Best of the Web: Author Seeks Tour Companion, Hip Hobbits
by Staff, PW Daily for Booksellers -- Publishers Weekly, 8/14/2003
Author Amanda Stern is seeking a companion to accompany her on a 20-city driving book tour to promote publication of her first novel, The Long Haul (Soft Skull), about the relationship between a college-age alcoholic and his codependent girlfriend. The only hitch: Amanda doesn't know how to drive...yet.
Interested? Click on the site below, and follow the link to "Amanda Stern's Tour Companion Application." The questions themselves are quite interesting.
http://www.amandastern.com/thelonghaul.html
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These rappers have composed some songs based on Lord of the Rings. Before clicking, a word of warning--it's hideous.
http://www.lordsoftherhymes.com/
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David Lipsky will be penning a one-hour pilot for ABC and Touchstone Television based on his book Absolutely American (Houghton), a chronicle of four years of a single class going through West Point.
http://email.variety.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/eUkg0E3VBe0IPh0eT50Ao
