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"Marley & Me" author does not want you to buy his book!

Jun 08 2007: John Grogan, author of "Marley & Me" does not want you to buy or read the forthcoming collection of his newspaper columns from Vanguard Press, Bad Dogs Have More Fun (Sept 07). He is so unhappy about the book's publication that his agent has sent a letter to the ...

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British public vote "1984" the definitive book of the 20th century

Jun 07 2007: British survey finds Orwell's 1984 the definitive book of the 20th century. The public voted online at the Guardian newspaper's website, choosing from a list of 50 era-defining books selected by a professional panel. Orwell's novel came top garnering 22% of the vote.
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Oprah selects "Middlesex"

Jun 05 2007: Oprah has selected Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, as her summer book club choice.

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Cormac McCarthy to make TV debut

Jun 03 2007: On Tuesday, June 5, literary recluse Cormac McCarthy will make his TV debut in a conversation with Oprah Winfrey. In the taped interview, the author of The Road will discuss his writing process, the genesis of his tale of a father and son wondering a postapocalyptic ...

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Subjects of 'Kabul Beauty School' Face New Risks

Jun 02 2007: Following the news that women profiled in Deborah Rodriguez's bestselling Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil dispute her version of events (news story) comes the more worrying news that the women profiled in the story, under loosely veiled ...

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Bowker estimates 291,920 titles published in USA in 2006

Jun 01 2007: Bowker, the official US agency for assigning barcodes, has arrived at a new methodology for calculating the number of titles published each year. For example, their old formula estimated 190,078 titles were published in 2004 versus their new estimate of 295,523. ...

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Stephen King, Dave Barry, Scott Turow and others - in concert!

May 29 2007: Fifteen years ago the Rock Bottom Remainders played for the first time at the American Booksellers Association trade show. This year, to coincide with Book Expo America, they will be playing their "Still Younger Than Keith" concert at Webster Hall, New York ...

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100 years since the birth of Rachel Carson

May 27 2007: Today, May 27, marks 100 years since the birth of Rachel Carson, best remembered for Silent Spring (1962), which is credited with starting the modern environmental movement. Carson died two years after Silent Spring was published, at the age of 56.

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