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Staffers close to Antonio Villaraigosa say that Sacramento Bee reporter Aurelio Rojas is at work on a book about the mayor-elect's rise and the state of Latino politics. They knew each other at Cathedral High School back in the day...From Publishers Lunch, USC professor and Hurston scholar Carla Kaplan has sold Miss Anne in Harlem, about white women who crossed racial lines to join the black renaissance, to Harper...Also, five-time "Jeopardy" loser (and eight-time winner) Bob Harris has sold Prisoner of Trebekistan, said to be everything there is to know about strategies and the game show's obsessed fans...Also, today at 5 p.m. on "Writers on Writing" on KUCI (88.9 FM and the web), Barbara DeMarco-Barrett talks with author Christina Adams (A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention and Recovery) and Kim Dower, Los Angeles-based publicist and founder of Kim-from-L.A Literary and Media Services.

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