The PW Morning Report, June 18, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 6/18/2008 5:30:00 AM
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A dai
ly round-up of the latest publishing news: Dark Genius Ailes; Potter Hits 400-Mil; 1930s Man Alan Furst; and Spending the Weekend With Jane Austen
Roger Ailes Is the Dark Genius
New York Observer talks to author Kerwin Swint about his new Union Square bio, which you’ll also find in this week’s PW cover feature, "Want Political Truth? Buy a Book"
Harry Potter Books Hits 400-Million Sales Mark, reports The Bookseller
Harry looks like a million, in fact 400-million, in all 67 translations
Novelist Alan Furst—Stuck in the 1930s and Loving It
Author of The Spies of Warsaw (Random) talks to the New York Times about being a epochal writer in a modern age
Holy Pride and Prejudice! Vermont Inn Plans Jane Austen Weekends, reports UPI
The Governor’s House in Hyde Park, VT, plans to discuss Persuasion on four weekends between August and next January. Pride and Prejudice weekends are scheduled for next year
