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NEWS ABOUT: Dan Brown

Dan Brown stories: 10 news summaries

Lost Symbol
Sets Record for Random House

Brown's DaVinci Code sequel has stunning first-week sales of 2M+

Sep 22, 09 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code sequel sold more than 2 million English-language copies in its first week, a Doubleday spokesman tells Publisher’s Weekly, making it the best debut Doubleday—or, for that matter, parent company Random House—has ever had. “The book is exceeding our... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Random House • Dan Brown • publishing industry

Lost Symbol Sets Record in First Day

Da Vinci Code follow-up sells 1M copies in 24 hours

Sep 16, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - To the surprise of exactly no one, Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code follow-up, The Lost Symbol, is a smash hit, selling, between its hardcover and e-book editions, 1 million copies in its first day on the shelves, the New York Times reports. Amazon and Barnes &... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Amazon • book sale • Doubleday • Barnes & Noble • Dan Brown • publishing industry • The Lost Symbol

BOOK REVIEW

Dan Brown Goes to Washington

The master pulls off a DC Da Vinci Code: secrets, conspiracy, plus giant squid

Sep 14, 09 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nobody can pull off Dan Brown's well-worn Da Vinci Code formula for treasure-hunt thrills anymore—except Dan Brown, Janet Maslin writes in the New York Times. Brown's new book The Lost Symbol, hitting bookstores tomorrow, "clicks even if at first it looks dangerously like a clone," packing in... More »

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book reviews • Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • The Lost Symbol

 It's a Busy Fall for Books 

Dave Eggers, Philip Roth, Jon Krakauer have new titles out

Sep 4, 09 1:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hoping to salvage a miserable year, publishers are flooding the fall season with more hot tickets than normal. Some samples, from the Wall Street Journal:
  • Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, Sept. 1: The next in a series from the Da Vinci Code writer.
  • Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist,
... More »

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Jonathan Lethem • Pat Tillman • publishing • Jonathan Safran Foer • Dave Eggers • Vladimir Nabokov • Dan Brown • The Lost Symbol • books • Jon Krakauer • Maurice Sendak

Dan Brown's Next Could Spark 'E-Book Revolution'

Big-selling author could lift e-reader sales

Aug 17, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Brown’s next book has a 6.5 million-copy print run—one of the biggest ever—but the Lost Symbol could mark a new chapter in the digital world, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Da Vinci Code author’s publisher says an e-book version of the novel will be... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • ebooks • e-readers • The Lost Symbol

 Weird Facts About 
 Best-Selling Authors 

Dan Brown, pop musician? And more.

Jun 24, 09 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Summer's here, and that means it's time for beach reading. Mental Floss compiles some surprising facts about the authors most commonly toted along to the shore:
  1. Dan Brown hasn’t spent his whole life pondering Vatican conspiracies: he was also a musician and pop singer. The name of his
... More »

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beach • literature • summer • author • book • John Grisham • Dan Brown • Nicholas Sparks • Danielle Steel • authors • Nora Roberts

MOVIE REVIEW

 Angels & Demons Has Wings  

Da Vinci Code follow-up barrels its way through Dan Brown's brand of hokum

May 15, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons is a fast-paced improvement on its sluggish predecessor, say critics, although filmgoers without a high tolerance for hooey are advised to steer clear.
  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The "ticking-bomb thriller tightly wrapped in a papal plot and cinched with the
... More »

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entertainment • movie review • Tom Hanks • Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • Ron Howard • Angels & Demons • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

Catholics 'Will
Enjoy' Da Vinci
Prequel: Howard

Director defends Angels & Demons from 'smear campaign'

Apr 21, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Howard wants to make something clear: He is not anti-Catholic, and neither is his upcoming film, Angels & Demons. The beleaguered prequel to the similarly controversial Da Vinci Code is under fire from the Catholic League, and Howard responds to the latest “silly and mean-spirited work of propaganda”... More »

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entertainment • film • Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Catholic • Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • Ron Howard • Angels & Demons

(Newser) - The follow-up to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code should finally see the light of day later this year, the New York Observer reports. Publisher Doubleday says The Lost Symbol will hit shelves Sept.15, 4 years after originally hoped. The first print run will be 5 million copies, the... More »

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literature • book • Da Vinci Code • Doubleday • Dan Brown • publishing industry • Sonny Mehta • The Lost Symbol

 Italian Churches Ban
 Da Vinci Code Prequel 

Howard, Hanks shut out of would-be shooting locations

Jun 16, 08 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The diocese of Rome is branching out into film criticism and banning a DaVinci Code prequel from shooting in two of the city's churches because the first movie was “harmful to religious feeling,” the ANSA news agency reports. Like the original, Angels & Demons is directed by Ron... More »

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film • church • Catholicism • Da Vinci Code • production • Dan Brown • Ron Howard

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