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What better way to bid a bloggy farewell to Sharon than to address a few of her favorite things -- hot publishing deals , hot young New Yorkers , and YA fiction ? To those ends, we contacted our (best) friend and author Lauren Oliver (indeed, she's...
Truly, life gets more amazing every day. Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the Gossip Girl YA book series that was then adapted into the BSE , is working on her first adult series, according to Hyperion . Due out in 2009, the series (first book is called...
Sloane Crosley: The new Dorothy Parker, some say -- or just our new Imaginary Friend Kelefa Sanneh, our favorite New York Times pop music critic, is going to be a staff writer at The New Yorker ! Now he and the S.F.J. can totally duke it out over the...
The Interweb is exploding with book deals today. Er, maybe not -- perhaps it is just in our own strange little brain/world. People reports : Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen can now add author to their growing list of professions. The 21-year-old twins will...
It's deal day for Publisher's Lunch Weekly . Fresh out of the inbox: General/Other Marisha Pessl's NIGHT FILM, a psychological thriller about obsession, family loyalty and ambition set in raw contemporary Manhattan, moving to Kate Medina at...
We realized long ago that we were not alone in the fact that we loved to hate Modern Love , a New York Times Sunday Style column equal to a 1,700-word cringe-fest. In this week's New York Observer , Doree Shafrir expertly dissects the column and its...
There's something vaguely diabolical about Jessica Seinfeld's book, Deceptively Delicious . The basic concept is that you hide good-for-you things like spinach and sweet potatoes in yummy things like brownies and mac & cheese. Except 1) People...
HarperCollins will be publishing Frey's new novel, Bright Shiny Morning . Publisher Jonathan Burnham said that "Mr. Frey was a “media lightning rod” but that “my opinion about James Frey and whatever he did is beside the point.” “What matters...
If our posting schedule seems irregular in the next week or so, it's because we're really busy listening to "Save Ginny Weasley" on repeat and blushing over novel-length Harry Potter fan fiction that involves...naughtiness: "Please...
Dear Oprah, Please stop it. Now when I recommed Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex to people as one of my favorite coming-of-age novels of all time, they're going to be like, Gag, wasn't that shit on Oprah? Soon you'll put your Oprah Seal of...
We can't stop OMG-ing over these amazing graphic renderings of what will soon become The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Ok, so it'll be built in lame muggy Orlando as opposed to the moors of Britain, which sucks, but whatever. We're sure...
The NYT's Sunday Business section asked, "What makes a best-seller?" and this three-page musing is their version of an answer. No real revelations, per se. What I found most fascinating was Shira Boss's interwoven explanation of what...
Just as soon as we're done pouring over Avril Lavigne's manga , "Make 5 Wishes" Vol. 1, we'll be heading over to TIME . They've got an excerpt of George Tenant's slam-dunking At the Center of the Storm . There's also...
From today's Publisher's Lunch : Crown has pulled back on another high-profile acquisition, deciding not to go forward with Melissa Dumas ' LIVE TO TELL: My Life as Madonna's Nanny , which had been pre-empted in a major deal. The house...