Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Book Town Roundup
A few published items since last post:
Talk of the Book Town misreads coordinates, and ends up at William T. Vollman's talk at Powell's on Thursday March 15. Apologies to Tim Flannery, whose event I had been scheduled to cover. This is obviously unrelated to a vast conspiracy to obfuscate the global warming crisis. NO ONE has written more extensively about the hidden islands of the arctic than me.
My review of Elizabeth Hickey's new novel The Wayward Muse runs. A thank-you note is unlikely.
Looking Glass Books makes its move to Sellwood, and no mention is made of the irony of a bookstore finding its fate conjoined with that of a caboose. (looking for an article link...)
Finally, from the annals of the unpublished: a rejection notice from the good folks at 33 1/3, who deigned not to pluck my proposal from the 400+ to be one of the series' next 20 to be issued. Disappointing but no surprise: the readership did not jump for joy at the prospect of a book about Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever. A competing proposal suggested Damn the Torpedoes. Four more people took the time to write up queries for (and I hesitate to even type this as I don't want to inadvertently draw any of her fan-traffic) Tori Amos' Boys for Pele (not linked). (UPDATE: New titles in the series announced, INCLUDING Tori Amos?!)
Talk of the Book Town misreads coordinates, and ends up at William T. Vollman's talk at Powell's on Thursday March 15. Apologies to Tim Flannery, whose event I had been scheduled to cover. This is obviously unrelated to a vast conspiracy to obfuscate the global warming crisis. NO ONE has written more extensively about the hidden islands of the arctic than me.
My review of Elizabeth Hickey's new novel The Wayward Muse runs. A thank-you note is unlikely.
Looking Glass Books makes its move to Sellwood, and no mention is made of the irony of a bookstore finding its fate conjoined with that of a caboose. (looking for an article link...)
Finally, from the annals of the unpublished: a rejection notice from the good folks at 33 1/3, who deigned not to pluck my proposal from the 400+ to be one of the series' next 20 to be issued. Disappointing but no surprise: the readership did not jump for joy at the prospect of a book about Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever. A competing proposal suggested Damn the Torpedoes. Four more people took the time to write up queries for (and I hesitate to even type this as I don't want to inadvertently draw any of her fan-traffic) Tori Amos' Boys for Pele (not linked). (UPDATE: New titles in the series announced, INCLUDING Tori Amos?!)
Labels: fiction, Looking Glass, Oregonian, Portland, Powell's, review, Talk of the Book Town, William T. Vollmann
