President Kennedy declared his love of the James Bond spy series, and brought Ian Fleming to this country’s attention. It’s less usual for a presidential cease-and-desist letter to propel a book’s sales. But then, part of the point of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” (new at No. 1 in hardcover nonfiction) is that nothing about President Trump is usual. “But you have to have a story, and I wasn’t going to publish a novel until I felt comfortable with the narrative.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2018 09:56 UTC