The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be named on Thursday, October 9AP
Archives for October 2008
Coretta Scott King Book in Family Feud
Penguin has notified King Inc., which controls the intellectual property of Martin Luther King’s estate, “of its intent to terminate the contract and demand repayment of a $300,000 advance if it doesn’t receive promised photos, personal writings and intimate letters within seven business days,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The contract, signed in May, provided for a $1.2 million advance to King Inc. and another $200,000 for journalist-turned-minister Rev. Barbara Reynolds for an autobiography based on taped conversations with the late Coretta Scott King. The dispute is part of a much larger set of disagreements among the King heirs. Dexter King, […]
Building Buzz for Twilight Movie
The Hollywood Reporter looks at building anticipation for the November release of the Twilight film:” A year ago, few took notice when Summit said that it was developing a movie based on the first of young-adult writer Stephenie Meyer’s four-book series detailing a tragic high school romance between Bella, who comes to a small town after her parents split, and Edward, her secret crush who as it turns out is a vampire. That Summit had attached Catherine Hardwicke, director of the arty “thirteen,” confirmed for many that the studio saw the film as a niche play. But in the months […]
Burnt Grapes Sale Is Close
Bunch of Grapes, the Martha’s Vineyard bookstore that was closed by a fire this summer, has been for sale by owner Jon Nelson. The local paper says “last month’s New England Independent Booksellers trade show was buoyed by rumors of its imminent sale.” His mother Ann Nelson, who owns the building that houses the store, is moving forward with reconstruction and “hopes to have the place fit for a bookstore by spring.”MV Gazette
November Indie Next
I See You Everywhere, by Julia GlassThe Fire: A Novel by Katherine NevilleThe Longest Trip Home: A Memoir, by John GroganThe Memorist, by M.J. RoseSongs for the Missing: A Novel, by Stewart O’NanBetween Here and April, by Deborah Copaken KoganConfessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff, by Fred PearceConspiracy of Silence, by Martha PowersThe Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits, by Les StandifordThe Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah VowellA Mercy: A Novel, by Toni MorrisonThe Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the […]
People
Emma House is leaving the London Book Fair in January after six years to join the UK’s Publishers Association as their international director. House will be the first woman to hold a senior role in the organization. Chief executive Simon Juden says “her appointment gives us the opportunity to refocus the role of international director slightly, as we seek to continue the robust protection of members’ copyrights overseas and domestically, as well as explore and exploit opportunities for market development.”