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Author of ‘Conversations With God’ Admits Essay Wasn’t His
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Neale Donald Walsch says he convinced himself that he had written an essay that was actually written by Candy Chand.
Author of ‘Conversations With God’ Admits Essay Wasn’t His

A personal Christmas tale posted online by the author Neale Donald Walsch turns out to belong to someone else — the writer Candy Chand, who first published it 10 years ago.

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'Appetite for Self-Destruction'

Steve Knopper’s stark accounting of the mistakes major record labels have made in the digital era suggests they are largely responsible for their own demise.

Winfrey Web Site Notes Fabricated Memoir

Oprah.com, the Web site of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” has posted a disclaimer acknowledging that Herman Rosenblat admitted he had invented portions of his Holocaust memoir.

Richard Seaver, Publisher, Dies at 82

Mr. Seaver defied censorship and conventional literary standards to bring works by rabble-rousing authors like Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller and William Burroughs to American readers.

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'Lark and Termite'

Jayne Anne Phillips’s intricate, deeply felt new novel fuses wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original.

Executives Replaced at Borders as Sales Fall

The book retailer said that George L. Jones would be succeeded by Ron Marshall, a private equity executive with experience turning around ailing companies.

Laura Bush Signs Deal for Her Memoirs

Scribner has acquired Mrs. Bush’s not-yet-titled book, which will include her experiences in the White House, and plans to publish it in 2010.

Puttin’ Off the Ritz: The New Austerity in Publishing

Amid a relentless string of layoffs and pay-freeze announcements, book publishers are clamping down on some of the business’s most glittery and cozy traditions.

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'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death'

Charlie Huston has written a smoking-hot new crime novel.

Footsteps
Kyoto Celebrates a 1,000-Year Love Affair

This city, known for its shrines and blazing autumn hills, is celebrating the millennial anniversary of an ancient book about love and loss among the imperial set.

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'The Invention of Air'

Steven Johnson’s portrait of the 18th-century chemist, theologian and perennial agitator Joseph Priestley is also a lament about the intellectual specialization of our modern age.

Donald E. Westlake, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 75

The prolific, award-winning novelist pounded out more than 100 books and five screenplays during his career.

Sunday Book Review
'The Mercy Papers'

In Robin Romm’s account of her mother’s death from cancer, her fury is transformed into an instrument for pursuing truth.

'Somebody'

The first serious Brando biography since his death includes a survey of his posthumous legacy.

'Things I've Been Silent About'

The author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” fleshes out personal stories left untold or half-told in her earlier work.

'Downtown Owl'

In Chuck Klosterman’s first novel: nostalgia, angst and football.

'The Red Convertible'

In her new story collection, Louise Erdrich chronicles Native American ways, but also captures the voices of multitudes.

'Mrs. Astor Regrets'

A journalist reports on the family drama surrounding Brooke Astor’s decline.

'Chicago'

The novelist Alaa Al Aswany places his emigré characters in post-9/11 Chicago.

'Hitler’s Private Library'

A tantalizing study of Hitler’s book collection and what it says about the man.

'Graham Greene: A Life in Letters'

Graham Greene’s letters reveal a man in constant search of “the exciting thing” -- the insurgencies and coups of the world.

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Christopher Hibbert, 84, Lively Historian, Dies

Mr. Hibbert won a wide readership with his popular approach to historical subjects.

Essay
America, ‘Amerika’

A new translation of Kafka’s unfinished first novel, set in a dream-world that is not quite America.

Samuel Huntington and the Positivity of Power Thinking

Samuel Huntington, the political theorist who died on Dec. 24, demonstrated the potency and peril of the big idea.

The Plot Curdles

A modest proposal for bailing out the publishing industry.

Still Paging Mr. Salinger

Revered for “The Catcher in the Rye” and the Glass family, J. D. Salinger remains elusive on his 90th birthday.

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The Girl in the Green Raincoat

Last chapter: Tess Monaghan, recognizing that her best friend ran true to Don Epstein’s type, asked Whitney to flirt with the man. And Whitney, as it happened, didn’t mind.

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