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>Now you don't!So what do you think was the reasoning behind the cover change of The Green Glass Sea (published this fall by Viking), an excellent historical novel set at Los Alamos, and what it was like for the children there, during WWII? My first thought was that the photo...
>The Beverly Hills boutique Kitson's is suing US Weekly, for not mentioning its name. I do hope there's more to the story than this or I'm going to be getting papers from T.A. Barron. Or Billy Crystal....
>Although it was fun finding out, in Judith and Dennis Bradin's Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy (Clarion, November) that Jane experimented with opium in college, perhaps more pertinent to this anniversary day is their inclusion of an excerpt of an article Jane Addams wrote for Ladies' Home Journal in 1913,...
>So the fuss (discussion starts about halfway down the page) about The Rainbow Party might have been, uh, overblown....
>I can't decide who is more embarrassed by the tentative settlement of the James Frey case: the readers, for thinking they deserved a refund, or Random House, for caving in. Personally, I think $23.95 is dirt cheap for a lesson in skepticism.And now I want a refund for those Sea...
>You decide. But I like "Anonymous"s take-no-prisoners style in this attack on chicklit. The argument, though, is familiar to anyone who's been through the Nancy Drew/Wildfire Romance/Goosebumps wars: bad writing (and reading of said) drives out good. But junk has always been with us, and the audience for literary fiction...
>Our September/October issue of the Horn Book Magazine is out; a special issue with the theme, "What Makes a Good Book." (We decided to leave the question mark to our readers.) You can view the table of contents, which itself links to a few articles and reviews from the issue,...
>Yes indeed, late August and surrounded by holiday books. We Do It Now So You Don't Have To Later. Perhaps the most eccentric title in this year's pile is, depending on how you punctuate the title page, It's a Wonderful Life for Kids, or "It's a Wonderful Life": for Kids,...
>The children's-book beat at the New York Times does just fine without her. Last year, they somehow got an early copy of the last Harry Potter into Michiko Kakutani's hands; now reporter Dinitia Smith has broken into S&S/Margaret K. McElderry headquarters to swipe a copy of the "embargoed" Peter Pan...
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