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James Frey Sells Novel, Lies About That Too

So we were wrong about two things when we relayed the rumor that James Frey had sold his next book to Harper's Jonathan Burnham yesterday. We were wrong about the amount the book had sold for, which still hasn't been confirmed, but is now rumored to be in excess of one million. Which, actually, makes sense if Harper is assuming that the four million people who bought A Million Little Pieces will all rush out and buy Bright Shiny Morning, too. Don't let that happen, America. We were also wrong about whether the book is a novel or short stories: it's a novel. "I have never written a short story in my life," James told Times book reporter Motoko Rich yesterday when she contacted him about the rumors. "But Mr. Frey published a short story last fall in a catalog for an exhibition by Malerie Marder, a Los Angeles-based artist," Motoko reports. ZING.

Book Deal For Writer Who Fabricated Parts Of Memoir [NYT]

9:20 AM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Emily Gould
2,757 views, 32 comments

Latest by n/a: OK, folks. Here's something for you. Several years ago, I had a book with Riverhead. It was a multicultral, multi-themed novel of contemporary LA, set on one special day when a bizarre event triggers massive changes in the lives of one neighborhood. I more »

the print v. web wars

Book Folk Terrified Of Blogs On The Internets!

Can print book coverage and literary blogs ever find a way to get along? Book blogger Maud Newton thinks so: "I find it kind of naïve and misguided to be a triumphalist blogger," she told Times book reporter Motoko Rich. "But I also find it kind of silly when people in the print media bash blogs as a general category, because I think the people are doing very, very different things." A good point, and one that's entirely lost on novelist Richard Ford.
Mr. Ford, who has never looked at a literary blog, said he wanted the judgment and filter that he believed a newspaper book editor could provide. "Newspapers, by having institutional backing, have a responsible relationship not only to their publisher but to their readership," Mr. Ford said, "in a way that some guy sitting in his basement in Terre Haute maybe doesn't."
At least Richard doesn't pretend that he knows what he's talking about! That totally sets him apart from Washington Post book columnist Michael Dirda, who contributed a screed about his anti-blog feelings to his boss Marie Arana over on the National Book Critics Circle, uh, Blogspot blog. More »

2:44 PM on Wed May 2 2007
By Emily Gould
2,327 views, 32 comments

Latest by novelgobbler: Michael Dirda's diatribe has given rise to another loathesome internet venue. Although it didn't exist at the time of his comments, the Novel Gobbler has now been born!! Check http://novelgobbler. for sass, vulgarity, and other inspired talk about books. more »

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femiladyism

Leslie Bennetts: 'Times' Lady Coverage Is 'Wretched'

What do Motoko Rich, Janet Maslin and Michiko Kakutani have in common? They're all part of a sinister conspiracy against women in general and woman author Leslie Bennetts in particular. In a letter on the HuffPo, the ten-year vet of the Times takes issue with yesterday's Times article suggesting that maybe women don't want to read books about the whole working mother dilemma. She notes that her own book, The Feminine Mistake, has already moved more copies than several other titles to which it is compared and then likens herself to critically-injured New Jersey governor Jon Corzine. But wait, there's more! More »

12:23 PM on Thu Apr 26 2007
By abalk2
3,080 views, 12 comments

Latest by Fishman: What's she complaining about, everybody knows People replaced the Times as the periodical of record for women years ago, only men (mostly gay) read the Times anyway. more »

books

No One Reads Those Mom Books, Except When They Do

In "Mommy Books: More Buzz Than Buyers," Motoko Rich sets out to prove an intriguing thesis: that the whole issue of whether mothers should work or stay at home with their kids is so fraught, so thorny, that women refuse to buy books about it. The article is illustrated by a photo of author Leslie Bennetts and her family, and indeed, the first four paragraphs focus on one SAHM-blogger's dismissal (sans actual reading, of course) of Bennetts' recently-published book. And then we come to this little bundle of confusing.
The explosion of commentary on blogs and elsewhere about "The Feminine Mistake" joins a growing list of similar fracases stirred up by books that touch on the perennial dilemma of mostly upper-middle-class women: return to work or stay at home with the kids. But the truth is that, with rare exceptions (and it's too early to say whether Ms. Bennetts's book may be one of them), these so-called mommy books fail to transform their talk-show and blogosphere buzz into book sales. Talk, it turns out, is much cheaper than the $24.95 cover price.
Right, "it's too early to say." So why is the entire rest of the article about trying to peg Bennetts' book as one of those buzzed-about flops? More »

11:10 AM on Wed Apr 25 2007
By Emily Gould
2,297 views, 14 comments

Latest by slinkimalinki: i'm still hung up on whether "fracases" is a word. i think not. also, @DeliciousNoise:, it's a shame i left my crazed feminazi outfit at the cleaners. it has the cutest little jackboots... more »

motoko rich

Surface (The Hotel)

Motoko Rich of the Wall Street Journal uncovers the mystery of the glass hotel going up in the Lower East Side. Blogger Lockhart Steele, who'd been speculating for months about plans for the site, wets himself with enthusiasm. The project is a co-production between developers and Surface, the urban-lifestyle magazine. The hotel will feature top-floor suites designed by the hottest decorators and furniture designers. Of course, Surface isn't the first hotel to be named after a magazine.
· magazine | hotel [W]
· magazine | hotel [Standard]
· magazine | hotel [New Yorker]
Magazine Helps Design Hotel To Showcase New Furnishings [Motoko Rich in the Wall Street Journal]
That Hotel Across The Street From Me Update [Lockhart Steele]
A cruise around the New York blogosphere [Felix Salmon]

5:58 PM on Thu Feb 13 2003
By Gawker
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motoko rich

Two Newds

Salomon Smith Barney, part of Citigroup, is in a dispute with its landlord. The bank, in its efforts to create a respectful work environment, has removed a piece of artwork depicting two female nudes. The landlords, a pair of crotchety 70-somethings, keep putting it back. You'll have seen yesterday's post about Wall Street executives learning to interact politely with civilians. Wall Street, the last redoubt of arrogance and sexism, just isn't the same any more. Motoko Rich reports.
Bare Naked Ladies in Lobby on Wall Street; See Them? [Wall Street Journal]

11:33 AM on Tue Dec 24 2002
By Gawker
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