PARENTING, INC.: HOW WE ARE SOLD ON $800 STROLLERS, FETAL EDUCATION, BABY SIGN LANGUAGE, SLEEPING COACHES, TODDLER COUTURE, AND DIAPER WIPE WARMERS—AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR CHILDREN
By Pamela Paul
Times Books, 290 pages, $25
During my prenatal tour of Lenox Hill Hospital a few months back, the head labor nurse informed Read More
Screams could be heard echoing across Brooklyn on a clear day this past November, when news of 24-year-old Joshua Foer’s book deal made its way around town. It wasn’t just the ungodly advance Mr. Foer received—an eye-popping $1.25 million—for his first-ever literary venture. Nor was it the fact that the proposal and its celebrity author Read More
Grégoire Bouillier is a writer from Paris, and on Monday, Oct. 23, during his first American book tour, he slouched into a chair at N.Y.U.’s Maison Française for a reading.
“I am sorry for my so-bad English … ,” he began shyly.
Mr. Bouillier’s book, The Mystery Guest: An Account, had just been translated and Read More
Grégoire Bouillier is a writer from Paris, and on Monday, Oct. 23, during his first American book tour, he slouched into a chair at N.Y.U.’s Maison Française for a reading.
“I am sorry for my so-bad English … ,” he began shyly.
Mr. Bouillier’s book, The Mystery Guest: An Account, had just been translated Read More
“Not to compare myself to Simone de Beauvoir—who is, you know, this vast intellectual heroine—but I remember reading something that she said about when The Second Sex came out in France, and that she just was mocked to death,” said the author, professor, former video artist and feminist pundit Laura Kipnis.
It was the eve Read More
“Not to compare myself to Simone de Beauvoir—who is, you know, this vast intellectual heroine—but I remember reading something that she said about when The Second Sex came out in France, and that she just was mocked to death,” said the author, professor, former video artist and feminist pundit Laura Kipnis.
It was the Read More
“We are a subscriber-based publication; we don’t worry about losing advertising,” Rea Hederman, the publisher of The New York Review of Books, said. “Sometimes I wish that weren’t the case … but it’s not something that we have to have in the back of our minds when deciding whether to do a story or not. Read More
“I made a dumb mistake, and I’m very sorry I did it. I took the blogosphere’s bait, and I stooped to the level of these people who were commenting on my pieces, and I shouldn’t have,” Lee Siegel said. “And I’m especially sorry that I embarrassed a magazine that was nourishing me as an intellectual, Read More
Before Governor George Pataki even had a chance to deliver his energy-policy speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.—the latest in a series of national auditions for his quiet Presidential aspirations—the verdict was already in.
“You’ve all heard the story,” said Jonathan Salant, the president of the press club, introducing the Governor. The Read More
In early 2005, the New York literary agent William Clegg—who at the time represented big league authors Nicole Krauss and Susan Choi, among many others—suddenly stopped coming in to his office or returning phone calls, leaving his writers orphaned and unprotected against the cruelties of the publishing business.
While Mr. Clegg’s partner in his Read More
