PUBLISHERS TOSS $6M BOOK OFFER FOR ‘30 ROCK’ STAR: PUBLISHERS have been chasing Tina Fey to write a book for years. [NY Post]
What My Copy Editor Taught Me: Helene had no literary theories — she had literary values. She valued clarity and transparency. She had nothing against style, if it didn’t distract from the material. Her blue pencil struck at redundancy, at confusion, at authorial vanity, at the wrong and the false word, at the unearned conclusion. She loved good writing, therefore she loved the reader: good writing did not cause the reader to stumble over meaning. [NYT]
Nobel judge: There’s nothing great about the American novel: There is no argument like a literary argument. You can criticise a nation’s politics, or its cuisine, or even its dress-sense, but to describe a nation’s books as “ignorant” is fighting talk. [Independent]
Firebomb attack on book publisher: The London home of the publisher of a controversial new novel that gives a fictionalised account of the Prophet Muhammad’s relationship with his child bride, Aisha, was firebombed yesterday, hours after police had warned the man that he could be a target for fanatics. [Guardian]
Is Christopher Paolini’s Brisingr the new Harry Potter?: Christopher Paolini has become a publishing sensation with his Inheritance Cycle fantasy books. [Telegraph]
Why a US alternative to manga failed: But the thing is, DC Comics’ Minx imprint – the abrupt closure of which was confirmed on Wednesday without even a self-justifying press release – could and should have had a future. [Guardian]
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