Can you tell me how to get, how to get to a great history of groundbreaking children’s edutainment public television show Seseme Street? We can, and will, on the Web this week. Plus more of America’s popular favorites: a memoir from Michael Phelps, a history of progressive U.S.

Upon learning that the widely publicized Holocaust love story of Herman and Roma Rosenblat, which inspired the picture book Angel Girl, is not true, Lerner Publishing Group announced yesterday that it would pull the book from shelves. The cancellation follows on the heels of Berkley’s announcement that it would halt publication of Rosenblat’s memoir, Angel at the Fence.

We had a strong suspicion before, but this release memo over at BGR appears to confirm that T-Mobile will get the Curve 8900 and the 8-megapixel Samsung Memoir (which has gone by a number of different names through its FCC process) on February 18. In other shocking news, the 3G-equipped TM506 will be available in January in…RED!

This Week’s Web: further thoughts on the potential for global apocalypse and/or spiritual rebirth in 2012; Hippies across the Middle East; systems analysis for the rest of us; an epic WWII memoir; better living through Samurai wisdom; the dirty world theory; and who’s the literary construct of Virginia Woolf?

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Robert T. Kiyosaki, Grand Central to Publish Online Book for Free; Judith Regan Vs. Michael Wolff; Powell’s Ask Employees to Cut Hours; Team of Rivals to Viking U.K.; David Hirshey to Edit Sarah Silverman; Melville House to Publish Reporters Chicago Blog; Don J.

In Welcome to the Departure Lounge (Reviews, Nov. 3), Meg Federico tells the alternately hilarious and heartfelt story of caring for her 80-year-old mother, suffering from dementia. How did you come to write this memoir? I started writing because the whole thing was so bizarre.

After two searing memoirs, Abraham Verghese writes Cutting for Stone (Reviews, Oct. 27), an epic novel following twin brothers born to a South Indian nun in Ethiopia who grow up to become doctors. What made you turn to fiction after such success with memoir? I always wrote fiction; it was my way of taking a moment from my AIDS work.

After two searing memoirs, Abraham Verghese writes Cutting for Stone (Reviews, Oct. 27), an epic novel following twin brothers born to a South Indian nun in Ethiopia who grow up to become doctors. What made you turn to fiction after such success with memoir? I always wrote fiction; it was my way of taking a moment from my AIDS work.

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Latest Rowling Thursday; Front Page Obama Book; Plummer’s Memoir; A Jean Shepard Christmas; and Lewis Carroll’s New Facsimiles

Katherine sure loves being the center of attention and keeping people on their toes. Giving up 5 percent of her Jabot stock to Gloria? Astonishing. Amber owning the rights to the memoir? Juicy! Jill having to share the house fifty-fifty with Esther? Brilliant! Katherine wasn’t the only one popping up in people’s lives today, however.