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Oct 28 2007: After years of being criticized for being elitist and out of touch, the Man Booker Prize is taking a radical step. The Times of London reports that the organizers of the Prize are negotiating to make this year's six shortlisted titles available in their entirety and for...
Oct 27 2007: The Guardian newspaper (UK) reports that a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (one of a first edition print run of just 500 books) has sold at auction for a record-breaking 19,700 UK pounds (~US $40,000). Many of the first editions of the book (...
Oct 23 2007: The New York Times reports that Peg Bracken, an advertising copywriter who nearly half a century ago parlayed her irreverent wit — and her passionate dislike of a traditional womanly duty — into a subversive best seller, The I Hate to Cook Book, died on Saturday at her ...
Oct 21 2007: The UK newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph, reports that the "Booker bounce" is not what it used to be. Winning a place on the shortlist had only a modest effect on sales of the six selected novels. According to the latest figures from Nielsen Bookscan*, in the week ...
Oct 17 2007: Anne Enright has won Britain's Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Gathering, published in the UK in May 2007 and in the USA as a paperback original in Septembe 2007. The book beat out the two favorites Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. The...
Oct 16 2007: Reuters reports that The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it has closely guarded for 700 years. A reproduction of the minutes of...
Oct 15 2007: Garry Potter published in Russia over the weekend, with midnight madness comparable to that in English speaking countries back in July. The Rosman publishing house expects to sell 1.8 million in its first week. Because Russian has no "h," Harry Potter is pronounced ...
Oct 11 2007: Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic The Golden Notebook, won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. The judges praised her "skepticism, fire and visionary
power."
Lessing, less than two ...
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