When literary legend Daniel Menaker needed a book website for his upcoming A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation (TWELVE Publishers, January 2010), he turned to Both is Better LLC.
The result of this exciting collaboration is live to the web today–at danielmenaker.com.
You can pick up a copy of A Good Talk when it’s released on January 4th, or you can pre-order it now from all the usual online bookstores, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and IndieBound. While you wait, check out Dan’s blog (part of the same site, but you can also get there directly via goodtalkingtoyou.com). He’ll be writing there regularly about conversational quandaries, and will be answering your questions as well–but only if you get online and submit them via the “Ask Dan” form.
A little more about the esteemed author: At The New Yorker, Menaker was the first editor to publish such newcomers as Michael Cunningham, David Foster Wallace, Susan Minot, George Saunders, Ann Packer, Michael Chabon, and Allegra Goodman, and he also worked with well-recognized authors such as Max Frisch, Stanislaw Lem, Alice Munro, Elmore Leonard, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Pauline Kael. In 1995, he moved to Random House as Senior Editor, and in 2001 he became Executive Editor at Harper Collins, returning to Random House as Executive Editor–in-Chief in 2003 and working with such authors as Billy Collins, Elizabeth Strout, Gary Shteyngart, Curtis Sittenfeld, Nassim Taleb, Benjamin Kunkel, Reza Aslan, Colum McCann, and Sister Helen Prejean. He left Random House in 2007.
Menaker is also the author of two books of short stories (two of which won O. Henry Awards) and a novel, The Treatment, which in 2006 was made into an independent film starring Famke Janssen and Ian Holm.
Find out more about A Good Talk now.
