Best of the Web: Changes at the TBR; Hesperus Press
by Staff, PW Daily for Booksellers -- Publishers Weekly, 1/26/2004
The Book Babes at Poynteronline.com talk to Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times about forthcoming changes at the Time Book Review. Keller revealed in an interview that he's likely to choose an outsider to edit the TBR, and according to the Babes, "Emphasize non-fiction books. Demote literary fiction. Promote (judiciously) commercial novels. Cover the book industry more and individual titles less."
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles London's two-year-old Hesperus Press (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square). The house's mission, as described by the owners, is to publish "works by illustrious authors, often unjustly neglected or simply little known in the English-speaking world."
