The PW Morning Report, July 15, 2008

By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 7/15/2008 5:57:00 AM

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: A Bookstore Named Renaissance; Fernando Pessoa’s Papers to be Auctioned; David H. Greene Dead; Bill Russell’s Auerbach Book; Wylie After Greene Estate?; Dylan Thomas Literary Prize Longlist; Reading on the Job; and Cindy Adams on "Dr." Denis Leary

A Bookstore Named Renaissance Lives in Baghdad
The Washington Post profiles an Iraqi bookseller whose family has been destroyed by the war, but refuses to leave the Iraq he loves

Portugal’s Greatest Writer’s Papers to be Auctioned, reports New York Times
Fernando Pessoa’s papers are about to hit the auction block, causing discomfort in Lisbon

David H. Greene, Irish Scholar, Dead at 94, reports New York Times
Greene was the biographer of John Millington Synge, a professor at NYU, and also worked behind-the-scenes at the TV game show Password. "For Irish-Americans," said novelist Peter Quinn, "his work was eye-opening. At a time when nobody in America was teaching Irish literature, he’s the one who opened that field of study"

Basketball Great Bill Russell Get $1 Million for Book on Red Auerbach, reports New York Observer
Collins plans to publish Red and Me in 2009

Andrew Wylie After Graham Greene Estate?
The Agent Dead Authors Love is on the move again, according to the New York Observer via the Sunday Times of London

Dylan Thomas Literary Prize Longlist Announced, reports BBC
The winner will be announced in November for the biennial £60,000 prize, which has become one of the largest literary awards

Hey, Watch You Read on the Job!
The AP reports an instance of PC gone berserk: The chancellor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis apologized to janitor Keith John Sampson after reprimanding him for reading Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan on his break. Apparently, some knucklehead found it offensive. All Mr. Sampson was trying to do was educate himself. Everyone loves academic freedom—except when they don’t

Cindy Adams Is Reading Publishers Catalogs!
And she’s telling us what’s coming out in the fall, starting with "Dr." Denis Leary’s Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid. I already like Dr. Denis better than Dr. Phil