Archives for February 2004

Bin Ladin, Sorrenstam, War Comics, and More The big auction for the book by a sister-in-law of Osama Bin Laden, film rights to Jabez, golfing Annika’s way, a big publishers picks up the next Get Your War On, narrative non-fiction about a tiny Texas town’s six-man high school football team, a major deal for Roger […]

Today’s Lame Links Not to bore with you details, but because today’s Lunch was assembled from on the road via a painfully slow modem, my browser wasn’t properly capturing the actual links. Sources are all credited as usual, so searching for articles you’re interested in shouldn’t be too hard. As you’ll see, we’ve got considerable […]

Schedule Note I’ll be at the AAP meeting in Washington tomorrow, so it’s possible that Lunch will be served late. The Very Latest Among the 20 brand-new deals: Film rights to a children’s trilogy, Katha Pollitt’s latest, a Southern epic, a novel about Enrico Caruso as seen through the eyes of the women who loved […]

For The Very Latest We already have another 20 or so new deals on top of last night’s round-up. Highlights include: Whoopi for kids, haikus for Jews, a legendary acting teacher’s memoir, a multi-book deal for filmmaker John Sayles, prize-winning poetry, more on Conrad Black, and still plenty of others. The best way to stay […]

The Latest Deals About another 20 new ones since last Friday: highlights include the beginning of sales for the UK’s most talked about mystery blogger (being sold in the US this week), an insider’s look from a public defender, a literary editor’s first novel, new books from Sonny Barger and Annie Sprinkle, and of course […]

Dozens More Deal news continues to come in at a rapid clip, with over 25 new ones yet again (and 80 new deal reports so far this week). Highlights include: a major deal for a first thriller, a new theory about Attila the Hun, a young psychic’s memoir, a big UK first fiction sale, narrative […]