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Dec 06 2006: Vintage (part of Random House) have won the rights to publish the Iraq Study Group Report in book form. They plan to rush the book to press as a paperback so that it is in stores on December 6, the same day that the report is scheduled to be released to the public...
Dec 06 2006: William Diehl, author of thrillers such as Sharky's Machine, Primal Fear, Thai Horse and Eureka, died on 26 November in Atlanta, Ga., of an aortal aneurysm. He was 81. He started writing his first novel at the age of 50 while serving on a jury; at his ...
Nov 12 2006: The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is asking booksellers to post a new statement in their stores. "To Our Customers" explains the bookstore's support of free speech and readers' privacy. It comments on why booksellers believe it is ...
Nov 12 2006: American author Jonathan Littell (son of the author Robert Littell) has won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary honor, for novel, Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones). Harper Collins will publish the US translation in Spring 2008. ...
Nov 12 2006: The battle over searching the entire text of books continues to hot up with Google issuing subpoenas to Amazon, the Association of American Publishers, Yahoo, Microsoft, Random House, HarperCollins and Holtzbrinck Publishers seeking details relating to each ...
Oct 19 2006: Kiran Desai has won this year’s Mann Booker Prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss. At 35 Desai is the youngest woman to ever win the award, which is the U.K.’s most prestigious literary honor. The daughter of three-time short listed nominee ...
Oct 19 2006: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus (who shares the honor with Grameen Bank, which he founded and heads) won the Nobel Peace Prize. His book Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty was published in the USA in 1999. We ...
Oct 19 2006: Khaled Hosseini's first book, The Kite Runner, has been a runaway bestseller for Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Putnam. The title and publication of his next book has just been announced: A Thousand Splendid Suns will be published on May 22, 2007.
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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