Today in books and publishing: 96-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk gets a book deal, deconstructing Amazon's charitable ways, and a non-heartbreaking letter from David Foster Wallace to Don DeLillo.
Today in books: An unpublished Kurt Vonnegut novella is now available as a Kindle Single, Steven Millhauser is your Story Prize winner, and Stephen King's introduction to the eighth Dark Tower book has been posted online.
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Today in publishing: the last book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy is headed to paperback after 70 weeks as a hardcover bestseller, Pippi Longstocking is being blamed for "colonial racial stereotypes," and Don DeLillo's short story collection is a good place to start if you don't like DeLillo.
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