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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Oct. 8th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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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Jul. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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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Apr. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
On a recent Sunday evening at Babbo restaurant, a literary agent regarded a plate of beef-cheek ravi read more »
Renata Adler's Newest Enemy; Pass the Popcorn and Classics
by Elizabeth Manus
Feb. 20th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 20th, 2000, 8:00 pm
If John J. Sirica Jr. read more »
Susan Sontag Gets Jumpy; Pat Conroy Gets Left Out
by Elizabeth Manus
Jan. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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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Dec. 5th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Nov. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
"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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Nov. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Oct. 31st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Oct. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Sep. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Sep. 12th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Aug. 22nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Aug. 8th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Aug. 1st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Jun. 27th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Jun. 6th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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May. 16th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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May. 9th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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May. 2nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Apr. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Mar. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Feb. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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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Feb. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.So, it would appear, is the motto of the millennium for New York boo read more »
Book Biz Hops in Bed With That Woman, Ms. Lewinsky
by Elizabeth Manus
Feb. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Bertelsmann's Nazi Past Gets Ho-Hummed in U.S.
by Elizabeth Manus
Jan. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
On Dec. 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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Aug. 30th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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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Aug. 9th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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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Jul. 26th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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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Jul. 12th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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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Jun. 21st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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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Jun. 7th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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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May. 17th, 1998, 8:00 pm
Did the late Henry Roth, like Ira Stigman, his fictional alter ego in the four-volume autobiographic read more »
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