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  • June 2008

    • 'Realish' Sedaris Book Skirts Memoir Scrutiny

      New York Times  |  Jun 8, 08 10:45 AM CDT

      'Realish' Sedaris Book Skirts Memoir Scrutiny

      (Newser) - With his new book of nonfiction essays, Engulfed in Flames , David Sedaris finds himself engulfed in questions of truth and accuracy. In America, the recent explosion of memoirs has been followed with one scandal after another, prompting more scrutiny of the humorist’s work. “I do think Sedaris exaggerates too much for a writer using a nonfiction label," a New Republic writer argued last year. More »

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      book  • literature  • memoir  • humor  • writer  • nonfiction books  • fake memoirs

    • Top 10 Summer Cookbooks

      NPR  |  Jun 5, 08 11:44 AM CDT

      Top 10 Summer Cookbooks

      (Newser) - Summer cooking should combine those elements we love most about the season: fresh fruits and vegetables, bright colors, arresting aromas, and the great outdoors. So NPR selected the 10 best cookbooks for jumping out of the frying pan and into the garden: Simply Organic: A Cookbook for Sustainable, Seasonal, and Local Ingredients : Organic creations to complement eight distinct seasons. More »

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      list  • book  • cooking  • summer  • book reviews  • fruits and vegetables  • cookbooks

  • May 2008

    • Bush Mob Sets Its Sights on McClellan

      New York Daily News  |  May 30, 08 3:55 PM CDT

      Bush Mob Sets Its Sights on McClellan

      (Newser) - The Bush administration's reaction to Scott McClellan's new book should look familiar to anyone with HBO, with one important difference, writes Mike Lupica in the Daily News. "it has become clear by now that even the hoods from The Sopranos would be out of their weight class with George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove." More »

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      Bush administration  • White House  • book  • propaganda  • Scott McClellan

    • McClellan: I Believed Bush

      Politico  |  May 29, 08 9:16 AM CDT

      McClellan: I Believed Bush

      (Newser) - Affection and loyalty blinded Scott McClellan in the run-up to the Iraq war, but now the former press secretary has found a higher allegiance—“a loyalty to the truth.” McClellan, whose book is causing a media storm for alleging President Bush ran a “propaganda” campaign about the war, defended his work this morning on NBC's Today . More »

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      Iraq war  • Bush administration  • White House  • book  • propaganda  • Scott McClellan  • press secretary

    • 10 Easy Breezy Summer Reads

      MSNBC  |  May 28, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      10 Easy Breezy Summer Reads

      (Newser) - The perfect summer read is like a breathmint: light, refreshing, and available for purchase at the airport. Cosmopolitan book editor John Searles dishes his top 10 titles  of the season to MSNBC. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein: a family tell-all—from the dog’s POV The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer: a woman learns dark secrets about her husband More »

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      book  • reading  • summer  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    • Salon 's Favorite Thrillers

      Salon  |  May 26, 08 6:09 PM CDT

      Salon 's Favorite Thrillers

      (Newser) - Memorial Day means beaches, languid hours, and a page-turner within reach—so Salon has collared the season's best thrillers. This year's lineup includes: An art forger who gets in too deep; a Stalinist official who tries to do good; and a college prof who needs help solving an imaginary murder. Let's dive in! More »

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      list  • book  • book reviews  • novel  • thriller  • crime novel

    • Harding Skates Back Into Spotlight

      Newsweek  |  May 23, 08 5:20 PM CDT

      Harding Skates Back Into Spotlight

      (Newser) - What read like a closed book in 1994 is falling open in a Tonya Harding tell-all, reports Newsweek in an interview with the fallen figure skater. The Tonya Tapes argues that Harding wasn't just uninvolved in Nancy Kerrigan's knee-whacking—she planned to rat out her ex-husband to the FBI until he intervened, backed by two enforcers and a gun. More »

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      crime  • book  • Olympic Games  • figure skating  • innocent  • Nancy Kerrigan  • Tonya Harding

    • Book Giant Weighs Bid for Chief Rival

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 21, 08 2:36 AM CDT

      Book Giant Weighs Bid for Chief Rival

      (Newser) - Barnes & Noble is mulling a possible bid for its nearest rival, Borders, reports the Wall Street Journal . America's biggest book chain, with 22% of the market, has assembled a team of 30 executives and experts to study a takeover of the second biggest, with 12% of the market. Such a takeover would likely raise anti-trust issues. More »

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      book  • publishing  • Amazon  • Borders  • Barnes & Noble  • Leonard Riggio

    • Baba Wawa Flies High on Book Tour

      New York Daily News  |  May 6, 08 10:58 AM CDT

      Baba Wawa Flies High on Book Tour

      (Newser) - Barbara Walters is footing the bill so she can travel in style during her 25-city book tour, the Daily News reports. The 78-year-old, who received a $3 million advance for her memoir Audition, will not only pony up for private jet trips, she'll also bring along her hair and makeup artists from The View. More »

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      book  • memoir  • Barbara Walters  • private jet

    • Random House Closes the Book on CEO

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 6, 08 2:57 AM CDT

      Random House Closes the Book on CEO

      (Newser) - Random House chief executive Peter Olson is expected to step down within weeks amid slumping profits and pressure from the company's German owners, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bertelsmann's new boss is dissatisfied with Random House's recent performance and insiders say doubts arose over Olson's strategies and his ability to turn the publishing company around, especially after some recent bouts of illness. He has run the company since Bertelsmann took over ten years ago. More »

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      book  • publishing  • publisher  • Random House  • Bertelsmann AG

    • Don't Get Comfy, Harry Potter

      Washington Post  |  May 5, 08 4:27 PM CDT

      Don't Get Comfy, Harry Potter

      (Newser) - Both are fantasists who've sold zillions of books, but in a recent poll of American children, the classic wins out: Dr. Seuss' works are more popular than JK Rowling's. Three million-plus kids weighed in on an educational software company's website, and Rowling's Harry Potter books trail works by EB White, Judy Blume, and Harper Lee, among others, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      children  • book  • Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • reading  • Dr. Seuss  • Harper Lee

    • Top Book-to-Movie Misfires

      Entertainment Weekly  |  May 4, 08 11:18 AM CDT

      Top Book-to-Movie Misfires

      (Newser) - With warm weather comes the usual wave of summer blockbusters, but sometimes the best story is buried in a book. Entertainment Weekly lists 23 disappointing adaptations, including: The Da Vinci Code : An utter lack of chemistry between Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou and an uber-creepy Silas (Paul Bettany) made this sure thing a misfire. More »

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      list  • movie  • Hollywood  • book  • movie remakes  • Da Vinci Code  • The Golden Compass  • Memoirs of a Geisha

  • April 2008

    • 50 Favorite Cult Books

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 27, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      50 Favorite Cult Books

      (Newser) - It’s hard to define the "cult" book, but the Telegraph compiled 50 of the top contenders that “rewire your head.” The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968) Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) More »

    • Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 27, 08 5:52 AM CDT

      Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      (Newser) - One of Norman Mailer’s mistresses suspected the writer of having a gay affair—or perhaps several, reports the Times of London. Mailer also asked lover Carole Mallory to have three-way sex with a gay man, according to her notes in archives recently purchased by Harvard University. One of the men Mallory suspected of being romantically linked to Mailer, close friend Rick Stratton, said there was “no truth to” speculation that the writer had gay affairs. More »

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      book  • affair  • author  • Norman Mailer  • homosexual  • Carole Mallory

    • Spitzer Tell-All On Market for $350K

      New York Daily News  |  Apr 25, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      Spitzer Tell-All On Market for $350K

      (Newser) - The bidding for a tell-all on former New York governor Eliot Spitzer begins at $350,000, the Daily News reports, though publishers don't appear certain of a big market for such a book. An agent for Peter Elkind, a Fortune writer and co-author of an Enron tome, said she expects a deal to be done today. More »

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      book  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • prostitute  • celebrity tell-alls

    • Wikipedia Goes to Print —in German

      Associated Press  |  Apr 24, 08 4:55 PM CDT

      Wikipedia Goes to Print &mdash;in German

      (Newser) - Wikipedia will soon hit bookshelves, the AP reports: German giant Bertelsmann AG is publishing a condensed print edition of the user-generated encyclopedia. The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia will contain 50,000 of the most-searched-for German entries this year—and it could be the first in an annual series. “A yearbook really can be a documentation of the zeitgeist,” said a publishing exec. More »

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      Internet  • Germany  • book  • Wikipedia  • encyclopedia  • Bertelsmann AG

    • Cracking the Steve Jobs Code

      USA Today  |  Apr 21, 08 6:39 AM CDT

      Cracking the Steve Jobs Code

      (Newser) - Though it’s near impossible to get an interview with Steve Jobs, author Leander Kahney’s book Inside Steve’s Brain gives a “fresh, noble perspective” on the Apple icon’s impenetrable mind, Jon Swartz writes in USA Today . Like most who try, Kahney couldn’t score facetime, but his book illustrates the opposing traits that make his subject—equal parts Disney and Barnum—who he is. More »

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      Apple  • book  • iPod  • Steve Jobs  • book reviews  • biography  • Pixar

    • Obama Earns $3.9M in Royalties

      USA Today  |  Apr 16, 08 10:08 PM CDT

      Obama Earns $3.9M in Royalties

      (Newser) - Barack and Michelle Obama earned $4.2 million last year, mostly from royalties from Obama's two books, Dreams From My Father and the Audacity of Hope . The Obamas' newly released returns for 2007 show they paid $1.4 million in federal taxes and gave $240,370 to charity, USA Today notes. His book sales have skyrocketed since he became a national figure. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • book  • Michelle Obama  • IRS  • tax returns  • federal income tax  • royalties

    • Politicians: They're All Crazy

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 15, 08 3:56 PM CDT

      Politicians: They're All Crazy

      (Newser) - It’s no wonder George W. Bush and Tony Blair messed up in Iraq: They were crazy. At least that’s ex-British politician David Owen’s belief. In his new book, In Sickness and in Power , the ex-doctor explores the health of leaders throughout time. Bush and Blair were afflicted with “Hubris Syndrome,” a medical condition Owen invented to describe the power-mad. More »

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      George W. Bush  • book  • Tony Blair  • John F. Kennedy  • mental illness  • book reviews  • leadership

    • How to Write 200,000 Books Without Breaking a Sweat

      New York Times  |  Apr 14, 08 11:34 AM CDT

      How to Write 200,000 Books Without Breaking a Sweat

      (Newser) - Philip Parker calls himself “the most published author in the history of the planet,” but he doesn’t actually write any books; his computers do. Parker has created a series of algorithms that allow computers to cull publicly available information from the web and compile it into books on obscure topics, the New York Times reports. Need The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs ? Parker has you covered. More »

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