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...Doubleday Books...
...sale makes Bertelsmann, based in Gutersloh, Germany, the leader in American publishing. It's just more evidence that in a world of global-media companies, assets don't care what address they call home. Bertelsmann, known for its hands-off reputation with its other U.S. publishing division, Bantam Doubleday Dell (BDD), will maintain the Random House name and keep the editorial operation independent. But the new two-volume division will get much greater leverage with agents, authors and booksellers...
...exposing her midriff. The book sold well and established Wurtzel as a hipster social critic even though it dealt entirely with the subject of herself. Now, looking more self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer to see big pictures of themselves on book jackets when stock art would do. Unless such women tame themselves, Wurtzel bemoans, they...
...other legal news: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a ruling that John Grisham's novel "The Chamber" did not infringe on a nonfiction work written by serial killer Ted Bundy's last lawyer, Polly Nelson. She had sued Grisham and Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, alleging the novel was too similar to her copyrighted book "Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer." A U.S. district court dismissed the case before it went to trial after an "exhaustive examination of both books" showed them to be substantially dissimilar. The decision was affirmed...
This summer, Doubleday published the bookHalfway Heaven: Diary of a HarvardMurder--written by former Harvard writinginstructor Melanie Thernstrom '87--whichchallenged Harvard's advising system and chargedthe University with "calculated efforts towhitewash [its role in] the story...