Atlantan on NY Times Best Seller List
July 17, 2008 at 3:45 pm by Mara Shalhoup in NewsDoug 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.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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!
July 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Oh, and you would write: his best-selling book; the book is a best seller.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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 …