The $5 Million Ghost Story
Celia McGee has been the media columnist of the New York Daily News and the publishing columnist for The New York Observer. She currently covers the arts and publishing for The New York Times and others.
Audrey Niffenegger's ghostly new novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, cost Scribner $33 a word. Celia McGee writes that even at that price, it might just be a bargain.
Audrey Niffenegger's Book Picks
Audrey Niffenegger is best known for her debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife. Her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, is due out in the fall of 2009.
The author of bestseller The Time Traveler's Wife recommends a few of her favorite reads, from Margaret Atwood's book on writing to a T.H. White classic.
Blockbuster Book Deals
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
Everyone from Britney to Bush has been offered a megabucks book deal this year. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the most lavish contracts.
Rumors are swirling that publishers offered up anywhere from $7 million to $11 million for Sarah Palin's memoir, which might shed light on the (hop...
Sully Is a Poet?
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Did you know it? America's favorite pilot "Sully" Sullenberger landed a two-book deal today worth more than $3 million. In a Daily Beast exclusive, Sara Nelson reports the second book will be...poetry.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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