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8 By Emily Witt 11/01/11 12:47pm

Tomes

Johnson.

Robert Caro’s Fourth Volume of LBJ Bio Coming in May

Having worked on his exhaustive biography of Lyndon B. Johnson for almost three decades, Robert A. Caro has delivered the manuscript for the fourth installment, leaving only one more volume before the magnum opus is complete. The Passage of Power will be published by Knopf in May, continuing the story begun in The Path to Power (1982), Means of Ascent (1990) and Master of the Senate (2002). Mr. Caro has already won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and the books have collectively sold more than 1 million copies. Read More

10 By Emily Witt 8/15/11 1:05am

Book Deals

Lin.

Tao Lin Announces Five-Figure Sale of Taipei, Taiwan to Vintage; Tim O’Connell, ‘Prolific Tweeter,’ to Edit

As the foremost chronicler of the young novelist Tao Lin's every whim, The Observer was hoping we might break the story of Tao Lin's next book deal, which he announced he was shopping a couple weeks back. Then, on a Sunday when our moods were already dampened by incessant rain and the looming prospect of Monday, Mr. Lin wrote to inform us that we had lost the story to Mike Vilensky at The Wall Street Journal. So he granted us an interview. Read More

4 By Emily Witt 7/19/11 11:04am

Book Deals

Gates.

Robert Gates Signs Two-Book Deal With Knopf

Robert Gates just retired from his job as secretary of defense. Now, of course, he is writing not one but two books. The first, to be published in 2013, will be a memoir about his experience as the only secretary of defense to serve two different presidents from both parties while at war the entire Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 5/19/09 9:43pm

Bai to Boo Boomers in New Book

Matt Bai did not want to write his second book just about Barack Obama. What he wanted, he said recently, were “stationary targets” that would allow him to run at his own pace. He wanted a subject that wouldn’t involve the kind of reporting where his face would be “pressed up against the glass.”

So Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 5/19/08 7:35pm

Marty Asher On His Departure from Vintage Anchor

Editors and other staff at the Knopf Publishing Group were informed this morning that Marty Asher, who has served as editor-in-chief of the company's paperback division Vintage Anchor for two decades, had decided to step down in favor of a quieter, less administrative job as an editor-at-large at Knopf.

The announcement had been in the Read More

By Gillian Reagan 12/03/07 6:43pm

Carving Out the Editors

James Campbell of The Guardian considers "restorations" through the publication of Raymond Carver's short stories with handy slicing and rewriting work of his editor Gordon Lish taken out. On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Native Son by Richard Wright are other restoration cases that have drawn attention in the past few years.

The Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 8/23/07 12:11pm

The War Over War and Peace

Two new translations of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace will be published in the United States this fall, one claiming to be the definitive version and the other claiming to be the long lost, more accessible first draft.

The first translation, out on Knopf in October, is by all-stars Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It Read More

By David Foxley 4/23/07 11:17am

Bernstein Writes the Book on Hillary

Carl Bernstein's next book: A biography of Hillary Clinton.

The deal is with Alfred A. Knopf, according to a press release issued this morning.

The title, A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, seems a rather hopeful one given her current presidential bid.

The Watergate hero's book will be released on June 19, with a Read More

By Emily Bobrow 10/16/06 12:00am

A Pair of Atheists Agree: Time to Let Go of God

Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris. Alfred A. Knopf, 96 pages, $16.95. With the publication in 1976 of The Selfish Gene, in which he argued that genes—not individuals—­are the key units of natural selection, Richard Dawkins made his grand entrance into the world of evolutionary biology. A rakish lecturer on zoology at Oxford, Read More

By Emily Bobrow 10/16/06 12:00am

A Pair of Atheists Agree: Time to Let Go of God

Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris. Alfred A. Knopf, 96 pages, $16.95.

With the publication in 1976 of The Selfish Gene, in which he argued that genes—not individuals—­are the key units of natural selection, Richard Dawkins made his grand entrance into the world of evolutionary biology. A rakish lecturer on zoology at Oxford, Read More
By Ann Fabian 6/06/05 12:00am

American Terrorist and Martyr, His Soul Goes Marching On

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by David S. Reynolds. Alfred A. Knopf, 578 pages, $35.

On Nov. 7, 1959, The Chicago Defender commemorated the centennial of John Brown's death: "The paradox of Brown's idealistic goals and his fearless methods are still being argued in college Read More