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Oct 10 2007: The National Book Award finalists have been announced. The finalists in the fiction and nonfiction categories are:
Fiction
Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
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Oct 09 2007: Effective today, Holtzbrinck Publishers has changed its name to Macmillan, but all but one imprint belonging to the company (including Henry Holt, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's, Tor, Picador, Scientific American and W.H. Freeman) will retain their names. The ...
Oct 09 2007: Oprah's choice of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as her book club's latest pick is a marketing coup for New Line Cinema, who will be releasing a movie based on the book on November 16th, and for publisher, Vintage, who released the movie tie-in ...
Oct 04 2007: The New York Times reports that because of concerns about the safety of some of the child actors in the movie and disputes with them and their families, Paramount Vintage plans to delay the opening of The Kite Runner by six weeks to December 14. Apparently, the ...
Oct 04 2007: Publishers Weekly reports that Little, Brown Books for Young Readers have canceled its publication plans for Tintin in the Congo,. No reason was given, but the 1931 story about the intrepid Belgian boy reporter Tintin has been widely criticized as racist in its ...
Oct 03 2007: In the class action lawsuit against James Frey and his former publisher Random House over Frey’s discredited memoir, A Million Little Pieces, Publishers Weekly reports that just 1,345 have submitted claims for a refund of the $14.95 retail price of the paperback. ...
Oct 01 2007: Amazon announced the launch of its Breakthrough Novel Award in cooperation with Penguin and Hewlett-Packard. Amazon will accept submissions through November 5 and the winner will have his or her novel published by Penguin, which is offering a $25,000 advance. The ...
Sep 25 2007: The National Book Foundation will honor five authors under the age of 35 in a celebration dubbed "5 Under 35" on November 10. The authors are Kristin Allio (Garner, Coffee House Press, 2005), Dinaw Mengetsu (The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, ...
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