Archive for the 'Publication news' Category
After spending years in the Colombian forest looking down the barrel of a gun–and then being released—there’s another war that many FARC hostages face upon leaving captivity: a bidding war to secure the rights to publish their memoir.
After selling nearly 50,000 copies in Latin America and the U.S., Spanish Editorial Santillana decided on an initial [...]
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Tags: colombia, literary news
New book review, News
A book review I wrote for the L.A. Times just came out. I wanted to really love the book: The Lost Art of Walking, by Geoff Nicholson. Unfortunately, it just seemed like the more I looked at it, the more his argument fell apart.
In other news, I’m about to get on a plane and head [...]
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My piece on why MySpace Music–the new music store that MySpace is scheduled to launch on September 15th–is a bad idea that’s being poorly implemented just ran in the Village Voice. Now let us never speak about MySpace again.
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Tags: Facebook, music, MySpace, Social networking
Mediabistro on columns
Huzzah! A short feature I wrote last week on getting a column has finally landed in Mediabistro. May I be the first to point out the obvious, that I loved talking with Joel Stein?
The next obvious thing would be to point out that a conversation I had for this very article with Rebecca Skloot resulted [...]
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Tags: blog, column, columns, Media, mediabistro, publication
An excerpt of an article I wrote for Psychology Today appeared in an article in the New York Times. I discovered that while I enjoy being referred to as Ms. Starr in print, I prefer my name in the byline. Next time, I’ll just write my own article on vacation for them.
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Tags: advice, article, Media, New York Times, Psychology Today, travel, vacation
arteBA in the Guardian
I’m so excited! I’ve just begun writing for the Guardian, one of the dailies in London and a paper I’ve always greatly admired. My first piece was about arteBA, last weekend’s contemporary art fair.
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Tags: art, arteBA, articles, Buenos Aires
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Photo credit: Fran Lebowitz.I like to write about behavior, culture, and technology.
