Elizabeth Manus

Articles by Elizabeth Manus

Buy This Book! Buy the Store! Shopping Will Set You Free

by Elizabeth Manus
Oct. 8th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America , by Gary Cross.  read more »

The Secret of Harry Potter IV ? It Almost Blew Deadline

by Elizabeth Manus and Ted Diskant
Jul. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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When fans of Harry Potter think back to the year 2000, they might remember it as the year of the big  read more »

Salman Rushdie's 1001 Manhattan Nights

by Elizabeth Manus
Apr. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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On a recent Sunday evening at Babbo restaurant, a literary agent regarded a plate of beef-cheek ravi  read more »

Susan Sontag Gets Jumpy; Pat Conroy Gets Left Out

by Elizabeth Manus
Jan. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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In case it's unclear, Susan Sontag really is against interpretation. Of her own life, that is.  read more »

Times Editor's Flashy Book Proposal Lands $850,000 Deal

by Elizabeth Manus
Dec. 5th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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If you want to be a millionaire, you could sit down with Regis Philbin and sweat it out under weird  read more »

Lolita's Newest Creator Tries To Pluck Her From the Porn Heap

by Elizabeth Manus
Nov. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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"My Lolita does not speak in Nabokov's language," said Pia Pera. It was 4 P.M.  read more »

Random House Homeless! Office Space Vanishes!

by Elizabeth Manus
Nov. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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If you were wondering what might send the world's third-largest media conglomerate into a swivet, lo  read more »

St. Martin's Loses Editor Over Bush Book Flap

by Elizabeth Manus
Oct. 31st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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By sunrise on Oct. 26, the losses were already steep for St.  read more »

Sonny Mehta, Uneasy King of Knopf

by Elizabeth Manus
Oct. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Ten weeks out of an intensive care unit, Sonny Mehta could be found in Bemel-mans Bar at the Carlyle  read more »

Simon & Schuster Mulls Future in Viacom-CBS Media Kingdom

by Elizabeth Manus
Sep. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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It's not every day that the publisher of All the President's Men takes a back seat to a Great Americ  read more »

Andrew Wylie's China Policy; How to Get a Great Biography

by Elizabeth Manus
Sep. 12th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Literary agent Andrew Wylie, he of the highbrow client list, fiercely practices the art of the advan  read more »

Updike on Golf, Germans, Tina; Brooks Hansen Visits Napoleon

by Elizabeth Manus
Aug. 22nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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It was a Friday, so John Updike of Beverly Farms, Mass., had passed the day on the greens at the Myo  read more »

In a Smelly Summer, Our Team of Noses Sniffs Up the City

by Kate Kelly and Elizabeth Manus
Aug. 8th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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The second day of August brought a blue sky and a fine breeze to the southern edge of Central Park,  read more »

Writer Lost on Mt. Rainier Driven by Sense of Mission

by Elizabeth Manus
Aug. 1st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Democratic Presidential hopeful Bill Bradley was one of the last people to see Joe Wood before the 3  read more »

Snitcher in the Rye: Salinger's Daughter to Publish a Memoir

by Elizabeth Manus
Jun. 27th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Its arrival has been as secretive as that time Holden hid in Phoebe's closet.  read more »

Federal Antitrust Official Has Some Nice Bertelsmann Birthday Cake

by Elizabeth Manus
Jun. 6th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Judging by the turnout for his 46th-birthday party, Bertelsmann A.G.'s chief executive, Thomas Midde  read more »

Recognizing Gaddis Uptown; Writer Reviews Own Book

by Elizabeth Manus
May. 16th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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If the memorial tribute to William Gaddis held at the American Academy of Arts and Letters on May 6  read more »

Theroux Vulgar Over Vidia ; Knopf, House of Minot?

by Elizabeth Manus
May. 9th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Would you pay $150 for what might very well be an original Paul Theroux handwriting scrawl of the ph  read more »

Barnes & Noble Furtively Slips Between the Covers

by Elizabeth Manus
May. 2nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Over the next month or so, something unprecedented will happen in the publishing world.  read more »

Gotham on the Block; Kiss 'n' Tell Byron

by Elizabeth Manus
Apr. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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For the Gotham Book Mart, it's time to move into the 21st century.  read more »

The Book Editors Who Came in From the Cold

by Elizabeth Manus
Mar. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Stop by any publishing party these days, and you could find that the editor you ran into last month  read more »

Barney Rosset Fights to Publish Lolita Spinoff With Bad Reputation

by Elizabeth Manus
Feb. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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A recent afternoon found Barney Rosset in his loft on Fourth Avenue, a leg slung over the arm of a b  read more »

Little Brown Gets Mushy; Book Cover Cover-Up?

by Elizabeth Manus
Feb. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.So, it would appear, is the motto of the millennium for New York boo  read more »

Random House Loses a Star; Bright Lights Gets Rent -ed

by Elizabeth Manus
Aug. 30th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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At the beginning of August, it was pretty quiet in the halls of Random House's offices at 201 East 5  read more »

Holt's Naumann Flees Manhattan, Seeks Berlin Culture Ministry

by Elizabeth Manus
Aug. 9th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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One languid July evening, Michael Naumann sat on a white couch in the living room of his West Villag  read more »

Good Manners or Good P.R.? Why Writers Say Thank You

by Elizabeth Manus
Jul. 26th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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This spring, as galleys of fall books piled up in media outlets around town, book reviewers played a  read more »

Dale Peck: Now It's Time to Say Goodbye to Farrar

by Elizabeth Manus
Jul. 12th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Now It's Time to Say Goodbye is the name of Dale Peck's new literary thriller, but it also describes  read more »

Lie Down Where Philip Roth Did; Swatting Flies at Literary Camps

by Elizabeth Manus
Jun. 21st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Years ago, a poet who was staying at Yaddo, the bucolic artists' and writers' colony in the Adironda  read more »

F.S.G. Rides Tom Wolfe Like a Rented Mule

by Elizabeth Manus
Jun. 7th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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When Tom Wolfe took the microphone in the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago on Friday, Ma  read more »

A Sister's Angry Letter Unravels Roth Incest Tale

by Elizabeth Manus
May. 17th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Did the late Henry Roth, like Ira Stigman, his fictional alter ego in the four-volume autobiographic  read more »