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Nov 18 2007: A rare first edition of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights has sold for £114,000 (~$228,000) at Bonhams London auction house today, more than double the expected sale price. The Guardian reports that the copy was purchased by "antiquarian bookseller Robert Kirkman...
Nov 17 2007: The New York Times reports that Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives and The Boys From Brazil, died on Monday 12th November at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.
Nov 14 2007: The New York Times reports that Judith Regan, has filed a 70-page lawsuit that seeks $100 million in damages for what she says was a campaign to smear and discredit her by her bosses at HarperCollins and its parent company, News Corporation, after her project to publish...
Nov 14 2007: The winners of the 2007 National Book Awards are:
Nov 13 2007: The Guardian reports that from next spring Picador UK will release all new novels in paperback editions, alongside a small run of hardbacks, breaking with the trade convention of staggered publication dates. Andrew Kidd, publisher of the prestigious Macmillan imprint...
Nov 12 2007: The Globe and Mail reports that the aggressive rise in value of the Canadian dollar against its U.S. counterpart (the Canadian dollar is now worth US $1.10) has created a charged environment in Canadian bookstores with consumers raging against the disparity between US ...
Nov 10 2007: Norman Mailer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and self-proclaimed heavyweight champion of postwar American letters, whose six decades in the public eye helped make him one of America's most acclaimed, and controversial authors, died this morning of acute renal failure ...
Nov 08 2007: Chile has returned almost 4,000 books to Peru's national library, more than a century after they were taken by Chilean soldiers. The soldiers pillaged the library after capturing the Peruvian capital, Lima, in 1881, during the War of the Pacific. Chile's director of ...
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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