Lance Armstrong in lawsuits over books

Lance Armstrong targeted in lawsuit over books
Los Angeles Times
Lance Armstrong lied for years about doping, and now some unsatisfied customers who bought hisbooks want their money back. A Republican political consultant in Sacramento, Rob Stutzman, and a professional chef, Jonathan Wheeler, are spearheading a ...

2 file lawsuit against Lance Armstrong for lies in books
USA TODAY
FICTION: Library in Australia moves Armstrong books. The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District in California by Rob Stutzman, a public affairs consultant in California, and Jonathan Wheeler, a professional chef. Both read the book only to learn later ...

Now that's a wall of books
Los Angeles Times
"The Hope of Liberty" by George Moses Horton, who lived near the store, was the first book by an African American author published in the South when it appeared in 1829, writes bookstore owner Myles Friedman on The Bookshop Blog (via Shelf Awareness) ...

Friend of exotic-animal owner writes book about killings
USA TODAY
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — A friend of Terry Thompson, who was called to the exotic-animal owner's property the night the man opened his animals' cages and shot himself, has written a book about the ordeal. Sheriff's deputies killed almost 50 of the tigers ...

Book Buzz: Hilary Mantel's prize-winning novels adapted for stage
USA TODAY
... source where Orwell worked nearly 70 years ago. Millions of e-books: Book and literary site The Millions has begun publishing e-books, debuting with the long essay "Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame and the History of the Worst Thing Ever" by Mark O ...

Online dating has changed everything, author says
USA TODAY
In his new book, Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating, writer Dan Slater argues that online dating has changed society profoundly. Slater, 35, a Brooklyn, N.Y., newlywed, tells USA TODAY's Sharon Jayson just how ...

Local bookstore asks teens: Which books do you like?
Christian Science Monitor
Watchung Booksellers, a local bookstore, is setting up a teen advisory council, reports booksellers industry newsletter Shelf-Awareness.com. Beginning on Feb. 1, the teens will meet every other month to read, discuss, and review advance copies of books ...

Christian Science Monitor

Book Review 'Drinking With Men' by Rosie Schaap
Boston Globe
On the book's first page, Schaap, who tends bar part time and writes a column about alcohol for The New York Times Magazine, estimates that she's spent 13,000 hours at bars in her lifetime. But “Drinking With Men'' is not an addiction memoir — it's an ...

Boston Globe

Book News: Aural Orwell, Ripe Prose
New Yorker (blog)
If you're looking for one of Lance Armstrong's books at your local library, you may find it in the fiction section. “This firm Sardinian sheep has the cool unaffected strut of Mick in his prime, Lou in middle age or Polly Jean today.” Why New York City ...

New Yorker (blog)

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