Archives for December 2002

More brief updates and distractions. Happy New Year!: Pope John Paul’s THE ROME TRIPTYCH, the Meditations of John Paul II, written over the last several months, will be published shortly. The Church says it’s “A poetic meditation about themes of finality, a last will of sorts. The pope will discuss the choice of his successor, […]

Not a full meal, but here are some links and bits if you’re interested: * Clint Eastwood filed a $10 million libel lawsuit against Patrick McGilligan and St. Martin’s Press over the unauthorized book CLINT: The Life of a Legend, published here in August after a number of years in print in the UK. Reuters […]

Holiday Schedule I’m honestly not certain what the holiday Lunch schedule will be. I’m away from most of next week, so there will definitely be no regular Lunch next week. There will be a Weekly Lunch to catch up on deals at some point during the week, with timing dependent on my web access and […]

The Latest Even as people are getting ready for the holidays we have some very interesting new reports: two well-known book world folks join a business trainer in a big book about how to perfect your “pitch” for everything in life; UK hit authors sign for three more books; a Spanish-language bestselling author’s first US […]

The Latest More interesting reports as usual, including a New Yorker article that gets expanded into a big non-fiction book, a lucky 13 paperback sale, the best of Gang Land, and a historical novel causing international excitement, with live reports during the day as we get them, nearly 4,000 deals available for searching, and an […]

Today’s Reports Lots of new reports that didn’t make Lunch Weekly last night, including a journalist’s explosive book that charts long-running connections between the Bush family and the House of Saud, two top magazine editors’ pen a novel called PAGE SEX, the legendary rivalry between runners Sebastian Coe & Steve Ovett, and much more, with […]