HarperCollins sheds up to 120 human jobs in New York; who knows what will happen in London? HC’s six month operating income dropped nearly 75 percent, to $26 million from over $100 million previously. Tonight …
Posts Tagged ‘Dave Bartram’
Books That Ming
In the UK, the number of new books published last year increased by 4 per cent – nearly 121,000 – as reported by BookBrunch. Does this mean the recession might be good for writing and …
May be Hazardous to Your Health
The fifty-seventh variety of LITOPIA AFTER DARK – the net’s first and foremost writers’ salon – is choc-a-bloc with fragrant surprises… and a few stinkers, too.
We mourn John Updike – the chronicler of middle-class …
What The Heck’s Happening?
That’s right – LITOPIA AFTER DARK is back with a vengeance tonight – with an upgraded format and an in-your-face demeanor (well, if that’s OK with you…). Our attitudinous panel comprises:
Dave Bartram a writer From …
Holiday Special
We’ve packed it all into this final end-of-year episode… forgetting the dull sublunary cares of the fraught publishing business, we instead seek succor in the ready wit, finely-honed humor and elegantly aligned elipticisms of our …
Campaign for the Book
Litopia After Dark this week has not one but two very special guests. We welcome back novelist, journalist, actress and broadcaster, Amanda Lees, author of the Kumari Goddess of Gotham teen novels. Also we are …
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Porcupines and Nuns
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Should criminals profit from the sale of their memoirs? The Internet is falling victim to soft censorship. And Wikipedia, Knol and Mahalo – what use are they to the writer? Just some of the highlights …