This Week in the News

From New York Times Best Seller List:

Hardcover Fiction 

1. The Associate, by John Grisham
2. Run for Your Life, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
3. Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, Book 4), by Patricia Briggs
4. The Host: A Novel, by Stephenie Meyer
5. True Colors, by Kristin Hannah

Hardcover Non-Fiction

1. The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
2. Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
3. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
4. A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media, by Bernard Goldberg
5. Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets, by Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson

Literary News Stories

Publisher Alfred Knopf Jr. dies at age 90
AP - Mon Feb 16, 2:48 PM ET
NEW YORK - Alfred A. Knopf Jr., son of publishing legends and an influential publisher in his own right, died Saturday. He was 90.

British author says she is banned from Dubai event
AP - Mon Feb 16, 1:56 PM ET
LONDON - A British author said Monday she has been banned from a Dubai literary festival because her forthcoming novel contains references to homosexuality.

Geraldine Bedell, a journalist for the Observer newspaper and the author of several previous novels, said organizers had been discussing launching her book, "The Gulf Between Us," which is set in the Gulf, at the festival.

But she claims festival director Isobel Abulhoul later wrote to her publishers, saying: "I don't want our festival remembered for the launch of a controversial book."

"The Gulf Between Us" is scheduled to be published by Penguin in April.

Speed it up! A-Rod book out sooner than planned
AP - Fri Feb 13, 12:34 PM ET
NEW YORK - An unauthorized and highly anticipated book about Alex Rodriguez is coming out a month sooner than planned.

Publication of Selena Roberts' "A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez" has been moved up from May 19 to April 14 as scrutiny builds on the New York Yankees slugger after he acknowledged using banned substances from 2001-2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers.

"Da Vinci Code" author sees secret revealed
Reuters - Fri Feb 13, 3:02 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown has made a living unraveling secrets, but on Thursday one of his own secrets was revealed by a close collaborator, who said the writer's next book is finished.

But late in the day, a spokeswoman for Brown's publisher Doubleday, would say only that Brown "is making great progress," stopping short of a full confirmation or denial.

"We do not yet have a title or publication date to share," added spokeswoman Suzanne Herz. Doubleday is a unit of Bertelsmann AG.

Hemingway letters shed new light
AFP - Wed Feb 11, 3:04 PM ET
HAVANA (AFP) - Thousands of letters by American author Ernest Hemingway containing intimate details of his life are shedding new light on the writer, Cuban researchers said in a media report Wednesday.

"There are lots of intimacies in these letters," researcher Rosalba Diaz told the daily Juventud Rebelde, saying she had been impressed by how many letters had been found which "break with his image of being a wild man."

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