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Former Major League pitcher and author of Ball Four, Jim Bouton, is going to self-publish his next book according to PW NewsLine: the author, who has a reputation as something of a loose-canon, is uncorking a high hard one at venerable Public Affairs publisher Peter Osnos, with whom Bouton had …

SIX, a documentary written by Knoxville forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith, washes over the viewer with the power of shaped fiction as it traces, via interviews and court footage, the inexorable, “perfect storm” series of baby steps that led straight down a rural Tennessee road to the 1997 murder of …

David Ignatius discusses the mixed feelings toward the war of a friend in Saudi Arabia: Change is coming in the Arab world, inexorably. It’s visible in the wide-open coverage of the war by Arab television stations, in the increasingly free debate in once-closed societies such as Saudi Arabia and in …

Yes, it’s a big week for the Crowe: his band with the odd, self-deprecating name, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, released their new album, Other Ways of Speaking on Artemis yesterday. Other Ways of Speaking was recorded all over the world – from Austin, TX to Sydney, Australia to Baja, …

PW Daily newsletter announces The Caprices by Sabina Murray (Mariner) as the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. From the nomination site: Judges have selected five books published in 2002 as finalists for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s largest peer-juried prize for fiction. The nominees are …

The truth be known I am emotional and pretty damned squeamish, so when it comes to aspects of life that touch heavily on both – like war – I try pretty hard to concentrate on the macro view and not get too caught up in the micro, where it ALL …

We are honored and excited to have special guest blogger John Parres join us from the bleeding intersection of entertainment and technology! While his career began in traditional media with A&R gigs at Warner Bros. and Bertelsmann Music Groups, the advent of the Internet compelled him to migrate away from …

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, the RAVE Act – Sen. Biden’s grab at civil liberties and attention – has reared its ugly head again. The Electronic Music Defense and Education Fund objects strenuously: Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) is at this very moment …

An Australian radio station can’t play any of the CD’s recently sent to them by EMI: Music companies which use copy protection may be denying the artists under contract to them legitimate play time on radio stations, if the happenings at one outfit are any indication. This radio station, which …

Okay it’s a little Darwinian, or maybe a lot Darwinian, but I have this vision similar to the sequence in the Godfather where all of the enemies of the Corleones are wiped out with admirable if bloody efficiency: Saddam (if he is alive), Osama (if he is alive and we …