New York Times
“The Passage of Power,” the fourth installment of Robert Caro's brilliant series on Lyndon Johnson, spans roughly five years, beginning shortly before the 1960 presidential contest, including the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis and other seminal ...
New York Times
Bill Clinton writes glowing review of Robert Caro's LBJ book for New York Times
ABC News
Former president Bill Clinton has penned a glowing review of "The Passage of Power," Robert Caro's newest book on Lyndon B. Johnson, for the New York Times. In his review, which comes out in the May 6 "Book Review" section, but was published online ...
Clinton reviews book on LBJ
USA TODAY (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The New York Times made an interesting choice to review Robert Caro's latest book on former President Lyndon Johnson. Bill Clinton praises both Caro and LBJ in his piece on The Passage of Power, which covers Johnson's vice ...
USA TODAY (blog)
Nothing's black and white with mommy porn
Kansas City Star
Or so you might conclude, given the surge in popularity of the bondage romance "Fifty Shades of Grey," the first book in the erotic trilogy derisively labeled "mommy porn" (though hundreds of thousands of women are reading it, and they're not all ...
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Casting Rumors: Who'll Take On S&M Best-Seller?
MTV.com
By Fallon Prinzivalli The literary world was flipped upside down recently when EL James' novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" became a New York Times best-seller. The erotic tales of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele are nothing new — saucy romance novels ...
Federal judge throws out civil suit against 'Three Cups of Tea' author Greg ...
Christian Science Monitor
A Montana federal judge dismissed a civil lawsuit Monday against the author, which charged Mortenson lied in his bestselling books to boost sales. The four individuals who brought the suit said they, and scores of others, were cheated out of about $15 ...
Christian Science Monitor
Who is EL James? 'Fifty Shades' author opens up to fans
Chicago Tribune
They celebrated it for its ability to bring women together, not just in the grand ballroom of an old-line downtown club, but in book clubs and across generations. And they spoke, quite frankly, about the men in their lives who have become the books' ...
Three Cups of Tea Author Sees Civil Suit Dismissed
The Nonprofit Quarterly
The humanitarian Mortenson is the author of two books, Three Cups of Tea (four million copies sold) and Stones into Schools, which have been widely criticized as including fabrications, while revelations have surfaced about how much CAI was spending on ...
Spring Board Book Roundup
New York Times
Blue Apple Books. $12.99. (Board book; ages 2 to 4) Taback, who won a Caldecott Medal for “Joseph Had a Little Overcoat,” and a New York Times Best Illustrated award for “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,” died last year, which makes this new ...
New York Times
Spoofs take steam out of "Fifty Shades of Grey"
Reuters
The best-selling book by British writer EL James that has taken pop culture by storm also has become ripe for spoofs and parodies, even as Hollywood is agog over who will play the leads in an upcoming movie. Comedians, bloggers and political satirists ...
Yes, people still read: e-book sales by UK publishers grew 54 percent in 2011
Engadget
By Zachary Lutz posted May 2nd 2012 8:23AM All hail the e-book! Seriously, if it weren't for this marvelous literary development, try saying with a straight face that you wouldn't at least take pause before adding a new title to your collection.
Fifty Shades of Grey Author In New Haven
NBC Connecticut
By Yvonne Nava AP Author EL James, left, greets Lynda Pyndall during a book signing for her new erotic fiction "Fifty Shades of Grey" in Coral Gables, Fla., Sunday, April 29, 2012. Publicist Russell Perreault watches at rear. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan) ...
Hyperink Launches Blog to Book: Your Blog Published in a Month
Forbes
If there's one media industry that still hasn't converted to Internet time, it's bookpublishing. Since launching last October as a rapid-turnaround publisher of e-books for niche audiences, San Francisco startup Hyperink has been trying to drag the ...
Forbes
Author Victor Villasenor tracks difficult journeys
Kansas City Star
By GEORGIA PABST In his best-selling book "Rain of Gold," Victor Villasenor chronicles the lives of his parents from their early days growing up in Mexico, through the Revolution, to their travels and struggles to build new lives in California.
Nothing's black and white with mommy porn | The Republic
The Republic
Along with its sequels, “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed,” it dominates the New York Times e-book bestseller list and launched a fierce battle in Hollywood, with Universal Pictures and Focus Features emerging triumphant with the film ...
Author Jen Lancaster says Atlanta women 'seem to get me the most'
Kansas City Star
According to the best-selling author, her barbed wit - and these barbs tickle - strikes a chord with Atlanta ladies. Her latest true-life tome, "Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development, or Why It's Never Too ...
Judge dismisses 'Three Cups of Tea' lawsuit
MiamiHerald.com
They had asked US District Judge Sam Haddon to order Mortenson and publisher Penguin Group (USA) to refund all the money collected from Mortenson's booksales. The readers from Montana, California and Illinois filed the lawsuit after 60 Minutes and ...
MiamiHerald.com
Gregg Allman Clears Heart Tests, Set for Book Tour | Music News ...
Gregg Allman has been cleared to begin a book tour in support of his memoir My Cross to Bear after passing a series of heart tests at the Mayo Clinic. ... Allman will begin his book-signing tour on May 8th. Allman will be hitting the road this ...
RollingStone.com: Music News
George Harrison's Widow Hopes Book Will Fill in Blanks Left by ...
George Harrison's widow Olivia hopes to add more perspective on the reticent Beatle with her new digital book, and fill in the blanks left by Martin Scorsese's recent documentary.
Billboard News
Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out | VentureBeat
By Penelope Trunk
For years, as book sales moved increasingly online, the responsibility of the sale has increasingly moved to the author. Publishers can't drive sales because they have no idea who is buying their books online. With offline bookstores ...
VentureBeat
Tehran Book Fair versus the literature of Iran's streets - latimes.com
By Carolyn Kellogg
“I can show you hundred titles of the books Xeroxed or on CDs sold in massive numbers right here in the sidewalks opposite Tehran University,” lamented Majid Taleghini, a publisher in Tehran. “We publishers are bankrupt and book ...
Jacket Copy
Remembering AE van Vogt, pioneering SF author, perennial seeker ...
By Cory Doctorow
But last week, pioneering science fiction author A.E. van Vogt would have turned 100, and hardly anyone took notice. Yet van Vogt was a major figure in sci-fi's 'Golden Age' and his works anticipated many later hits, from Alien to Star Trek.
Boing Boing
8 Children's Book Themes Dr. Seuss Never Tackled - Mental Floss
By Jill Harness
8 Children's Book Themes Dr. Seuss Never Tackled. ... Everyone reads Dr. Seuss, Judy Blume, Shel Silverstein and Maurice Sendak books growing up, but there are thousands more children's authors out there. With so much competition, some authors choose to cover unique subjects in an ... things that come out of our backsides. This specific title was actually created by the same author as a follow up to Everyone Poops, offering to explain where gas comes from and why it stinks.
mental_floss
“I'm sorry my last book was so long, but I didn't have time to write a ...
By Hugh MacLeod
It's dirty little secret that most of my business-book author friends (and I have more than a few) will freely admit off the record: Most business books are lucky if people read more than the first hundred pages. So why write more than a hundred ...
gapingvoid
Thinking The Wrong Things About E-Book Pricing
By terribleminds
E-books. I've seen some pushback — generally very smart pushback — about why publisher e-books cost so much. The answer, in short, is that producing e-books costs more than you think. You're paying for editors and cover design and, of course, for the ... Further cognitive dissonance is born of the fact that smaller producers (smaller publishers or individual authors) can produce a digital version of a book far more cheaply and easily than they can a hardcopy. ... About TheAuthor ...
TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig,...
Barnes and Noble Nook E-Reader Giveaway — Eat, Live, Run
By jenna
Guys….today is a very special day. Remember when I reviewed the book How to Love an American Man on the blog last November? I LOVED that book and have actually re-read it twice since. Since then, the lovely author, Kristine Gasbarre, ...
Eat, Live, Run
Wilbur Smith's 'Courtney' Books Acquired for TV by Corona Pictures ...
By Tim Kenneally
The first three books in Wilbur Smith's best-selling "Courtney" series of novels have been acquired by Corona Pictures for TV adaptation. ... In all, Rhodesian-born author Smith has sold about 130 million copies of his books worldwide. ... Added Jeremy Trevathan, Smith's publisherat Pan Macmillan, "It's terrific to see that the potential for film and TV drama in Wilbur's fiction is being recognized and we're delighted to be working with Corona to bring the Courtney novels to a new ...
TheWrap.com - Entertainment Industry...
Yes, people still read: e-book sales by UK publishers grew 54 ...
Seriously, if it weren't for this marvelous literary development, try saying with a ... Numbers are in from The Publisher's Association -- a group of 120 ... As a sign of changing preferences, the total sales of both e-books and their ... Consumer ebook sales are now equivalent to 6% of consumer physical book sales by value; ...
www.engadget.com/.../e-book-sales-grew-54-percent-in-uk/?...
Huge rise in ebook sales offsets decline in printed titles | Books ...
Ebooks are now equivalent to 6% of physical book sales by value. .... What these figures show is that sales of e-books are up and sales of paper ... They don't show that the e-book sales have been achieved at the expense of ... Apparently 1 in 4 people in the UK own a e-reader (this must in include ipads, ..... Author only ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../rise-ebook-sales-decline-print-titles
10 Ways To Annoy Literary Agents
HuffPost's QuickRead... Loading... HuffPost's QuickRead... Loading... eBooks .... When Arianna asked me to think about a Books section for The Huffington Post, I thought, why a ... Reno Charlton: Indie Publishing: The Way Forward For Authors and Readers ... The alternative is to self-publish you book, short story, nor novel.
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Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Book Publishes Letters Obama ...
Book Publishes Letters Obama Wrote To Girlfriends While At Columbia University : ... In a newbook called Barack Obama: The Story, author David Maraniss ... who was at the time an Occidental University student and literary magazine editor.
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