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    Mar 22, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Publishers Weekly's surprising sales tally for 2009

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    Publishers Weekly's final tally of 2009 books sales has a few surprises. Who would have guessed that California author Lisa See was selling as many books as E.L. Doctorow and Margaret Atwood put together? Or that political tomes from Sarah......
    2. Aug 14, 2009 |Resource Link| Los Angeles Times

  2. Dan Brown fans won't have to wait for ebook

    3. Sep 19, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Pope: Wrong Words, Right Concern

    CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, the Roman Catholic Church does not hold that the pope is infallible in everything he says. Pope Benedict XVI underscored that doctrinal fine point Sunday when he said he was "deeply sorry" about the controversy concerning his...

    Tags: Germany, Roman Catholicism, Ruhollah Khomeini, Career and Workplace, Islam

    4. May 11, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican' by Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner

    MICHELANGELO studied the Kabbalah and Talmud? It's all right there, above our heads, as Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner demonstrate in their fascinating study of the Sistine Chapel, <b>"The Sistine Secrets" </b>(HarperOne: 336 pp., $26.95). I understand the desire to reach Dan Brown's audience with the book's provocative subtitle -- "Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican" -- but this book is hardly a "Da Vinci Code" knockoff. The authors, both experts on Judaica, scoured Michelangelo's work and found many oddities, raising such questions as: Why does the serpent in Eden have arms? Why, in that scene, is the Tree of Knowledge a fig tree instead of an apple tree? And, hey, why does the shape of "The Last Judgment" resemble the tablets of the Ten Commandments?
    MICHELANGELO studied the Kabbalah and Talmud? It's all right there, above our heads, as Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner demonstrate in their fascinating study of the Sistine Chapel, "The Sistine Secrets" (HarperOne: 336 pp., $26.95). I understand the...

    Tags: Vatican City, Philosophy, Judaism

    5. May 18, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Faithful Filmmakers Unable to Crack the `Code' for Thrills

    At the heart of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" is the Priory of Sion, an organization set up to vigilantly protect "one of the most powerful secrets ever kept." Once Brown's thriller became one of the fastest-selling books of all time, a similar...

    Tags: Ian McKellen, Roman Catholicism, Entertainment, Sony Corp., The Da Vinci Code (movie)

    6. May 24, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Los Angeles Times bestsellers for May 24, 2009

    <b>Fiction</b>
    Fiction 1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith ($12.95) 2. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 3. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ($15) 4. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 5. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Jane Austen, David Oliver, Stephenie Meyer, Malcolm Gladwell

    7. Jun 8, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Da Vinci code of justice

    NO ONE OWNS THE FACTS OF HISTORY. Two British historians, however, are claiming title to a juicy historical myth at the core of the bestseller "The Da Vinci Code," and their claim should trouble anyone whose book or film was inspired by someone else's...

    Tags: Entertainment, The Da Vinci Code (movie), Cinema Industry, History, William Shakespeare

    8. Dec 7, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. The Siren's Call: New narratives, old myths

    Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by <b>Kate Summerscale's </b>splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, <b>"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" </b>(Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).
    Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by Kate Summerscale's splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" (Walker: 380 pp., $24.95). In 1860, the...

    Tags: Entertainment, Monsters (legendary creatures), Folklore and Mythology, Death, Wilkie Collins

    9. May 10, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Los Angeles Times bestsellers for May 10, 2009

    <b>Fiction</b>
    Fiction 1. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ($15) 2. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 3. City of Thieves by David Benioff ($15) 4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga ($14) 5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Christopher Hitchens, Jane Austen, David Oliver, Stephenie Meyer

    10. May 17, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Los Angeles Times bestsellers for May 17, 2009

    Fiction 1. City of Thieves by David Benioff ($15) 2. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ($15) 3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery ($15) 4. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 5. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 6. New Moon by...

    Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Barack Obama, David Oliver, Stephenie Meyer, Malcolm Gladwell

    11. Mar 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. 'Drood' by Dan Simmons and 'The Last Dickens' by Matthew Pearl

    So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer?
    So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer? That's what I thought, eyeing the titles of Dan Simmons' and Matthew Pearl's new novels. At last. The story of Dickens' final book is...

    Tags: Trips and Vacations, Charles Dickens, Social Issues, Juvenile Delinquency, Death

    12. Sep 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Same game, different rules

    Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that tapped into so many genres -- a little history, a little mystery, a little romance, all wrapped up in a cloak of mathematics-minded geek girl heroines in two time periods two centuries apart. Classification was nearly impossible. As publishing gambles go, this one was gargantuan: If the book failed, it would take an entire storied name, one that embodied a revolution in the way people read and bought books, down with it. That book did not fail. Instead, <b>"The Eight" </b>(Ballantine: 624 pp., $14.95 paper) became an international bestseller -- one that allowed Ballantine to repeat the same risk and reward the following year with <b>"The Quincunx" </b>(Ballantine: 800 pp., $20 paper), Charles Palliser's 500,000-word Dickensian thriller. The very lack of classification enabled "The Eight" and its author, Katherine Neville, to find a wide, devoted readership because it wasn't like anything else that had been published before. Not because it was unique -- there are nods to "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "G&#246;del, Escher, Bach," "The Name of the Rose" and much else in popular culture and otherwise -- but because of Neville's ability to synthesize a whole host of historical and contemporary concepts in a way that made readers respond as if the work was unique. It's a brainier, more feminist precursor to the bestselling behemoth that is Dan Brown's <b>"The Da Vinci Code" </b>(Anchor: 496 pp., $7.99 paper).
    Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that...

    Tags: Death, Chess Playing, Entertainment, Lord Byron, New Year's Day

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