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It's deal day for Publisher's Lunch Weekly . Fresh out of the inbox: General/Other Marisha Pessl's NIGHT FILM, a psychological thriller about obsession, family loyalty and ambition set in raw contemporary Manhattan, moving to Kate Medina at...
Uh oh. Thirteen people in Turkey were arrested for plotting to kill Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk ( My Name is Red ). What a surprise! Oprah's latest Book Club pick is Eckhart Tolle 's self-help tome A New Earth . Congratulations, Eckhart -- please...
The Wall Street Journal has a great piece on how Penguin built on the word-of-mouth success of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love , and turned the well-received hardcover into a paperback blockbuster. Our favorite bit: Selling Ms. Gilbert, the author...
Dear Oprah, Please stop it. Now when I recommed Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex to people as one of my favorite coming-of-age novels of all time, they're going to be like, Gag, wasn't that shit on Oprah? Soon you'll put your Oprah Seal of...
Fresh from Publisher's Lunch Weekly: Humor Borat Sagdiyev's BORAT : Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A./BORAT: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, two books in one -- half a guide to America for Kazakhs and the other...
From today's Publisher's Lunch : Crown has pulled back on another high-profile acquisition, deciding not to go forward with Melissa Dumas ' LIVE TO TELL: My Life as Madonna's Nanny , which had been pre-empted in a major deal. The house...
Didn't get a chance to post about this last week, but better late than never. Straight from Publisher's Lunch : Children's: Young Adult Grammy-nominated musician Avril Lavigne's MAKE 5 WISHES color manga books, in which an introverted...
In the spirit of politics and exhaustion, today's Publisher's Lunch newsletter threw another hissy over this brief New York Times piece on Barack Obama's "surprise best seller," entitled The Audacity of Hope . Says the Times : "But...
