SUMMERLAND Michael Chabon (Miramax, $22.95) Chabon, good guy that he is, personally rang Big-Screen Bound to report that contrary to rumors, he's not writing the script for the movie Miramax is making of his new kids' fantasy.
THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE Michel Faber (Harcourt, $26) The Hollywood suits are reportedly very anxious to get their mitts on the hooker at the heart of Faber's golden novel, set in Victorian London. Come and get her, boys!
VANITY FAIR William Thackeray (Penguin, $8) Reese Witherspoon, director Mira Nair, and Gosford Park scribe Julian Fellowes are tackling the 19th-century novel.
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