The PW Morning Report, October 9, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 10/9/2008 5:27:00 AM
Thursday, October 9, 2008
A daily ro
und-up of the latest publishing news: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Wins 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature; William M. Murphy Dead at 92; Marshall Frady and the IRS; Sherry Jones Pulls Out of Frankfurt; and The Sarah Palin Book No One Wanted
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Wins 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, reports AP
The French novelist was called by the Academy an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"
William M. Murphy, Yeats Family Biographer, Dead at 92, reports New York Times
Among his books on the Yeats family was Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1978), a biography of the poet’s father, and Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives (1995)
Marshall Frady and the IRS
New York Times reports that the IRS has auctioned Frady’s papers because of debt. A sad ending to one of the heroes of the "new journalism"
Sherry Jones Pulls Out of Frankfurt, reports The Bookseller
Her American publisher, Beaufort Books, said it "made more sense" to keep her in the States promoting The Jewel of Medina
The Sarah Palin-As-Heroine Book You Won’t Be Seeing Anytime Soon
According to Leon Neyfakh of the New York Observer conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt was hawking an election book called How Sarah Palin Won the Election... And Saved America. Shockingly, there were no takers
