Omni Daily News

By Lauren Nemroff

Controversial Cartoons Prompt Publisher Caution:  Yale University Press has put the kibosh on including any of the political cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked an international firestorm and 200 deaths last September 2009. In its forthcoming book The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen, Yale will not reprint any of the controversial caricatures nor any images of Muhammad.   [The New York Times]

More Favorites for the Listening:  Audio book listeners' wish for more classic and contemporary
favorites is coming true.  Audible Modern Vanguard, a new initiative from Audible.com will feature works from contemporary masters ranging from Auster and Bellow to Friedan and Vonnegut.  In exclusive author interviews, editorial legend James Atlas introduces many of  the new titles. [Audible.com]

Moving & shaking: Maybe it was a combination of last night's meteor shower and TIME.com's interview with author Brian Clegg, but it landed Before the Big Bang: The Pre-History of Our Universe in the top slot of our  daily Movers & Shakers.

--Lauren