My Left Nutmeg - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Monday afternoon, I received a phone call that was both shocking and humbling. The Democratic Party asked me to represent it in the upcoming Connecticut State Assembly election against Republican David A. Scribner. I had never sought to compete in this contest - but was ready, willing and able to accept the challenge. My dear DFA friend John Hartwell - who is a candidate for the State Senate...
The Politicker (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America By Rick Perlstein Scribner, 881 pages, $37.50 Every theme park has a theme. Nixonland offers mendacity in all its glory: whoppers, hyperbole, obfuscation, prevarication, perjury, forgery and self-deception. One of Rick Perlstein's favorite verbs is a necessary one: "Nixon lied," the author writes frequently in Nixonland. Many...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
TV personality Tila Tequila is teaming up with Scribner to write a book about her life, to be titled "Hooking Up With Tila Tequila."
PR Leap - Recent News Releases (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Los Angeles, CA, May 13, 2008Hollywood Group members Joshua Reed, Angelina Bryan and Marcus Scribner, each had the opportunity to recently participate as actors in a public service announcement for Barack Obama.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
NEW YORK, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MySpace and MTV sensation Tila Tequila is teaming up with Scribner which has acquired world rights to publish her first book, Hooking Up with Tila Tequila. The announcement was made today by Susan Moldow, Executive Vice President and Publisher of Scribner. To be published in December 2008, Hooking Up with Tila Tequila is the book her fans have been waiting...
Hollyscoop (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Who knows what the world is coming to when Tila Tequila is writing a book. She's teaming up with Scribner to pen a book about her life called Hooking Up With Tila Tequila. The real question is, who hasn'...
Houston's Clear Thinkers (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
George Will gives Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland (Scribner 2008), a history lesson....
100 Years of Illustration (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
While we can show only four of Guérin's illustrations in color here, from the lead article in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for April 1904 by Montgomery Schuyler, this exhibition was formally known as The Louisiana Purchase Exposition. You can read about...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Back in the ’60s I paid $1.95 for a Scribner Library trade paperback of The Beautiful and Damned. I remember TB&D as a disappointment, the first time around. An hour or two ago I ran across the old paperback. And guess what? I still didn't enjoy it. Yet in the meantime I’d developed a [...]
NewWest.Net Boulder (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Annie Proulx fans can begin the countdown to the release of her next book: Buzz Girl reports that Proulx's "new collection of 9 'stunning' short stories about the people who now inhabit pioneer country" is due out in September 2008. The book, to be published by Scribner, is titled Fine Just The Way It Is. Another Wyoming writer, Alexandra Fuller, recently wrote an op-ed piece for the New York...
100 Years of Illustration (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Click on images to enlarge them. The lead article for Scribner's Monthly Magazine for November 1904 was by John Corbin, author and drama critic, who lived from 1870 to 1959. Such Stuff as Dreams are Made of was its title...
Farther Off the Wall (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
The book: "My Bat Boy Days: Lessons I Learned from the Boys of Summer" The author: Steve Garvey (with Ken Gurnick and Candace Garvey) How to find it: Where we'd go looking for it: Scribner Publishing, 149 pages, $21 The...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Friends of Harold McGee know they can count on him to answer any cooking question at the click of a keyboard. The author of the encyclopedic On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Scribner, 2005), McGee is one of those rare scholars who finds as much satisfaction in sharing his knowledge through personal interaction as through writing.
Consul-At-Arms (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
JUST BOUGHT (March 25, 2008): Sins of the Assassins; by Robert Ferrigno; 384 pp.; hardback. Copyright (c) 2008 by Robert Ferrigno First Scribner hardcover edition February 2008 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007048101 ISBN-13: 978-4165-3765-6ISBN-10: 1-4165-3765-1 Dedicated: To Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith Corporal Jason L. Dunham Lt. Michael Murphy, and to all the other the warriors who...
100 Years of Illustration (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Henry McCarter illustrated this article in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for April 1898, written by an older colleague Cecilia Waern, who lived from 1853 until 1926.If you Google her name it will help if you can also read one of the...
