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Theroux takes a turn at fiction with `Dead Hand’
“A Dead Hand” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 279 pages, $26), by Paul Theroux: Instead of exploring an exotic landscape, Paul Theroux, who is known for his travel books, explores the strange world of human emotions in “A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta.” Full Story;
Streisand scheduled to appear at BookExpo America
NEW YORK – Barbra Streisand will appear at the opening-night keynote reception for BookExpo America to promote “My Passion for Design.” Full Story;
Philadelphia publisher's lenders appeal bid ruling
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Lenders to the bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers LLC have appealed a court decision preventing them from bidding what they are owed in an auction of the publisher's business. Full Story;
Book asks who's greater, Michelangelo or Leonardo?
LONDON (Reuters) – A new book focuses on a 16th century competition that set out to discover who was the better artist — Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci, and says the outcome profoundly influenced the Renaissance titans' legacies. Full Story;
Bio of NBA’s Jerry West informs but doesn’t excite
“Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon” (Ballantine/ESPN Books, 448 pages, $28), by Roland Lazenby: It’s a little hard to be happy for Jerry West when the basketball legend has never seemed happy himself. Full Story;
Review: Grief goes by the book in `The Greatest’
If you caught Miley Cyrus’ “The Last Song” and you still have not cried your eyes dry, the see-how-we-mourn melodrama “The Greatest” might serve to wring out the last of your tears. Full Story;
History of school reform offers glimmers of hope
“Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning” (Belknap Press, 336 pages, $25.95) by Paul E. Peterson: Education reformers have left the essential teacher-pupil relationship untouched for more than a century, fighting instead for changes outside the classroom: desegregation, teacher pay hikes, funding equality, increased testing, vouchers and changes in curriculum. Full Story;
Min spins fictional account of Buck’s early life
“Pearl of China” (Bloomsbury USA, 288 pages, $24), by Anchee Min: Pearl S. Buck was an intensely prolific author, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for her 1931 novel, “The Good Earth,” and the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Her tales of peasant life in China, where she was raised by missionary parents, provided intimate glimpses into a world then unknown to most Westerners. Full Story;
Sarkozy Sr.’s tell-all book counters critics
PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s father, a self-confessed bon vivant and womanizer, said he is setting the record on his life straight in an autobiography written above all for his children, and meant to counter claims he was a bad father. Full Story;
Author Stephenie Meyer to release “Eclipse” novella
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Author Stephenie Meyer of the hugely successful “Twilight” teen vampire romance series will release her first new title in two years stemming from a character from her “Eclipse” novel. Full Story;
Mystery thriller puts female spin on voyeurism
HONG KONG (Hollywood Reporter) – Through its two protagonists — a photographer and a novelist who become inordinately curious about an illicit affair in their Taipei neighborhood — “Zoom Hunting” explores voyeurism with echoes of “Rear Window” and “Blow Up.” Full Story;
New Zealand's C.K. Stead wins short story award
LONDON (Reuters) – New Zealand writer Christian Karlson Stead has won the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank short story award, competition organizers said on Friday. Full Story;
New Zealand writer wins British short story prize
LONDON – New Zealand poet and novelist CK Stead was awarded a 25,000 ($37,250) prize for a short story Friday. Full Story;
Crocheting beats the Reich for odd title prize
LONDON (Reuters) – Defying grim predictions that the economic downturn would clobber specialist books, the annual contest for oddest title has had a bumper year, with the 2009 winner being named on Friday as “Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes.” Full Story;
Four dead authors on shortlist for lost “Booker”
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Four dead authors have made a shortlist of six writers whose books are being considered for a “lost” Booker Prize that dates back 40 years. Full Story;
Russia bans Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia has added Adolf Hitler's autobiography “Mein Kampf” to a list of books that are banned for their extremist content, Russian prosecutors said on Friday. Full Story;
JFK Library to show Salinger letter to Hemingway
BOSTON – It was the summer of 1946 when a young and war-fatigued J.D. Salinger reached out to another writer whose career had also been shaped by war, a writer he had arranged to meet while both had been in Europe. Full Story;
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