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Frankfurt Book Fair

FRANKFURT, Germany — Frankfurt’s annual book fair is celebrating it’s 60th year with a star-studded lineup of contemporary literary greats, as well as a look at the written word’s jump from the printed page to the digital screen, organizers said Wednesday.

International best-seller Paolo Coelho, as well as Nobel laureates Guenter Grass and Orhan Pamuk are among the guests at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair that opens Oct. 14 and runs for five days. The featured nation this year is Turkey.

Alongside the fair’s traditional highlights on education and fighting illiteracy, this year’s fair will focus on the impact of new media and electronic readers on the traditional printed literary world. Both Sony Corp. and Amazon.com will be presenting their electronic readers, the Reader and Kindle, respectively.

“What we are now seeing is something new,” book fair director Juergen Boos told a news conference. “It is no longer the computer that is being simulated, it is the book.”

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The Deal: A Novel of Hollywood

Washed-up Hollywood producer Charlie Berns has mailed in his updated obit and is about to suck his Mercedes tailpipe and fade to black when a miracle materializes: his nephew, a wannabe screenwriter from New Jersey, has scripted the life story of Queen Victoria’s prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli. Charlie manages to turn the piece into a hot property that reinstates him as a player. But as the deal heats up, conceptual changes morph the project into Lev Disraeli: Freedom Fighter, an action thriller with a black Jewish superstar, a Yugoslavian location, and a mad Polish director. Is Charlie being eaten alive by the system? Or is he giving Hollywood hotshots a run for their money?

Â Â Â Â Peter Lefcourt’s hilarious satire proves the old adage that, in Hollywood, you’re never quite as dead as people give you credit for.Â Recently released in Audio Books format for MP3 players