October 27, 2005

From Roberto Takata on DINOSAUR:

A group of paleontologist of Luteran University at Cachoeira do Sul anounced that a fossil finding could represent a new species of Triassic carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs.

The specimen resembles a big herrarasaurid/staurikosaurid. Vertebrae, teeth, phalanges, limb components and others yet unindentified bones was found - together they suggest a 5m-long animal.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u13925.shtml [in Portuguese]

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Science Phile at 10/27/2005 02:55:00 PM

From Roberto Takata on DINOSAUR:

A group of paleontologist of Luteran University at Cachoeira do Sul anounced that a fossil finding could represent a new species of Triassic carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs.

The specimen resembles a big herrarasaurid/staurikosaurid. Vertebrae, teeth, phalanges, limb components and others yet unindentified bones was found - together they suggest a 5m-long animal.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u13925.shtml [in Portuguese]

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Publishers Marketplace:

Glynnis Walker’s DIRTY LITTLE SECRET: The Deliberate Destruction of the Middle Class and the Feminization of Poverty, weaving the author’s personal narrative of an unexpected descent into poverty and homelessness with research on the causes of poverty among women, to Brooke Warner at Avalon

A long-winded way of saying “poor me.”

Taschen:

An uncanny feel for what will sell, combined with a flair for provocation and self-promotion, has helped establish the Taschen name near the top of the art publishing world. His business model of large print runs and low prices shook the elite world of art publishing, spawning some imitators and frustrating other publishers.

Let’s cut through the clutter, as the IHT and PublishersLunch were unwilling to do. Taschen publishes a lot of books that are just plain pornographic trash. Financial success does not change that.

This Hilarious Homage Should Temporarily Satiate Your Craving for Dan Brown’s Next Thriller:

This Hilarious Homage Should Temporarily Satiate Your Craving for Dan Brown’s Next Thriller

“E.R. Escober’s The Givenchy Code should be a best seller, because Escober does for Dan Brown what Frederick Crews did for Winnie the Pooh, i.e., totally tears him apart in a loving manner and providing the grateful reader with hours of thankful chuckles.”

(PRWEB) October 27, 2005 — Kevin Killian, San Francisco based prolific poet, novelist, critic and playwright, recently reviewed E.R. Escober’s The Givenchy Code. Here’s the full text of the review from someone who really “got” what the author intended out of this hilarious homage to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.

“I picked up E.R. Escober’s book The Givenchy Code an Homage and a Parody on the recommendation of a friend, who saw a copy of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code in a store window, and who told me that he had recently laughed himself silly with this cheeky little parody.

All of Dan Brown’s affectations are affectionately skewered here. In The Da Vinci Code, we learned a lot of history that was sometimes not so subtly disguised as fiction. Same thing occurs in Givenchy. Chapter 55 alone, the history of sparkling wine, is worth the price of this cunning book.

It should be a best seller, because Escober does for Dan Brown what Frederick Crews did for Winnie the Pooh, i.e., totally tears him apart in a loving manner and providing the grateful reader with hours of thankful chuckles. The riddles that Fr. Theo and Puca must solve are mind-numbingly funny, as well as being sort of difficult. For example, What do Superman, Moses, and the Cabbage Patch Kids all have in common?

Instead of The Last Supper, Escober lowers the boom this time on the famous Mona Lisa. She is smiling and you will be too. Enjoy this excellent send up and remember: “The Holy Grail is not a cup!”

The Givenchy Code: An Homage and a Parody is available at Xlibris.Com, Amazon.com and other outlets.

I’ve got a hold for THE GIVENCHY CODE at the fine Ann Arbor District Library.

A “search wiki” for Dan Brown fans. Pretty cool!

Cornell Woolrich to Pegasus:

“Rear Window” author Cornell Woolrich’s NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES, a new edition of the classic noir novel, an archetype of Woolrich’s vision of a bleak universe, to Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus, by Alan Nevins at The Firm (US).

Now this is a brilliant tag line. I have never read anythhing by Cornell Woorlich, but now I want to.

Publishers Marketplace:

Cooking for Kings author Ian Kelly’s CASANOVA, that cuts through popular misconceptions of this extraordinary 18th century figure to illustrate that Casanova is ripe for reevaluation by a 21st century readership, to Rupert Lancaster at Hodder & Stoughton, in a good deal, by Ivan Mulcahy of Mulcahy & Viney

My $64,000 question for this author is, will your book acknowledge the existence of Terry Pratchett’s brilliant Discworld character, Casanunda? Any 21st century re-evaluation of Casanova that doesn’t acknowledge Pratchett’s Casanunda is, imho, fatally blinkered.

Movie revives book sales of ‘In Cold Blood’ - Yahoo! News:

Capote, the biopic about Truman Capote’s writing of In Cold Blood, is rolling out slowly at movie theaters across the country, but sales of the classic, 40-year-old novel already are heating up at bookstores.

Vintage has gone back to press three times with its movie tie-in edition. There are 130,000 books in print, which feature cover art from the original book and a sticker with a photo of
Philip Seymour Hoffman, who stars as the flamboyant author in the film. (Related items : Read our take on Capote’s Summer Crossing | Summer Crossing excerpt)

“Right now, sales of Capote’s books are running 28% ahead of last year,” says Lynne Widli of Barnes & Noble. “In Cold Blood was our top-selling literature title last week, outselling perennial favorites The Great Gatsby, 1984, Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies.”

When first published in 1965, In Cold Blood was an instant sensation. Capote called his book, based on the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family, a “non-fiction novel.” The movie, which opened in limited release Sept. 30, examines the author’s relationship with the killers.

Capote the movie, however, is not based on the novel, but on Capote: A Biography, the critically acclaimed work by Gerald Clarke, first published in 1986 and also seeing a resurgence in interest. Publisher Carroll & Graf has printed 30,000 movie tie-in editions, and sales have increased 30% a week since early September, according to editor in chief Philip Turner. He expects an additional printing soon.

So we can attribute at least 160,000 book sales to this popular movie.

This is pretty cool! Enter your own favorite JKR search terms and they will semi-automagically show up here in a day or two.

Courtesy Eurekster.