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...village of Mayibout, Gabon. It is hard to imagine a more frightening report: ever since the first known outbreak in 1976, the virulent Ebola virus has been near the top of every Central African's list of the worst ways to die. With the 1994 publication of the best seller The Hot Zone, that fear had gone global. The symptoms--catastrophic hemorrhaging, bloody diarrhea and the literal disintegration of one organ after another--were Ebola-like, all right. But the locals needed expert help to make sure. The U.N. organization rushed a team to the scene and, reports Dr. David...
Ever since his collection of moral tales, The Book of Virtues, began its 88-week ride on the New York Times best-seller list, Bennett has plumbed and profited from America's anxiety over the decline in standards of moral behavior. The success of his first Virtues anthology spawned two profitable sequels and a cartoon show, which debuted last week on PBS. Meanwhile, he has co-written a new book called Body Count, to be published this month, which blames the rise of young criminal predators on a "moral poverty" born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too-easy divorce...
...crisp snap of an October morn. The distant roar of a football stadium. The chatty drone of Oscar hopefuls being hyped. The inescapable thud as Michael Crichton's next best seller hits bookstores every-where. Yes, fall brings not only nature's harvest but culture's as well. A selective look at the new season's glories...
...lackluster season for sales. High-profile disappointments have included the well-reviewed Rose by Martin Cruz Smith and Petru Popescu's Almost Adam, a well-hyped (and widely panned) thriller about early man. Some agents even blame the slump on King for crowding competitors off shelves and best-seller lists with his flotilla of Green Mile installments. Others in the industry see more pandemic ills, citing a trend toward increasingly larger advances paid to authors, and the increasingly larger printings that are subsequently ordered in an eager effort to make a profit...
...introduction to the first volume of The Green Mile, he writes, "Most of the second chapter was written during a rain delay at Fenway Park!" Throw in a couple of pitching changes for revisions, and Anne Rice had better start watching her back on the hardcover best-seller list...