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(Newser) - Hoping to salvage a miserable year, publishers are flooding the fall season with more hot tickets than normal. Some samples, from the Wall Street Journal:

• Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, Sept. 1: The next in a series from the Da Vinci Code writer.
• Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist, Sept. 8: A

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(Newser) - The 21st-century novel is being reacquainted with an old friend: the plot. Today's best writers are abandoning the notion that literary novels need to be all but impenetrable to readers without advanced degrees, writes Lev Grossman in the Wall Street Journal. "The revolution is under way," he says....