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Archives for January 2005

Lunch for Monday, January 31

January 31, 2005
By Michael Cader

New and Proposed: On Brando, Cheney’s Trail, and Davis Marlon Brando’s former Tahitian wife (and mother of his children Cheyenne and Teihotu) Tarita Teriipaia’s memoir MARLON, MY LOVE, MY SUFFERING, has just been published in France by XO Editions, in a first printing of 50,000 copies. She tells Paris Match, “We lived terrible tragedies and […]

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Lunch for Friday, January 28

January 28, 2005
By Michael Cader

S&S In DisneyWar Skirmish Based on advance looks at portions of James Stewart’s embargoed March 7 release DISNEYWAR, Disney representatives are said to have “contacted Stewart to dispute certain aspects of the book” and at least threatened S&S with the possibility of legal action — while Simon & Schuster has warned Disney not to mess […]

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Lunch for Thursday, January 27

January 27, 2005
By Michael Cader

Prize News Edwidge Danticat won the first $20,000 Story Prize for THE DEW BREAKER. The Quill Awards get covered in multiple places but, sadly, the place we still think of as “the paper of record” yet again blows a simple publishing story by misinterpreting a press release. The NYT incorrectly attributes the announcement — and […]

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Lunch for Wednesday, January 26

January 26, 2005
By Michael Cader

Small Island is Big Winner For whatever reason, the UK’s Whitbread Award tends to honor the favorite much more than other British prizes. Thus 4/5 candidate Andrea Levy claimed the overall prize for SMALL ISLAND, making her the first person to win both the Orange and the Whitbread for the same book. Levy noted in […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, January 25

January 25, 2005
By Michael Cader

Counting Harry Scholastic has provided a page count for HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE: 672 pages. A “special edition,” priced at $60, will have an extra 32-page insert with black and white art. Scholastic page Self-Published Treasure Trove The AP picks up on the surprise success of Michael Stadther’s self-published A TREASURE’S TROVE, a […]

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Lunch for Monday, January 24

January 24, 2005
By Michael Cader

Award News of All Sorts The National Book Critics Circle can usually be counted on for a pretty traditional list of award nominees that corresponds closely to books that have received a lot of review attention during the previous year. In years when the National Book Award list has been particularly idiosyncratic — like this […]

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