Notes and Deals I’m not sure why, but today’s dispatch has shaped up as a special catfight edition. The NY Post puts Peter Richmond’s “substantial” deal for a Peggy Lee bio that we posted yesterday at $200,000 — as new deal reports swell with everything from the US version of the controversial Why People Do Hate America to a successful young French novelist, a major fiction deal for a writer born and raised in Afghanistan, Jeff Frank’s latest, a deal for a Clancy co-author, the mysteries of the western locust, the dramatic tale of tracking down diamonds confiscated from Jews […]