Scrap the tattoo: Hachette Australia cancels controversial marketing campaign
Last week, we reported on a somewhat confounding marketing idea by Hachette Australia. The company is publishing the fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series, The Girl in the Spider’s… Read more »
Calling girls without dragon tattoos: Hachette Australia would like to have your back
It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it, before someone would think this was a good marketing idea: Hachette Australia is looking for a woman to “donate” her back… Read more »
Buried with the LRB
In a long remembrance of her father in the Financial Times, Julia Hobsbawm, daughter of the celebrated English historian Eric Hobsbawm, recalls her father’s need to be almost constantly reading.… Read more »
Eating your way through the classics with Fictitious Dishes
This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »
What makes an adaptation work? or, Did something go wrong with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo?
Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of Swedish crime novels are some of the best-selling and most recognizable books of the last 50 years. There’s isn’t a literate soul in America who isn’t… 6 / Read more »