Omni Daily News

Catcher in the Rye Sequel Blocked
Guess Holden Caufield will remain a callow youth for a while longer--at least in the U.S.  A federal judge ruled late yesterday that the J.D. Salinger offensive was “likely to succeed on the merits of its copyright case" against Fredrik Colting, author of  60 Years Later--a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. Colting plans to appeal the decision. His book will be released in Europe later this summer. [PW]

Governor's Book on Ice
The Observer reports that the scandal-ridden South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been given the heave-ho by publisher Sentinel. The right-leaning imprint owned by Penguin had planned to publish the Governor's book on fiscal conservatism in spring of 2010. He has been released from his contract. [The New York Observer]

Everything Matters When the Clock Is Ticking
Author and Daily Beast critic Taylor Antrim takes a closer look at Ron Currie Jr.'s new novel Everything Matters! and the burgeoning literary genre of "pre-apocalyptic" novels.

"Deploying a lightly experimental structure, and an anything-goes approach to plotting, Currie, Jr. poses the question: What would you do if faced with the knowledge that the world is going to end with a comet hitting Earth on June 15, 2010, at 3:44 p.m. EST?"

Listen to Currie's thoughts on the "multiverse", "borrowing" from favorite authors, and more in our Omni podcast.  And in case you missed it earlier, check out our own Daphne Durham's take on the novel vs. Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain.  [The Daily Beast]

--Lauren

Comments

[David on July 02, 2009 at 12:21 PM]

How can there be a sequal to Catcher? According to the J.D. Salinger short story This Sandwich Has No Mayonase, Holden joined the army and went Missing in Action.