Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sales records show that Lewinsky purchased a copy of Vox, Nicholson Baker's postmodern novel about yuppie phone sex. To Starr the move was routine evidence gathering, the authentication of a small detail in Lewinsky's story. But the subpoena caused an uproar among booksellers and free-speech groups. Author Baker charged that Starr was "undermining the Constitution" and demanded that he "get down on his knee pads and beg the country's pardon...
...Television and the movies have never, in my experience, turned a responsible youngster into a criminal," says Stanton Samenow, author of Before It's Too Late: Why Some Kids Get into Trouble and What Parents Can Do About It. "But a youngster who is already inclined toward antisocial behavior hears of a particular crime, and it feeds an already fertile mind." Most children resist the worst temptations, he says. The trick is to recognize the ones who do not. "If you have a child who increasingly is lying instead of putting some value on the truth, a child...
...Things that merely amuse a grownup can injure a child, whose brain undergoes a powerful development surge before age 14. "Parents don't understand that taking a four-year-old to True Lies--a fun movie for adults but excessively violent--is poison to their brain," says Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys...
...impresarial and academic to being run like a media business. I know I will lose money on half my front list, but those are my favorite books to publish." Significantly, Grove/Atlantic never had a No. 1 best seller until Cold Mountain, last year's breakout hit by first-time author Charles Frazier...
Today's books are more like grocery products than works of literature. Publishers scrutinize an author's sales history, and before buying a new title they consult with the marketing and sales departments about the book's chances. They are less likely to spend money to nurture an author. At retail, booksellers can track the success or failure of an author when deciding whether to stock a book or display it. And bookstores have the option of returning unsold books. In the past five years, the percentage of adult hard-cover books returned has increased from 29% to 36%, according...