Book Buzz - Mark Twain gets the last say in 'Autobiography'
Marking time: A century after his death, Mark Twain is, improbably, just 13 spots behind Justin Bieber on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. The first of three volumes of the Autobiography of Mark Twain enters the list at No. 30. Four years before he died at age 74 in 1910, Twain dictated most of the 500,000-word autobiography to a stenographer. Twain ordered that the full, unexpurgated text, marked by rants against Wall Street and U.S. foreign policy, not be published until 100 years after his death. As he put it, "There may be a market for that kind of wares a century from now. There is no hurry. Wait and see." Twain was right. (Heavily edited versions of the memoir were previously published.)
Brown is back: The power of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol isn't lost on the book's publisher, which just released the first paperback edition. It makes its debut at No. 6. First printing is 2.7 million. Nearly 6 million hardcovers have sold since its publication last year, when it reached No. 1. The novel continues the adventures of symbologist Robert Langdon of The Da Vinci Code. Coming next week: The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition (Doubleday $35); first printing 350,000. The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition remained in the top 50 for 43 weeks and peaked at No. 7 after its release in fall 2004, just in time for the holiday season.
Rock on: The paperback edition of Just Kids (Ecco, $16), the memoir by rock legend Patti Smith, hits stores Tuesday. The book, first published in hardcover in January, has been nominated for a National Book Award. (Winners will be announced Nov. 17.) Paperback publication had been set for early November to coincide with the birth date of the late Robert Mapplethorpe Nov. 4, according to the publisher, and was not moved up to take advantage of the nomination. Just Kids celebrates Smith's friendship with the controversial photographer, who died of AIDS in 1989. The paperback edition features new material, including poems, the memorial card for Mapplethorpe's memorial at the Whitney Museum, and a photo of the view from one of their rooms, #206, in Manhattan's Hotel Chelsea.
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