Book News, In Brief

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy 20th birthday dear fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Happy birthday to you!


It's happened to all of us: A favorite book is reissued...with a cringe-inducing movie still replacing the original cover art. The Australian commiserates.


Considering how the economy is doing these days, I don't know if this is a list to avoid, or a list to mimic: The Top 25 Books that Corporate America is Currently Reading.


China is in the midst of a literary renaissance, with hundreds of thousands of new novels and novelists popping up in the past few years. So what's fueling the book boom? The internet, of course. CNN reports: "In America, people have the American dream. In China, people have the online dream."


The release of an unauthorized biography about New York Yankee, Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez, has been bumped up a month in an effort to capitalize on recent revelations regarding the batter's bouts with steroids. Whether Hit and Run: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez will include the syringe-shaped bookmark I recommended to the publisher remains to be seen.