Book notes

Fresh off his LAT Book Prize, Evan Wright has sold his next book, The Seed — about his experience at a drug recovery camp in the 80s that used radical, brain-washing methods — to Putnam...Also from Publisher's Lunch: "Marketplace" reporter Matthew Algeo has sold his first book, When Steagles Flew: Football on the Home Front. It recalls when the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged during WWII. Da Capo will publish in fall 2006. Also, "Dragnet" creator and star Jack Webb's The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV is being reissued with a new introduction by James Ellroy...The April issue of Boldtype reviews Lydia Millet's Everyone's Pretty: "After a stint as a copy editor at the Beverly Hills offices of Hustler magazine, satirist Lydia Millet penned this funny, acid novel about a vile but mesmerizing man who lives very close to the flabby soul of the American dream. Dean Decetes is a dirty scab, a filthy porn-reviewing drunk, and a dead-on satire of LA at its sleaziest."