialist for major reconstruction of his jaw and ...www.salon.com
Ex-Penguin rep sues, says publisher discriminated
Authors she has worked with include Betty White, Ken Follett and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz. In a lengthy airing of internal policies, Ducksworth ... Literary agent Robert Gottlieb praised Ducksworth in a message posted Wednesday on ...www.sacbee.com
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