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Aug 02 2007: The New York Times reports that Charles Simic, a writer who juxtaposes dark imagery with ironic humor, is to be named the country’s 15th poet laureate by the Librarian of Congress today.
Mr. Simic, 69, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and immigrated to the United ...
Jul 23 2007: Scholastic reports that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold a record-breaking 8.3 million hardcover copies in the U.S. in its first 24 hours. Random House, USA publisher of the audio book version, says that they sold about 225,000 copies of the audio book - making...
Jul 20 2007: As the countdown to the release of the final Harry Potter book reaches its final hours, Reuters reports JK Rowling's response to US publications, most notably the New York Times, publishing reviews of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ahead of publication.
"I ...
Jul 18 2007: An unknown novel by Alexandre Dumas was recently discovered in the National Library in Paris by longtime Dumas scholar Claude Schopp. The Last Cavalier is a classic Dumas story of revenge set in the Napoleonic era. The book, which was published in France in 2005, ...
Jul 17 2007: Last week, Britain's Commission for Racial Equality, an official British racism watchdog group, recommended bookshops across the U.K. ban copies of Tintin in the Congo (1931) by Herge following a consumer complaint from David Enright, a human rights lawyer who ...
Jul 16 2007: The London Daily Telegraph reports on the 10 million pound (~$20 million) security operation to ensure that details of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows do not leak ahead of time. In Britain, print workers have been threatened with the sack if they leak any details...
Jul 14 2007: With the frenzy over Harry Potter 7 growing, the media will be vying to be the first to review the book the morning after publication. In an article on the perils of instant reviewing, John Crace offers his tongue in cheek review of the much awaited book: "The book ...
Jul 12 2007: Sebastian Faulks (author of Charlotte Gray, Birdsong etc) has been commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to write a James Bond novel. Faulks says, "My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming's own books, where the story is everything." With this in mind,...
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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