The PW Morning Report, October 13, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 10/13/2008 5:53:00 AM
Monday, October 13, 2008
A daily rou
nd-up of the latest publishing news: Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize in Economics; Nobel Plumbers; Who’s This Guy Le Clezio?; Moby Dick Chosen as Massachusetts’ "Epic Novel"; Rushdie: Palin "A Joke"; Massachusetts Poetry Festival; Lulu.com Lays Off 24; and John Lennon A Misogynistic Beast
Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize in Economics, reports AP
New York Times columnist wins the Nobel Prize for his analysis of trade patterns and locations of economic activity. Read more about Krugman in "We’re Liberals, Damn It" and PW’s interview with Krugman from 2003, prophetically entitled "Scary Prognosticator"
Send in the Plumbers! Swedish Academy Worried About Nobel Leak, reports Reuters
The Academy is worried that news of Gustave Le Clezio winning the Nobel Prize for Literature may have leaked ahead of the announcement. Take some advice from the ghost of Richard Nixon—move on!
Who’s This Guy Le Clezio?
That’s the question David L. Ulin is asking in the Los Angeles Times. And American authors are learning that Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy is the toughest guy to come out of Sweden since…the Bergmans—Ingmar and Ingrid together
Moby Dick Chosen as Massachusetts’ "Epic Novel" Causes Controversy, reports AP
Herman Melville is in trouble. Already there are cries of "What about Louisa May Alcott? What about (Nathaniel) Hawthorne?" from anguished legislators. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be a dead author
Salman Rushdie: Sarah Palin "A Joke," reports Agence France Presse
"I think she’s a joke," said Rushdie. "I mean I always thought, she’s a bad joke. But I always thought it was a colossal misjudgment of McCain’s to appoint her as his running mate because she’s not even borderline competent and what we know about her, or increasingly what we are beginning to know about her, is how very, very, very far to the right she is." Hockey moms and Joe-Six-Packs may launch their own fatwa against the outspoken author
First Massachusetts Poetry Festival Held, reports UPI
The three day festival was held in Lowell and featured Robert Pinsky and Martin Espada
Lulu.com Lays Off 24 Workers in N.C., reports Raleigh News & Observer
The online book publisher plans to move its headquarters from Morrisville to Raleigh, probably by the beginning of next year
John Lennon A Misogynistic Beast, sez New York Post
Well, that’s what Beatles biographer Philip Norman is saying in John Lennon: The Life (Ecco; October 28)
