Pam van Hylckama Vlieg, Literary Agent, Attacked; Author Taken Into Custody
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. Pam van Hylckama Vlieg, an agent in San Francisco with Larsen Pomada who runs the ...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. Pam van Hylckama reported Thursday on Twitter (she blogs as Bookalicious) that a man tried to carjack her, but he was bitten by her dog and ...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
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. Broadway's Tyne Daly, a longtime friend, will host the event.broadwayworld.com
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
Litquake and San Francisco Writers' Grotto Announce Lit Camp
At night, writers will be able to sit around a campfire and roast marshmallows with agents and editors. ... One afternoon will feature "Attack of the LitMags" - a panel of literary magazine editors discussing strategies for getting published in their ...www.huffingtonpost.com
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
Looking back at Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
But even as we were looking forward to putting out the novel, we received our first reality check in the form of some advice from the great Indian novelist and historian Khushwant Singh, who served as literary adviser to Penguin India. He said to ...www.guardian.co.uk
Literary treasures under threat at India's oldest library
... 15:17 IST | Updated: Saturday, Sep 8, 2012, 15:17 IST By Dean Nelson | Place: New Delhi | Agency: The Daily Telegraph ... attempt when riding an elephant. The attack was led by the freedom fighter Lala Hardayal, after whom the library is now named.www.dnaindia.com
Howard Jacobson: 'I write fiction. The others write crap'
It's not my experience that my publisher shot himself or my agent is always hiding from me but I wouldn't have written it if I didn't think there was something worrying about, not so much publishing, but the state of the book… some of the things that ...www.guardian.co.uk
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
Have we finally grown out of novels that 'zip along'? I hope so
The literary novel isn't a shot of caffeine, or a make-friends-here agency or a big tickle. It's a narrative expression of intellect and feeling that invites you to enter someone else's life and be entranced.www.independent.co.uk
Al-Qaeda diminished, but not gone
The drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan continue. But these signs of life from al-Qaeda do not change the central reality of its diminished potency.globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.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
Navy Seals Embark on a Hellish Literary Adventure
"That's the stuff I like to write and the kind of stuff I like to read, and I just thought to myself, What if there was a special SEAL team - an even more special SEAL team - that protected America against supernatural attack? And what if this was a ...artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
Movie capsules: What's playing in Erie, Meadville, Sept. 13-Sept. 19
Birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (1:59. Not rated ... "The Cold Light of Day": After his family is kidnapped during a sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader (Henry ...www.goerie.com
Natives on the Boat
Vidia—please call me Vidia, he had said—whom the agent had told about my work on Lagos and New York, said, "Have you written about Tutuola?www.newyorker.com
Todd Akin's rape remark angers GOP women
"I was so appalled, so angry - I can't tell you," said the Atherton literary agent and philanthropist who has co-hosted major Romney fundraisers in the Bay Area.www.sfgate.com
I hope we've finally grown out of novels that 'zip along'
The literary novel isn't a shot of caffeine, or a make-friends-here agency or a big tickle. It's a narrative expression of intellect and feeling that invites you to enter someone else's life and be entranced.www.independent.co.uk
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