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By Emily Witt 12/01/11 1:10pm

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Banks Got Bailed Out, David Graeber Sells Out? OWS Figurehead Goes Mainstream for New Book

The Occupy Wall Street book deals are flooding in too fast to keep up! Yesterday saw announcements of books from Todd Gitlin and n+1; today it’s David Graeber, an anthropology professor at the University of London and one of the most prominent early participants in Occupy Wall Street. Recently profiled in Business Week as “the anti-leader of Occupy Wall Street,” Mr. Graeber’s first book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has become an unofficial bible of sorts for the movement and a deal to translate it into German was announced just a few days ago. That book was published by indie publisher Melville House Press, which is known for paying authors small advances. Now Mr. Graeber has jumped to the big leagues, to Random House-owned imprint Speigel & Grau for this second, as yet untitled book. Read More

By Emily Witt 12/01/11 12:17pm

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Todd Gitlin, n+1 to Publish Occupy Wall Street Books

Todd Gitlin, former president of SDS and a professor of social history at Columbia University, will write a book called Liberty Square, to be published by HarperCollins imprint It Books. The announcement posted yesterday on Publishers Marketplace describes it as “a look at the Occupy movement at its pivotal moment, as it weighs its unexpected power and grapples with its future mission.” Read More

By Emily Witt 9/30/11 12:08pm

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Anonymous Book to Amazon: Hacktivist Authors Cozy Up to the Fire

Gregg Housh and Barrett Brown’s book about Anonymous, the online activism collective known for digital protests and acts of civil disobedience, has been sold to Amazon Publishing editorial director Julia Cheiffetz.

According to the notice on Publishers Marketplace, Anonymous: Tales From Inside The Accidental Cyberwar was “pitched as Barbarians at the Gate for the digital era” and tells “the story of the ordinary people who became hacker-activists and successfully brought down government agencies and multinational corporations around the world.” Anonymous recently secured local notoriety by releasing the personal data of pepper spraying New York City Police officer Anthony Bologna. Read More

By Emily Witt 9/29/11 12:55pm

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Courtney Love Writing a Memoir

Perhaps her recent participation in GQ‘s oral history of Nirvana, which was published as an e-book, reminded Courtney Love that she could do this sort of thing on her own. She’s writing a memoir, reports the AP, that “will address life with Cobain, the Nirvana leader who died in 1994, her drug problems and her Hollywood career.” Read More

By Emily Witt 9/22/11 4:24pm

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Bill Clinton 'Back to Work' with New Book from Knopf

Bill Clinton is writing another book! Called Back to Work, it’s going to tell everyone how to get America “back into the future business.”

In a statement from Knopf, the book is said to detail “how we can get out of the current economic crisis and lay a foundation for long-term prosperity. He offers specific Read More