Famous quotes by Random House:
"an insider's narrative account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that will locate its roots in the culture and politics of the city of New Orleans and in the national politics of oil, homeland security, poverty and race relations."
"[Dale has created some 200 voices for the series, including 96 for the just-released] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."
"Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media"
"There is a real interest and appetite for Katie Price."
"My Detachment ... Soul of a New Machine."
"[The house is, in fact, something of a shrine to the passion that has consumed Corrigan's life, from her literature-saturated childhood in Sunnyside through her current career as a teacher and critic (in addition to her NPR gig, she pens a column on mysteries for The Washington Post and reviews for other publications, including Newsday). As she confesses in the just-published] Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books ... When I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book."
"Soul of a New Machine."
"[Book publishing has never had the money or the customer base to justify Hollywood's wall-of-hype approach, but the old publicity paradigm of coaxing reviews and interviews in the book pages is now supplemented, and sometimes supplanted, by all sorts of new marketing schemes. Random House Australia, the local distributor of The Da Vinci Code , is taking its publicity campaigns to shopping malls and street corners to lure readers into bookstores.] There are 200 new titles out there a month, ... We are always looking for new ideas."
"This will not be an instant book, ... This event touches upon so many important issues that it deserves thoughtful treatment from someone, like Horne, who experienced it first hand and can vividly capture each moment, but also has the ability and access to provide the critical long view."
"Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media,"