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Twilight: It's Harry Potter With Fangs (BusinessWeek)
Inspired online marketing is key to the astounding success of Twilight, a series of vampire novels

Alan Furst grounds his elegant spy fiction in fact (Contra Costa Times)
Alan Furst writes elegant, atmospheric spy novels set in continental Europe in the 1930s and early '40s: He owns the pre-World War II period as completely as John le Carre owns the Cold War.

Exceprt: 'Proust Was a Neuroscientist' (NPR)
The psychology which explains everything / explains nothing. ?Marianne Moore IN 1920, AFTER WRITING two novels with a conventional Victorian narrator (the kind that, like an omniscient God, views everything from above), Virginia Woolf announced in her diary: "I have finally arrived at some idea of a new form for a new novel."

Anybody We Know? (New York Times)
John Darnton?s thriller is set in the office of a major metropolitan newspaper that sounds a lot like The Times.

After All the Funerals, a Prime-Time Auteur Digs Up the Undead (New York Times)
Since the end of ?Six Feet Under? in 2005 and ?The Sopranos? last year, HBO has been struggling to fill the series void.

Fiction review: 'Real World' by Natsuo Kirino (San Francisco Chronicle)
Real World By Natsuo Kirino; translated by Philip Gabriel Knopf; 214 pages; $23.95 Natsuo Kirino's murders are incidental. They are the pivot upon which her three novels that have been translated into English (she's written 16 total) turn, but the...

FICTION: Kicking the thriller up several notches (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Chances are, you know Richard Price's work even if you've never picked up one of his novels. His latest book, the unforgettable "Lush Life," is a story that goes beyond the regular thriller genre and elevates his work to fine literature.

Travel Toward the Dark Places... (About.com)
A 2007 Time poll places Madame Bovary at the forefront of classic novels in world literature (along with Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. And, it's no wonder. The novel offers something...

Reeling pages (Hindustan Times)
Advaita Kala, Karan Bajaj and Jaishree Misra all have one thing in common ? their novels, out for less than a year, already have Bollywood (and international) directors scrambling for movie deals.

Four new novels about young women facing some of life's most difficult challenges. (Washington Post)
Headlines give us the general outline of the complicated choices women face today and of a range of abuses that have become increasingly routine. But a new batch of summer novels adds texture and context to these reports of troubled lives. These aren't made-for-TV movies in print. They're chillin...