Wellington Leg: Back on the ninth of October Publishers Weekly broke the news that Little, Brown editor Reagan Arthur will run her own imprint at the publisher. Many of you ignored the carnage on Wall Street and the third presidential debate to search the Internet for confirmation of the Reagan Arthur story and were directed here, to a blog that is written in a fictional towne by a group of imaginary characters. Reagan Arthur won the October sweeps here on One More Bite of the Apple a blog that only learned how to link to other blogs yesterday, November 2,2008 and is now trying to link to itself. Well, it’s true, Ms. Arthur has her own imprint and we’re glad because she edits George Pelecanos and Kate Atkinson, two of our favorite authors.
So far in November you’re searching for Sara Gran and you’ve come to the right place for somewhere in the archives we have an interview with Ms. Gran and possibly a review or two. I don’t know if the October crowd now knows the Reagan Arthur news or accepts the truth of it and has moved on or if the beginning of a new month surgically ends our readers curiosity about items from the previous month. Perhaps our news cycle is entirely lunar and under a harvest moon our thoughts drift toward publishing houses in Boston. Then again you’ve come here for months seeking to know more about lederhosen even though I’ve begged you not to.
Tomorrow the Druidical & Literary plans to endorse Obama for president although some on the staff want to wait until Wednesday and then endorse the winner. Either way we’ll announce the winner in early December but for now it’s hats off to Reagan Arthur an October Surprise.