Book Buzz: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' inspires baby names
Here's a look at what's buzzing in the book world today:
Baby Grey?: OK, this is a little scary: Baby names inspired by Fifty Shades of Grey!?
New and noteworthy: What notable books are on sale this week? Alan Light's music title The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of Hallelujah leads the charge, along with a new mystery by Ruth Rendell (writing as Barbara Vine).
They're buddies now: Longtime Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory has something to crow about. He's written Buddy, a memoir about how a rooster actually made him a family man. Read Craig Wilson's 3-star review.
Author suicide: David Oliver Relin, co-author with Greg Mortenson.of the controversial best seller, Three Cups of Tea, has committed suicide, authorities said. The book's accuracy was undermined last year when both when 60 Minutes and author Jon Krakauer in an e-book titled Three Cups of Deceit reported that it contained numerous fabrications.
'Wild' oversight: What did you think of The New York Times' most notable books of the year? Here's a case for some that were overlooked, including Cheryl Strayed's Oprah book, Wild.
Lehane's a fan: Best-selling author Dennis Lehane has chosen the second selection for his eponymous line of books, Ecco has announced. It's Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda, a literary mystery set against the backdrop of Red Hook, Brooklyn. The disappearance of a teenaged girl sends shock waves through her community. It's due in July 2013. In a statement Lehane said, "Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda's voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it's indelibly her own."
More from Koontz: Dean Koontz is extending his relationship with his current publisher, Random House's Ballantine Bantam Dell imprint, signing to do six more novels with the imprint. One will be the final title in the author's Odd Thomas series.
A reader's life: Joe Queenan chats with The New York Times about his latest, One for the Books, about a lifetime of reading the classics, the trashy and everything in between. And he makes an impassioned case that a print book is better than the digital version.