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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 ...
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. ...
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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