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http://news.yahoo.com/usa-today-founder-neuharth-dies-florida-89-232609537--finance.html I liked the USA Today from day one. I liked the color photos, the graphics, the shorter stories. And I was embarrassed to admit it. I should have pulled that full color newspaper out in public and read it...

Top-Earning Authors 2011 - Best-Selling Authors Those numbers are incredible. Janet Evanovich earns an advance of $10M per book? Seriously? James Patterson earned an estiimated $84M?

when you go on vacation so that the burglars don't notice all the papers piling up and decide to rob you. Oops, that doesn't work anymore: L.A. Times subscribers burglarized after requesting vacation holds - CNN.com

The French army was sent there to restore order, but the rebels are scorching the earth behind them. Islamist rebels torch Timbuktu manuscript library: mayor - Yahoo! News

There's a scene in the book Northern Lights that I can not find with Google book search. The character's name is Charlene Galloway and she is thinking about her life in Lunacy, Alaska, the lodge that she owns, and the years that have gone by. It's been a long time since I read it, but I think I...

Patricia Cornwell, in a case that reads like one of her mysteries, sues her financial management firm, alleging it cost her tens of millions. - Metro - The Boston Globe Wow! Look at the numbers they are talking about. I had no idea that best selling genre fiction writers made that much...

http://news.yahoo.com/erdrich-wins-national-book-award-fiction-032529260.html;_ylt=A2KJjb2ZqqRQ1wMAHy3QtDMD Seems like this should be a bigger deal. It wasn't on the home page of any of the news sites I visit regularly.

Amazon picks its 10 best books of 2012 | Shelf Life | EW.com Number 1 was The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich. I didn't read it, but the synopsis in the article tells me why it was number one - a coming of age story. Can't wait to see it get the Pulitzer. I didn't read any of the books in...

Reading 125 Titles A Year? That's 'One For The Books' : NPR Joe Queenan is a humorist and some of his comments are tongue in cheek. However, he makes it clear which side of the fence he is on when it comes to "high brow vs. low brow" literature. He discounts genre fiction and he absolutely...

Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth Since 2007 Self pubbing is growing in leaps and bounds. Nearly a quarter of a million titles were released last year, that's a crowded field to stand out in.

The Addict (Cafe Noodle online gig, track 4) - YouTube

Subtitled 50 years of reporting in Washington, it's his very detaled memoirs with precise dates, locations and names. If you don't remember Novak, he's the one who stirred controversy by mentioning the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame in print. He begins the book giving his side of the Plame...

This makes the second military/political thriller I've read recently that was a thinly disguised right-wing diatribe against the weak and liberal left. However, it's not a bad book. The plot revolves around an ex-Navy SEAL, (is everybody an ex-Navy SEAL now?), now in the CIA chasing down Islamic...

Hasn't been released yet, here's a little pre-release publicity: Hitchhiker writing 'The Kindness of America' memoir shot by motorist in Montana - U.S. News

And I like it a lot. In fact, they are stealing one of my ideas by adding color to the market data section. The charts of the market indexes are now on a blue background with red markers for down days and green markers for up days. Newspapers don't carry stock tables anymore, those columns of...

It's apparently a celebration where people known as 'givers' pass out free books to adults on April 23. The givers receive 30 free books from the WBN organization and distribute them according the guidelines. It began last year in the UK and will be observed in the US this year. I had never...

Doesn't sell newspapers anymore. Seriously. Saturdays with the WSJ and LA Times were one of the highlights of my weekend, but now the only place within walking distance that carries the WSJ is Starbucks, and I ain't waiting in line behind 15 latte drinkers to get a paper. I'm stuck with IBD and...

Williams & Graham opens tomorrow - Denver Restaurants and Dining - Cafe Society A bookstore with a speakeasy in the back? I'm SO there!

Gannett Chairman, CEO resigns, citing disability - Yahoo! Finance MCLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Media company Gannett says its chairman and CEO is resigning due to health issues. Craig A. Dubow, 56, a 30-year veteran of the company, has been Gannett's CEO since 2005. He began his second medical...

Subtitled The Story of Success. It tells the stories of successful people from a very different perspective. We've all heard about Bill Gates of course, but is it really true that he was just a hard working genius who worked his way to the top? There was more to it than that, and Gladwell gets...