http://dir.salon.com/topics/random_house/?source=rss&aim=random_house en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT Sarah Hepola Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/28/sweet_valley_high/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/28/sweet_valley_high/index.html?source=rss The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier. By David Talbot Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/11/19/booth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/11/19/booth/index.html?source=rss John Wilkes Booth, the South's romantic villain, refused to accept the triumph of Northern values. Some things never change. By Laura Miller Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/phillips/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/phillips/index.html?source=rss A romantic explorer searches for a Pharaoh's tomb, while a cynical detective searches for the truth about the explorer. In this delightfully old-fashioned tale, they're both completely misguided. By Laura Miller Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/mitchell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/09/02/mitchell/index.html?source=rss From 19th century seafaring yarn to nuclear-power muckraking to a cloned servant in the cyberpunk future, this dazzling series of interlocked narratives is one of the summer's biggest books. By Suzy Hansen Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/03/cohen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/03/cohen/index.html?source=rss Mark Twain, meet Ulysses S. Grant! Hart Crane, meet Charlie Chaplin! Rachel Cohen talks about the most intriguing encounters in U.S. history. By Gary Kamiya Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/01/30/frum_perle/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/01/30/frum_perle/index.html?source=rss Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed. By Aaron Hicklin Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/04/14/mailer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/04/14/mailer/index.html?source=rss In a new volume of advice to young writers, the great man of American letters weighs his own legacy -- and finds it wanting. By Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/03/salamon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/03/salamon/index.html?source=rss The author of "The Devil's Candy" tells the true story of the ideal family man who suddenly plunged into homicidal madness. By Katharine Mieszkowski Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/11/02/bertelsmann/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/11/02/bertelsmann/index.html?source=rss Bertelsmann's deal with Napster proves once again that the media conglomerate is obsessed with being more than just a content company. Non-Fiction | Random House, Inc Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/brokaw/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/brokaw/index.html?source=rss The Greatest Generation By Janelle Brown Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/08/atrandom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/08/atrandom/index.html?source=rss AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books. By Brett Leveridge Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/04/07/annie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/04/07/annie/index.html?source=rss When a first-time author has his portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz, it changes his life -- at least while she's clicking the shutter. By Amy Reiter Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/11/np0111/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/11/np0111/index.html?source=rss Nell and Cage: Crack team. Is she experienced? Bonnie Raitt spills all. Plus: The King and I -- Carter and Presley, together again. By Craig Offman Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/11/reaganverdict/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/11/reaganverdict/index.html?source=rss Edmund Morris' biography of Ronald Reagan ruled nonfiction -- barely. By Charles Kaiser Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/07/morris/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/07/morris/index.html?source=rss Edmund Morris has conceived the life of Ronald Reagan as a movie. And it's a bomb. By Craig Offman Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/02/reagan_fiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/02/reagan_fiction/index.html?source=rss Editors ponder which bestseller list Edmund Morris' Reagan biography should go on. By Craig Offman Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/06/02/masters/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/06/02/masters/index.html?source=rss The mouse roars again: Did Disney deal spike an Eisner biography? By Dwight Garner Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/12/24/yearin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/12/24/yearin/index.html?source=rss Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997 By Morgan Cast Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/31money/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/31money/index.html?source=rss Overqualified and underpaid, publishing industry workers labor for love -- or something other than money. By Morgan Cast Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/money/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/10/31/money/index.html?source=rss Overqualified and grotesquely underpaid, publishing industry serfs labor for love -- or something other than money. By David Futrelle Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/06/04/media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/06/04/media/index.html?source=rss Dodging Pamela Anderson Lee autobiographies and "Soul Aerobics" workouts at BookExpo, the tastes-great-less-filling successor to the late, unlamented ABA convention.