Following initial teasers in the Drudge Report, former President George Bush’s memoir is showing up on news desks. The NY Times says Bush writes that he considered dropping Dick Cheney from the ticket in 2004 in favor of Senator Bill Frist as “one way to demonstrate that I was in charge.” The funny part is that it was Cheney’s idea. They note the book indicates “Cheney clearly pushed Mr. Bush toward war” in Iraq. Cheney asked in 2002, “Are you going to take care of this guy, or not?” He does give “a more expansive self-critique than he did while […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Excerpts In the News: Drudge Reads Bush, Carter in VF
The Drudge Report goes first with modest excerpts from former President George Bush‘s DECISION POINTS, ahead of its November 9 release, declaring it “a strikingly personal work that takes very few shots at his critics.” They say Bush indicates he gave orders to shoot down planes in US airspace on 9/11 and thought the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania had been shot out of the air. On his battle to block stem-cell research, “I did feel a responsibility to voice my pro-life convictions and lead the country toward what Pope John Paul II called a culture of life.” He also […]
“Roger Sterling” Gets A Book Deal
Grove/Atlantic will publish the “memoir” of TV’s Mad Men character Roger Sterling, STERLING’S GOLD: The Wit and Wisdom of An Ad Man, next month as a slim $16.95 hardcover. As NY Magazine reports, publisher Morgan Entrekin is a friend of Kieth Addis, manager of the show’s creator Matthew Weiner. In a brief introductory excerpt on the Grove website, Sterling writes: “So here it is . . . a few things overheard, a few things to live by, and hell,a few things I’ve apparently said and had repeated to me the morning after a party when I called to make amends.”NY […]
People, Etc.
Following last week’s intense gossip among agents that former Simon & Schuster publisher David Rosenthal has been negotiating to set up an imprint at Penguin, Crain’s ran a short item memorializing the rumor. The parties are not commenting.Crain’s At the Simon & Schuster imprint, Michael Szczerban has been promoted to associate editor. Former President George Bush will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show on November 9, the release date for his book DECISION POINTS. Steven Spielberg is going to direct the film version of Daniel H. Wilson’s forthcoming novel ROBOPOCALYPSE, with photography scheduled to begin in January 2012 for theatrical […]
100 Years Later, A Twain Bestseller
The first volume of Mark Twain’s posthumous autobiography from the University of California Press jumped to the top of bestseller lists at Amazon (currently No. 2) and Barnes & Noble (No. 3) yesterday. It has an official publication date of November 15, but the book (and ebook) was unveiled at a Mark Twain festival in Calavaras County, CA last Friday and is available now. Weekend publicity included a feature in the Philadelphia Inquirer and a segment on CBS Sunday Morning.Calavaras County coverage
Awards, People, Etc.
The new Barnes & Noble Recommends trade paperback selections are Lisa Genova’s Still Alice and Mary Karr’s Lit: A Memoir. The Booker Prize will be awarded this evening in London. Ladbrokes had suspended betting last week after 50 percent more money was wagered on a single title–Tom McCarthy’s C–on Wednesday than had been bet in total since the longlist was announced in July. Most illuminating, though, was the revelation that for all the attention the Booker betting draws, Ladbrokes took just 10,000 pounds of wagers up until Wednesday, when another 15,000 pounds was bet on McCarthy alone. Traditionally the favorite […]