A pair of entertainment-related titles were bought for the Three Rivers imprint at Crown by
Carrie Thornton:
20 Years of Alternative Music from Spin Magazine, an anthology of pieces from the magazine with some original essays by Dave Eggers, Ann Powers, Chuck Klosterman and Marc Spitz and others bought from
Jim Fitzgerald for publication in fall next year; and a book based on the Off-Broadway show
The Marijuana-logues by
Arj Barker,
Doug Benson and
Tony Camin, a series of monologues on the virtues of weed. This was bought from
Sandy Choron at March Tenth.... A study of a famous teacher by a keen but critical student was won at auction by HM's recently arrived
Amanda Cook. It's
The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost, a portrait of Yale professor (and former top Washington insider and diplomat) Charles Hill, in which
Molly Worthen offers a keen portrait, as well as a meditation on the student-teacher relationship.
Andrew Wylie made the North American rights sale.... 
Stephen S. Power at Wiley bought a book about the court of Russia's Nicholas II by
Greg King, coauthor of The Fate of the Romanovs. It's a detailed examination, based on unpublished sources and lavishly illustrated, of life at the last czarist court; Dorie Simmonds made the world English rights deal....
Melody Guy at Ballantine bought a book all about the booming Latino market in the U.S. by expert
Chiqui Cartagena. He got world, first serial and audio from
Alfredo Santana of Santana-Tasuuma Media International....
MarySue Rucci at S&S took a book of stories called
The Apple's Bruise by
Lisa Glatt, whose A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That won glowing reviews this summer. World rights were bought from
Andrew Blauner.... Crown's
Rick Horgan bought a book called
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by journalist
Stephan Taity, about the struggle with pirates, including the notorious Henry Morgan, for control of the Caribbean in the 17th century. The North American rights sale was made by
Scott Waxman.
