The PW Morning Report, May 13, 2008
By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 5/13/2008 5:10:00 AM
A round-up of the latest publishing news: Rushdie Is Bookies' Favorite, Slain Officer's Novel Published, DC Madam Inspires Film and Book, NYT and LAT Disagree on Frey, Court Reinstates Prosecutor/AuthorThe Booker All-Stars
Salman Rushdie was the bookies’ favorite to win the Best of the Booker award when his 1981 novel, Midnight’s Children, was chosen Monday for the six-book shortlist, a competition to be named the best of the 41 winners in the history of the Booker Prize, The Associated Press reported. The bookmakers William Hill fixed the odds on Rushdie’s novel at 5-1.
14 Months After He Was Killed, Officer’s Novel Arrives in Bookstores
In March of last year, Nicholas Pekearo celebrated with his editor over dinner: his third manuscript, one about a crime-fighting werewolf, would be accepted for publication. Four days later, Pekearo, 28, was fatally shot while working as an auxiliary police officer. The editor, Eric Raab, kept his promise, even though the two had never signed a formal contract. Fourteen months later, the novel, The Wolfman, is being released on Tuesday by Tor Books. PW gave the book a starred review.
Movie Madam
We haven't heard the last of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the DC madam who committed suicide last week rather than go to jail, says Page Six. Literary agents Marianne Strong and Jason Allen Ashlock are discussing doing a documentary on Palfrey, and have commissioned biographer C. David Heymann and Gerry Visco to "pen a book looking inside the sex industry, with Palfrey as the touchstone."
NYT Loves Frey; LAT Not So Much
Following PW's early review, other critics are weighing in on Bright Shiny Morning. Janet Maslin of the New York Times loved it ("it worked. That’s how James Frey saved himself"), but David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times opened his review with, "Bright Shiny Morning is a terrible book."
Court Reinstates Prosecutor After She Published a Novel
California's highest court ruled that a prosecutor who helped in the making of the film Alpha Dog may remain on the death penalty case on which the film is based. In a similar ruling Monday, the court also reinstated a prosecutor who was taken off a rape case after she published a crime novel, Intoxicating Agent, about a similar case.
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