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August 30, 2010

In the News: Books by Convicts and Six-Year-Olds

Murder she wrote: a book of jail-time correspondence by Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of murdering her flatmate in Italy, will be published in October.

The six-year-old British author Leo Hunter has signed a twenty-three book deal with Strategic Book Publishing.

Agatha Christie's family has criticized Wikipedia for giving away the ending of "The Mousetrap."

John Cusack will star in James McTeigue's film "The Raven," a thriller about the the last five days of Edgar Allan Poe's life.

Online only: future editions of the Oxford English Dictionary will likely not be printed.

The journalist Jules Loh died Sunday at the age of seventy-nine.

From the Cooper Union to the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, Mark Twain enthusiasts explore the author's New York stomping grounds on the centennial of his death.

Andrew Pettegree, the author of "The Book in the Renaissance," on the period when books were so new that no one quite knew how to sell them.

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