On Thanksgiving eve, let's congratulate the lucky idiot who paid $2 million for the biggest turkey of them all. That would be the editor who fought off a dozen similarly deluded rivals for Garth Risk Hallberg's 911-page novel, "City on Fire." That tidy sum " reportedly the highest amount ever paid for a debut novel...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:00PM on November 25, 2015