MYSTIC RIVER flows to New York City

Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of Dennis Lehane's MYSTIC RIVER, a hit at Cannes, has been chosen as the opening-night film of the New York Film Festival. Meanwhile, an enormous billboard advertising the film has been installed above Times Square. A picture:

Kirkus loves MEENA

The first review of Melody Ermachild Chavis' MEENA, HEROINE OF AFGHANISTAN is out, and it's a rave. Kirkus says the book is a "timely biography conscientiously detailing the brief but courageous life of the young woman who founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)...A vivid celebration of a contemporary heroine."

SHUTTER ISLAND gets even bigger in the UK

Our British subagent, PFD, has sold the large print rights to Dennis Lehane's SHUTTER ISLAND to Thorpe.