daniel-menaker

Inside the Author's Studio

Sheila · 01/30/08 12:54PM

Everybody's on TV these days, or at least web TV. We're looking forward to "Titlepage," an upcoming web show that will feature authors and literary types dorking out over books! Daniel Menaker, former Executive EIC of Random House (and former New Yorker fiction editor), will host. "The idea is to take advantage of the fact that it's much easier to post video online than to get a show on television," says the NYT. Inspiration for the show is French literary show "Apostrophes," and Charlie Rose. The first episode, airing here on March 3rd, will feature It Boy Charles Bock (Beautiful Children), Richard Price (Clockers), and Susan Choi (A Person of Interest). [NYT]

Kurt Andersen To Save Book Publishing

Emily Gould · 06/11/07 09:30AM

Kurt Andersen, whose name continues to be very difficult for the Times to spell, will finally have something to fill his days besides writing his column for New York magazine, finishing the two books he just sold, and hosting 'Studio 360.' He'll join his publisher Random House as Editor At Large, in which capacity he'll try to "find them two or three books that they publish a year." Sweet gig! But it's a less-happy day in career news for Daniel Menaker, Random House Publishing Group executive editor in chief, who will step down at the end of the month based on a decision he calls "mutual." "I cannot emphasize to you how fine I am about this," he says. Oh rly? Times bookladies Julie Bosman and Motoko Rich have an alternate theory: they think Menaker got Kunkeled.