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Too Much Fun: The 'Infinite Jest' Audiobook Has No Endnotes

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.20.2012

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On March 27, Hachette Audio released David Foster Wallace's magnum opus "Infinite Jest" -- most of it, at least -- as a 56-hour-long audiobook. Th...

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The Man Who Couldn't Stop Lying

Andrew Losowsky | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: James Bond, Plagiarist, Copying, Spoonbill and Sugartown, Cryptomnesia, Little Brown, Plagiarism, Qr Markham, Assassin of Secrets, Spy Novels, Quentin Rowan, Books News
Andrew Losowsky

This is the strange and sad tale of a writer who couldn't fulfill his potential through legal means--and so started to copy from the best.

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Why Was This Author's Book Pulled From The Shelves?

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Plagiarism, Controversy, Book Pulled, Assassin of Secrets, Qr Markham, Spy Novels, Book Pulped, Little Brown, Books News

NEW YORK — A debut spy novel, Q.R. Markham's "Assassin of Secrets," was pulled Tuesday after its publisher said it discovered that numerous pass...

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Home Run for Harbach

Mike Smith | Posted 10.25.2011

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Mike Smith

A book nine years in the making has turned Chad Harbach into a major league author.

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Why Do Publishers Hope You're Reading More Crime Fiction?

wsj.com | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 09.07.2011

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Crime often spikes when the economy sputters, but does demand for crime fiction surge as well? Publishers hope so. This year, as print sales contin...

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"The Pale King" Renews Debate: Should Books Be Published Posthumously?

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 06.14.2011

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NEW YORK -- David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King," the year's most awaited and complicated literary novel, has renewed a very old debate. Published ...

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Piecing Together A Posthumous David Foster Wallace Novel

nytimes.com | CHARLES McGRATH | Posted 06.08.2011

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In his office at Little Brown, where he is executive vice president and publisher, Michael Pietsch still has the tower of a manuscript and the handwri...

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Kindle Version of Follett's ‘Fall of Giants' Priced Higher Than Hardcover

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Readers of e-books may not be able to turn paper pages, lend their copies to friends or file them away on living room bookshelves. But they do have th...

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Video: Our Daisy Whitney Gets First Novel Published by Little Brown

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Plesser

Many of us know Daisy Whitney as one of the sharpest observers of the online video scene, having written for many years for Television Week, and now...

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Jake Tapper Gets Book Deal

politico.com | MIKE ALLEN | | Posted 05.25.2011

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Little, Brown and Company is announcing a book deal with Jake Tapper, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent. In "Enemy In the Wire," Tapper will ...

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Is This The Funniest Novelist In America? Interview With James Hynes, Author Of 'Next'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anis Shivani

Hynes has in the past made major contributions to the campus comedy genre; with this courageous breakout novel, he's now one of our major American novelists, period.

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The Best Publishers On Twitter And Facebook (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, we ran a feature on publishers' websites, looking at what purpose they serve and who they're trying to reach. Today, we thought we'd look...

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The WORST Names For Book Imprints (PHOTOS, POLL)

Jason Pinter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jason Pinter

What would be some highly inappropriate names for book imprints? That inspired me to create the Twitter hashtag #badnamesforbookimprints (i.e. 'Port Authority Press').

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Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store

Jason Pinter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jason Pinter

When Ferris speaks, he does not come across as a rock star, an object of literary affection, or someone who has grown a large head from his success.

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'Glee' Book Series Coming Soon: Official Novels Will Roll Out This Summer

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The class of "Glee" will be hitting the books. Little Brown Books for Young Readers announced Wednesday that five authorized books b...

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Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River

Jason Pinter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jason Pinter

Kortya has now broken from his crime comfort zone with So Cold the River, a gothic tale of suspense clocking in at an atmospheric and tension-drenched 500+ pages.

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Rick Perry, Texas Governor, To Write Book, 'Fed Up,' On Expansion Of Federal Government

Posted 05.25.2011

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May 25, 2010, NEW YORK - Michael Pietsch, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, announced today that Rick Perry, Governor ...

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What is Work? Gail Collins: When Everything Changed

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sharon Glassman

The women in When Everything Changed are gutsy, goal-setting, game-changing, God-chatting, family-loving individuals who share a belief in Change - and an enduring, if irrational love of sexy shoes.

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Lemony Snicket Moves To Little, Brown

Publishers Weekly | Jim Milliot | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Handler, who had a long and successful run with his Lemony Snicket-penned A Series of Unfortunate Events series at HarperCollins, is moving to ...

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Tom Wolfe Leaves Longtime Publisher For New Novel About Miami

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel set in Miami called Back to Blood, which will be published in 2009 by Little, Brown. According to a press release...

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Tom Wolfe's Next Novel Revealed

Publisher's Weekly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Wolfe's next novel has been revealed: Back to Blood, the author's first work of fiction since his 2004 book, I Am Charlotte Simmons, published by...

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