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Feb 03 2006: Turkish prosecutors have dropped their case against author Orhan Pamuk, who was put on trial for denigrating his country in comments he made to a Turkish newspaper (amongst other things he spoke of his country's persecution of Kurds in the 1980s). His high ...
Feb 03 2006: Donald Trump has filed a defamation of character claim against Warner Books and author Timothy L O'Brien over TrumpNation published in late October. Trump's main grievance appears to be that in the book, and in an October article in the New York Times, O'Brien ...
Feb 03 2006: The saga of James Frey's books appears to be close to running its course with both the publisher and author making statements, in which the publisher essentially says they didn't know, and the author says that his memoir "is a combination of facts about my life ...
Feb 03 2006: The authenticity of three memoirs written by Nasdijj (The Blood Runs Like A River, Geronimo's Bones and The Boy and The Dog Are Sleeping) were revealed to be fraudulent by an article in LA Weekly. It transpires that 'Nasdijj' (who claimed to have been...
Feb 03 2006: After her months-long bout with cancer, playwright and author Wendy Wasserstein died last week aged 55. She will be remembered for her caustic wit and the uncommonly strong female characters she created in popular plays like The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters ...
Jan 18 2006: When J.M. Barrie died he bequeathed the rights to his book, Peter Pan, to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Last week they announced the first officially sanctioned sequel, to be written by the award-winning children's author Geraldine McCaughrean, ...
Jan 18 2006: In a recent interview in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, J.K. Rowling talks about the pressures of fame, the most traumatizing event in her life (the death of her mother), the last Harry Potter book which she has now completed, and a new children's book she ...
Jan 18 2006: The backlash over James Frey's books continues, but doesn't seem to be effecting sales (A Million Little Pieces was the Publishers Weekly #1 selling trade paperback last week, and My Friend Leonard was the #1 hardcover nonfiction title). In her foreword in last week's ...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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