http://dir.salon.com/topics/random_house/?source=rss&aim=random_house en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST By Jason Boog Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/12/23/publishing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/12/23/publishing/index.html?source=rss The economic news couldn't be worse for the book industry. Now insiders are asking how literature will survive. By Sarah Hepola Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/28/sweet_valley_high/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/28/sweet_valley_high/index.html?source=rss The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier. By David Talbot Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/11/19/booth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/11/19/booth/index.html?source=rss John Wilkes Booth, the South's romantic villain, refused to accept the triumph of Northern values. Some things never change. By Suzy Hansen Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/03/cohen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/03/cohen/index.html?source=rss Mark Twain, meet Ulysses S. Grant! Hart Crane, meet Charlie Chaplin! Rachel Cohen talks about the most intriguing encounters in U.S. history. By Gary Kamiya Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/01/30/frum_perle/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/01/30/frum_perle/index.html?source=rss Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed. By Laura Miller Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/phillips/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/phillips/index.html?source=rss A romantic explorer searches for a Pharaoh's tomb, while a cynical detective searches for the truth about the explorer. In this delightfully old-fashioned tale, they're both completely misguided. By Laura Miller Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/mitchell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/mitchell/index.html?source=rss From 19th century seafaring yarn to nuclear-power muckraking to a cloned servant in the cyberpunk future, this dazzling series of interlocked narratives is one of the summer's biggest books. By Aaron Hicklin Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/04/14/mailer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/04/14/mailer/index.html?source=rss In a new volume of advice to young writers, the great man of American letters weighs his own legacy -- and finds it wanting. By Andrew O'Hehir Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/03/salamon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/03/salamon/index.html?source=rss The author of "The Devil's Candy" tells the true story of the ideal family man who suddenly plunged into homicidal madness. By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/11/02/bertelsmann/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/11/02/bertelsmann/index.html?source=rss Bertelsmann's deal with Napster proves once again that the media conglomerate is obsessed with being more than just a content company. By Non-Fiction | Random House, Inc Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/brokaw/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/brokaw/index.html?source=rss The Greatest Generation By Janelle Brown Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/08/atrandom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/08/atrandom/index.html?source=rss AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books. By Brett Leveridge Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/04/07/annie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/04/07/annie/index.html?source=rss When a first-time author has his portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz, it changes his life -- at least while she's clicking the shutter. By Amy Reiter Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/11/np0111/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/11/np0111/index.html?source=rss Nell and Cage: Crack team. Is she experienced? Bonnie Raitt spills all. Plus: The King and I -- Carter and Presley, together again. By Craig Offman Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/11/reaganverdict/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/11/reaganverdict/index.html?source=rss Edmund Morris' biography of Ronald Reagan ruled nonfiction -- barely. By Charles Kaiser Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/07/morris/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/07/morris/index.html?source=rss Edmund Morris has conceived the life of Ronald Reagan as a movie. And it's a bomb. By Craig Offman Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/02/reagan_fiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/02/reagan_fiction/index.html?source=rss Editors ponder which bestseller list Edmund Morris' Reagan biography should go on. By Craig Offman Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/06/02/masters/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/06/02/masters/index.html?source=rss The mouse roars again: Did Disney deal spike an Eisner biography? By Dwight Garner Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/12/24/yearin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/12/24/yearin/index.html?source=rss Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997 By Morgan Cast Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/31money/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/31money/index.html?source=rss Overqualified and underpaid, publishing industry workers labor for love -- or something other than money. By Morgan Cast Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/money/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/money/index.html?source=rss Overqualified and grotesquely underpaid, publishing industry serfs labor for love -- or something other than money. By David Futrelle Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/06/04/media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/06/04/media/index.html?source=rss Dodging Pamela Anderson Lee autobiographies and "Soul Aerobics" workouts at BookExpo, the tastes-great-less-filling successor to the late, unlamented ABA convention.