Thursday, July 17, 2008
News Atlantan on NY Times Best Seller List
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Doug Blackmon, who heads the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau, has made the New York Times Best Seller List with his historical expose Slavery by Another Name.
(A quick aside: Does anyone know the proper way to reference the list? Should "best seller" be two words? A compound? Hyphenated? Plural??? And is "list" capitalized? I just wasted 10 minutes Googling that, with no apparent resolution.)
Anyway ... Blackmon's book, published by Doubleday, placed no. 34 among best-selling non-fiction hardcovers. Go Doug!
Publisher's Weekly called it "a groundbreaking and disturbing account of a sordid chapter in American history — the lease (essentially the sale) of convicts to 'commercial interests' between the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th."
If you want Blackmon to sign a copy — or to help him celebrate his success — go to Manuel's Tavern next Wednesday Tuesday (July 22) between 6 and 9 p.m.
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Sayeth the AP Stylebook: best seller (n.) Mine is the 2002 edition but I will wager the ruling remains the same. Wikipedia says the proper name is New York Times Best Seller List. Hope that helps!
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Thanks, Kyle! Yeah, I too saw the Wikipedia entry, but that doesn't seem as solid a source as AP. Unfortunately, my AP Stylebook only mentions "best seller" in the generic sense, rather than in relation to the NY Times list. Hmmmm ...
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