Predicting Disaster
Hey Ellen,After 9/11/01, when the world was reeling in shock from the hideous attacks on…
January 3, 2005
Margo Hammond
Holiday Book Glut
Hello Ellen!What is it about the holiday spirit that moves so many authors to write…
December 7, 2004
Cooking the Lists
Hey Ellen,Earlier this month, Marina Krakovsky, in an article for The Washington Post Book World…
November 16, 2004
Awarding Government Failure
Hey Ellen,I don't suppose that government officials who write up the thousands of documents created…
October 19, 2004
Books as ‘News About the Culture’: An Interview with Sam Tanenhaus
Poynter's Book Babes -- Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel -- traveled to New York for…
October 2, 2004
Kitty Kelley’s Unoriginal Sin
Hey Ellen,Question: What do "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib" by…
September 14, 2004
Comic Books for Big People
Hey Ellen,This week the Iranian author Marjane Satrapi is publishing "Persepolis 2: The Story of…
August 31, 2004
The Perils of Romance
Hey Ellen,Book editors traditionally do not review romance novels. Aside from the fact that most…
August 18, 2004
Journalism’s Hot Potatoes
Hey Ellen,Here's a book every journalist and editor coming back from summer vacation should open wide:…
August 3, 2004
U.S. Publishing: A British Journalist’s View
This week the Book Babes welcome British journalist Natasha Randall as our Guest Babe. She writes a…
July 27, 2004
Dale Peck Buries the Hatchet
Author and occasional book reviewer Dale Peck was tolling away at The New Republic in…
June 22, 2004
Journos at BookExpo
Dear Ellen,It was fun meeting up with you last week in Chicago at BookExpo (the…
June 9, 2004
Friends Don’t Review Friends
Dear Ellen, A book reviewer once told me an amusing story about how she lost out on…
May 25, 2004
Blame It on the Cucumber
Dear Ellen,Surfing the Literary Saloon website (a place I highly recommend), I found a reference…
May 11, 2004
Take It to the Bank
Hey Ellen,Bill and Hillary apparently won't have to pass the hat around for their legal…
April 27, 2004
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