This month Random House Children's Books released The Mighty Lalouche, a picture book by Matthew Olshan illustrated by Sophie Blackall. It gets my vote for cutest picture book of the year so far.
Today in publishing: Amanda Knox hires a lawyer to help with a book deal, British Poet Ted Hughes gets honored today at Westminster Abbey, and your iPad can now look like a magical leather-bound book.
Today in books: Marco Rubio secures a well-timed book deal, a possible new image of Jane Austen has been discovered, and Byliner enters the short story publishing game.
Today in books: The market factors that helped Ray Bradbury get over his digital publishing skepticism, another Quentin Rowan apology, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 17-year-long legal fight over A Death Foretold is over.
It may be hard to remember, but Rick Perry's candidacy once seemed very promising to a lot of people, and book publishers jumped aboard the handsome cowboy/Bush II bandwagon--only to get off the second that everything got derailed.
Today in books: Baghdad students don't like American books, zombies invade our literary fiction, popular fantasy author Anne McCaffrey has died, and Penguin stops its e-book library lending programs.
Today in books: The Literary Review's roundup of the year's worst sex writing includes Stephen King and Haruki Murakami, Mark Danielewski gets $1 million for 37 percent of his upcoming serialized novel, and even Mark Cuban has embraced self-publishing
Today in books: Martin Scorsese will direct another book based on an intricately plotted detective story, Europe's e-book pricing woes, and Neil Gaiman is a good sport on The Simpsons.
Today in books: The 2009 Man Booker winner is the latest prestigious literary property to be gobbled up by HBO, Diane Keaton's inventive memoir has some great Woody Allen stories, and the late Michael Crichton's scribbles have become a book about killer bugs and an evil CEO.
Today in publishing and literature: the 2009 Man Booker winner is getting a sequel, Quentin Rowan explains his plagiarized spy novel, and Bill O'Reilly says his Killing Lincoln only has two major historical inaccuracies.
Today in books: the Los Angeles Times enters the e-book business, Hoguhton Mifflin Harcourt prepares to restructure, and a new theory on what killed Jane Austen.
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
Today in books: Mitt Romney will be the subject of a big, comprehensive biography, the size of the Kindle Million Club is getting out of control, and World War Z sells one million copies at its own pace
Today in literature and publishing: God's memoir won't be sold at Walmart, the rise of the giant novel, and Kurt Vonnegut's cautionary tale.
Today in publishing: Chris Matthews writes his own books, HarperCollins has many, many soccer memoirs, and Michele Bachmann hawks her book to help her campaign.
Today in publishing: Barnes & Noble floorplan changes will lead to fewer books in its bookstores, the upside to botching the words to poems, and James Garner's new memoir is catty, grouchy, and drug-filled.
Robert Caro's fourth volume of his massive Lyndon Johnson biography is coming out in May, Bill O'Reilly will be writing a biography of a president-to-be-determined, and some valuable advice for National Novel Writing Month.
Today in publishing: Joseph Heller was of two different minds about his time in the service, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will not let Roland Emmerich's aggression go unchecked, and the co-author of the Left Behind series gets a rich new contract.
Scott Rudin is developing Swamplandia! for HBO, three major publishing houses are going to let authors have greater access to their sales numbers, and the National Day on Writing.
Today in literature and publishing: Politico's online bookstore is missing some of the classics, Lauren Myracle describes her National Book Award unnomination, and a devoted Tintin fan has harsh words for Steven Spielberg.
Plus: The National Book Award corrects its nomination mistake and a brief history of the Man Booker Prize
Plus: A 'miscommunication' led to one too many National Book Award nominees yesterday
Plus: Courtney Love sold a memoir to HarperCollins
Plus: Ebooks are now moving in on author signing sessions
Plus: How to bet on the Nobel Prize in Literature
Plus: Michael Moore wants his book removed from Georgia bookstores
Plus: Mark Twain's 105 year ban from a Massachusetts library is over
Plus: Only Jay Gatsby could afford a first edition 'Great Gatsby' dust jacket
Plus: Bill Clinton could have been on 'Dancing with the Stars,' but didn't want to practice
Plus: An A-Z guide to the shadowy underworld of 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'
Plus: Where the Borders business model lost its way
Plus: A spat erupts over a "brand new" Oscar Wilde play
Also in literary news: Short stories on Twitter hopefully will save short stories on the radio
Granddaughter's request for donations casts a pall over Roald Dahl day in England
Plus: Ebook sales were up a whopping 162 percent in the first half of 2011
Plus: A 17,000 word look at how 'The Art of Fielding' became the fall's literary darling
IKEA is redesigning their bookshelves to accommodate tchotchkes instead of hardbacks
Plus: An appropriate send-off for Borders
Also: a second, more positive New York Times review of Tom Perrotta's 'The Leftovers'
Plus: The best of the 2011 New Yorker festival events
Also, in books: Michiko Kakutani gives Tom Perrotta's new novel a mixed review
Plus: The author of 'The Shack' signs a deal to write a follow-up
Plus: A new short story from Tom Rachmann is available as a Kindle Single
Plus: A decent price for a decent ebook application
Plus: R. Crumb snubs Australian design festival over 'pervert' flap
Plus: The New York Observer's list of the top "media power bachelors" is out
Meanwhile the booming publishing industry in freewheeling Hong Kong means delays
industry sales figures show that people are buying more books than three years ago
The acquisition of Push Pop Press, an e-book design company, could affect the future of digital books
The CNN host and former News of the World editor breaks his silence on the scandal
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