Leading the News A snow day (we could go out, but the kids are home) meets a slow day (newswise), but once again there are plenty of substantive new deals. Among the 16 new ones since yesterday: Actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman plan a travel diary of their upcoming transcontinental motorcycle ride, a literary agent’s “upmarket thriller,” Stephen R. Donaldson finishes his book series with four more titles, how Israel got its “nuclear option” and what it means post 9/11, a book on Vietnam that draws on in-depth access to former Defense Secretary James McNamara pop-punk band Relient K […]