WHAT'S UP WITH THE DEVIL IN THE TITLES OF BOOKS?
Last week's New York Times Book Review features at least four titles that include the word "devil": The Devil Wears Prada (paperback fiction bestseller list), The Devil in the White City (paperback nonfiction bestseller), The Devil of Nanking (a new and noteworthy paperback edition of a novel), and The Devil is a Gentleman (full scale review of a very interesting nonfiction book about religiosity in America). Then of course Dan Brown's Angels & Demons is still on the paperback fiction bestseller list too. This is surely a record--and a sign of the times.
Last week's New York Times Book Review features at least four titles that include the word "devil": The Devil Wears Prada (paperback fiction bestseller list), The Devil in the White City (paperback nonfiction bestseller), The Devil of Nanking (a new and noteworthy paperback edition of a novel), and The Devil is a Gentleman (full scale review of a very interesting nonfiction book about religiosity in America). Then of course Dan Brown's Angels & Demons is still on the paperback fiction bestseller list too. This is surely a record--and a sign of the times.
posted by Dan Burstein at 9:18 PM
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Dan Burstein launched Squibnocket Partners as an innovative creative content development company in 2003 with his business partner, Arne J. de Keijzer. In 2004, they created the Secrets series, which, in addition to Secrets of the Code (first published in 2004), now includes Secrets of Angels & Demons (2004), Secrets of the Widow's Son (2005), and Secrets of Mary Magdalene (fall of 2006). Secrets books have found a place as the leading secular multiperspective guidebooks, appearing on the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, as well as other bestseller lists around the world. Taken together, the Secrets books now have more than two million copies in print in twenty-eight countries. A documentary film based on Secrets of the Code is currently in the works.
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