By Emily Witt 9/16/11 9:13am

Book Parties

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Celebrating Hurricane Harbach, Publishing Trades Baseball Cards at Brooklyn Brewery

What was most remarkable about Chad Harbach’s book party at the Brooklyn Brewery last night was the bonhomie. An agent pointed it out to The Observer as we stood around the indoor picnic tables drinking lager from plastic cups: it helps that Mr. Harbach is a nice guy from the Midwest (there was a lot of Midwestern pride in the room last night), but it makes everybody in publishing happy when a work of literary fiction by a talented first-time novelist not only gets a big advance but also sells well. For all of publishing’s sometime dysfunction, something actually worked. Read More

By Emily Witt 7/08/11 10:12am

Publishing

Patterson.

James Patterson’s Next 26 Books All Locked Up

Little, Brown can breath easy until the end of 2014, having re-upped with James Patterson for the next three and a half years.

In that time Mr. Patterson will produce 13 adult novels and 13 children’s books, edited by Michael Pietsch (the adult ones) and Megan Tingley (the kids ones), and there will probably be Read More

By Peter Kurth 8/12/02 12:00am

Who Stole the Squeeze Bottle? Exquisite Mayhem at Daniel

The Fourth Star: Dispatches from Inside Daniel Boulud’s Celebrated New York Restaurant , by Leslie Brenner. Clarkson Potter, 314 pages, $25.

Midway through Leslie Brenner’s The Fourth Star: Dispatches from Inside Daniel Boulud’s Celebrated New York Restaurant -let’s say somewherearound Chapter5,”In the Weeds”-I began to feel it was time for a murder. Not a Read More