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• J.K. Rowling's Other Lawsuit Heading to Trial
8 May 2008 at 4:00pm
J.K. Rowling is making
her attorneys happy with all the lawsuits she's involved in. This one is over some paparazzi photos taken of her son when he was 18 months old. An appellate court ruling allows her to proceed with her her suit.
A British court ruling in favour of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has set the stage for a trial on whether the publication of covert photos taken of her young son violates his privacy.
The Court of Appeal says the children of famous parents have the same right to expect privacy as the children of parents who are not well known.
Today's ruling sets aside an earlier finding in favour of Express Newspapers and Big Picture, an age... ( cont'd )
• TV Viewership Down After Writers' Strike
7 May 2008 at 1:00pm
Since the writers' strike ended, television shows have not been rebounding to their previous viewership levels. In fact, top television shows' ratings are plummeting. Once reason proposed is that no one knew when their shows were back, so they never tuned back in.
Spring has sprung leaks in big-network lineups. Ratings shortfalls for some top series have sparked Hollywood hand-wringing on the eve of next week's fall schedule announcements.
Such shows as ER, CSI: Miami, My Name Is Earl, The Simpsons and Supernatural hit all-time lows in recent weeks, and others -- including Grey's Anatomy and Cold Case -- are down sharply from last spring.
Some observers blame t... ( cont'd )
• Hot Trend: Microblogging on Twitter
5 May 2008 at 7:45am
 The hottest trend going right now is microblogging on Twitter. So what's a microblog? What's a twitter? Twitter is a microblogging service where entries can only be 140 characters long. In addition to letting you keep up-to-date on what your friends and families are doing Twitter can also be a great place to share your latest book project and interact with fellow bloggers and writers. You can have a blog and a twitter: the twitter entries are short and sweet and can end with a link of interest. An individual twitter entry is called a "tweet."
You can find a list of applications, services and tools that
make Twitter more useful on our BloggersBlog.com website at:... ( cont'd )
• 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better
3 May 2008 at 12:00pm
The A.V Club compiles "15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will."
Here are Vonnegut's statemets about happiness and how he discovered he was a science fiction writer, with commentary by AV.
1. "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
The actual advice here is technically a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "good uncle" Alex, but Vonnegut was nice enough to pass it on at speeches and in A Man Without A Country. Though he was sometimes derided as too gloomy and cynical, Vonnegut's most resonant messages have always been hopeful in the face of a... ( cont'd )
• Too Many Writers, Not Enough Readers?
2 May 2008 at 1:00pm
Are there too many writers and not enough readers? Rachel Donadio crunches the numbers.
It's well established that Americans are reading fewer books than they used to. A recent report by the National Endowment for the Arts found that 53 percent of Americans surveyed hadn't read a book in the previous year -- a state of affairs that has prompted much soul-searching by anyone with an affection for (or business interest in) turning pages. But even as more people choose the phantasmagoria of the screen over the contemplative pleasures of the page, there's a parallel phenomenon sweeping the country: collective graphomania.
In 2007, a whopping 400,000 books were pub... ( cont'd )
• James Frey Speaks About New Novel and Breaking the Rules
1 May 2008 at 4:00pm
The James Frey saga continues. After achieving bestsellerdom and celebrity with his "memoir," A Million Little Pieces, he was then ritually shamed on Oprah after he admitted that he made up a lot of the story. Now, Frey is back with a new novel, Bright Shiny Morning and he talking
to Vanity Fair in a lengthy and very interesting interview. Apparently, there was more to the Oprah/Nan Talese/Frey scandal than was reported at the time.
Owing to a non-disclosure agreement between Frey and Random House (which owns Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, the imprint that published it), neither he nor the publishing house can speak about what happened. But an investigation by Vanity... ( cont'd )
• Jane Austen Has a Hangover?
29 Apr 2008 at 4:00pm
Jane Austen fans are shocked
at the portrayal of the author in a new television program on the BBC.
Jane Austen fans who think the novelist was a country mouse may be shocked by a new British TV drama that depicts her flirting, suffering from hangovers and reneging on the acceptance of a marriage proposal.
But the screenwriter behind "Miss Austen Regrets" believes anybody who has read her books will recognize Austen as a woman of brilliant wit who knew her way around society.
"I am not dishing the dirt," Gwyneth Hughes said. "Some people might not like to see Austen with a hangover, but I am not out to shock."
Helen Lefroy, a distant relative of Tom Lefroy, a ... ( cont'd )
• Cynthia Ozeck Wins Two Lifetime Achievement Awards
28 Apr 2008 at 1:00pm
At the age of 80, Cynthia Ozeck has just won
two prestigious lifetime achievement awards: the PEN/Malamud short fiction prize and the PEN/Nabokov award for originality and craftmanship.
The $5,000 PEN/Malamud prize for short fiction, and the $20,000 PEN/Nabokov award for "enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship" were judged by different panels but agreed to present the honours in tandem.
"A prodigious imagination, a relentless intellect, an endless appetite for investigation and truth telling: All of these we have come to expect from her work," PEN/Nabokov judges Mary Gordon, Brian Boyd and Richard Price wrote in their citation.
"No American writer wo... ( cont'd )
• More Layoffs at The New York Times
25 Apr 2008 at 4:00pm
The New York Times is facing
major cuts in staff, according to the New York Post.
The New York Times' news room is bracing for a bloodbath in the next 10 days.
The word from inside is that approximately 50 unionized journalists have accepted the buyout proposal, and only another 20 non-union editorial employees have gotten on board.
That means the ax could fall on as many as 30 editorial people in the company's first-ever mass firing of journalists in its 156-year history.
Executive Editor William Keller had said originally that he was looking to cut 100 people from the Times staff in response to the dismal newspaper advertising environment.
But then a week ago... ( cont'd )
• The Obsession With Memoirs
24 Apr 2008 at 4:00pm
Everyone is writing a memoir these days, it seems. Memoirs top bestseller lists and editors are still buying them. But why
are they so popular?
Why such popularity? Patsy Vigderman, a professor at Ohio's Kenyon College, believes there are parallels between the memoir's popularity and the rise of reality TV.
"For some reason, people right now are gripped by the idea that [it's better if] it's really true," she says. "Memoirs are a form of self-display."
She doesn't think much of the majority of memoirs published nowadays, the survival stories trumpeted by Graham. She used to teach a course in memoir and autobiography, but has changed her focus to "fiction and ot... ( cont'd )
• Self-Published Author Makes PEN/Ackerly Short List
23 Apr 2008 at 4:00pm
For the first time a self-published author has been shortlisted
for the PEN/Ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? by Jane Haynes. The book is a journal of Haynes' experiences as as psychotherapist.
The other four titles in the running for the £1,000 prize are Ed Husain's account of his involvement in radical fundamentalism in The Islamist; Miranda Seymour's memoir of her father's tyrannical eccentricity, In My Father's House; Dannie Abse's memoir of his 50-year marriage written in the wake of his wife's death, The Presence; and John Lanchester's investigation of family secrets, Family Romance.
The annual award, which h... ( cont'd )
• Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore?
22 Apr 2008 at 6:00pm
Slate's John Lundberg asks
"Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore?" The article focuses on a group called The Queen's English Society, which is advocating a return to more formal verse. The Society is dead seat against modern free verse.
The President of the QES, a man named Michael George Gibson (it may be a QES requirement to use three names), recently told the British newspaper The Guardian, "For centuries word-things, called poems, have been made according to primary and defining craft principles of, first, measure, and second, alliteration and rhyme. Word-things not made according to those principles are not poems."
I'm sorry...word-things?
Anyway, the QES isn't... ( cont'd )
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