Literary Links: Unpleasant realities edition

Published Jan 31 2008, 04:24 PM by Sharon Steel

Uh oh. Thirteen people in Turkey were arrested for plotting to kill Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red).

What a surprise! Oprah's latest Book Club pick is Eckhart Tolle's self-help tome A New Earth. Congratulations, Eckhart -- please enjoy being the spiritual teacher for this entire nation.

Just...ew. From Publisher's Lunch Weekly: Bestselling authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin's SKINNY BITCH JOURNAL, for publication in early 2009, and a book adapting the Skinny Bitch message for guys, for publication in fall 2009, again to Jennifer Kasius at Running Press, by Talia Cohen of Laura Dail Literary Agency (world).