Bill Clinton reviewed the new Robert Caro book for The New York Times, the Fox News mole is shopping a book that Fox-bashers will adore, and the giant hedge fund that sponsors the Man Booker Prize is having a bad run of luck.
Today in publishing: Amazon Publishing snags another big name, the chairman of next year's Man Booker Prize panel comes with "impeccable bookish credentials," and Jonathan Lethem is still smarting over a bad review he got in 2003.
The British author Julian Barnes, who has been on the short list four times, won the 2011 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for his novel The Sense of an Ending.
Julian Barnes is the favorite to win the Man Booker Prize, the Vladimir Putin biography that had the Frankfurt Book Fair buzzing, and the "safety precaution" that led to the National Book Award nomination mix-up.
Plus: The National Book Award corrects its nomination mistake and a brief history of the Man Booker Prize
Plus: Haruki Murakami's new book includes exploding dogs and levitating clocks
Plus: John Irving gives some new details about his next novel
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