Sep 18 2008: A libel suit brought by a former Oklahoma district attorney against author John Grisham, Doubleday and others for the book The Innocent Man (about two men who were wrongfully convicted) has been dismissed by Judge Ronald White on the basis that it is important to be ...
Sep 17 2008: Publishers Weekly reports on the recent discovery of more than 13 hours of audio recordings by Agatha Christie which has created excitement in the literary world.
Sep 16 2008: In a year when the "Booker dozen" (the long-listed titles for the annual Booker award) sold fewer than 14,000 copies (barely 1,000 each) in the five weeks between the list's unveiling and the announcement of the short list, the Independent newspaper asks whether "the ...
Sep 16 2008: In a very extensive article, New York Magazine examines the book publishing business, offering a gloomy prognosis for the short term, with light at the end of the tunnel.
Sep 15 2008: In a lengthy article about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the New York Times explores the book banning issue:
"The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to ...
Sep 15 2008: David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide.
Sep 12 2008: "The Economist" reports on the good health of small town libraries in America's "land of mountains and cattle", noting that the average Wyoming resident checked out nine books in 2005-06, compared with an average of five in California and two in Washington, DC.
Sep 09 2008: J. K. Rowling got her wish on Monday when a federal judge blocked a librarian from publishing a guidebook to her Harry Potter series that was to be published by librarian Steven Jan Vander Ark. In a 68-page ruling released on Monday, Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of ...
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