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Penguin Group (USA) Weekly Update - 8/21:

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The Penguin Press' Listening is an Act of Love Chosen for Starbucks Book Program

The Penguin Press' Listening Is an Act of Love — A Celebration of American Lives from the StoryCorps Project, edited by five-time Peabody Award winner Dave Isay has been selected as the next title in the Starbucks Book Program, it was announced last week. Beginning November 8th, Starbucks will offer its customers this touching, heartfelt book and accompanying audio CD in a box set available exclusively at Starbucks Company-operated locations in the U.S.

Drawn from more than 10,000 recordings from StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, the 50 stories found in Listening Is an Act of Love are arranged thematically to form a beautiful mosaic of American life.

50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road Garners Major Media Attention

September 5, 2007 marks the 50th Anniversary of Viking's publication of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. On August 20th, Viking releases in hardcover three new Kerouac-related books: On the Road: The Original Scroll; Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think), a book by New York Times reporter John Leland; and On the Road: the 50th Anniversary Edition. In last week's edition of Newsweek, David Gates called Leland's book "a headsnapper and a groundbreaker." Feature pieces on the anniversary have already run in The New York Times (a major article by Motoko Rich and Melena Ryzik in yesterday's Arts section), USA Today, Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, The Nation, The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune, with many more reviews and features to come.

Look for this coming Sunday's issue of The New York Times Book Review, which features a front cover review by Luc Sante of the scroll edition, as well as a review of Leland's book. Sante's review closes with high praise: "The novel that On the Road became was inarguably the book that young people needed in 1957, but the sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version for our time."

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Penguin Weekly Update

Tue, 08/21/2007

Penguin Press Author and Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, to Speak in Washington DC:

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MCCLEAN, Va., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of its continuing mission to support its more than 500 venture capital professionals and to offer leading edge, topical programming to the region's business community, the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) is proud to partner with Politics and Prose to bring former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan to Washington DC to speak about his views on globalization and its effect on the American economy.

In a September 19th, event co-sponsored by MAVA and Politics and Prose, Greenspan will speak at The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium. The event will be moderated by Pulitzer Prize winner and nationally recognized authority on energy policy and international politics and economics Daniel Yergin. The conversation will center on Greenspan's upcoming book, The Age of Turbulence, Adventures in a New World, as well as on the current turmoil in the public and global markets and the workings of the global economy in each of the major regions of the world.

Posted by Penguin Group USA on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 8:45am. in