David Kelly, an editor at The New York Times book review, has been promoted to the position of deputy editor. Bob Harris, a 29-year veteran of The New York Times and the most recent deputy editor of the book review, left the newspaper in mid-December. Read More
ArtsBeat announced today that this week's New York Times Book Review will feature, for the first time, bestseller lists accounting for the sales of e-books. The lists, all of which appear on the Times site, include a list of combined e-book and print sales, a list of just e-book sales, and Read More
Slate's "Double X" decided to address the question recently raised by female authors of commercial fiction: does the New York Times Book Review give an excess of coverage to white, male writers? According to Slate's calculations, the answer to that question in recent years is clearly "yes":
We compared men to women Read More
Authors Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult spoke with crime novelist Jason Pinter about their beef with the fawning over Jonathan Franzen and Franzen's Freedom as well as what they see as the narrow scope of coverage in the Times Book Review. Weiner and Picoult have both topped Read More
Jodi Picoult, a successful author of commercial fiction about "family, relationships, and love," is tired of the Times' love affair with the white, male, literary lion. Picoult first spoke out on Twitter, following Michiko Kakutani's glowing review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, tweeting, "NYT raved about Franzen's new book. Is Read More
"We could chat on and on about the dating habits of my beloved homeland — where even post-marital sex was gently frowned on — but there is a book to review here," writes Graydon Carter in this weekend's Times Book Review. The book is The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis.
Mr. Carter begins by talking Read More
Hey, Joe and Mika, make some room for Sam Tanenhaus.
According to an internal New York Times announcement, the paper's Book Review and Week in Review editor will be appearing every Friday at 7:45 a.m. on MSNBC's Morning Joe to preview that week's Book Review and Week in Review sections. According to Read More
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review section of the paper’s Sunday edition, is turning his recent New Republic cover story, "Conservatism is Dead: An Intellectual Autopsy of the Movement," into a book-length manifesto. The book will be published this fall by Random House, which also Read More
In a company-wide memo sent to Random House staff this afternoon—labeled "a very different memo" by company spokesman Stuart Applebaum when he forwarded it to media—Markus Dohle turned a spotlight upon Random House's strong presence on year-end book lists published this week by The Toronto Globe and Mail and The New York Times Read More
The New York Times has posted a preview of the Book Review's lead review from this week: Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter on Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.'s George Plimpton oral biography, George, Being George: George Plimpton’s Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals — and a Read More
Dwight Garner, by far the most visible editor at The New York Times Book Review, told the folks over at the National Book Critics Circle on Friday that he's leaving the job and joining the rotation over at the daily paper's Arts section. Mr. Garner confirmed in an e-mail this morning that he'll soon be Read More
In Sunday's New York Times Book Review, Jill Abramson, the paper's managing editor for news, wrote about Bob Woodward's latest Bush administration book, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008.
Ms. Abramson starts the review explaining the now-typical release process of Mr. Woodward's books:
The Bob Woodward rollout is always strictly scripted. Read MoreSam Tanenhaus, head honcho at The New York Times Book Review, announced today in a memo that Gregory Cowles, a fellow who has been helping out around the NYTBR in various ways since he joined the copy desk in 2004, has been promoted to preview editor. For some reason this is what they call the Read More
The New York Times ran an incendiary letter over the weekend, written by a 17-year-old from Birmingham, Ala., named Alec Niedenthal, who wanted to tell the editors of the Sunday Book Review that the future of literature belongs to him. Mr. Niedenthal, who graduated from high school last week and is preparing to attend Read More
Barry Gewen, one of the editors on the staff of The New York Times Book Review, has written a fierce little post on the NYTBR's Paper Cuts blog, in which he calls out the famously severe New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier for calling Malcolm Gladwell an "idiot" in a recent column.
"Wieseltier has always Read More
