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Oct 14 2008: Mediabistro reports that author Christopher Buckley has decided to leave his job as a columnist at the National Review (the magazine founded by his father, William F Buckley) after his blog posting in "The Daily Beast" saying that he planned to endorse ...
Oct 14 2008: USA Today reports that the Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a bill naming "Moby-Dick" the state's official "epic novel." Rep. Cory Atkins said she was "appalled" and contended her district in Concord has "more authors per square mile than any other." ...
Oct 14 2008: Princeton University professor and bestselling author Paul Krugman has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Krugman has been an Op-Ed columnist at the New York Times for nearly a decade; his books include The Conscience of a Liberal.The Nobel was awarded...
Oct 09 2008: Sixty-eight year old Frenchman, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works characterized by ''poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy'' and focused on the environment, especially the desert. He is the first French writer to ...
Oct 06 2008: While the publishing industry has struggled to come up with a "Happily Ever After" storyline in recent years, there's still plenty of money to be made in the business of books - at least for the world's top 10 best paid authors, according to Forbes ...
Oct 03 2008: With British publication in doubt for Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina," the U.S. publisher of her controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad has moved up the release date from mid-October to 6th Oct.
"By speeding up the publication, we wanted to reduce or ...
Oct 01 2008: In honor of banned book week, The Guardian (UK newspaper) offers a banned book quiz
Oct 01 2008: It's National Reading Group Month and in honor of this page-turning tradition Random House Reader’s Circle is hosting a special month-long event: Book Club Fest! where you'll find exclusive podcasts, sweepstakes, an interactive calendar highlighting author events, and ...
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