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April 16, 2010

Bookreporter.com Facebook Roundup for the Week of April 12th

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Laura Lippman's Baltimore-based Tess Monaghan series will be adapted for a television production. Her husband, David Simon, is the creator of The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Streets. Lots of cop talk in that house!

 

Excellent interview with Neil Gaiman about the importance of libraries, librarians and community. Gaiman was the honorary chairman for National Library Week.

 

Katie Crouch shares a playlist for the protagnoist in her latest novel, MEN AND DOGS, out now.

 

Columbia Pictures has purchased the English-language rights for Stieg Larsson's international bestselling Millenium series, with production to begin next year on THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.

 

Call it the Twilight effect! Sales of WUTHERING HEIGHTS have quadrupled since the series exploded.

 

An interesting article about Pulitzer winner Paul Harding's roundabout route to publish TINKERS. It's all paid off! For a full list of the 2010 Pulitzer winners, click here.

 

Martin Scorsese is killing two birds with one stone. He's going 3D AND Young Adult Lit with his adaptation of Brian Selznick's Caldecott winner THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET. Scorses has never done either before.