Review of the 2011 debut novel by Ben Lerner in which a young American goes to Spain on the US government's buck, meets two girls, and learns to fall in love with himself. Excellent book.
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The latest struggle between Amazon and a major publisher is anything but a regular business negotiation. It will, we believe, profoundly affect the future of the global publishing industry. Hear our …
The growing media furor occasioned by the dismissal of former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson finds a strange connection this week to a far larger media scandal in the UK. How much did …
Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen thinks shes been ripped off by the movie “Gravity” – and she may have a point! Presented from Florida by leading lawyer Donna Ballman and from London by literary age…
Book-banning seasons is here again! Gather round the bonfire, folks, warm your hands and enjoy the mulled wine and scent of lightly-toasted paperbacks... Plus, why do people get so mean on the net? …
A setback for authors who want to reclaim their e-book rights from publishers; Peter reveals one of his negotiating techniques; and someone in South Carolina has the world’s most highly-tuned Gaydar!…
It started in Sochi — the most expensive winter Olympics in history. A winter Olympics which, let us not forget, saw Great Britain take the gold in curling!
We’re talking advances again, and following the cautionary tale of a pair of writers who went from self-made #1 success... to “traditional” publishing failure... and now, hopefully, back to the self-…
Cockney comic Jim Davidson was written off as a dinosaur by a younger breed of middle class stand-ups. Falsely suspected of all the "isms", Tory-backing, troops-loving, womanising Jim had been sacked…
One of the nice things about our listeners is that they share their views and experiences with us. So it is that, after we last covered the lawsuit brought by “To Kill a Mockingbird” legend Harper L…
We’re back! With more stories, more opinion and even more insight into that murky confluence that lies somewhere between the edge of publishing and the beginning of matters legal.
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