Posthumous novel becomes commercial hit
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Some books sell because Oprah Winfrey wants you to buy them. Others get help from a major prize, a controversy, a movie tie-in, a famous author or an especially clever marketing campaign.
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Burdened by high costs and increased competition from Broadway and beyond, the successful commercial Off Broadway play is a rarity.
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Marc Forster's adaptation of the bestselling novel is old-fashioned in the best sense
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A previously unknown story and a letter ascribed to Ernest Hemingway have caused a dispute between those who want to see them published and those who don't.
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The literary master's dazzling, dizzying 1,085-page new novel is not for those looking for a snack
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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
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Art aficionados hope that the new post may revive the fortunes of literacy by spreading the power of poetry.
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Gregory David Roberts' "Shantaram: A Novel," which is scheduled for publication next week by St. Martin's Press, has attracted the attention of Warner Bros. Pictures as a starring vehicle for Johnny Depp.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Versatile Scottish writer gains victory at lastÂ· Judges hail postwar novel as a masterpiece
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Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary feat it once was.
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A fifteen-year struggle for the film  rights to Patrick Sueskind's top-selling novel "Perfume"  culminates this week in the premiere of the grisly 18th century  murder story, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - His books have sold more copies  than almost any other author in Europe this year and are hotly  debated by housewives and intellectuals alike, but newspapers  are reluctant to publish his work.
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It took over a decade for the writer's best loved book to be adapted to a bigger stage.
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Sandor Marai owes his posthumous reputation in western Europe and America to the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso, who chanced upon his novel Embers in an old French translation.
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Seth Godin published a book under a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to republish and sell it. But he was a little surprised when someone actually did.
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.