Roman Polanski’s suit against Vanity Fair (see Monday’s MobyLives news digest) continued in London yesterday with author and Harper’s Magazine editor Lewis Lapham admitting he made the comments that prompted… Read more »
“The L.A. Times, in the throes of a search to fill one of the most influential review jobs in publishing, is winding down the process and could name someone as… Read more »
Edward Tinsley “Ned” Chase, one of New York’s more prominent editors who specialized in political books such as that of President Harry S. Truman, has died at age 86 after… Read more »
Membership in the Editorial Freelancers association has risen by 500 since 1998 and the number of freelance book editors belonging to the American Society of Journalists and Authors has more… Read more »
One day after Kevin Roderick broke the story that Los Angeles Times Book Review editor Steve Wasserman had either resigned or been invited to resign (see yesterday’s MobyLives news digest),… Read more »
It’s been rumored for months, but now it appears official: “Sources at the L.A. Times confirm the buzz that Steve Wasserman is out as editor of the LAT Book Review,”… Read more »
The vacancy left by Walter Lippincott, who plans to retire from his post as director of Princeton University Press, will be filled by Peter J. Dougherty, a PUP economics editor,… Read more »
Are bestseller lists good for the book business or bad? In her newest column, Cleveland Plain Dealer book editor Karen Long observes that “Some folk regard best-seller lists as quirky… Read more »
Before he was literary editor of The Observer, Robert McCrum was a book editor at Faber & Faber until he suffered a stroke. In an interview with Robert Birnbaum for… Read more »
A 12-year-old British schoolboy “has uncovered several mistakes in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — regarded by readers as an authority on everything,” notes Justin Parkinson in a… Read more »