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Apr 10 2009 4:04pm EDT

Late Breaks: Vampires, Vampires Everywhere

-One out of seven books purchased by Americans in the first quarter of 2009 was one of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight novels about vampires and the teenage girls who love them. [USAT via Galleycat]

-Did someone mention vampire books? The guy who wrote a zombie-filled version of Pride and Prejudice just signed a deal to write a new novel starring Abraham Lincoln as a vampire hunter. [PW]

-Do you care what a super-insidery group of media insiders who pretty much all used to work together at The New Republic and probably all still see each other once a week in the CNN greenroom think about the state of journalism? I know I don't. [The Atlantic]

-Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray says the paper probably wouldn't turn up its nose at covering the John Bobbitt story if it happened today. [Nieman Journalism Lab]. □

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