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Ann Betts to Depart Nielsen Book
Ann Betts, managing director of client services, Book International, will be leaving Nielsen Book at the end of August after 17 years with the company. »
'Just Kids' to
the Small Screen: Showtime has acquired the rights to Patti
Smith’s memoir, 'Just Kids,' for a limited series to be co-written and produced
by Smith and John Logan.
Tolkien's First
Fantasy Story Coming: The teenage J.R.R Tolkien’s dark retelling
of a Finnish epic poem will be published later this month for the first time.
'Girl on the
Train’ Tops 3 Million: The novel, which came out in January,
recently reached three million in sales in the United States alone.
The Novel is
Dead. Or Is It?: Liesl Schillinger and Benjamin Moser talk about
why the novel’s demise so regularly looms, for the 'New York Times.'
Put Didion on
the $10 Bill, Says Store: With an image of a woman officially
slated to join Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, an L.A. bookstore has
launched a social media campaign in the hopes the U.S. Department of the
Treasury will select Joan Didion.
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