David Cross, who was on the TV series, Arrested Development, appeared on the Daily Show last night to promote his book, I Drink for a Reason. As a result, it rose from #3,001 to #101 in Amazon sales rankings. Libraries are showing one to one reserves on modest orders.

You won’t learn much about the book from this interview. Publishers Weekly said that Cross is “one of the few comedians working today with an easily identifiable comic voice, and his authorial debut ensures that his voice is heard on every page. Mixing bitterness and absurdity, the result is often piercing sarcasm.”

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I Drink for a Reason David Cross Retail Price: $23.99 Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing – (2009-08-31) ISBN / EAN: 0446579483 / 9780446579483

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Also in unabridged audio from Hachette:

• ISBN-13: 978-1600246487; 6 CD’s; $29.98

The audio is downloadable from OverDrive.

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Appearing on the show tonight is Christopher McDougall author of Born to Run, which has been widely reviewed in the consumer press and on the NYT Hardcover and Hardcover extended list since the end of May (it’s currently at #17). Libraries are showing heavy holds, as high as 230 on 30 copies.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall Retail Price: $24.95 Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Knopf – (2009-05-05) ISBN / EAN: 0307266303 / 9780307266309

Also in unabridged audio from Random House:

• ISBN-13: 978-0739383728; unabridged; $39.95

Both book and audio are downloadable from OverDrive.

More news is coming to light about Spike Jonze’s movie of Where The Wild Things Are. The full trailer (as opposed to the “teaser trailer” we posted back in April) is now flying around the web.

The movie was originally scheduled for last year, but according to reports, Warner wanted it to be changed substantially (in tests, it scared kids). It will be released in its original form on Oct. 16. We haven’t heard how that came about, but it’s not hard to imagine that the formidable triumvirate of director Spike Jones, author Maurice Sendak and screenplay writer Dave Eggers managed to face down the studio.

To see a larger version, go to the movie Web site. Also on the site is a video “featurette” of Maurice Sendak talking about how much he admires Jonze’s version of the book. Sendak says it will be controversial; as Dave Eggers says, Spike was interested in “re-fagging” the book, which was controversial in its own time, rather than talking down to kids.

There’s also more information on the Dave Eggers’ tie-in, Wild Things, which is a longer version of the story for 9- to 12-year-olds. This week, The New Yorker features a short story from the book, “Max at Sea.” In an online interview on the New Yorker site, Eggers says the book is different from the screenplay, pushing the story “…into some territory that was personal to me. So in a way the movie is more Spike’s version of Maurice’s book, and this novel is more my version.” He also talks about the fur-covered edition (yes, it’s fake fur).

The Wild Things Dave Eggers Retail Price: $19.95 Hardcover: 300 pages Publisher: McSweeney’s – (2009-10-01) ISBN / EAN: 1934781614 / 9781934781616

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The Wild Things (Fur-covered Edition) Dave Eggers Retail Price: $28.00 Hardcover: 300 pages Publisher: McSweeney’s – (2009-10-01) ISBN / EAN: 1934781622 / 9781934781623

Blackstone is doing an audio version:

• 7 Tapes; 1-4332-9732-8; $59.95
• 1 Playaway; 1-4332-9739-7; $59.99
• 1 MP3CD; 1-4332-9736-6; $29.95
• 8 CD;1-4332-9733-5; $90.00

But, wait, there’s more — it will also be a video game (NOTE: A sharp-eyed reader just pointed out that there is an amusing error on the link; see if you can spot it. It’s the game makers, not ours!):

On her blog today, Stephenie Meyer reports on the books she loved this summer.

She gives the highest praise to Catching Fire, the already eagerly-anticipated follow-up to Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games, coming out in two weeks. Says Meyer, “It not only lived up to my high expectations, it surpassed them.” Holds are heavy in many libraries.

She also gives kudos to Elizabeth Knox’s two-book series, Dreamhunter and Dreamquake.

Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) Suzanne Collins Retail Price: $17.99 Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Scholastic Press – (2009-09-01) ISBN / EAN: 0439023491 / 9780439023498

Also in audio from Scholastic:

• $39.95; 9780545101417
• library edition; $84.95; 9780545101431

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Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet Elizabeth Knox Retail Price: $8.99 Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Square Fish – (2009-02-17) ISBN / EAN: 0312535716 / 9780312535711

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Dreamquake (The Dreamhunter Duet, Book 2) Elizabeth Knox Retail Price: $19.00 Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) – (2007-02-20) ISBN / EAN: 0374318549 / 9780374318543

Here’s an early jump on some titles going on sale next week that we’re likely to be hearing more about (for more titles, check B&N.com’s Coming Soon section).

Phillippa Gregory returns with The White Queen, about Britain’s wars of the Plantagenets, with a more cinematic jacket look than usual for Gregory (perhaps influenced by huge success of the tie-in to the film of The Other Boleyn Girl). People heralds it this week with 3.5 of a possible 4 stars,

…Gregory’s lush detail and deft storytelling are all in top form here, making The White Queen both mesmerizing and historically rich.

Libraries we checked showed high reserves on orders of up to 56 copies. This is the first of a planned trilogy.

The White Queen: A Novel Philippa Gregory Retail Price: $25.99 Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Touchstone – (2009-08-18) ISBN / EAN: 1416563687 / 9781416563686

Audio available from Simon & Schuster Audio

• CD: $29.99; ISBN 9780743582292

Large print available from Thorndike

• $34.95; ISBN 9781410419309

Gail Parkin’s debut novel Baking Cakes in Kigali is an Indie Next pick for September. Set in Rwanda, it features a woman who finds healing after the losses of her two grown children, as we mentioned in an earlier post. Libraries we checked are showing modest reserves and under 10 copies on order. This could be a sleeper.

Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel Gaile Parkin Retail Price: $24.00 Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Delacorte Press – (2009-08-18) ISBN / EAN: 0385343434 / 9780385343435

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater by New York Times food critic Frank Bruni gets a B+ in Entertainment Weekly. Libraries are showing modest reserves on modest orders. Our guess is that it’s likely to get enough review attention to change that.

Born Round Frank Bruni Retail Price: $25.95 Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Penguin Press Hardcover – (2009-07-21) ISBN / EAN: 9781594202315/1594202311

Also available on Penguin Audio

• CD: $39.95: ISBN 9780143145240

Can the world get enough of lolcats – those pictures of cats doing something cute with cheekily misspelled captions that are as ubiquitous on the web as cat hair in a cat lover’s house? There’s already one book, I Can Has Cheezburger, which is available in 167 libraries according to World Cat. And now a second book is coming in September: How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning.

This week, Time magazine features the company behind icanhascheezburger.com and over 20 other related sites. Perhaps we shouldn’t be giving it more attention; one librarian told us that EarlyWord was the first site she checked every day. After we mentioned icanhascheezburger.com, we were demoted to #2.

I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun Professor Happycat, icanhascheezburger.com Retail Price: $10.00 Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Gotham – (2008-10-07) ISBN / EAN: 159240409X / 9781592404094

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How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning Professor Happycat, icanhascheezburger.com Retail Price: $12.00 Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Gotham – (2009-09-01) ISBN / EAN: 1592405169 / 9781592405169

On this week’s New York Times bestseller list, Sherrilyn Kenyon lands in the #1 spot with Bad Moon Rising, her eighth title to achieve that position, according to her website. However, libraries are not so high on her – those we checked have only 12 -48 copies, with holds ranging from 34 to 123.

Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels) Sherrilyn Kenyon Retail Price: $24.99 Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press – (2009-08-04) ISBN / EAN: 0312369492 / 9780312369491

That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo rises to #2, helped by intense review coverage and some critical controversy, as we mentioned in an earlier post. Libraries we checked have received their orders (from 29 to 206 copies), and show substantial holds (from 200 to 250).

That Old Cape Magic Richard Russo Retail Price: $25.95 Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Knopf – (2009-08-04) ISBN / EAN: 0375414967 / 9780375414961

Available from Random House Audio

• CD $40; ISBN 9780739318928

Random House Large Print

• $26; ISBN 9780739328613

Kathleen Stockett’s debut novel, The Help, rises to #3. We’ve written about the book several times, but libraries we checked still have heavy holds (from 107 to 595) on anywhere from 64 to 129 copies. Given the demand, and the book’s upward trajectory (last week it was at #4) perhaps it’s time to order even more (libraries have been steadily adding copies, but demand continues to outstrip supply). It’s a long wait for the paperback; scheduled for release February 2, 2010.

The Help Kathryn Stockett Retail Price: $24.95 Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books – (2009-02-10) ISBN / EAN: 0399155341 / 9780399155345

Also on audio:

• Audio CD: $39.95, Unabridged
• Publisher: Penguin Audio;  (February 10, 2009)
• ISBN-10: 0143144189
• ISBN-13: 978-0143144182

Large Type:

• Hardcover: $32.95; 721 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press (May 2009)
• ISBN-10: 1410415538
• ISBN-13: 978-1410415530

Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice lands at #5, helped by last week’s major reviews, with holds and copies lower than for Russo’s That Old Cape Magic in the libraries we checked (orders ranged from 9- 29 copies, with holds from 17 to 145).

Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon Retail Price: $27.95 Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The – (2009-08-04) ISBN / EAN: 1594202249 / 9781594202247

Also available from Penguin Audiobooks

• CD: $39.95; ISBN 9780143144762

And finally, Winds of Dune appears at #15. Libraries we checked are in good shape, with few reserves on modest orders.

The Winds of Dune Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson Retail Price: $27.99 Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Tor Books – (2009-08-04) ISBN / EAN: 0765322722 / 9780765322722

Also on Macmillan Audio

• CD: $59.99; ISBN  9781427207630

How many times have you handed the Writers Digest to hopeful authors, knowing that the odds are stacked against them? Take heart, sometimes that act can lead to a bestseller.

The Weight of Silence, an original trade paperback, landed on the NYT Trade Paperback bestseller list at #7 last week. The momentum is continuing; it moved from #35 to #29 on this week’s USA Today general list. According to the author’s hometown Dubuque, IA, paper, the author, Heather Gudenkauf, found her agent through the Writers Digest (we’re willing to bet it was a library copy).

A year and a half later, Harlequin’s Mira imprint fell in love with it. They loved it so much that they gave it a level of promotion that they rarely do for a first novel. Others got on board; BookReporter.com made it one of their “Bets On” titles, Borders put it in their “Make Books” program, and independent booksellers chose it for the August Indie Next list. To catch some of the excitement, read Carol Fitzgerald’s rave in BookReporter.com; it sounds like a perfect RA and book club title.

Libraries are showing heavy holds on modest ordering (it had a strong, but not over-the-top review in Publishers Weekly).

Mira has also bought the author’s second book; the working title is The Foundling Wheel.

The Weight of Silence Heather Gudenkauf Retail Price: $13.95 Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Mira – (2009-07-28) ISBN / EAN: 077832740X / 9780778327400

Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of Civilization of Love by Carl Anderson and Eduardo Chavez has remained in Amazon’s top 100 over the past week and now appears at #137 on the USA Today list.  The book traces the ways that the Catholic Virgin has been a catalyst for relgious and cultural transformation from the sixteenth century to the present. None of the libraries we checked had any copies.

The book’s rise is clearly tied to Anderson’s role as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the Knights of Columbus – the world’s largest Catholic organization. Our Lady of Guadalupe was prominently featured at the first international Marian conference and the Guadalupe Festival - attended by thousands in early August in Phoenix, Arizona – both of which came on the heels of the 127th Annual Knights of Columbus convention.

Co-author Chavez is an expert on Guadalupe apparitions and the first Dean of the Catholic University Lumen Gentium of the Archdiocese of Mexico. He and Anderson created a video for the book, hosted on their website.

Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love Carl Anderson, Eduardo Chavez Retail Price: $22.99 Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Doubleday Religion – (2009-08-04) ISBN / EAN: 0385527721 / 9780385527729

President Obama’s gotten caught reading by the press fairly consistently since May 2008 - though more often during the campaign than during the first six months of his presidency. Rather handily, the Daily Beast has recapped his reading picks, which shows “a predilection for presidential profiles, a weakness for explain-it-all bestsellers, and the occasional hankering for literary fiction.”

There are 12 entries so far – that’s a year’s supply of reading for enterprising book clubs!

What Is the What Dave Eggers Retail Price: $15.95 Paperback Edition: 560 pages Publisher: Vintage – (2007-11-13) ISBN / EAN: 0676979491 / 978-0676979497 /

Also available from BBC audio:

• 17 CDs $39.95; 978-1-60283-262-6

Library editions:

• 17 CDs $124.95; 9780792748953
• 2 MP3 CD’s  $74.95; 978-0-7927-4916-5

Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries) Joseph O’Neill Retail Price: $14.95 Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Vintage – (2009-05-07) ISBN / EAN: 0307388778 / 9780307388773

Also available from Recorded Books

• CD: #34.99; ISBN 9781436155427

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet Jeffrey D. Sachs Retail Price: $17.00 Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2009-02-24) ISBN / EAN: 0143114875 / 9780143114871

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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer Fred Kaplan Retail Price: $27.95 Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Harper – (2008-11-01) ISBN / EAN: 0060773340 / 9780060773342

Available from Brilliance Audio

• CD: $34.99; ISBN 9781423370994
• MP3 CD: $24.95;  ISBN 9781423371014

The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope Jonathan Alter Retail Price: $16.00 Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster – (2007-05-08) ISBN / EAN: 0743246012 / 9780743246019

Available from BBC Audiobooks America

• CD: $19.95; ISBN 9781572705531

FDR Jean Edward Smith Retail Price: $20.00 Paperback: 880 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks – (2008-05-13) ISBN / EAN: 0812970497 / 9780812970494

Available from Random House Audio

• CD: $34.95; ISBN 9780739343449

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll Retail Price: $18.00 Paperback: 738 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2004-12-28) ISBN / EAN: 0143034669 / 9780143034667

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Collected Poems, 1948-1984 Derek Walcott Retail Price: $20.00 Paperback: 516 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux – (1987-01-01) ISBN / EAN: 0374520259 / 9780374520250

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America Thomas L. Friedman Retail Price: $16.00 Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Picador – (2009-11-24) ISBN / EAN: 0312428928 / 9780312428921

Also available from BBC Audio:

• 17 CD’s $124.95; 9780792754756

Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age Larry M. Bartels Retail Price: $29.95 Hardcover: 328 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press – (2008-04-07) ISBN / EAN: 0691136637 / 9780691136639

Available in large print paperback:

• $17.99; ISBN 9781594133350

And from MacMillan Audio

• CD: $59.95: ISBN 9781427204585

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin Retail Price: $21.00 Paperback: 944 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster – (2006-09-26) ISBN / EAN: 0743270754 / 9780743270755

Available from Simon & Schuster Audio

• CD: $39.95; ISBN 9780743539135

The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria Retail Price: $15.95 Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. – (2009-05-04) ISBN / EAN: 0393334805 / 9780393334807

Available from Simon & Schuster Audio

• CD: $39.95; ISBN 9780743576857

Previews of the fall movie season are on their way; Entertainment Weekly‘s arrives on stands and the Web tomorrow (with New Moon on the cover, of course).

This upcoming season features even more major movies based on books than last year. We’re tracking 27 titles based on books, graphic novels, or, in one case, a short story, arriving in theaters between September and Christmas.

Links to the available trailers are on the right (under “Books to Movies — Trailers”).

We’ve also added two new listings:

• In Production — titles that are currently filming (such as Eat, Pray, Love, starring Julia Roberts, which is currently tying up traffic in my Brooklyn neighborhood) or scheduled for filming.

• Announced — titles that are in development. It includes some that may be “Lost in Production,” reminding us that the journey from buying rights to a film appearing in theaters is often incomplete.

Below are titles we’ve added recently to the fall list (for complete list, check Scheduled — with Tie-ins):

You’ve got to check out the trailer for The Informant; here’s hoping the movie lives up to it.

Sept 18, 2009

Movie Title: The Informant

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Starring: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey

Based on: The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald

Movie Tie-In:

The Informant (Movie Tie-in Edition): A True Story Kurt Eichenwald Retail Price: $17.00 Paperback: 656 pages Publisher: Broadway – (2009-08-11) ISBN / EAN: 0767931254 / 9780767931250

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Sept 25, 2009: Limited

Oct 16, 2009: Wide

Movie Title: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Director: Bob Gosse

Starring: Traci Lords, Jess Bradford, Matt Czuchry

Based on : I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (movie tie-in): with 16 page photo insert Tucker Max Retail Price: $16.95 Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Citadel – (2009-09-01) ISBN / EAN: 0806532254 / 9780806532257

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The trailer for Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, Whip It, has been flying around the Web this week.

OCT 16, 2009

Movie Title: Whip It

Director: Drew Barrymore

Starring: Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Zoe Bell, Alia Shawkat

Based on: Derby Girl by Shauna Cross

Tie-in:

Whip It Shauna Cross Retail Price: $8.99 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Square Fish – (2009-09-15) ISBN / EAN: 0312535996 / 9780312535995

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The Road was rescheduled so many times that the tie-in came out last fall with no movie to tie-in to. No matter, it became a bestseller, leaving you to wonder if it’s the movie that sells the book or just that fact that the book is rejacketed and displayed front of stores.

OCT 16, 2009

Movie Title: The Road

Director: John Hilcoat

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall, Garret Billahunt

Based on: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Tie-in:

The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008 of the 2006 publication) Cormac McCarthy Retail Price: $7.99 Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Vintage – (2008-11-18) ISBN / EAN: 0307472124 / 9780307472120

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Nov 6, 2009

Movie Title: The Men Who Stare at Goats

Director: Grant Heslof

Starring: Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor

Based on: The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) by Jon Ronson

Tie-in:

The Men Who Stare at Goats Jon Ronson Retail Price: Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Picador – (2009-10-02) ISBN / EAN: 0330507702 / 9780330507707

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NOV 20, 2009

Movie Title: The Blind Side

Director: John Lee Hancock

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Kathy Bates, Rhoda Griffis, Tim McGraw

Based on: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Movie Tie-in Edition) Michael Lewis Retail Price: $13.95 Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. – (2009-10-12) ISBN / EAN: 039333838X / 9780393338386

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Dec 12, 2009

Movie Title: Black Mass

Director: Jim Sheridan

Based on: Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill

No tie-in listed yet.

USA Today announces that a new, heavily-illustrated book about Michael Jackson is coming in December, priced at $165. The first title sanctioned by the estate, it is published by Kraken Opus, a UK-based publisher of titles that often go for $2,000 or more.

Originally planned to include Jackson’s London concerts, the company was still in negotiations with Jackson when the singer died. The book will be published on Dec. 7 and is now available for pre-order through TicketMaster.

Also coming, is an October reprint of Jackson’s book, Moonwalk. According to Robert Hilburn, who says he worked on the first version of the book, Jackson wasn’t pleased with the final version and blocked the publisher from reprinting it after the initial printing of 500,000 (via GalleyCat).

Original 1988 editions are being offered on Amazon for $85 to $675.

On Amazon, the publisher’s note says that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Shaye Areheart (who now has an imprint under Crown; Harmony, the publisher of the reprint, is also an imprint of Crown) were Jackson’s original editors.

Moonwalk Michael Jackson Retail Price: $25.00 Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Harmony – (2009-10-13) ISBN / EAN: 0307716988 / 9780307716989

In her forthcoming book about Anne Frank, Francine Prose makes the case that neither the 1959 Broadway play nor the subsequent movie of The Diary of a Young Girl, come close to accurately portraying the Anne of the book.

David Mamet is set to take a new shot at it. Variety reports that Disney has acquired the rights for a new version of the The Diary, with David Mamet writing and producing. Variety says the film will be based on both the diary and the 1959 stage play. Co-producer Andrew Braunsberg spent a year getting rights from the various estates involved.

What will be different? Variety says “Mamet brings his own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girls rite of passage.” One of Prose’s objections to the earlier versions is that they don’t show Anne’s growth as either a person or an artist; “On the pages, she is brilliant, on the stage, she is a nitwit.” She also points out that they attempted to “universalize” the story to broaden it’s appeal; few mentions are made of the family’s Jewishness and Anne was made to seem more hopeful. Says Prose about the movie, “She sounds like an American girl. And why not? It’s an American movie.”

Mamet has written about anti-Semitism in his book The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred and the Jews, Schocken, 2006. He also criticized the movie Schindler’s List for exploiting the Jews (Salon, Oct 24, 1997), so it’s very likely that he will bring a new view of The Diary.

When we will see the results is another question; Mamet is directing his new play, Race, which opens on Broadway in November.

Meanwhile Francine Prose’s book, one of the librarians’ picks of BEA, is a passionate fan’s analysis of the book and how it has been perceived through the years.

Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife Francine Prose Retail Price: $24.99 Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Harper – (2009-10-01) ISBN / EAN: 006143079X / 9780061430794

We just heard from Tantor Audio that several of the books we’ve been tracking on EarlyWord are now available in audio. Title links are to our coverage:

In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect Ronald Kessler Read by Alan Sklar Retail:  9781400113125; $29.99 MP3 CD: 9781400163120; $19.99 Library: 9781400143122; $59.99

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Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson Ian Halperin Read by Richard Allen Retail:  9781400113903; $29.99 MP3 CD: 9781400163908; $24.99 Library: 9781400143900; $59.99

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Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies Michelle Malkin Read by Johnny Heller Retail:  9781400113248; $34.99 MP3 CD: 9781400163243; $24.99 Library: 9781400143245; $55.99

And this one is forthcoming:

Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff Erin Arvedlund Retail  9781400114108 Library  9781400144105 MP3 CD  9781400164103

For regular email updates of Tantor’s new titles, email Tantor.

The Hugo Awards were given by the World Science Fiction Society last night in Montreal; The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman won for Best Novel. This is the book’s second major award, having already won the 2009 Newbery Medal. It is also on the list for the Best Novel category in the World Fantasy Awards and was a Locus winner in the YA category. The audio version also won the 2009 Audie Audiobook of the Year as well as Best Childrens 8 to 12.

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman Retail Price: $17.99 Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: HarperCollins – (2008-10-01) ISBN / EAN: 0060530928 / 9780060530921

Available in unabridged audio from HarperChildrensAudio (September 30, 2008)

ISBN-10: 0061551899

ISBN-13: 978-0061551895

• Also available as downloadable eBook from OverDrive.

The winner for Best New Novel is David Anthony Durham. He has written several historical novels and began the Acacia fantasy series in 2007.

Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia, Book 1) David Anthony Durham Retail Price: $7.99 Mass Market Reprint: 768 pages Publisher: Anchor – (2008-08-26) ISBN / EAN: 0385722524 / 9780385722520

Available in audio from Tantor Media:

• 23 Audio CDs (Retail UnikeepL Pkg); 9781400104888; $47.99
• 23 Audio CDs (Library BinderL Pkg); 9781400134885; $95.99
• 3 Mp3-CDs (Retail SlimlineL Pkg); 9781400154883; $31.99

Available as downloadble eBook from OverDrive.

The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2) David Anthony Durham Retail Price: $28.00 Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: Doubleday – (2009-09-15) ISBN / EAN: 0385523327 / 9780385523325

Available in audio from Tantor:

• 18 Audio CDs (Retail UnikeepL Pkg); 9781400113514; $43.99
• 18 Audio CDs (Library BinderL Pkg); 9781400143511; $87.99
• 2 Mp3-CDs (Retail SlimlineL Pkg); 9781400163519; $31.99

Full list of Hugo Award winners.

This week, two titles that have been receiving press attention will be featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Tonight, Douglas Brinkley will talk with Stewart about The Wilderness Warrior, his 800-page examination of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservationist movement. It was reviewed by Janet Maslin in the daily NYT on July 22nd and was the cover review of the NYT BR on Sunday. It’s currently at #33 on Amazon and is showing heavy reserves on modest orders in many libraries (most are showing it still on order). It debuted on the NYT bestsller list at #7 this week.

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America Douglas Brinkley Retail Price: $34.99 Hardcover: 960 pages Publisher: Harper – (2009-07-28) ISBN / EAN: 0060565284 / 9780060565282

On Wednesday, Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family will be on the show. The book is currently at #22 on Amazon (it was in the top ten last week, rising as high as #5). We did a “Reserve Alert” on the book last month.

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power Jeff Sharlet Retail Price: $15.99 Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial – (2009-06-01) ISBN / EAN: 0060560053 / 9780060560058

In addition, Rachel McAdams will be on the show on Friday to promote the movie of The Time Traveler’s Wife (based on the book by Audrey Niffenegger), which opens that day. The tie-in edition of the book is currently at #1 on the NYT Paperback Trade Fiction list, after 7 weeks.

The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger Retail Price: $14.95 Paperback: 560 pages Publisher: Mariner Books – (2004-05-27) ISBN / EAN: 015602943X / 9780156029438

Time Travelers Wife is now available in unabridged audio from HighBridge:
Unabridged 16 CDs
978-1-59887-737-3 $39.95