PW Daily’s Book Maven blog points the way to the recent essay in the New York Times Book Review on book tours and speakers bureaus.

“In recent years, a growing number of writers, from the best-selling to the less so, have hit the rubber-chicken circuit, speaking at colleges and businesses, chambers of commerce, trade fairs and medical conventions. . . . The novelist David Leavitt recounted an event at an arts festival last month in Milan where he and several other writers discovered they had been booked to appear along with Jethro Tull.”