Laura Fraser has won the 2008 International Association of Culinary Professionals essay award for "Food for the Heart" in EatingWell Magazine.
Congratulations, Laura!
Andy Raskin: April 2008 Archives
George Birimisa, Diane DiPrima, and Steve Susoyev will be reading from Return to the Caffe Cino, a collection of plays originally performed at the Manhattan club credited with launching the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. Birimisa, now 83, was the first openly gay playwright to receive a Rockefeller Grant and wrote many groundbreaking works, including Daddy Violet, Georgie Porgie, and Looking For Mr. America.
From the book:
"[Caffe Cino] was a coffee-house, a theatre, a brothel, a temple, a flophouse, a dope-ring, a launching pad, an insane asylum, a safe-house, and a sleeper cell for an unnamed revolution..."
Tuesday, Apr 22, 7:30 pm @ Different Light Bookstore, Castro bet 17th & 18th.
The NY Times has a piece today by Motoko Rich about a new HarperCollins imprint that plans to drastically reduce—and possibly do away with—writer advances:
Ms. Friedman said the new group, which will initially publish just 25 titles a year, would offer “low or no advances.” Mr. Miller, who was most recently president of Hyperion, said he hoped to offer authors a 50-50 split of profits. Typically, authors earn royalties of 15 percent of profits after they have paid off their advances. Many authors never earn royalties.
Is this a bad thing for writers? Maybe not. Writers who command high advances might jump at the chance to trade them for the upside of higher royalties. With lesser known writers, publishers have less of an incentive to push a low-advance/high-royalty deal (because advances are lower). But even if the approach catches on, there could be another benfit to writers: publishers might issue more titles. Talented new authors would have to figure out how to pay their rent ("Welcome to our world," say the independent filmmakers), but they could wind up with a larger share of the fruits of their labors.
Girls in Trucks is Grotto subletter Katie Crouch's first novel about a debutante from South Carolina who leaves the South with high hopes and finds cold weather, love, heartbreak, weird sex, drugs, and a newly developed penchant for stalking men. (Not in that order, though.)
Katie's first reading and launch party will be at Books Inc in Opera Plaza on April 10th at 6:30 pm.
More at www.katiecrouch.com/girls.html
Katie's first reading and launch party will be at Books Inc in Opera Plaza on April 10th at 6:30 pm.
More at www.katiecrouch.com/girls.html
Check out Helena's latest Chow column. It's about teaching kids table manners:
