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Dec 05 2007: The Guardian reports that Richard Leigh, author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, who unsuccessfully sued for plagiarism over themes in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, has died. He was 64.
Dec 04 2007: The Sacramento Bee reports that Sacramento based author William T Vollman (who won a National Book Award two years ago) and Baltimore-based Madison Smartt Bell have both won Strauss Living awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award, paid in five ...
Dec 03 2007: The Associated Press reports that a single manuscript page from a love story written by Napoleon Bonaparte sold at auction in France on Sunday for $35,400. The page in question was the final draft of Napoleon's 1795 short novel "Clisson and Eugenie," only 22 pages in ...
Dec 01 2007: Many reporters and bloggers have pitched in their opinions on Amazon's Kindle bookreader ((named to convey the "igniting" of knowledge, according to Amazon) in the week since it launched, including Walter Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal (http://ptech.allthingsd.com...
Nov 30 2007: The International Herald Tribune reports that nearly a decade after the Universal Library project (http://www.ulib.org/) was initiated, they have now scanned more than 1.5 million books. The project is not the first of its kind. Online search engine operator Google Inc...
Nov 29 2007: The Associated Press reports that Federal prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of 24,000 people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com after a judge ruled the customers have a First Amendment right to keep their reading habits ...
Nov 28 2007: Reuters reports on the imminent release of the $180 million movie adaptation of The Golden Compass, the first book in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy (including The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass). Even though the church is a central theme to the ...
Nov 25 2007: The 2007 Costa Awards shortlist has been announced with four books shortlisted in each of the five categories: 1st Novel, Novel, Biography, Children & Poetry. The winners will be announced in January 2008. A brief synopsis of each book is available at the Costa Book ...
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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