Today in publishing and literature: The Problem With Translated Books; Robert Caro To Tweet (Someday), and a Facebook memoir from The Zuck's former assistant.
What's the difference between a blogger and a writer? Bloggers are crazy obsessive freaks, who can't get away from their work, unlike other writers who are crazy obsessive heroes, dedicated to their work.
Today in books: Multivolume biographies aren't what they used to be, Amazon has some big Harry Potter news, and the 2012 election will result in a quickie Ann Coulter book.
Today in books: Not everyone adores Robert Caro's sprawling biography of Lyndon Johnson, Andrew Cuomo is writing a book that sounds very presidential, and a rave for Toni Morrison's new novel from Michiko Kakutani.
Today in books and publishing: Target is kicking Amazon out of their stores, the Fifty Shades of Grey parody book boomlet is here, and Steve Coll also has a big, important piece of non-fiction out this week that isn't about Lyndon Johnson
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.
People are abuzz about the New York Times Magazine profile of Robert Caro, biographer of Lyndon Johnson, which somehow makes exciting the details of the exhaustive research Caro undertook to better understand his subject through the five volume, decades-long project.
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.
Also in film and television: Murphy's still mad at David Spade, fresh talk of a Dumb & Dumber sequel 17 years after the original, and Samuel. L. Jackson is the highest grossing actor in movie history.
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