J.J. Abrams Eyes 'Great World' Book

Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann's National Book Award-winning novel "Let the Great World Spin" looks to be coming to rest at Bad Robot.

"Spin," McCann's fifth novel, was published in June by Random House. Built around Philippe Petit's real-life "artistic crime of the century" -- when the Frenchman illegally walked a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center towers in August 1974 -- "Spin" follows an ensemble cast of characters struggling throughout New York.