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...haven't read all the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses? Actually, you haven't read any of it, have you? No big deal, says Pierre Bayard, author of French bestseller How Do You Talk About Books You Haven't Read?; neither has he. And that doesn't stop him from sharing his "very positive" opinion about it. Bayard, a psychoanalyst and University of Paris literature professor, wants to reassure students and bibliophobes that just knowing about a book as opposed to having read it is no reason for shame. "Even the most cultivated among us have enormous gaps...
...destroying our democracy," as Volker Kauder, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union faction in the Bundestag, said recently. Others insist on a cooler approach. "Terrorism is a challenge for all of us," said Wolfgang Kraushaar, a political scientist at Hamburg's Institute for Social Research and co-author and editor of a 2006 history of the RAF. "But this was 30 years ago. It is important to draw a line...
...Russian mogul. You know all the while that there's a parched, nasty world out there, just waiting to correct their follies, and that the consolations of love and sex and art, which Smiley endorses all through this lovely book, won't really protect them. But our author lives up to her name in the best way. She blesses those people, shortcomings...
Ironically it's the forgettable movies that tend to play best in the courts. Author Clive Cussler and Denver financier Philip Anschutz are suing each other over the 2005 action dud Sahara, the film that led to the romance between stars MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY and PENELOPE CRUZ. Anschutz, who paid Cussler $10 million for the book rights, says the author lied about how popular his books were, rejected other writers' scripts without reading them and bad-mouthed the movie to the press before its release. Cussler says producers reneged on a contract that awarded him more control over the film. McConaughey...
...author knows the limits of his considerable salesmanship. He offers a very un-Barnum-like aside to his readers: "Wake up, Tinkerbell," he writes. "There's no secret formula. There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you--unless your potion is hard work...