The PW Morning Report, August 18, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 8/18/2008 6:21:00 AM
Monday, August 18, 2008
A da
ily round-up of the latest publishing news: Goosebumps To Film; Putting the Kafka in Kafkaesque; Robert Wagner Book: Natalie Wood Drowning Accidental; Tim Rutten Blasts Publishing Industry for Anti-Obama Book; Obama Nation Pushback; Cindy Adams on Change We Can Believe In; McCain: Borrowing From Solzhenitsyn; The Return of the Malodorous Deal Hudson
Children’s Horror Series Goosebumps To Film, reports Reuters
Columbia is in negotiations with Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander to write screenplay. Goosebumps has earned millions of dollars for publishers R.L. Stine and Scholastic, second only to the "Harry Potter" series
Putting the Kafka in Kafkaesque: Stalking—What May Be—the Last Kafka Papers
New York Times tells of interest in what may be the last of Franz Kafka’s papers, which have come to rest in a Tel Aviv apartment. Also, as reported here last week, there’s a new book that shines the spotlight on old Franz’s fascination with the smut of his day, proving once again, a dirty mind is its own reward
Natalie Wood Drowning Accidental, New Robert Wagner Autobio Sez, reports UPI
In Pieces of My Heart (HarperEntertainment, September 23rd) the 78-year-old Wagner talks about Wood’s drowning for the first time in 27 years
Tim Rutten Blasts Publishing Industry for Obama Nation in Los Angeles Times
Rutten has opinions and he isn’t afraid to share them: "The Obama Nation was written and printed because major American publishing houses have decided that there’s money to be made in funding right-wing boutique imprints modeled after the Washington-based Regnery, which has made a small fortune stoking the hard-right furnace with combustible prose"
Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher Looks at Pushback on The Obama Nation
Reaction is different from 2004 when the anti-Kerry tome Unfit for Command was published. This time the press and the candidate were immediate in their response
Cindy Adams on Change We Can Believe In
Wouldn’t want you to miss Adams unique perspective on Obama’s new policy book, coming from Three Rivers Press on September 9th
John McCain Borrows: First Wikipedia, Now Alexander Solzhenitsyn, reports CQPolitics, com
Hey, if you’re going to borrow, borrow from the best. It seems McCain’s story the other night about a North Vietnamese guard making a cross in the dirt as a sign of Christian solidarity has a lot in common with a story the great, late Russian author told.
Deal Hudson Accuses Obama of Being Pro-Infanticide, reports Huffington Post
Hudson is another one of Mary Matalin’s authors at Threshold Editions (lately, you may have heard of Jerome Corsi). She published Hudson's Onward Christian Soldiers this past spring. Unfortunately, the very righteous, very hypocritical and supposedly very Catholic Hudson has a closet full of sexual skeletons, as PW and others have revealed in the past. He was sent packing by Fordham University a decade ago for a sexual encounter with a student
