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...that has changed. Two of the biggest, megabillion-dollar entertainment franchises in the world, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, come from fantasy novels. A group of outrageously talented writers is busy rescuing fantasy from under a mountain of New Age junk, collectible card games and heavy-metal album covers: J.K. Rowling, of course, but also Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, China Mieville and George R.R. Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera...
...madness" is also breaking out among relatively pint-size companies, which seal new relationships in the cafeteria and celebrate with interpersonal mingling that can involve the whole staff. These not-so-big deals sometimes seem to occur in a business world altogether different from the one inhabited by the megabillion-bucks monsters. Witness the just completed merger of Personify and Anubis, two California e-commerce companies...
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