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2009 book sales: not that bad
Jacket CopyPublishing has been hit hard this year: There have been bookstore closings across the country, big layoffs at publishing houses, warnings that the business model can't survive, the looming challenge of e-readers such as the Kindle and e-books. Yet with...... -
Finalists announced for the 2009 Story Prize
Jacket CopyThree first-time authors rose above the competition to become finalists for the 2009 Story Prize, an annual award given to a book of short fiction. Daniyal Mueenuddin’s “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” Victoria Patterson’s “Drift” and Wells... -
The Galilean Secret: Next Da Vinci Code?
The Religion WorldHoping that readers can never get enough Dan Brown-style fiction, Guideposts Books is coming out with The Galilean Secret by Evan Drake Howard on May 1. The novel is based on the premise that Jesus wrote a letter to Mary Magdalene detailing t... -
Random Shot – Pershing Square
The Daily MirrorPhotograph by Rosanna Xia / Los Angeles Times Rosanna Xia, a summer intern with The Times, visited an art show in Pershing Square on Sunday and took this photo of Dan Brown’s “Tribute to the King of Pop,” a portrait of Michael Jackson done with cola... -
Conserving a masterpiece -- the Ghent Altarpiece
Culture MonsterWhen Anne van Grevenstein-Kruse was a child, her family made a pilgrimage from Antwerp to Ghent to see “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” the celebrated 15th-century altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. “It was still in its original...... -
Who do you write like?
Jacket CopyAre your characters as snazzy as James Bond? Are your sentences lyrical as those in "Lolita"? Pop a few paragraphs into the website I Write Like to find out if you write like Ian Fleming or Vladimir Nabokov. You might...... -
Wherefore art thou, refudiate? Sarah Palin as Shakespeare
Jacket CopyOn Sunday, Sarah Palin's Twitter feed appealed to "peaceful Muslims" to speak out against a proposed Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, a few blocks from ground zero. While this might be troublesome to those who don't share her political...... -
Saul Rubinek is resurrected on 'Warehouse 13' -- but is he safe?
Zap2ItSaul Rubinek, who plays Artie, the wacky warehouse guardian on the SyFy show "Warehouse 13," has returned. The Dish Rag talked with Saul over the weekend. He had just watched the season premiere of his show with a small audience who thoroughly enjoyed...Tags: Comedy (genre), History, Eddie McClintock, Saul Rubinek, Mystery (genre)
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10 things you might now know about bestsellers
![The book business is in the midst of an online price war over best-sellers, with Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target trying to undercut each other and alarming the entire industry. Among the books they're fighting over is Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue," which comes out Tuesday. Here are 10 chapters about top-selling books and authors:1. In "The Da Vinci Code" and other Dan Brown novels, characters are compelled to unravel mysteries at a frenetic pace. The same thing happened to Brown as a child. On Christmas and his birthdays, his parents hid his gifts, requiring him to solve puzzles and riddles to find the presents.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-07/54990328-16091943.jpg "The book business is in the midst of an online price war over best-sellers, with Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target trying to undercut each other and alarming the entire industry. Among the books they're fighting over is Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue,\" which comes out Tuesday. Here are 10 chapters about top-selling books and authors:1. In \"The Da Vinci Code\" and other Dan Brown novels, characters are compelled to unravel mysteries at a frenetic pace. The same thing happened to Brown as a child. On Christmas and his birthdays, his parents hid his gifts, requiring him to solve puzzles and riddles to find the presents.")
Tribune staff reporterThe book business is in the midst of an online price war over best-sellers, with Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target trying to undercut each other and alarming the entire industry. Among the books they're fighting over is Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue," which...Tags: Sarah Palin, New York, L. Frank Baum, White House, Chicken Soup
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BookExpo America reveals an industry in transition
The best way to think about this year's BookExpo America -- the book industry's annual trade show and convention that concluded Sunday at the Jacob Javits Center -- is as a mirror: What you see reflects who you are.
For major publishing conglomerates...Tags: New York, Dave Eggers, Facebook, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Oct. 4, 2009
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $25.99) Harvard professor Robert Langdon uses his symbology skills to find a missing Freemason in Washington, D.C. || 2 || || 2. || The Help by Kathryn...Tags: National Basketball Association, Murder, Clubs and Associations, Malcolm Gladwell, Los Angeles Times
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Our unending fascination with secrecy
![Fears of conspiracies and mysterious cabals are nothing new -- that's what Arthur Goldwag illustrates in "Cults, Conspiracies and Secret Societies" (Vintage Books: $16 paper). The book is part compendium/part commentary on the numerous organizations and practices which strike fear in people's hearts. Goldwag does more than cover territory popularized by Dan Brown -- though Opus Dei, the Templars, Illuminati and Freemasons are here. He also ranges far and wide to discuss the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, for instance, alongside the Jesuits -- and, uh, Al Qaeda (?).](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-09/49206391-11141123.gif "Fears of conspiracies and mysterious cabals are nothing new -- that's what Arthur Goldwag illustrates in "Cults, Conspiracies and Secret Societies\" (Vintage Books: $16 paper). The book is part compendium/part commentary on the numerous organizations and practices which strike fear in people's hearts. Goldwag does more than cover territory popularized by Dan Brown -- though Opus Dei, the Templars, Illuminati and Freemasons are here. He also ranges far and wide to discuss the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, for instance, alongside the Jesuits -- and, uh, Al Qaeda (?).")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFears of conspiracies and mysterious cabals are nothing new -- that's what Arthur Goldwag illustrates in "Cults, Conspiracies and Secret Societies" (Vintage Books: $16 paper). The book is part compendium/part commentary on the numerous organizations and...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Clubs and Associations, Los Angeles Times, University of Texas at Austin, Sociology
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