Tuesday Morning LitLinks
The L.A. Times talks Sandman with Neil Gaiman.
Terry Pratchett continues his good works in the battle against Alzheimer’s.
Literary Kicks offers up a randomizer for its 2008 batch of reader-submitted “Action Poetry”.
The Telegraph profiles Salman Rushdie and his ongoing penchant for making enemies.
The New Yorker dissects Laura Bush’s efforts to sell her first memoir.
AuthorScoop
December 30th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
The Laura Bush piece highlights for me a weird aspect of publishing — when a publisher buys a nonfiction book, it’s a pig-in-a-poke because there’s only the first chapter or two written plus some proposed chapter outlines. With insider/celebrity books it’s a tease; they’re selling not what they (more likely their ghost writer) has written, but what they might write. It’s a very, very weird dance. Fundamentally, though, with this book I think there’s truly little or no there there.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
i think it will be a rather cynical and bottom-line business model. can they sell it to enough die-hard bush partisans and libraries to turn a profit…
December 30th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Laura Bush should just make it a recipe book.
In a televised interview on the first day of the RNC convention in 2004, I recall Laura Bush being asked if she ever discussed current events with her husband and she replied something to the effect that she did not because it was not her place to discuss those things.
Laura Bush has nothing to say.