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Today is my last day as the Beaufort Books intern. I’ve been here nearly 3 months and can now re-enter the pool of job applicants with the confidence of actually having work experience! No more scrounging through my high school experience to dredge up something that sounds productive and professional. I’m going to close this …Read More.

Only five more days until the new season of Mad Men! When I was lamenting the end of the school year, I consoled myself with the idea that Mad Men would be on all summer and that I would have something to look forward to every Sunday. Alas, it was not to be, and the …Read More.

Like everyone else, my college started to panic about the failing economy this year. In the spring, they released a proposal to eliminate about 10% of the operating budget in order to preserve the rapidly diminishing endowment. The largest budget-cut, and certainly the one that sparked the loudest din and debate, was the closing of …Read More.

I was going to list everything wrong with the Emmy nominations announced this morning in this entry under the reasoning that all pop culture happenings are interrelated and, therefore, television awards are totally relevant to a publishing blog.  Instead, I’ll write about a book, and settle for telling everyone to go watch the first three …Read More.

I’ve spent the bulk of  my time today linking, researching, listing, and now writing blogs. All this begs the question, does it work? Does it matter? As a way to disseminate information – perhaps. A creative outlet, certainly. Validation, only if people read it. But in business? Personally, I have followed just one blog. It …Read More.

As I plowed through my little list of intern-type duties this morning, I began worrying about what to blog about. I spent last week visiting relatives in New England and the weekend watching the first season of The Wire, so I was going to have little new to say about the state of publishing. Luckily, …Read More.

The LA Times article “77 novels for 60 years” celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the National Book Foundation and its 77 award winners sent me off on a task I take on once every few months: googling “Must Read Books” or “Top 50 Books of All Time” or “Books to Read Before you Die.” This …Read More.

In the July 12 issue of the New York Times Book Review section, which was happily plopped onto my desk 20 minutes ago, I found my new favorite Letter to the Editor. It reads: “I continue to be amazed at the number of advice books listed each week in the Book Review as best sellers. …Read More.

Muslim extremists jailed for arson attack on Mohammed book publisher’s home (UK) ” Sentencing Ali Beheshti, 41, and two accomplices to four and a half years, Mrs Justice Rafferty told them: ‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules.’ ‘There is no such thing as “a la carte citizenship” and, …Read More.

FOOD JOBS: 150 Great Jobs for Culinary Students, Career Changers and Food Lovers by Irena Chalmers had been awarded the 2008 Best Food Book for Professionals in the World, following her January award of Best in the U.S. by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards committee. FOOD JOBS was selected from more than 6,000 submitted titles …Read More.

Happened to catch an episode of Kathy Griffin, My Life on the DList last night. I generally find her fantastically funny- but I especially loved her meeting with Random House. She’s sitting at the head of the table, the rest of the room filled with people whose titles are being splayed across the screen as …Read More.

When I was little and I imagined my career as an author, marketing never crossed my mind. It still doesn’t – I think that someone important will read my yet-to-be-completed Great American Novel, realize my genius, and suddenly I would explode onto the literary scene. Working at Beaufort, however, does not encourage that idea. Every …Read More.

A little less than 10 hours ago, I got out of a midnight showing of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The theater was surprisingly empty (it was not even half-full) and the audience was excited in a low-key, pleasant sort of way. When the movie was finished, people were subdued as they exited the theater, …Read More.