by Philip Caputo | Apr 3, 2015 | Essays
Take a look at my review of The Sympathizer, to run on the front page of the New York Times Book Review on Sunday, April 5. This is a novel well worth its price—and your time. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/books/review/the-sympathizer-by-viet-thanh-nguyen.html?_r=0
by Philip Caputo | Mar 13, 2015 | The Longest Road
Will be speaking on a panel at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend, and also appearing with other writers at an iconic Tucson venue, The Mountain Oyster Club. Link to interview with me by the University of Arizona...
by Philip Caputo | Sep 17, 2014 | The Longest Road
Letter from Author’s United to all 10 board members of Amazon. http://authorsunited.net/. Writer or reader, READ IT!
by Philip Caputo | Aug 8, 2014 | The Longest Road
NYT story: PLOT THICKENS AS 900 WRITERS BATTLE AMAZON: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/business/media/plot-thickens-as-900-writers-battle-amazon.html?emc=eta1&_r=0. I am among the 909 authors who signed the open letter, composed by Douglas Preston, asking his...
by Philip Caputo | Jun 3, 2014 | The Longest Road
Here is another take on the Amazon cheetah’s pursuit of the wounded gazelle, Hachette. Much of what Wolff has to say is true, though I think his criticisms of traditional publishers is a little too harsh. The publishing industry has never been as...
by Philip Caputo | May 24, 2014 | Essays
Jeff Bezos has said that Amazon should go after vulnerable publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.” It’s time to cage the cheetah.
by Philip Caputo | May 13, 2014 | The Longest Road
With the paperback of The Longest Road launched today (May 13), it seems a good time for a little reflection. I’ve been thinking a lot about two questions I put to the eighty-odd people I interviewed on the trip: “What holds a country as vast and diverse as the United...
by Philip Caputo | Jan 30, 2014 | The Longest Road
The reissue of my 1996 crime novel, Equation for Evil, by Bourbon Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, comes out Tuesday, Feb.4. Please see my post of September 16, 2013, for a few more details. In the same vein, Lyons Press, a division of Globe-Pequot...
by Philip Caputo | Dec 12, 2013 | The Longest Road
I recently received this e-mail from a limo service I use for business travel. Another wave goodbye in the long goodbye to print journalism. So long to ink on your fingers, the crinkle and crackle and smell of newsprint paper, the thud of the Sunday edition hitting...
by Philip Caputo | Nov 25, 2013 | The Longest Road
It’s always gratifying for an author on a speaking tour to fill a ballroom. More than 300 people attended the Friends of Saddlebrooke Libraries luncheon in Tuscon, Arizona, where I spoke about The Longest Road and read excerpts from the book on Friday, Nov. 22d....
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