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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/785 entertainment Books/Publishing News en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:29:04 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/785 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/music_nm/us_novelist nm/20091107/us_novelist Reuters entertainment Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:29:04 GMT Reuters - Label executives occasionally write books about the record business, but it's far rarer to see someone from music retailing knock out a tome about record stores. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_burroughs ap/20091106/us_books_burroughs AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:33:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_burroughs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.3796bb9d4d7a45f58b75e070beb2975b.books_burroughs_ny126.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=tdJn_qkzOqSLbZo_XeMf5w--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="FILE - This undated file photo released by St. Martins Press shows Augusten Burroughs. (AP Photo/St. Martins Press, Craig Cutler)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's not uncommon for people to say that their holidays don't live up to a Norman Rockwell painting, but Augusten Burroughs says his holidays have been "hideous."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_burroughs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.3796bb9d4d7a45f58b75e070beb2975b.books_burroughs_ny126.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=tdJn_qkzOqSLbZo_XeMf5w--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="photo" title="FILE - This undated file photo released by St. Martins Press shows Augusten Burroughs. (AP Photo/St. Martins Press, Craig Cutler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_en_ot/us_book_review_loot_the_moon ap/20091106/us_book_review_loot_the_moon AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:15:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_en_ot/us_book_review_loot_the_moon"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.5ed0962e6e2f47d2a7fbdd818ca91ce7.book_review_loot_the_moon_nyet888.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=9JNQ6SJPPs2rCnT8Us3oMg--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="In this book cover image released by Minotaur Books, 'Loot the Moon,' by Mark Arsenault, is shown. (AP Photo/Minotaur Books)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Loot the Moon" (Minotaur), 276 pages, $24.99, by Mark Arsenault: Billy Povich, former investigative reporter, has been reassigned to write obituaries &mdash; his newspaper's way of encouraging him to quit.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_en_ot/us_book_review_loot_the_moon"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.5ed0962e6e2f47d2a7fbdd818ca91ce7.book_review_loot_the_moon_nyet888.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=9JNQ6SJPPs2rCnT8Us3oMg--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="photo" title="In this book cover image released by Minotaur Books, 'Loot the Moon,' by Mark Arsenault, is shown. (AP Photo/Minotaur Books)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/us_best_sellers_books_pw ap/20091106/us_best_sellers_books_pw AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:24:00 GMT AP - 1. "The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time)" by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (TOR Books) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_woodrow_wilson ap/20091106/us_book_review_woodrow_wilson AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:26:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_woodrow_wilson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.260754cf9f02476ca5f30e14ce582d90.book_review_woodrow_wilson_nyet322.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=FzpHxi9e9i76TFNbDIkNew--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="In this book cover image released by Knopf Books, 'Woodrow Wilson,' by John Milton Cooper, Jr. is shown. (AP Photo/Knopf Books)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_woodrow_wilson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.260754cf9f02476ca5f30e14ce582d90.book_review_woodrow_wilson_nyet322.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=FzpHxi9e9i76TFNbDIkNew--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="In this book cover image released by Knopf Books, 'Woodrow Wilson,' by John Milton Cooper, Jr. is shown. (AP Photo/Knopf Books)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_en_ot/us_best_sellers_books_usatoday ap/20091105/us_best_sellers_books_usatoday AP entertainment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:41:48 GMT AP - Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_en_ot/us_best_sellers_books_wsj ap/20091105/us_best_sellers_books_wsj AP entertainment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:52 GMT AP - 1. "Tempted (House of Night Novels)" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Press) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/stage_nm/us_books_authors_irving nm/20091105/us_books_authors_irving Reuters entertainment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:13:23 GMT Reuters - Backstage, renowned novelist John Irving tells a story about the 300-pound (165-kg) man he found in the sauna at his New York hotel that morning. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_devil_s_dream ap/20091105/us_book_review_devil_s_dream AP entertainment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:12 GMT AP - "Devil's Dream" (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In "Devil's Dream," Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_miami_book_fair ap/20091106/us_miami_book_fair AP business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:37:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_miami_book_fair"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.260be22c80cb4f0fb0c6cddba5788980.miami_book_fair_international_flwl101.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=eNv05umIrG4C63cgJr0pyA--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of Miami Book Fair International, is shown at Books & Books, in Coral Gables, Fla. Poetry and music have been cut and there will be no parade to kick off the Miami Book Fair International as in years past. But one of the nation's leading literary festivals isn't giving up on readers in a bad economy. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)" border="0" /></a>AP - Poetry and music have been cut and there will be no parade to kick off the Miami Book Fair International as in years past. But one of the nation's leading literary festivals isn't giving up on readers in a bad economy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_miami_book_fair"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.260be22c80cb4f0fb0c6cddba5788980.miami_book_fair_international_flwl101.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=eNv05umIrG4C63cgJr0pyA--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of Miami Book Fair International, is shown at Books & Books, in Coral Gables, Fla. Poetry and music have been cut and there will be no parade to kick off the Miami Book Fair International as in years past. But one of the nation's leading literary festivals isn't giving up on readers in a bad economy. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_en_ot/us_books_palin_tour ap/20091104/us_books_palin_tour AP entertainment Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:40:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_en_ot/us_books_palin_tour"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.7b3d436361ba431293aebce394022647.2010_election_landscape_wx103.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=Hw92.ghkaLJWhv.nySD7ZQ--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="FILE - In this July 26, 2009, file photo, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks in Fairbanks, Alaska. Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governor's mansions in a cross-country Democratic wave. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Oprah Winfrey is only the beginning for Sarah Palin's book tour.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_en_ot/us_books_palin_tour"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.7b3d436361ba431293aebce394022647.2010_election_landscape_wx103.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=Hw92.ghkaLJWhv.nySD7ZQ--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this July 26, 2009, file photo, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks in Fairbanks, Alaska. Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governor's mansions in a cross-country Democratic wave. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, FILE)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_the_road_out_of_hell ap/20091104/us_book_review_the_road_out_of_hell AP entertainment Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:40:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_the_road_out_of_hell"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.641d1ea40cc94b3ea4929b8833709501.book_review_the_road_out_of_hell_nyet298.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=LvQx9Wl1b.E7XVsanFiYLw--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="In this book cover image released by Union Square Press, 'The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders' by Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark is shown. (AP Photo/Union Square Press)" border="0" /></a>AP - "The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders" (Union Square Press, 304 pages, $24.95), by Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark: This is a darkly disturbing true account of a 13-year-old boy, Sanford Clark, sent to live with his uncle on an isolated chicken farm in California in 1926.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_the_road_out_of_hell"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.641d1ea40cc94b3ea4929b8833709501.book_review_the_road_out_of_hell_nyet298.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=LvQx9Wl1b.E7XVsanFiYLw--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="In this book cover image released by Union Square Press, 'The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders' by Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark is shown. (AP Photo/Union Square Press)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_book_review_superfreakonomics ap/20091104/us_book_review_superfreakonomics AP business Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:09:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_book_review_superfreakonomics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.79a09021dc044a308cf7dcaff4b007c0.book_review_superfreakonomics_ny112.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=Q3tlY0sKucvRL1nfBvN2zQ--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="FILE - In this undated book cover file image released by Random House, 'Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance,' by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is shown. (AP Photo/Random House, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance" (William Morrow, 320 pages. $29.99) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: In their 2005 book "Freakonomics," economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner used dozens of interesting anecdotes to prove a simple point: "People respond to incentives."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_book_review_superfreakonomics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.79a09021dc044a308cf7dcaff4b007c0.book_review_superfreakonomics_ny112.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=Q3tlY0sKucvRL1nfBvN2zQ--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this undated book cover file image released by Random House, 'Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance,' by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is shown. (AP Photo/Random House, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/en_afp/entertainmentfranceliteraturecanadaus afp/20091104/entertainmentfranceliteraturecanadaus AFP entertainment Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:34:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/en_afp/entertainmentfranceliteraturecanadaus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257345228726-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=h.3MOoZSGgSWWOj99DnTAg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Canadian writer Dany Laferriere poses with his book in Paris after he won the 2009 Prix Medicis. Laferriere and American novelist Dave Eggers were awarded France's Medicis literary prize celebrating original writing.(AFP/Francois Guillot)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Haitian-born Canadian writer Dany Laferriere and American novelist Dave Eggers on Wednesday were awarded France's Medicis literary prize celebrating original writing.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/en_afp/entertainmentfranceliteraturecanadaus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257345228726-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=h.3MOoZSGgSWWOj99DnTAg--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Canadian writer Dany Laferriere poses with his book in Paris after he won the 2009 Prix Medicis. Laferriere and American novelist Dave Eggers were awarded France's Medicis literary prize celebrating original writing.(AFP/Francois Guillot)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_people_palin ap/20091104/us_people_palin AP business Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:32:59 GMT AP - Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is promising to visit more cities than a conventional book tour when her memoir "Going Rogue" is published later this month. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_en_ot/as_china_obama_brother ap/20091104/as_china_obama_brother AP entertainment Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:53:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_en_ot/as_china_obama_brother"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.bfac6bea35c147ecafb10e7876bf8b92.obama_brother_ny115.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=poLc12TGV3kPXBNTuncYZA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="In this Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 photo, Mark Ndesandjo, the intensely private half-brother of President-elect Barack Obama, attends a charity concert in Shenzhen, southern China. President Barack Obama's half brother in China has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - a semi-autobiographical story describing a physically abusive parent patterned on the two men's late father, to be released Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel &mdash; the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_en_ot/as_china_obama_brother"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.bfac6bea35c147ecafb10e7876bf8b92.obama_brother_ny115.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=poLc12TGV3kPXBNTuncYZA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="In this Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 photo, Mark Ndesandjo, the intensely private half-brother of President-elect Barack Obama, attends a charity concert in Shenzhen, southern China. President Barack Obama's half brother in China has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - a semi-autobiographical story describing a physically abusive parent patterned on the two men's late father, to be released Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_price_wars ap/20091104/us_books_price_wars AP entertainment Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:41:59 GMT AP - It was a weird day in the book price wars. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_grisham ap/20091103/us_books_grisham AP health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:21:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_grisham"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.0c6662c97cf34a2c90c866a27f794a2e.books_john_grisham_nyet283.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=6KN64PrVom1r_Dj7EjVccw--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="Author John Grisham is shown in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's hard to sell a book of short stories. But not if you're John Grisham.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_grisham"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.0c6662c97cf34a2c90c866a27f794a2e.books_john_grisham_nyet283.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=6KN64PrVom1r_Dj7EjVccw--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="photo" title="Author John Grisham is shown in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/en_afp/entertainmentliteraturespainayala afp/20091103/entertainmentliteraturespainayala AFP entertainment Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:40:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/en_afp/entertainmentliteraturespainayala"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257277133263-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=KyuXiV.W0hhfoHoGd43kwQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Spanish writer Francisco Ayala in his house in Madrid in 2007. Ayala, whose works dealt with the abuse of power and who taught at several top universities in the US, died Tuesday at his home in Madrid, his foundation said. He was 103.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Spanish novelist Francisco Ayala, whose works dealt with the abuse of power and who taught at several top universities in the US, died Tuesday at his home in Madrid, his foundation said. He was 103.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/en_afp/entertainmentliteraturespainayala"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257277133263-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=KyuXiV.W0hhfoHoGd43kwQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Spanish writer Francisco Ayala in his house in Madrid in 2007. Ayala, whose works dealt with the abuse of power and who taught at several top universities in the US, died Tuesday at his home in Madrid, his foundation said. He was 103.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_manhood_for_amateurs ap/20091103/us_book_review_manhood_for_amateurs AP entertainment Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:49:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_manhood_for_amateurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.b166a2b3175447548381600bc00c54a1.book_review_manhood_for_amateurs_nyet275.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=1plJkmVirbsFfSQSMBBMpQ--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="In this book cover image released by Harper, 'Manhood for Amateurs' by Michael Chabon, is shown. (AP Photo/Harper)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Manhood for Amateurs" (Harper, 320 pages, $25.99), by Michael Chabon: The singular experience of becoming a father can change everything. This seems to include &mdash; for literary papas &mdash; what you want to write about.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/books/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_en_ot/us_book_review_manhood_for_amateurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.b166a2b3175447548381600bc00c54a1.book_review_manhood_for_amateurs_nyet275.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=1plJkmVirbsFfSQSMBBMpQ--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="photo" title="In this book cover image released by Harper, 'Manhood for Amateurs' by Michael Chabon, is shown. (AP Photo/Harper)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)