No, it's not another one of those "36 Hours In..." pieces from the 'Travel' section, it's actually a tick-tock by Joe Nocera with reporting by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Diana B. Henriques, and Edmund L. Andrews.

After initially turning down his offer and sending their book proposal out to other publishers in hopes of getting a higher advance, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean—of The New York Times and Vanity Fair, respectively—have agreed to write their account of the crisis on Wall Street for Adrian Zackheim at Portfolio, the business imprint of Penguin Group USA ...

In this morning's paper, we said Roger Lowenstein is "considering" writing a book about the banking crisis that tore through Wall Street last week. Turns out he had his mind made up! According to the Publishers Marketplace dealwire, Six Days That Shook the World, "a look at last week on Wall Street and in Washington, illuminating the origins of ...

Last Thursday, former Vice President Al Gore joined the many voices that have been calling for a crash program-a "moon-shot" national effort to get us off of fossil fuels. Senator Obama applauded the speech saying "For decades, Al Gore has challenged the skeptics in Washington on climate change and awakened the conscience of a nation to the urgency of this ...