The PW Morning Report, April 15, 2008

By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 4/15/2008 5:23:00 AM

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Eugene Ehrlich Dead; Freakonomics of Sports to HC for $1M; Coward-ly Spy?; McSweeney to U.K.; Imus Rescues RFD; Orange Shortlist; Stan Lee on Politics; JFK-King Assassinations Connected?

Eugene Ehrlich, Lexicographer, Dead at 85, reports New York Times
Ehrlich was the author of 40 dictionaries, thesauruses and phrase books

HarperCollins Buys Freakonomics of Sports for $1 Million, reports The Bookseller
Claire Wachtel of HC hauls in tome by British journalist Matthew Syed

Noel Coward, Spy?
The perfect Pimpernel—gay, "the perfect silly ass"—Coward served England during World War II and was on the Nazis "liquidated" list if Britain were to fall. The New York Times reports on The Letters of Noel Coward, edited by Barry Day

Atlantic Books to Represent McSweeney in U.K., reports The Bookseller
Atlantic will distribute six books a year, starting with Lemony Snicket’s The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story

Imus Pumps Up RFD, reports New York Daily News
The I-Man may get the rural oriented RFD into the big leagues of cable TV—they are currently negotiating with Time Warner, Cablevision and Verizon’s FiOS for more big city exposure

Three Debut Novelists on Orange Broadband Prize, reports Reuters
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction honoring women writers offers a cash prize of £30,000

Cindy Adams Loves Stan Lee’s Election Daze Comic Book
New York Post columnist likes the POW Entertainment comic that equally pounds all the candidates

JFK and King Assassinations Connected?
Liz Smith takes a look at Lamar Waldron's controversial book, Legacy of Secrecy, being published by Counterpoint on November 1, 2008