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THE NEW BARBARIANS: The Wall Street crisis makes for good copy, both in newspapers and relatively soon, it appears, in hardback. The New York Observer reported a handful of books about the economic crisis were sold under the Penguin imprint last week: New York Times columnist Joe Nocera and Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean sold an unnamed tome to Penguin's business imprint, and The New York Times Magazine contributor Roger Lowenstein got a deal for "Six Days That Shook the World" on Wednesday with Penguin. Meanwhile, Andrew Ross Sorkin , The Times' lead business reporter on the crisis, nailed a deal on Thursday with Viking for a book about Wall Street's implosion.