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Twilight blitz scheduled in fall.
Little, Brown has announced the fall schedule for its Twilight Saga publishing program. In addition to a movie tie-in for “New Moon,” which arrives in theaters Nov. 20, the house will publish a limited special-edition hardcover of “Breaking Dawn,” along with journals featuring the cover art from the entire series.
The “Breaking Dawn” special edition will feature a DVD of the Breaking Dawn Concert Series, including a performance by Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld and a conversation between author Stephenie Meyer and Furstenfeld. Little, Brown is printing “only” 1 million copies of this edition; it goes on sale Aug. 4 for $24.95. Also that day, the publisher will release a trade paperback edition of “Eclipse,” the third book in the series.
The $24.99 journals set consists of four journals packaged in a tin; on sale Oct. 13. In addition to the mass market tie-in edition of “New Moon,” Little, Brown will also release “New Moon Collector’s Edition,” slipcased with a ribbon bookmark and cloth cover, for $30, and “New Moon: The Complete Movie Illustrated Companion,” for $18.99, both on Oct. 6.
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Maxed Out, by David Collins
Anyone who reads the papers, or watches TV news, or browses the blogs, or even goes out to a dinner party now and then will be familiar with at least the bare bones of the story I am telling here. The scandalous fall and stunning murder of Robert Maxx, after all, made headlines from New York to Tokyo, and were as likely to be discussed in the pubs of London and cafes of Paris as in the luncheonettes of Brooklyn. These were events that resonated everywhere, not only because of their intrinsic drama and lurid complications, but for what they told us about the world we live in, a world defined by wealth and debt, power and envy — and, occasionally but unforgettably, by sudden shocking collapses that are so destructive and messy that they can only end in violence.
Pundits and talk-show personalities couldn’t get enough of the case. Gossip writers who had fed for years on Maxx’s affairs and feuds and lawsuits took a gloating, finger-wagging tone at his demise. Wrote the New York Post, “He died where he lived — at the noisy and treacherous intersection of Celebrity Boulevard and Easy Street.” The Economist put a European spin on his obituary, calling him “an icon of everything the Old World loathes and loves about the New — the arrogance and the energy, the barbarism and zest.”
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