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Two More Crichton Novels to Be Released

Late author left behind pirate yarn, and part of techno-thriller

Apr 6, 09 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Crichton fans will have at least two posthumous releases to look forward to, the New York Times reports. The late author left behind a completed 17th-century adventure yarn called Pirate Latitudes that publisher HarperCollins plans to release this November, and the company is seeking an author to finish a... More »

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publishing • author • HarperCollins • Michael Crichton

 García Márquez 
 Finished With 
 Writing: Agent 

Giant of Latin American literature's oeuvre is complete

Apr 2, 09 12:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world has probably already seen the complete work of Gabriel García Márquez, the Guardian reports. Friend and fellow author Plinion Apuleyo Mendoza said last year that the creator of magical realism was working on a new novel, but his agent recently quashed that rumor. "I don't... More »

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Latin America • Colombia • literature • author • novel • book • Nobel Prize for Literature • Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(Newser) - David Foster Wallace declared war on depression and addiction in writing his last, unfinished novel, D. T. Max writes in the New Yorker. The writer's suicide by hanging last year was the culmination of a struggle to live normally, to achieve what he called “adult sanity," without... More »

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suicide • fiction • literature • author • novel • book • David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest

New Yorker to Run Excerpt
of Wallace's Last Book

In Pale King, deceased writer 'didn't want to do the old tricks'

Mar 1, 09 4:43 PM CST
(Newser) - David Foster Wallace fans can get a glimpse of the deceased writer’s unfinished novel tomorrow, when the New Yorker publishes an excerpt from The Pale King, the Washington Post reports. Wallace, who killed himself last fall, had been working on the book for years. The magazine will also run... More »

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suicide • New Yorker magazine • author • writer • novel • book • David Foster Wallace

 Slate Scribe 
 Gets in Syrian 
 Street Brawl 

Hitchens, two others jumped during junket

Feb 19, 09 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Three journalists—including columnist and author Christopher Hitchens—were jumped by thugs during a press junket in Beirut, reports Lawrence Osborne in a column for Forbes. Hitchens “rather gallantly insulted the swastika flag” of a “Syria-loving skinhead party called the SSNP” by scrawling an obscenity on it. He... More »

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Lebanon • Syria • Christopher Hitchens • Vanity Fair • Beirut • author • assault • ethnic violence • swastikas • Bill Maher Grid

Grisham Shelves His Opposition
to E-Books 

Author nears deal to offer 22 bestsellers for Kindle, other readers

Feb 11, 09 7:41 AM CST
(Newser) - One of publishing's last major holdouts has decided it's time to kill his opposition to e-books, reports the Wall Street Journal. John Grisham is close to finalizing a deal that would make all of his 22 bestsellers—including new legal thriller The Associate—available for Amazon's Kindle reader and all... More »

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publishing • author • book • Kindle • John Grisham • Random House • ebooks

APPRECIATION

 Updike: An Author 
 'Hoping to Talk to America' 

Superlatives hardly lacking in wake of writer's death at 76

Jan 27, 09 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - John Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe, calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times, the first line of his story A&P displays a “... More »

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obituary • literature • novelist • author • novel • Ted Williams • John Updike • sports writer

Virginia Woolf Gets Silly in 'New' Play

Off-Broadway troupe revives author's one satirical work

Jan 25, 09 8:03 PM CST
(Newser) - A satirical play by Virginia Woolf received its professional premiere today in New York, NPR reports. Featuring figures like poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and painter George Frederic Watts, Freshwater lampoons "high-falutin', oldish, long-bearded Victorians," the play's producer said. Woolf wrote the hour-long farce as a fun project for... More »

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theater • New York City • Broadway • play • author • Britain • Virginia Woolf

OPINION

 Writers Hail 
 Message From 
 a 'Prince' 

Inaugural address praised as masterful use of language

Jan 21, 09 4:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's inaugural address showed a literary mastery of language, assorted authors tell the Los Angeles Times. The president's plain speaking and restraint is commended, along with his use of "we" instead of "I." Author Ted Wilmer hails the president's use of "tight language, short sentences... More »

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Barack Obama • writing • Malcolm Gladwell • author • speech • inauguration • President Obama • Inauguration Day

Vonnegut Protégé Will Share His Wisdom

Ex-lover plans volume of late writer's letters

Jan 14, 09 8:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Aspiring novelists, Kurt Vonnegut has some advice for you: “Write a play.” It’s easier. That, and other nuggets of wisdom, will be available for the first time when Vonnegut’s private correspondence with one of his students is published in April, the New York Post reports. Loree... More »

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Kurt Vonnegut • letters • affair • author • book • correspondence • Loree Rackstraw

 Final Chapter for 
 Mystery Writer 
 Westlake 

Donald E. Westlake dies of heart attack

Jan 2, 09 3:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Prolific mystery writer Donald E. Westlake, who wrote hundreds of novels, stories and screenplays under his own name and a posse of pseudonyms, died from a heart attack on New Year's Eve while vacationing in Mexico. He was 75. One of his characters, downsized executive turned killer Burke Devore, stands... More »

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Academy Awards • Mexico • heart attack • author • Donald E. Westlake • Grand Central Publishing • Burke Devore • The Ax • The Grifters

Still Searching for JD Salinger

As the reclusive author turns 90, we're left to wonder who he was; will he publish again?

Dec 31, 08 10:52 AM CST
(Newser) - JD Salinger turns 90 tomorrow, but the milestone brings no new clarity to the life of the mysterious recluse, who has maintained four decades of closely-guarded silence. The New York Times does some close reading of the literary icon's work in a search for clues. The most critical questions: Has... More »

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literature • birthday • author • The Catcher in the Rye • JD Salinger

 Meyer: the New JK Rowling  

Vampire author gaining on Rowling's popularity

Nov 28, 08 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Have we finally found the next JK Rowling? Even Brits are starting to admit Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer is coming close, the Daily Telegraph reports. The 34-year-old Mormon author of a series of swoon-worthy novels about teen vampires has a similar “out of nowhere” story, and her book and... More »

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Harry Potter • JK Rowling • author • book • vampire • Twilight • Stephenie Meyer

Houghton Mifflin Stops Accepting Manuscripts

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt puts freeze on new books amid slowdown in sales

Nov 25, 08 3:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has asked its editors to stop buying books, Publishers Weekly reports. The publisher already has plenty of works in the pipeline and the freeze is only temporary, according to executives, who offered no indication when it might be lifted. Still, it unsettled literary agents, who say they've... More »

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publishing • publisher • author • book • publishing industry

Lewis Carroll Letter Points to Pedophile Leanings

Writes real Alice of his fondness for children

Nov 20, 08 4:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Alice in Wonderland's author is sending a message from the grave to the literary experts who have long wondered whether he was a pedophile. A privately held letter has emerged in which Lewis Carroll tells real-life Alice—a child friend 18 years his junior—about his fondness for kids and... More »

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children • pedophile • author • children's books • Lewis Carroll • Alice in Wonderland

 Gladwell 
 on Success: 
 It's About Luck 

Journalist-guru's latest book is 'closest to his heart'

Nov 10, 08 1:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Journalist and pop guru Malcolm Gladwell brings other people's big ideas to the masses, and in that way, “I’m a parasite,” he says. In his new book, the author takes modesty to a new level, crediting his success—which, by the way, manifests itself in a $4... More »

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Malcolm Gladwell • author • book • intellectual • success

appreciation

 Crichton Was Master Craftsman 


Nov 5, 08 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Michael Crichton's seemingly endless output may not be literature (a statement the late Crichton himself might take issue with), but don't discount the "fine craftsmanship" they entailed, writes Charles McGrath in the New York Times. From Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park, his "intricately engineered entertainment systems" relied on... More »

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obituary • author • book • science fiction • Michael Crichton

 Chicago Mourns Studs Terkel 

Author, oral historian, and firebrand leftist will be sorely missed

Nov 1, 08 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago has lost its finest citizen with the death of Studs Terkel, Roger Ebert writes in his Chicago Sun-Times blog. The author "represented the joyous, scrappy, liberal, generous, wise-cracking heart of this city," Ebert writes, and chronicled the lives of countless Chicagoans. “He was the most widely... More »

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Chicago • death • author • Roger Ebert • Studs Terkel

Mohammad Child Bride Book Hits US Early

Publisher moves up release date after London firebombing

Oct 7, 08 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A controversial novel tracing the life of the Prophet Mohammed's child bride has been rushed out early by its US publisher, Reuters reports. The Jewel of Medina's British release was suspended after its London publisher's headquarters was firebombed. Beaufort Books—which took the project after Random House dropped it amid... More »

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Islam • extremists • Mohammed • author • Beaufort Books • Prophet Mohammed

(Newser) - Nicholas Sparks may run low on creative gas, but that only lasts for a minute or two. The multimillionaire author of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe works out for nearly 3 hours a day before writing 2,000 words and coaching track at his son's school. ''I'm efficient,"... More »

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novelist • author • writer • Nicholas Sparks

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