Authors

Two years ago he said he was finished, but now friend and writer writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza says that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is closing in on a new novel. “He has four versions of it. He told me that he was now trying to get the best from each of them.” But a spokesperson for the Carmen Balcells Agency replied, “There is nothing, for the moment.”Guardian

With the release of SCARPETTA, her sixteenth novel featuring the title character, Patricia Cornwell is “for the first time, welcoming the media into the sprawling farmhouse-style home she shares with Staci Gruber, 41, whom she married in 2006. Cornwell, 52, has never before discussed their marriage with a mainstream US publication. She did talk about it this year with The Advocate, a gay magazine, and she has spoken with the British press. She considers her sexual orientation enormously private.” She tells USAT, “I’m not a soapbox kind of person. My private life is not 100% comfortable, but I’ve decided these […]

Mark Bittman’s HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING has sold over 2 million copies in 10 years and now Wiley is releasing an announced 300,000-copy printing of a substantially revised edition. The author tells the WSJ, “there is a lot less meat in this edition. We made a decision to increase recipes for vegetables, fruit, beans, grains and salads. The balance has shifted. I looked at the old edition and thought, 200 chicken recipes, who needs that?”WSJ

One title headed for the top of bestseller lists this season is Malcolm Gladwell’s forthcoming OUTLIERS, written in the same style as his previous works but with a more earnest focus. As he puts it: “This is very specifically not a self-help book. It’s a book that’s very much about collective and social organized change. I am explicitly turning my back on, I think, these kind of empty models that say, you know, you can be whatever you want to be. Well, actually, you can’t be whatever you want to be. The world decides what you can and can’t be. […]