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Jun 15 2006: According to the Kids and Family Reading Report (a national survey, sponsored by Scholastic Books, of children ages 5-17 and their parents that was released this week) 92% of kids say they like to read for fun. But the number of those who are classified as high ...
Jun 01 2006: In the wake of the surprising success of Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky’s posthumous novel about life in Nazi-occupied France which Knopf published in April, Stanford University Press has stepped up production on the first English-language...
Jun 01 2006: Peter Carey's ex-wife is unhappy with his latest novel Theft, in which the chief protagonist (who bears more than a striking resemblance to Carey) describes his ex-wife as an "alimony-whore". Theater director Alison Summers, who was married to Carey for 20 ...
Jun 01 2006: Despite poor reviews, The Da Vinci Code movie grossed $77 million in box office sales in its first weekend.
Jun 01 2006: Poet Stanley Kunitz died on May 14th at the age of 101. He was prized by fellow poets as a rare symbol of health and happiness in an art often dominated by depression - and this despite the fact he experienced many hardships in his life.
His Lithuanian ...
May 22 2006: According to Publishers Weekly, Bowker (the official US agency for assigning barcodes for books, known as ISBNs) estimate that there was a 9% decline in titles in 2005 versus 2004, to 172,000. Some are disheartened to see that the drop is mainly due to lower...
May 22 2006: Valerie Plame, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer, has sold her memoir for a little more than $2.5 million. Fair Game is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2007 by Crown.
May 22 2006: Making one of the most dramatic environmentally conscience production moves of any major publisher to date, Random House announced Tuesday that it will be significantly increasing its reliance on recycled paper. Over the next four years it plans to increase the ...
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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