Tayari's Blog: Linky Linky Linky

Posted by TayariJones on August 1, 2007 01:56 PM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

  • Galleycat has the footage of Nan Talese criticizing Oprah and defending James Frey. If I didn't know better, I would think that Talese was Frey's mother. She has that sort of blinded-by-love defensiveness that I have seen when mothers come to protest thier college-aged sons' bad grades.
  • The Boston Globe has an interesting piece on blacks in Science Fiction. (Of course, Ed got there first!)
  • Your printer might be killing you. All this time, I thought it was my manuscript that was making me sick! (I got the link from Laila Lalami's excellent blog.)
  • Randy Kearse wrote "Street Talk," his guide to urban slang, while he was in prison. Slate says it reads like a "bleak, heartbreaking memoir."
  • Percival Everett's new book, The Water Cure, is out. TEV was giving it away, but I found out about it too late to enter the contest. I am not sure how I feel about the cover, tho...

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    Comment #1, by tommy jonq [TypeKey Profile Page]

    1. so, is publicly picking a fight with oprah a good career move, or a bad one? especially after she just did your client a titanic favor? a favor that was repaid by tarnishing her brand name?
    2. is reminding people of your own fiasco good publicity, or bad? especially when your client may have committed what some people would call libel? oj's lawyer claimed "frameup" as a defense, but oj wasn't stupid enough to actually file a lawsuit over it.
    3. does a publisher have any responsibilty for the "nonfiction" and "memoir" labels they stick on books? is putting a disclaimer on the title page good enough? 4. should authors rally round talese and her client, or throw them to the wolves for the good of all, a la michael vick?
    4. what's more annoying, the no caps, or the relentless question marks?

    August 2, 2007 09:53 AM

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