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AP source: Palin book sells big in first week

NEW YORK—Sarah Palin appears well on her way to becoming a million-selling author. "Going Rogue" sold 700,000 copies -- a number that includes pre-orders -- in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close to the former Alaska ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin

Serie A and B Weekend Round-up: Giornata 13

If you have not commented here before, please take a moment to peruse our Commenting Guidelines. A day of coaching changes in Serie A. At his first press conference as Palermo boss back in the summer, Walter Zenga famously said his objective ...

From ITALY, Soccer Blogs,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lega Calcio Serie A,  Walter Zenga,  Delio Rossi

Book awards honor Colum McCann, Eggers, Vidal

Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner Dave Eggers declared that we live in a golden age. The evening's host, Andy Borowitz, joked that the ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Gore Vidal,  Dave Eggers,  Andy Borowitz,  Rosa Parks

Costinha plays for Atalanta. Oh you didn’t know? Neither did anybody.

As the title reads, former Portuguese international and ex-Mourinho pupil Costinha plays for Atalanta and is probably the biggest waste of money in all of Italian football today. Back in the summer of 2007, Costinha’s contract expired at Atletico ...

From ITALY, Soccer Blogs,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Costinha (footballer),  Atletico Madrid,  Cristiano Doni (footballer),  Lamborghini

Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction

A novel set in the pre-digital world of 1970s New York City and a biography of one of the city's most famous sons are among this year's National Book Award winners. Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, eTaiwan News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Gore Vidal,  Dave Eggers

Novelist Colum McCann wins book award

NEW YORK—Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards. McCann, who has called his book an act of hope written in ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Rosa Parks,  Bonnie Jo Campbell,  Daniyal Mueenuddin,  Marcel Theroux

Tales of rich and poor loom large at book awards

NEW YORK—Stories of rich and poor are common themes among Wednesday night's nominees for the National Book Awards. Finalists included Bonnie Jo Campbell's short fiction about hard times in Michigan, "American Salvage"; Daniyal Mueenuddin's tales of the ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry Ford,  Bonnie Jo Campbell,  Daniyal Mueenuddin,  Marcel Theroux,  Colum McCann

Gazzetta editor’s 10 questions he demands Lippi answer

If you have not commented here before, please take a moment to peruse our Commenting Guidelines. The Gazzetta dello Sport is arguably the most famous sports newspaper in Italy, selling more copies than rivals Corriere dello Sport and ...

From ITALY, Soccer Blogs,  18 Nov 2009

Karl Rove memoir coming in March

NEW YORK Karl Rove's memoir has a title, "Courage and Consequence," and a release date – March 9, 2010. Rove, the mastermind of George W. Bush's two successful presidential runs and a top White House aide, signed in 2007 with Threshold Editions, a ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, San Diego Union-Tribune,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Karl Rove,  White House,  Simon & Schuster,  Glenn Beck,  Mark Levin

Bobo Vieri is going to live in Brazil for a couple of months, and play some football on the side.

Recently, it was reported everywhere that Christian Vieri was hanging up his boots. Vieri, at one time one of the most feared strikers in all of world football, had given all he had and was going more and more into a decline, so he it looked like he ...

From ITALY, Soccer Blogs,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Christian Vieri,  Lega Calcio Serie A

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