The PW Morning Report, May 2, 2008
By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 5/2/2008 5:42:00 AM
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Walters Admits Affair; Chicago Review Book Says Black Reporter Is Innocent; How Does the Pulitzer Board Fill Vacancies?; French Novelist's Mother Is Peeved; Zellweger to Star in Breast Cancer Film Based on Book; Charles Tilly Dead; Nat'l Geographic Wins Ellie for General Excellence
Barbara Walters Reveals Past Affair with US Senator
After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters now says she had a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." Appearing on Oprah scheduled to air Tuesday (the AP has the transcript), Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s. Walters is Winfrey's guest to discuss her new memoir, Audition, out Tuesday from Knopf.
Book Asserts Black Reporter Didn't Kill White Officer in '81
The NYT reports that Chicago Review Press's The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Patrick O'Connor, which was published yesterday, asserts that a black radio journalist convicted of murdering a white Philadelphia police officer more than 26 years ago is not guilty of the crime and that it was actually committed by another man who is now deceased.
How Does the Pulitzer Board Fill Vacancies? An Inside Look
Could you be the next member of the Pulitzer Prize Board? If you're among the industry's top editors, professors, or other journalistic elite, you may, says Editor and Publisher. With the recent departure of three longtime board members the remaining 16 board members are having to select three new brethren to add to the exclusive group that determines the Pulitzer Prize winners each year.
French Novelist's Mother Fires Back
Novelist Michel Houellebecq, one of France's best literary exports, is getting a very public spanking from his own mother, says Time. The long cold war between mother and son suddenly turned white hot in the run-up to the May 7 French publication of The Innocent, an autobiographical book by Houellebecq's maman, Lucie Ceccaldi, 83. In it, Ceccaldi calls her boy a liar, impostor, and parasite "ready to do whatever it takes to attain fortune and fame."
Renee Zellweger Producing Breast Cancer TV Movie Based on RH Book
Living Proof tells the true story of Denny Slamon (Harry Connick Jr.), a UCLA doctor who developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin 2, and his battle to keep the drug trials afloat and save the lives of thousands of women. It's based on a book by NBC medical correspondent Robert Bazell, Her-2 (Random), says Reuters.
NYT: Charles Tilly, 78, Writer and a Social Scientist, Is Dead
Tilly's 2006 book Why? (Princeton U.P.) tried to make sense of people’s reasons for giving reasons. Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker said the book “forces readers to re-examine everything from the way they talk to their children to the way they argue about politics.”
National Geographic Takes Top Honors at Mag Awards
The New York Post reports National Geographic was the top winner at last night's National Magazine Awards, winning three prizes, followed by Vanity Fair, which snagged two.
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