In a follow-up to a Publishers Weekly story (see Wednesday’s MobyLives news digest) that said Alan Dershowitz may have successfully blocked publication of a book that was critical of him by writing threatening letters to anyone and everyone involved with the book’s publication, Dershowitz has written another letter—to Publishers Weekly. Dershowitz quotes from some bad reviews of a previous book by author Norman Finkelstein — but frames them as if they were personal character assessments of Finkelstein — before coming into focus on Finkelstein’s charge that Dershowtiz didn’t write his book The Case for Israel. Dershowitz also returns to the subject of the PW article, his letter-writing campaign, which Finkelstein’s publisher, Lynn Withey, says hasn’t influenced the publication of the book. “Let the record speak for itself,” writes Dershowitz in his letter to PW. “In December 2004, Finkelstein wrote to the dean of the Harvard Law School: ‘My book will . . . demonstrate that he almost certainly didn’t write the book, and perhaps didn’t even read it prior to publication.’ I wrote my letters following that claim. I am now reliably informed that Finkelstein’s false claim will no longer appear in the manuscript to be published by the University of California Press. I leave it to your readers to judge whether it is Finkelstein or Withey who is not telling the truth.”