The PW Morning Report, August 15, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 8/15/2008 5:28:00 AM
Friday, August 15, 2008
A daily r
ound-up of the latest publishing news: Obama Hammers Corsi; Harry Potter Film Delayed; Rushdie Condemns Random; Kafka’s Porn; and Julia Child: Cookin’ for the OSS
Obama Campaign Hammers Jerome Corsi’s Obama’s Nation, reports Huffington Post
Campaign calls Corsi "a discredited, fringe bigot" and goes on to say "Corsi has penned a litany of bigoted, hateful comments—crossing the line so thoroughly that even the right-wing operatives behind Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disavowed him. This is a man who smears the Catholic Church, calls the Pope ‘senile,’ and regularly demeans public servants in vile sexual and racial terms. In short, his record of attacks is disgusting and false, and so is this book." Hey Jerome, guess it ain’t 2004—and Obama ain’t Kerry
Harry Potter Film Delayed Until Summer 2008, reports Daily Telegraph
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been pushed back to July 17, 2009 by Warner Bros. Several tie-in books, due for publication on the film’s original release this November, are caught in the middle
Salman Rushdie Condemns Random Over Cancellation of Book, reports AP
Rushdie weighs in on the cancellation of The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones: "I am very disappointed to hear that my publishers, Random House, have canceled another author’s novel, apparently because of their concerns about possible Islamic reprisals. This is censorship by fear, and it sets a very bad precedent indeed." Rushdie received death threats from Muslim radicals after his Satanic Verses was published in 1989
Holy Kafka! Was Franz Into Porn?
The Guardian reports on the battle between German speaking scholars and James Hawes, a Kafka expert and novelist, who claims in his book Excavating Kafka, that Franz Kafka was into hardcore porn. Looks like Kafka’s second trial is about to begin
Julia Child of the OSS—Not Only Could She Cook, But She Could Type & File Too, sez Washington Post
Newly declassified OSS files tells the World War II story America’s favorite cook and cookbook author
