Conservative economist Thomas Sowell, who spent two weeks on the list last June with The Housing Boom and Bust, climbs to No. 13 on next week’s New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list with his latest effort Intellectuals and Society.

Paul Auster, Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Doris Lessing were among the 90 international guests of honor at the 2010 Salon du Livre de Paris. The six-day public festival, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, kicked off on March 26 at the Porte de Versailles…

Paul Auster’s latest novel, Sunset Park, was released this month to broad acclaim as well as an appearance on the New York Times extended bestseller list. Here is a sampling of what critics have said so far:

Tim Egan’s gripping book The Big Burn, now available in paperback, has been garnering national and regional notice. The book recently won the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award for Adult Nonfiction as well as the Washington State Book…

George Cloutier, author of the New York Times bestseller Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing, is featured in the Small Business section of the NYT Online. In the interview, Cloutier expounds on some of his controversial (yet proven) profit rules…