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Jan 05 2009: In an article that book industry newsletter Shelf Awareness describes as 'alternating between fluff and substance', the New York Times explores the new austerity in publishing, pointing to publishers canceling sales conferences in exotic climes in favor of web ...
Dec 29 2008: Berkley Books has canceled the planned February publication of Angel at the Fence by Herman Rosenblat; and Lerner Publishing Group, who published a children's version, Angel Girl, in September has withdrawn their book from sale and offered a refund on any books returned...
Dec 26 2008: Playwright, poet, actor, director and screenwriter Harold Pinter died on December 25 at the age of 78 after a six year battle with cancer of the oesophagus. He is survived by his second wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, whom he married in 1980, a son from his first marriage,...
Dec 19 2008: Iraqi Prime Minister has officially reopened Baghdad's Mutanabi Street, home to many book stores. The New York Times reports that Mutanabi Street, destroyed by a car bomb in March 2007, "has long been the intellectual center of the Iraqi capital" and that "resurrecting...
Dec 19 2008: Poet Elizabeth Alexander has been selected to compose and read a poem at the presidential inauguration next month. As the Washington Post observed, "It is the first time that 'poetry's old-fashioned praise,' as Robert Frost called it, will be featured at the ceremony ...
Dec 19 2008: Ecco has acquired U.S. rights to a prequel of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by its author, David Wrobleski - part of a planned trilogy. According to the publisher, the forthcoming book, which focuses on John, the patriarch of the Sawtelle clan, exposes the origins of the...
Dec 19 2008: J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard is now the fastest-selling title of 2008 with more than 2.6 million copies sold worldwide in less than two weeks.
Dec 17 2008: A BBC survey suggests that nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners. But they're not necessarily lying about books they claim to have read; 74% of teenagers said that they've have ...
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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