The WSJ highlights three prominent releases this week–Andrew Davidson’s THE GARGOYLE; David Carr’s THE NIGHT OF THE GUN; and Ron Suskind’s THE WAY OF THE WORLD: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism (the biggest of the three by far, with an announced 500,000-copy first printing)–as a potential counterpoint to “the slumping book business.” Not a lot of statistical evidence there, but Gayle Shanks at Changing Hands in Tempe, Ariz., s”ays that sales of hardcover fiction at her 13,000-square-foot store are off sharply; she’s now offering a 20 percent discount on all fiction hardcover titles.”WSJ
