Bill Ott

Editor & Publisher of Booklist Publications

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.

[Nancy Pearl @Nancy_Pearl]

If Twitter goes, will we always have Paris?

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Is this the guy we once dreamed of displaying in the Booklist office?

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

The Angela Lansbury syndrome, teen version.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

@likaluca Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach.”

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

The Fingernail I Clipped in 1987 That Changed the World Forever. No, I don't think there's been a book with this title published yet, but there soon will be. Please, please, publishers, no more "that changed the world forever" in titles or subtitles.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Thanks! I’m happy to be mentioned alongside Marilyn Stasio, and I remain convinced that the Charlie Resnick novels are a high-water mark in crime fiction.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

That is very well said, but deep in my heart of hearts, I can’t keep from thinking how cool it would be to take my cart through Binny’s Beverage Depot and do a full Nick Cage.

[S.A.Cosby @blacklionking73]

Leaving Las Vegas is the existential end point of the neo-noir movement of the 90's. A collapsing black hole of self disgust and despair set against the saccharine sugar plum fairies of Sin City .
Nic Cage's best performance.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Let’s go for another 4,000 at least! It’s been a pleasure.

[bookman.bsky.social @bookfella]

I recently passed a milestone at @ALA_Booklist. Apparently I have now reviewed more than 3800 books for them over the past quarter-century, under the gracious guiding hand of @Booklist_Bill. Shall we aim for another 3800?

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

One of my favorite nonfiction books of the 21st century.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

It should be an en-dash.

[H.W. Fowler Style @HenryWFowler]

If you wanted to say someone was dashing in the style of Errol Flynn, would it be “Errol Flynn-style” (one hyphen) or “Errol-Flynn-style” (two hyphens). My instinct is to say one. Am I right, @BCDreyer @BryanAGarner @ArrantPedantry?

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Just this morning I deleted “too far fetched” from a political thriller review I was editing.

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

on the upside if you're a political thriller writer I expect you won't be reading

"this is a bit too far fetched" in any of your book reviews anytime soon

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

[Film Daze @filmdaze]

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18.

[George’s Classic Hollywood(GP) @CHC_1927]

Happy Birthday to the amazing Ava Gardner! (1922–1990)

[Megan Abbott @meganeabbott]

“I'm not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.”

Happy birthday to the inimitable Noël Coward …

Photo: Edward Steichen, 1932

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Sorry, too, to read of Lurie’s death. Big fan of Foreign Affairs and her wonderful Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups, about subversive children’s lit.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

This is one of my bedrock assumptions about living life.

[Lou Berney @Lou_Berney]

Alcohol is expensive but it still costs less than a gym membership.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul . . . I account it high time to get to Four Seasons Landscaping as soon as I can.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Just saw @SteveKornacki reading the news in a blazer rather than wielding his pointer during election-night coverage. Couldn't help but wonder if, under the blazer, he still had his sleeves rolled up.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

Love this book. Haven’t thought of it in ages but was able to find my copy resting quietly on a largely hidden shelf and will reread soon.

[Bill Ott @Booklist_Bill]

From my 4 1/2 yr old grandson, Elliott: “I have good news and bad news. The air is better in Portland now, but—and this is really, really bad, Pa—RBG died.”