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INTIMACY
OF INK: Bibliophiles - fear not the electronic book - for
its wonders transcend the printed page. Intellectual
Capital 10/29/99
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BOOKER
BICKER: The usual publishers' rows, sponsor complaints and
judges' griping behind England's top literary prize. Salon
10/28/99
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WHAT
POETRY TEACHES US about ourselves. Reflections on the national
psyche and history by poet laureate Robert Pinsky. The
Atlantic 11/99
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A
DEAL FOR FIVE NEW RUSHDIE books - four new novels and a
collection of essays. Publisher's
Weekly 10/26/99
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SOUTH
AFRICAN is first writer to win Booker Prize for fiction
twice. JM Coetzee won for his novel "Disgrace" - previously
won in 1983 for "The Life and Times of Michael K."
BBC 10/26/99
AND: More
on Coetzee. London
Telegraph
AND: Washington
Post account, New
York Times report
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FINALISTS
for this year's Turner Prize are announced in London. Winner
to be announced November 30. ARTNewspaper.com
10/21/99
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BACKLIST
LIFELINE: Selling new books is where the glamour (and much
of the money) is. But for independent bookstores, publishing's
backlists are the main course. Publisher's
Weekly 10/21/99
AND: New
book chronicles the personal ups and downs of running an independent
store. Seattle
Times 10/21/99
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PIGGING
OUT ON LIT CRIT: Never have there been so many books and
so many things written about them in so many places. And literary
reviews have probably never mattered less. Has American literary
criticism burned itself out? Village
Voice 10/21/99
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JAPAN
BAN: Japanese publisher says it will appeal the government
ban of a book documenting with letters the homosexual love life
of well-known writer Yukio Mishima, who died in 1970. CBC
10/21/99
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E-MEDIA:
Internet media are exploding, and stories in traditional media
about dot-coms are as hot as the tech IPO's. What's behind the
hype? Washington
Post 10/21/99
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CANADIAN
LITERARY PRIZES: How is it that the lists for Canada's top
two literary prizes are so stunningly different? National
Post 10/20/99
AND: Small
presses triumph in Governor General's list. Toronto
Globe and Mail 10/20/99
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THE
LAST EDITOR: Robert Gottlieb was the last real editor at
the New Yorker. The wreckage of "Talk" magazine underlines
the real failures of the Tina Brown years at the venerable literary
mag. Boston Globe 10/20/99
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TRUE
ALTERNATIVE: With the Village Voice empire up for sale, New
York Magazine media critic Michael Wolff wonders what's so alternative
about alternative weeklies - and offers a plan to go head-to-head
with the New York Times. New
York Magazine 10/19/99
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TALKING
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Can new voice recognition software
make a great writer out of a great talker? It's a little more
complicated than that. LA
Weekly 10/15-21/99
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WRITING
AND TALKING: Two very different things. But in this age of the
book tour and chat shows, writers must learn both. Did anyone
ever ask Proust to talk about his work? Toronto
Globe and Mail 10/18/99
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IN
EUROPE - CLASSIC BOOKS BY THE POUND: Publisher still makes
money selling the classics at rock-bottom prices. Washington
Post 10/18/99
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PUBLISHER
MAKES TYPO: now five of its major authors aren't eligible
for Canadian literary honors. CBC
10/15/99
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BUZZ
OFF: Now the buzz has died down, a growing consensus says Tina's
lost it. Tina Brown doesn't have enough money to smooth over
the problems at "Talk." New
York Observer 10/14/
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CONVERGENCE:
It's not about the Web; it's not about print; it's about publishing."
Publishers finally start to get it.
Publisher's Weekly 10/14/99
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GERMAN
PUBLISHER WITHDRAWS HOLOCAUST MEMOIR: Historian's
report concludes author wasn't a Jewish orphan but a Swiss-born
child named Bruno Doessekker. New
York Times 10/14/99
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NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD nominees announced. Looking past the big
names. (AP)
Dallas Morning News 10/14/99
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CANADIAN
ARCHEOLOGIST couldn't get job as archeologist, writes book,
gets positive reader reviews on the internet and lands $1.5
million 10-year book contract. "Terrific" he says.
CBC 10/13/99
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DUTCH
TREAT: George Will called it "dishonorable." Peggy
Noonan decried it as a "waste." Nonetheless, Edmund
Morris' Reagan bio has hit the Best-seller charts (and it's
No.1 inside the Beltway) Philadelphia
Inquirer 10/13/99
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SUSHI
IN NEBRASKA: Americans have bought the idea of the world-wide
economy, their tastes becoming more international, except -publishers
say - when it comes to fiction.
Christian Science Monitor 10/13/199
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY'S NEW EDITOR: "No literary background,
a volcanic temperament and a history of colossal bad judgment."
Be afraid. The
Nation 10/25/99
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SAUL
BELLOW WONDERS how many true lovers of literature there
are in the day of movies and high technology.
New York Times 10/11/99
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MICHAEL
KELLY has taken pains to reassure readers that The Atlantic
magazine won't change much under his charge. A few changes
might be welcome, writes one critic. Feed
10/7/99
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REVISITING
GUNTER: In the week since he won the Nobel Prize for literature,
Critics have been reassessing the writings of Gunter Grass.
Slate 10/8/99
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BOOKS
ARE BOOMING: Sales for the four largest bookstore chains
are up 10 percent in the first half of the year. Superstores
up 13 percent.
Publisher's Weekly 10/5/99
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ONE
GOOD BOOK: A tough year for fiction in Canada. Finalists
for Canada's top literary award, the Giller Prize, are announced.
It's a difficult choice, says a judge - "In Canada, I would
say it's almost enough to read just one good novel a year."
National Post 10/5/99
ALSO: "A
predictable exercise"
CBC 10/5/99
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DOUBLE
DUTCH: A big wave of reviews about Edmund Morris' controversial
new Reagan biography hits shore this morning. A sampling: New
York Times, Morris defends himself in the Boston
Globe, Imagining Reagan in the San
Francisco Chronicle. A dud in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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BUZZ
OR BUST: Early reviews of Edmund Morris' Reagan book have
been devastating. With so much buzz it'll either be a mega-hit
or on the remainder tables by Christmas. Washington
Post 10/4/99
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THE
FUTURE OF FICTION: A blue-ribbon panel debates the future
of writing. Philadelphia
Inquirer 10/3/99
