DebtDavid Graeber
The Factory SeriesDerek Raymond
Historian Orlando Figes is in trouble again. Figes, who was last in the spotlight when he admitted writing flattering reviews of his own books on Amazon and bad reviews of books by rivals (after first saying it was his wife’s doing — see the earlier…
Edward Jay Epstein made headlines two weeks ago with a big interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, drawn from his ebook original Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK, just out from Melville House and reviewed in the New York Times here. Just days after DSK…
From deep inside the files of the Justice Department…. From: Makinson, John (jMakinson@us.penguingroup.com) To: jSargent@macmillan.com, xxxx@hachettebookgroup.com, xxxx@harpercollins.com, xxxx@simonandschuster.com, dShanks@us.penguingroup.com, xxx@xxxxxxxx.com cc: steve@apple.com Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 10:46am Subject: the $9.99 problem Let’s get together again and keep discussing the “the $9.99 problem.”…
In a story for the New York Review of Books, investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein (The Hollywood Economist) provides a detailed chronological account of the events that took place at the Sofitel New York hotel on May 14th, 2011 that led to Dominique Strauss-Kahn being indicted (briefly) for attempted…
Spy novelist Jeremy Duns has been showing up on lots of blogs lately — including ours — for his fascinating posts about plagiarist QR Markham/Quentin Rowan. Of course, as he himself observes, everyone has been blogging about QR Markham/Quentin Rowan. But yesterday, Duns blogged about…
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been accused of plagiarism in his new book, according to a wire report from the Associated Press. “Some parts of Opportunity Ukraine bear a striking resemblance to magazine articles, a lawmaker’s speech and even a college term paper” says the…
Britain’s phone hacking scandal (eventually to become America’s phone hacking scandal?) took a turn into the book world yesterday, when it was revealed that Scotland Yard had notified a publisher and a literary agent that their phones had been hacked by the News of the…
The Fallback Plan is a weekly column, offering advice to those undergoing a second adolescence. It is written by Leigh Stein, author of the January novel, also titled The Fallback Plan. For an illustrated fallback plan of your own, write to Leighstein@thefastertimes.com Dear Miss Leigh,…
American politicians have shown an amazing ingenuity for raising the bar on cynicism the last few years, the most recent example being Herman Cain, presidential candidate and author of the book This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House. Now, it seems Cain…
Outrage is growing over the National Book Foundation‘s super-incredible totally unbelivable mega-fuckup in announcing that Lauren Myracle had made the National Book Award shortlist for the best children’s book of the year with her novel Shine, then announcing they’d made a mistake and forcing her…