The Book Business

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April 16, 2006

Here's a conundrum. Some say the number of Americans who read books for pleasure is at an all time low, yet the internet's teeming with literary blogs, and just about everyone who cares about writing has a manuscript of their own stashed in a desk drawer somewhere. In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, the book business. Steve Berry talks about writing three books at once and Zadie Smith pays tribute to E.M. Forster. Also, the Editor-in-Chief of Publisher's Weekly gives us the recipe for a best-seller.

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British novelist Zadie Smith tells Steve Paulson why she admires writers who don’t sound just like her. Her book “On Beauty” owes a lot to E.M. Forster...

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April 15, 2007
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