The PW Morning Report, June 27, 2008

By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 6/27/2008 5:37:00 AM

Friday, June 27, 2008

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Brooks Touts GOP Book; Ed Arno Dead; Literary Jackal; Desmond Elliott Prize Winner; An Amazon Hurrah; Oprah’s Free Suze Download; Penguin Press $1 Million Novel; and Twelve Snags Seven

Breaking News: David Brooks Has A Book That Can Save the GOP! (Well, Maybe Not This Year)
In his New York Times column today Brooks touts Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam (Doubleday). You just know that there was a guy just like Brooks—probably wearing a Brooks Bros. suit—on the poop deck of the RMS Titanic reassuring the steerage passengers that "Everything is alright. We’re only stopping for ice"

Ed Arno, New Yorker Cartoonist, Dead at 83, reports New York Times
His "skittering squiggles"—in the words of Brendan Gill—appeared over five decades. He was also the author of Ed Arno’s Most Wanted, a collection of his work, and two children’s books, The Magic Fish and The Gingerbread Man

Andrew Wylie Is A Literary Jackal, sez the New York Observer
Wylie has lured three writers—Chinua Achebe, Roberto Bolaño and Vladimir Nabokov—over the past week and Leon Neyfakh has written an interesting profile of the hottest agent in town

Nikita Lalwani Novel Wins Inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, reports The Bookseller
Gifted wins the £10,000 prize named after U.K. literary agent and publisher Desmond Elliott

Three Cheers for Amazon, sez Alyce Lomax on Fool.com
By picking David Wroblewski’s debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, as one of the best books in June, Amazon has given a shot in the arm to the novelist

Hurry Up! Oprah Offering Free Download of Suze Orman’s Women and Money
You have until 8pm eastern time tonight

Columbia Grad Student Gets $1 Million Advance for Novel, reports New York Post
According to Keith Kelly, the Penguin Press’ Ann Godoff reportedly pays up big time for The Selected Work of T. S. Spivet

Twelve Snags Seven, reports New York Post
Keith Kelly says Twelve’s Jonathan Karp has corralled Seven by former Reader’s Digest editor-in-chief Jackie Leo. "It’s not about numerology," said Leo. "It’s about using seven as a filter"