To further promote the release of
The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling will be doing several televised interviews in the United States, as well as a couple of print sessions, including those with
USA Today, the publication reported today. Jo is scheduled to appear on ABC's
Nightline,
World News and
Good Morning America, and
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central sometime in September and October. We will announce the dates of all the TV interviews when they are released publicly, and of course have the footage here the moment they are online.
One of the few people in the world who has read the book already, publisher Little, Brown's Michael Pietsch, explained that it was definitely nothing like Harry Potter.
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"I expect the world to be ecstatic at the range of her imaginative reach," predicts Rowling's American publisher, Michael Pietsch. One of the few to have read the embargoed book, he calls Rowling "a genius, one of the great writers of all time." Reading the 512-page novel, he says, "reminded me of Dickens because of the humanity, the humor, the social concerns, the intensely real characters."
No wands, apparently: "This book isn't Harry Potter," says Pietsch. "It is a completely different concern."
There will also be no advanced reviews of the book, as the media will not get the books for critique prior to the September 27 release.
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