Ernest Hemingway's Toronto Star columns are now available online, John Irving's new book debuts to tepid notices, and Fifty Shades of Grey is not welcome in Brevard County libraries.
Today in books and publishing: Publishers are unsure what they can afford to give up to avoid going to court over alleged price collusion, the Clinton White House does not come off well in a former Secret Service agent's new memoir, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards are announced.
Today in books: a rare-book thief is sentenced, a look at the decline of the short novel, and Philp K. Dick's estate drops a lawsuit.
Today in publishing and literature: HarperCollins shelled out "close to $4 million) for the former exchange student's jailhouse diaries, a Toronto library thinks it has a lost piece of correspondence from Jorge Luis Borges, and the origins of a very specific Cormac McCarthy word choice.
Today in books: Booker Prize winner Ben Okri is fighting with a former editor who claims to have rewritten portions of his work, a Brussels court rules Tintin in the Congo is not racist, and the perils of buying Amanda Knox's memoir.
Today in books and publishing: Penguin is "cutting ties" with e-book supplier Overdrive, author Lev Grossman is miffed at Fox, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas bets big on the modern novelist.
Nobody wins when readers battle over e-books and print, another juicy memoir from basketball coach Phil Jackson is in the offing, and the 'S--- Girls Say' parodies have crossed over into the realm of publishing.
Deval Patrick wants publishers to give him a second book deal, Errol Morris tells Stephen King what 11/22/63 is really about, and the pros and cons of rereadiing
Plus: Michael Moore wants his book removed from Georgia bookstores
Plus: An A-Z guide to the shadowy underworld of 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'
Also in books: the search for "the next Harry Potter"
Critics thrilled funny TV writer also funny book writer
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