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NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Why I Came West: A Memoir By Rick Bass Houghton Mifflin, 238 pages, $24 Rick Bass' new book Why I Came West is subtitled "A Memoir," but it's more of a cri de coeur. Bass spends a few pages discussing his life, explaining how he came to move to the remote Yaak Valley of northwest Montana after growing up in Houston, and devotes the rest of the book to a philosophical reflection on twenty years spent...
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The Longstockings (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
How do you know which books your kids absolutely HAVE to read? Anita Silvey, 35-year veteran of the children's book world (including several years as VP and Publisher of Children's Books for Houghton Mifflin, and eleven years as editor-in-chief at the Horn Book Magazine) has created the masterful 100 Best Books for Children . No, this isn't a recent publication, but I just received a copy from a wonderful...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Houghton Mifflin proved itself to be an admirably nimble house this morning when news came that Jon Wertheim, a sportswriter under contract there, had agreed to write a book centered around last weekend's historic Wimbledon match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Mr. Wertheim, who wrote a cover story on the match for this week's issue of Sports Illustrated , was already working on a book about...
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[SecurityRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), a publishing company based in Boston, will begin notifying individuals whose information may have been compromised by a worldwide Internet-based attack that affected...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Wifeshopping By Steven Wingate Houghton Mifflin, 208 pages, $12.95 The men in Steven Wingate's engrossing, entertaining debut story collection Wifeshopping are looking not just for love, but for marriage. They're not adverse to commitment, but they are particular, seeking the ideal woman for whom to forsake their days of youthful flings. This ultimate woman never quite materializes for Wingate's protagonists,...
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cynsations (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Louise Hawes , a North Carolina resident, is the author of two short fiction collections, Anteaters Don't Dream and Other Stories (University Press of Mississippi, 2007) and Black Pearls: a Faerie Strand (Houghton Mifflin,2008). Her novels include The Vanishing Point (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), Rosey in the Present Tense (Walker, 2001), and Waiting for Christopher (Authors Guild, 2006). She is a faculty...
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DATA news (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Hmmm, thought John Sterling, an editor at Houghton Mifflin. This might be interesting. But then again, it might not. He was reading an eight-page book proposal that had been submitted to him by literary agent Mort Janklow on behalf of a prospective first-time author, Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
PRINCETON, NJ (MARKET WIRE) Educational Testing Service (ETS) has signed a deal with education publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company whereby Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will be the exclusive Criterion(SM) distributor to K-12 institutions in the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. territories and dependencies. Developed by ETS, the Criterion Online Writing Evaluation service is a comprehensive,...
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D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
At the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC 2008), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology (HMHLT) and Microsoft announced the release of the new Learning Village, built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0. This teaching and learning portal is a single sign-on solution where educators, students and parents can access and [...]
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Fungible Convictions (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
My old employer just included me on a mass email, asking me generically to apply to its revamped company. The following arrived five minutes after I got off the phone with the only friend left at Houghton who managed to avoid being laid off in the past year (or who read the writing on the [...]
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Traditions are evident as Saudi man, woman team to find a girl's murderer Finding Nouf By Zoï¿Â¿ Ferraris Houghton Mifflin / 306 pages / $24 O ne of the best developments in contemporary crime fiction of late is how willing, even eager, writers are to explore uncharted territory. What with the miniboom of translated Scandinavian novels by Arnaldur Indridason, Karin Fossum and Jo Nesbo (to name just...
