Tom Wolfe’s new Miami novel Back to Blood

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This is the official trailer for the upcoming documentary, Tom Wolfe: Blood Lines. The film gets into the minds of one of America's great authors to show how he did his research for his soon-to-be-released novel, Back to Blood.

Local journalist shoots documentary to accompany Tom Wolfe’s new Miami novel - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com "Tom Wolfe’s new Miami novel - American author and journalist Tom Wolfe has spent the better part of six years with his notebook in hand, diving into Miami — literally. At the annual Columbus Day regatta celebration off Elliot Key a few years ago, Wolfe, while standing on a boat, was soaked head to toe after a drunk pirate cannonballed into the water. It’s unclear if Wolfe was wearing his trademark white suit, but the incident is one of his new book’s longest chapters. . . . Wolfe is set to kick off this year’s Miami Book Fair International at 6 p.m. Nov. 11 with “An Evening With Tom Wolfe.” Wolfe’s chat will be followed by an 8 p.m. screening of Corral’s documentary."

Leaks Author Defends Pope's Butler, Seeks Clemency
ABC News
The author of the book of Vatican secrets that earned the pope's former butler an 18-month sentence for stealing private papal correspondence has set out to explain his source's motives and appeal for clemency. Several European newspapers published an ...

Art show, book, posters for Amitabh Bachchan's 70th birthday
Daily News & Analysis
Seventy art works, one inspiration — Amitabh Bachchan. For the megastar's 70th birthday celebrations, leading artists have created their interpretations of the entertainer on the canvas for a special exhibition. A coffee table book on the art works ...

A Google Book Deal Is Good for Everyone—Except Maybe Amazon
Businessweek
Although the Guild says it is still steadfastly opposed to a deal, the agreement with the AAP means that Google might finally be able to move forward with its plan, which stands to make searching for and buying books a lot easier—something that would ...

Books: The Ultimate Vanishing Species
Huffington Post
But the most important reason for not owning physical books is a phenomenon called "Dematerialization." I first came across the topic in a chapter in Peter Diamandis' spellbinding book, Abundance. Diamandis writes that the existence of the multitasking ...

Elie Wiesel's new book, 'Open Heart,' chronicles Madoff wipeout, surviving ...
Plain Dealer (blog)
Books Elie Wiesel Associated PressThis Sept. 12, 2012, photo shows Holocaust activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, 83, in his office in New York. Weisel's latest book is titled, "Open Heart." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews). NEW YORK (AP) ...

Plain Dealer (blog)

Leon Black Buys Art-Book Publisher
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Black, the chief executive of private-equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC, is paying an undisclosed price for Phaidon, a London-based company that publishes about 60 new books a year, including cookbooks, and has a backlist of nearly 1,900 ...

Q-and-A With Marten Weber, Author of Benedetto Casanova and Bodensee
Huffington Post (blog)
These categories were invented by book-sellers so they knew which shelf to put a book on. Authors shouldn't care about them. You'll find that most of my books cross boundaries. I'm working on a crime novel now which will have neither murderers nor ...

ABR author credits failure for success in life (audio interview)
Victoria Advocate
Garth didn't even ask how many books I had, but he must have suspected. .... On Wednesday, the Philadelphia native will give a reading of his new work, "Pym," as part of the University of Houston-Victoria's American Book Review Fall Reading Series.

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Political Books: Goodreads Compares Parties' Literary Tastes
Huffington Post
While Obama fans were three times more likely to read "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen and two times more likely to read "Nickled and Dimed," a nonfiction book about the minimum wage by Barbara Ehrenreich, Romney fans were four times more likely to read ...

Julian Assange to publish book about freedom and the future of the internet
The Guardian
The book, entitled Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, will be published in paperback and electronically on 26 November, the US publisher OR Bookstold the New York Times. Three "cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the frontline ...

The Guardian

Lowry's classic banned book expands into series
Joplin Globe
This year's Banned Book Week wrapped up Saturday, but it's just coincidence that the books I decided to review this week are some that have been on the American Library Association's most-challenged list several times in the past. Libraries worldwide ...

Book Stores in the US - Industry Market Research Report
Sacramento Bee
Companies in this industry retail a broad range of book and newspaper merchandise including tradebooks, textbooks, magazines, paperbacks and religious books. These goods are purchased from domestic (and in some cases international) manufacturers ...

Amazon Map: Red State Books Beat Blue States
NewsMax.com
Amazon has devised an interesting map and list based on the “red” and “blue” books Americans are reading — and plenty of books with a negative view of Barack Obama are found on the list of the 100 top-selling red books. The Amazon Election Heat Map ...

Cassidy author entertains in Craig
Craig Daily Press
A large contingent from Craig and the surrounding area also came to meet and speak with Bill Betenson, a great-grand-nephew to Butch Cassidy and author of the new book, "Butch Cassidy, My Uncle: a Family Portrait." Betenson signed books, did a short ...

The Silent History Is The Best Thing To Happen To E-Books Since Kindle
NYU Local
You might be an e-book agnostic, but please hear us out: there is finally a book that uses the e-reader to its fullest. The Silent History is a new book for iPhone and iPad that justifies itself to the format of e-readers. Offered as an app, it's a ...

Romney scores 'Friday Night Lights' author endorsement
New York Daily News
"Friday Night Lights" author Buzz Bissinger endorsed Mitt Romney on Monday, lending some legitimacy to his campaign's use of the Dillon Panthers' catchphrase. Both presidential campaigns have tried at various times to co-opt the often-quoted pre-game ...

New York Daily News

A conversation with “The Help” author, Kathryn Stockett
Houston Chronicle (blog)
“I always do my interviews while walking,” says the author, catching her breath, “and you're my 30-minute time slot.” Perhaps the ... She famously endured dozens of rejection letters before Amy Einhorn Books (a division of Penguin) agreed to publish ...

Houston Chronicle (blog)

Frankfurt Book Fair: How Can Libraries Use Public Data For Industry Research?
Sacramento Bee
One of the largest online research collections available, ReportLinker offers access to the latest data and statistics on 350 industries and 3,000 sub-industries around the world. ReportLinker also offers specific content on both the publishing and ...

Book posits Obama hopes to fulfill progressive goals in a second term
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
In "Fool Me Twice," journalist Aaron Klein and co-author Brenda J. Elliott give us what they believe is President Barack Obama's agenda for a second term, and according to them, it's going to be a socialist's dream. By showing links between progressive ...

Book Review: Mitch Albom's "The Time Keeper"
Neon Tommy
In bestselling author Mitch Albom's new novel “The Time Keeper,” he dares readers: “Try to imagine a life without timekeeping.” Mitch Albom's latest "The Time Keeper" (Barnes & Noble). “The Time Keeper” attempts to discover what people would change if...

Neon Tommy

I Love Books Bookstore serves a broad range of interests, experiences
Kingsport Times News
Dr. Glen Moody entered the book business in 1967 when he was a junior in high school. Dr. Glen ... Vulnerability is a trait that Dr. Moody has sought to exemplify through operation of his 'day job,' running I Love Books Bookstore in the Kingsport Town ...

Kingsport Times News

Changes for retailers as ebook revolution moves abroad - paidContent
By Laura Hazard Owen
As North American ebook retailers Barnes & Noble and Kobo expand their presence abroad, they are seeing their businesses change. Representatives from both companies spoke about some lessons learned on Monday at the Frankfurt Book ...
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Julian Assange to Publish Book on Internet Freedom
By Anna Heim
Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange is to publish a book called 'Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,' ... The book is scheduled to be released in November by OR Books, which will make it available both as a paperback and as a DRM-free e-book, and is already accepting pre-orders. assange book 520x305 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange set to publish book on Internet freedom. In addition to Assange, the book will be co-penned by three authors: Jacob Applebaum, ...
The Next Web

MVRDV completes Book Mountain and Library Quarter Spijkenisse ...
By Karissa Rosenfield
From underneath the glass dome the library is visible from all sides, especially from the adjacent market square where the library appears as one big book mountain. Underneath its monumental glass envelope damage to the books by ...
ArchDaily

Lena Dunham Book To Random House For Upwards Of $3.5 Million ...
By MIKE FLEMING
RELATED: Lena Dunham Book Bidding At $3.6 Million Random House and Lena Dunham slipped to The New York Times the news that RH is where she will write h. ... audience for this book by the 26-year old talent. She may become the voice of her generation, but right now she seems to have more of a cult than mainstream following, and you have to sell a lot of books to recoup a $3.6 million advance. That must have been some proposal to get so many publishers hot and bothered ...
Deadline.com

Glossy Sensible Software biography book funded on Kickstarter ...
Production of the lovely-looking Sensible Software biography book has been funded on Kickstarter. You'll be able to order yourself a copy on the Read-On…
Eurogamer.net

Lena Dunham Sells Book Proposal to Random House for $3.7 M ...
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
The proposal (obtained by The Observer) for Not That Kind of Girl, mocked up to look like a charmingly vintage advice paperback book that one might find in a thrift shop in an Ohio college town, includes sections on losing her virginity, diet, ...
Observer

Girls' Lena Dunham Sells Book to Random House titled "Not That ...
By Andy Lewis
Lena Dunham Goes Glam on the Cover of ASOS Magazine. Dunham chose Random House after meeting with multiple publishers last week and receiving offers as high as $3.7 million. Details of her deal were not released by Random House.
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How many great books have you actually read? | Talking Philosophy
By James Garvey
(I think of myself as having read Berkeley's Principles, but I really only know the good bit, which is to say the arguments for idealism at the start — God alone knows what's in the second half of thebook.) So give me a number, anonymously if ...
Talking Philosophy

Biggest Book Deals: Lena Dunham In Context
Though most author-publisher deals remain confidential, stories about huge sums paid out for celebrity books occur every few years. They are usually the result ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../biggest-book-deals-lena-dunham...

Lena Dunham signs 7-figure book deal - CBS News
The 26-year-old creator of HBO's "Girls" signed a 7-figure book deal with Random House for a collection of her essays.
www.cbsnews.com/.../lena-dunham-signs-7-figure-book-deal/

Lena Dunham Reportedly Lands $3.7 Million Book Deal - GalleyCat
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is looking for a Editor. next job Diversion Booksis ... Actor ...
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Lena Dunham Signs Book Deal for More Than $3.5 Million
New York Times (blog)
Random House has acquired a book by Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old writer, actor and filmmaker, in one of the most heated auctions of the year. The debut essay collection, “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned,” was hotly ...

Automate This: Book review
ZDNet
"Will we be retired — or unemployed?", speakers sometimes ask at technology conferences that, such as the Singularity Summit, contemplate a future in which artificial intelligences are a lot smarter than we are. In Christopher Steiner's Automate This ...

ZDNet

Books: Global Industry Guide
Sacramento Bee
The global books market grew by 0.6% in 2011 to reach a value of $90,308.9 million. In 2016, the global books market is forecast to have a value of $107,399 million, an increase of 18.9% since 2011. Europe accounts for 35.5% of the global books market ...

Google Books Deal Bolsters Dream of Universal Bookstore
TIME
Google's deal to settle a seven-year conflict with five major publishers over the search giant's book-scanning initiative is a milestone in the publishing industry's grinding transition from print books to e-books. The pact, struck by Google and the ...

TIME

QA: Astronaut Mark Kelly on writing a kids book, missing space, and wife ...
Fox News
And why a children's book, because education is the most important thing I think we do in this country. It touches everything, and to have good books that will interest kids at a young age that they'll read is really important, and kids tend to be ...

Kids' book author Jon Klassen discusses 'This is Not My Hat'
Los Angeles Times
It would be easy to suspect Jon Klassen of having an obsession with hats. The author-illustrator of “I Want My Hat Back” is following up his No. 1 New York Times bestseller about a bear and a thieving rabbit with a second picture book about an animal ...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Book to film
Examiner.com
Advertisement. Today, Hartford Books Examiner takes a look at the book-to-film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Written by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower was initially published in 1999 (with a movie tie-in edition ...

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Book review: A large family faces crises of faith in 'We Sinners'
Los Angeles Times
Hanna Pylväinen's debut novel, "We Sinners," is remarkably funny for a book about a deeply religious family grappling with loss of faith. Pylväinen tells the story — in alternating chapters from the point of view of the parents and several of the nine ...

The Book We're Talking About: 'There Was A Country' By Chinua Achebe
Huffington Post
The Guardian: "In the middle chapters, memoir gives way to largely neutral historical analysis, with Achebe citing a range of voices, media reports and books." Impress your friends: Achebe writes frequently about the Nigerian Igbo people, a fragmented ...

Julian Assange Has Book Deal
New York Times
The publisher OR Books announced on Sunday that it had acquired “Cypherpunks,” a new bookabout freedom and the Internet by Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Mr. Assange, who was granted asylum at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in ...

Book review: 'The Paternity Test' by Michael Lowenthal
Boston.com
As debates about gay marriage continue to rage, Michael Lowenthal, a creative-writing instructor and author of the acclaimed 2007 novel “Charity Girl,'' enters the ring with a focused, mostly poignant examination of a gay couple's struggle to father a ...

Book Readings: It's Not About 'Doing The Voices'
Forbes
Last week I did my first book reading at the Brixton Book Jam, a quarterly event for local (-ish) writers. Despite the fact that I do a lot of a public speaking, I was utterly terrified, but once I got over that, I found there was a lot to learn from ...

Forbes

Gucci owner PPR to get out of books business
Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - France's PPR plans to sell its declining Fnac music and book retailer, a source familiar with the matter said, to focus on its more profitable luxury and sports brands such as Gucci and Puma. The board is due to meet on Tuesday to ...

Exclusive Book Excerpt: Peter Criss, 'Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of ...
RollingStone.com
Rock & roll excess has always been a rather large part of the Kiss package, but never before have we heard the details quite to this extent. These exclusive excerpts from Peter Criss' autobiography begin with the drummer shoving the barrel of a .357 ...

RollingStone.com

Book, Magazine and Periodical Printing in China
Sacramento Bee
Book, Magazine and Periodical Printing in China. The Book, Magazine, and Periodical Printing industry in China prints books, newspapers, periodicals, calendars, pictures, maps and other publications. Binding, record and digital medium reproduction are ...

Book News: Traditional Stories, Modern Librarians : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
A report from the National Storytelling Festival. A short history of your keyboard's escape key: a comforting “get-me-the-hell-out-of-here key” and our first line of defense against the Singularity. Nathan O. Marsh's twisted ABC primer, “Alphabet ...
Page-Turner

Goosebumps Author R.L. Stine On Adult Book, Where He Likes To ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
"Where I Like To Read" is a series of short author interviews and blog posts in which writers share their literary tastes and their favorite places to curl up with a good book. R.L. Stine, the ... The Internet Newspaper: News, Blogs, Video, Community . Edition: U.S. .... Many books taught in American literature classes focus on our country's social injustices, and offer little outside perspective, so Gordimer's work predicting the end of apartheid would accompany Civil War readings very well.
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It's a Boy Girl Thing: Latvian books suggest gender switch games for ...
By RT
Children's books about sexual equality have provoked heated debate in Latvia. In an effort to break stereotypes about kids' patterns of behavior, it has been suggested that girls and boys switch bodies.
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Here Comes Apple's Smaller iPad | TeleRead: News and views on e ...
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