From Publishers Weekly:
No Deal for Plame at Crown
The NYT reports that Valerie Plame's seven-figure deal with Crown will not be consummated following "a difference of opinion on some of the contract terms" according to spokesperson Tina Constable. Former CIA director George Tenet walked away from a multi-million dollar deal at Crown in early 2005 (and sold a book to Harper in early 2006), and Advance Magazine Group executive Steve Florio quietly dropped a six-figure deal made with Crown last summer.
Plame is negotiating exclusively with underbidder Simon & Schuster now, and publisher David Rosenthal tells the paper, "We are optimistic about these talks."
Critic's Broken Heart Over Roth
Chicago Tribune book editor Elizabeth Taylor opens a discussion of Philip Roth and his new book EVERYMAN by saying: "He's the best novelist in America. I hope he never writes another word." Taylor says Roth "breaks my heart nearly every time he lifts his pen. Not because he's a bad writer -- he's a provocative and prolific genius -- but because he's a great writer with a large and terrible flaw: His women have no souls.... Were Roth a lesser writer, it wouldn't matter; his greatness, however, transforms that lack from a simple failing into a reverberating anguish."Tribune
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