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...funny way of turning out to be about humans. Oh, the horses are in there, all right, but they are unknowable observers--they watch the action around them with their long, silent faces, seeming a little bemused by all the high jinks they inspire. Last year's best seller Seabiscuit (out in paperback this week) was an unforgettable read, but the horse was the least interesting thing about it. The fun is in the human menagerie that collects around a top racehorse...
...School, knew that he was taking a chance by giving his book such a controversial title. But his gamble has paid off, says PW. There are over 70,000 copies of "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" (Pantheon) in print, and it has appeared on various best-seller lists, including the NYT nonfiction list at No. 8. The book is No. 18 on the extended 4/7 NYT nonfiction list...
This fear has been made acute by the unexpected success of The Nanny Diaries (St. Martin's; $24.95), a novel of bad manners set on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The book is in its sixth printing and in ninth place on the New York Times fiction best-seller list. The film rights have been sold to Miramax for a reported $500,000. And the first-time authors, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, two peppy twentysomething graduates of New York University, have been all over the morning television shows...
...European engineers start a company in Switzerland, take it public, move the headquarters to California and recruit a marketing whiz from APPLE to run it. The company evolves from a humble provider of computer mice to a seller of everything from cordless keyboards to webcams. And then it goes bust, right? That's the way the story is supposed to end in this grim, post-bubble era. But LOGITECH is defying that logic...
...found himself on best-seller lists across the country with What Went Wrong, a book that looks at how the Middle East has responded to increasing Western dominance over the past several centuries...