Publishers Weekly put out an article by Sean Manning – publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship US imprint – in which he said ...

A couple of years later, the two men bitterly fell out, and Vidal took the extraordinary step of trying to retract his blurb. Speaking to a reporter, he claimed to find it baffling that Hitchens ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them are tripe.’ ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover practice?View on euronews ...

Last week, the Washington Post sparked a media kerfuffle when it reported that talk-show-host-turned-defense secretary Peter ...

A new biography suggests that the eighth U.S. president, who was born in Kinderhook, deserves to be remembered — though not ...

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in France. “Of all the universities in the world,” Herring writes, “none has ever ...

So it goes with Andrew — and our relationship with his legacy. He is either loved or hated. Revered for his “genius” or ...

Colorado Mamabird’s Curtis Pakgross makes a running catch at Presidents’ Day Invite 2025. Photo: William ‘Brody’ Brotman – Ultiphotos.com Ultiworld’s 2025 college coverage is presented by Spin ...

He would send photo packs of these men in the mail, along with “jerk ... the deep underbelly of his need for degradation. Each marketing blurb or letter illuminates the man behind the camera.

Long ad copy isn’t dead—it just needs a comeback. Wit and storytelling still sell, says Thought Blurb’s founder and CCO.