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From this week's Publishers Lunch roundup of book sales:
• Film rights to Bernard Cooper's THE BILL FROM MY FATHER, a memoir about his difficult relationship with his father, and how this father-son conflict culminated in Cooper's father billing him two million dollars for his upbringing, to David Heyman at Heyday Films for Warner Bros. (Cooper is arts critic for Los Angeles magazine.)• Writer and commentator for NPR and attorney Heather King's PARCHED, a memoir of her life nearly on the lam, telling how she became her drinking self, spent over twenty years in a cycle of drinking and self-loathing, and how, suddenly, she stopped being that person, to Anna Cowles at Chamberlain Bros. (King lives in Los Angeles.)
• Senior special writer and legal analyst at the Wall Street Journal Jess Bravin's JUDGMENT AT GITMO, a narrative exploration of the legal, military, and political aspects of the upcoming tribunals at Guantanamo and their impact on the war on terror and on the American justice system, to Jo Ann Miller at Basic. (Bravin, a former L.A. Times staffer, wrote a book about Manson family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme.)
• Former LA Times reporter Andrew D. Blechman's PIGEON PEOPLE: A Tale of Man's Obsession with an Ubiquitous Bird, about our most loved, hated, and exploited bird and taking us inside the world of people whose lives overlap with pigeons in fascinating and often bizarre ways -- from drug runners, to exterminators, to military commanders, to the Queen of England's pigeon keeper, to fanatical pigeon racers everywhere from Brooklyn to South Africa, to Daniel Maurer and Morgan Entrekin at Grove/Atlantic. (Blechman wrote for the Times' Ventura County edition.)
Italics notes are mine.