Without the TV talk shows, authors have lost an important promotional tool. “To make matters worse, fall is the biggest time of the year for booksellers, who schedule many of their heavyweight titles to appear in October and November.”
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Analyst: Leonardo Embedded Music In “Last Supper”
“Leonardo Da Vinci left clues to a 40-second musical composition in his painting, Giovanni Maria Pala said. Each loaf of bread in the picture represents a note, he said, which combine to sound ‘like a requiem’.”
Potter Encyclopedia On Hold After Rowling Sues
A publisher has agreed to delay the release of a Harry Potter encyclopaedia after being sued by author JK Rowling.
Norman Mailer – The Write Life
“The Pulitzer-Prize winning Mailer, the eminent literary journalist, drama king and gentleman, eternal striver for the Great American Novel, seemed to embody in recent years not just one writer, but a generation for whom the printed word was a noble and endangered way of life.”
Norman Mailer, 84
“Mailer died Saturday of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Despite heart surgery, hearing loss and arthritic knees that forced him to walk with canes, Mailer retained his enthusiasm for writing.”