Harry's pitted against Harry Jul 12, 2007
"The literary property coming to an end will only help attract fans," she said. "That's what happened when Dumbledore died (in surprising fashion) in book six and then was a significant figure in the fourth film, which was a big success.". (Variety)
Your Legacy, Business Matters Mar 26, 2007
Your representative will be handling your publishing business affairs and passing on the rights to your literary property to your designated heirs. For this to happen, you should have a will in place. (Suite101.com)
Alex Ross on new American operas Aug 14, 2006
You could hardly drive your Smart car from the lesbian bed-and-breakfast to the organic farm stand without running over an adaptation of a literary property. Stephen Hartke s The Greater Good made its d;but at the Glimmerglass Opera, in Cooperstown. (New Yorker)
Books help studios find happier ending May 19, 2006
With the movie version of "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown set to open the Cannes International Film Festival on Wednesday, the race to find the next hot literary property can sometimes resemble a chapter from the fast-paced thriller. Even before the film version of "The Da Vinci Code" came along, book adaptations were providing the movie industry with a bit of promise amid the woes of piracy, slumping box office receipts and slowing growth in DVD sales. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
MINOR/W.D. McCain, the racist conspirator Apr 20, 2006
The AHA and AAUW jointly reprimanded McCain for violating ethical standards of approved scholarly usage of anothers literary property. A letter written by the AHA to the Journal of Mississippi History, then edited by one of McCains Southern Miss. (Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, MS)
Anxious, coddled, uncurious George Mar 26, 2006
The cartoon monkey, the creation of onetime Cambridge residents H.A. Rey and Margret Rey (and the literary property of Boston-based Houghton Mifflin), is not only popular, with some 33 million books sold, but even fashionable: The trendy L.A. retailer Kitson sells $98 T shirts and $316 cashmere sweaters bearing his smiling monkey mug. Yet in a recent issue of the Journal of Social History, Daniel Greenstone, an American high school teacher now working at the Taipei American School in Taiwan,... (Boston Globe)
How To Break Into Movies In Only 12 Years Mar 15, 2006
Those--to use a Gibsonian film metaphor--Stations of the Cross will be familiar to anyone who has ever sold a literary property to Hollywood. The stories are legion, and they've happened to writers way more eminent than me. (Time.com)
