BOOK NEWS
Tina Brown’s take on Princess Di
This summer marks the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash. There are now an estimated 180 books in print in the United States chronicling her pop-culture fable alternately comic and tragic, squalid and majestic.
At least 14 new Diana titles are set for publication this year, but no one has more at stake in rekind ling that interest than Tina Brown, the former high-profile editor of the New Yorker and Vanity Fair who banked a “healthy seven-figure advance” from Bertelsmann AG’s Doubleday imprint for “The Diana Chronicles,” according to the publisher. It hits the shelves June 12. Wall Street Journal Online
Insider scoop on Bush
Scott McClellan, the former spokesman for President Bush, has something to say – which is news in itself. McClellan has signed with PublicAffairs to write a memoir due to be published in 2008. According to PublicAffairs, “the book will take readers behind the scenes of the Bush presidency, covering both strengths and weaknesses, successes and shortcomings with refreshing candor.”|Publishers Weekly
FIRST LINE
Between, Georgia
by Joshilyn Jackson
The war began thirty years, nine months, and seven days ago, when I was deaf and blind, floating silent and serene inside Hazel Crabtree. I was secreted in Hazel’s womb, which was cloaked in her pale and freckled skin, which was in turn hidden by the baggy sweatsuits she adopted so she would look fat instead of pregnant. Which was ridiculous, because who ever heard of a fat Crabtree? They were all tall and weedy, slouching like wilting stems, red hair blooming out the top.”
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