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| Biographies |
From Sweeper to Capitol Hill Staffer, 'Step By Step'
Tue, 13 May 2008
For six decades, Bertie Bowman has worked on Capitol Hill. He began as a 13-year-old sweeping the steps, and now he is the hearing scheduler for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In between, he forged friendships with some of the most prominent members of the Senate. Step by Step is his new memoir.
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| Writer Kasra Naji on Ahmadinejad's 'Secret History'
Tue, 13 May 2008
Iran's president was relatively unknown on the international stage before he was elected, but he's a standard-bearer for a new generation of hardliners. In a new biography, journalist Kasra Naji explores Ahmadinejad's rise to power, his complex character and his motivations.
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| Actor Evan Handler on Life After Leukemia
Tue, 13 May 2008
When actor Evan Handler — best known as Charlotte's husband on Sex and the City — was 23 years old, he was diagnosed with leukemia and given six months to live. In a new memoir It's Only Temporary, he chronicles his journey from the hospital to HBO.
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| Suze Rotolo: Of Dylan, New York and Art
Wed, 14 May 2008
Artist Suze Rotolo — the woman walking beside Bob Dylan on the album cover for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — was Dylan's girlfriend in the '60s. She's written about the relationship, and about that era's New York, in a new memoir.
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| Tony Blair's wife publishes autobiography; Iraq war a topic (AP)
Sat, 10 May 2008
AP - Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography.
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| James Frey emerges, with a novel about LA (AP)
Wed, 14 May 2008
AP - "Bright Shiny Morning" (HarperCollins, 501 pages, $26.95) by James Frey: In this age of controversial pseudo-memoirs, James Frey, the man who started it all, leaves his past behind and tackles Los Angeles in his new novel.
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| Rick Bragg's second memoir embraces the male side of his family
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:35 GMT
Best-selling memoirist Rick Bragg looks at the male side of his family for the first time in "The Prince of Frogtown." The Southern storyteller discusses it Wednesday and Thursday in Seattle.
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| Nuala O'Faolain, Journalist and Author, Dead at 68
Mon, 12 May 2008
The celebrated Irish memoirist, who had been battling lung cancer, died May 9. Her 1996 memoir — about growing up poor in the Ireland of the '40s and '50s — became a best-seller. Terry Gross talked to her in 2001.
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| Mother's memoirs
Sun, 11 May 2008
Motherhood is the subject of these recent memoirs, some of them breezy and lighthearted (moms who passed on their love of shopping - or writing) and others in a more tragic vein (mothers grieving the loss of a child).
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| Naipaul biography among 6 books competing for British non-fiction prize
Thu, 15 May 2008
A biography of writer V.S. Naipaul and a modern account of travel through Africa in the footsteps of H.M. Stanley have been nominated for Britain's richest non-fiction prize.
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| Memoir Unveils Life, Love in the Middle East
Tue, 13 May 2008
In her book Unveiled , Deborah Kanafani recounts her marriage and divorce to a high-ranking Palestinian diplomat — and the cultural rift between her "American" upbringing and her married life.
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| Letters
Sun, 11 May 2008
Re your poetry issue (Book World, April 20). The poets that seem to interest you strike me as marginalized or unpopular. I searched through the issue and couldn't find mention of my favorite.
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| 'Farley' barely scratches the surface of comic's demons
Thu, 15 May 2008
Lesson No. 1 for any aspiring comedian who likes to party: Get your older brother to write your biography, not the guy who broke .
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| Book buzz: Walters' view from the top
Thu, 15 May 2008
Since USA TODAY began its Best-Selling Books list in 1993, only four memoirs have entered the list at No 1: Hillary Clinton's .
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| Irish author Nuala O'Faolain dies at 68
Mon, 12 May 2008
Nuala O'Faolain a journalist and feminist who gained international fame with her outspoken 1996 memoir Are You Somebody? has .
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| Celebs lighten memoir mood
Tue, 13 May 2008
It's celebrity season at the bookstore. USA TODAY checks out what five stars have to say about everything from getting older .
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| Book roundup: Memoirs
Thu, 15 May 2008
Four memoirs, including a second from an author who is nearly 100 years old.
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| Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain dies at 68
Mon, 12 May 2008
Nuala O'Faolain, the Irish journalist and author of the frank memoir Are You Somebody, has died. She was 68.
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| Memoirs: whose truth – and does it matter?
09 May 2008
Two years after the James Frey scandal, a still-roiled genre thrives.
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| All the Difference
Fri, 09 May 2008
A biographical novel reconstructs Robert Frost’s life.
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| Children's |
Weisberg to Head Penguin Children's Group; Whiteman Moves Up
Wed, 14 May 2008
Industry veteran and former Random House chief operating officer for North America Don Weisberg is the surprising choice to succeed Doug Whiteman as head of Penguin Young Readers Group. Whiteman has been promoted to the new spot of executive v-p of business operations. Barbara Marcus, who played a key. role in bringing Weisberg to Penguin...
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| Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008
Mon, 12 May 2008
Picture Books Such a Silly Baby! Steffanie and Richard Lorig , illus. by Amanda Shepherd. Chronicle , $15.99 ISBN 978-0-8118-5134-3 As preschoolers will undoubtedly note with glee, the title of this book should be “Such a Silly Mommy!” After all, it's Mommy who can't manage to go on an outing. without bringing home an animal...
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| The PW Morning Report, May 14, 2008
Wed, 14 May 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Barbara Backlash; Cookin’ Kids; Remembering Nuala; Pat Tillman’s Mom’s Book; Cherie Blair Speaks; Charles R. Ellis Dead; British Book Industry Awards; Turin Book Fair Protest; and Dylan’s Muse Writes Book
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| When marriage goes to the dogs, who gets them?
Thu, 15 May 2008
For many of us, dogs are substitute children (or ancillary ones, at least). So it should come as no surprise that when marriages break up, as they are wont to do, that custody of the cockapoo can become a pitched battle.
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| Poet's Choice
Sun, 11 May 2008
Whether a child recklessly runs into traffic or clings until peeled off, every mother must balance keeping said child safe while urging him or her to self-reliance. Worrying that bone kept me up long after my wailing infant had gone to sleep.
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast
Fri, 09 May 2008
This week: Fareed Zakaria, author of “The Post-American World”; the children’s book author Walter Dean Myers; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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| "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith
Sat, 10 May 2008
A brilliant 1st novel about an invisible killer and a lost detective O ne of the rare pleasures of the book-reviewing trade is first hearing all sorts of advance hype about a novel and then finding out that every word was true.
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| Cookbook Publishers Try to Think Small
Wed, 14 May 2008
The children’s cookbook genre is enjoying a new life, as parents who have a keen interest in cooking encourage their young children to spend time in the kitchen.
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| Comics |
Cinebook Brings Euro Comics to the U.S.
Mon, 12 May 2008
European graphic novels have had spotty success in the U.S., but that's not stopping a small British publisher of European comic books and graphic novels from making its BEA debut this year. Cinebook has grown from 10 titles in 2005 to 36 new titles this year, and is banking on English-speaking readers. to go beyond popular Franco-Belgian...
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| Comics Briefly
Tue, 13 May 2008
Feiffer at the Strand; Manga by the Navy; PWCW Needs Interns!; New Katy Keene GN; PW The Beat:Gene Colan Ill; Speed Racer; The News in Comics; Lynda Barry in NYT and Mother’s Day Comic in NYT
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| Top Shelf Launches Web Comics Site
Mon, 12 May 2008
Indie comics publisher Top Shelf Productions will launch an all-new webcomics site on Friday, May 16, spearheaded and edited by Top Shelf publisher Brett Warnock and his co-editor, Leigh Walton.
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| Glen Brunswick: Comics for Print and Screen
Mon, 12 May 2008
Film and comics writer Glen Brunswick is prepping for the publication of the trade paperback edition of his action/adventure comics series Killing Girl by Image Comics
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| Books about Comics #2: Spiegelman and Spandex
Mon, 12 May 2008
Peter Sanderson reviews two recent books; one covering the history of Maus and the other the proposed secrets behind the superhero myth.
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| Donner’s Debut Graphic Novel Burns Bright
Mon, 12 May 2008
YA novelist Rebecca Donner joins the stampede to graphic novels with Burnout from the Minx line.
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| Donner’s Debut Graphic Novel Burns Bright
Mon, 12 May 2008
YA novelist Rebecca Donner joins the stampede to graphic novels with Burnout from the Minx line.
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| Current Events |
Churchill and His Myths
Thu, 29 May 2008
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning by John Lukacs Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne Olson Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker Churchill, Hitler., and "The Unnecessary War": How...
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| Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out?
Thu, 29 May 2008
By Thomas Powers The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan., and bin Laden, from the Soviet...
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| How to Cover an Election
Thu, 29 May 2008
By Frank Rich When, in the summer of 1968, Norman Mailer covered the Republican and Democratic conventions on assignment for Harper's magazine, he was forty-five, an aging rebel looking for a new cause. He had started to drift restlessly from his single-minded pursuit of the Great American Novel into. filmmaking and journalism, two...
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| How to Defuse Explosives in Iraqi Heat
Thu, 15 May 2008
Chris Hunter served in the British military in Iraq in 2004, performing arguably one of the most dangerous jobs out there. He was a bomb-disposal operator — responsible for taking apart IED's before they exploded. He discusses why, though he left the military 18 months ago, he plans to go to Afghanistan.
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| Is 'Tolerance' a Dirty Word?
Mon, 12 May 2008
In Beyond Tolerance, a former New York Times religion reporter argues for deeper interfaith understanding (review, p. 49). Can you explain what you mean by the title Beyond Tolerance? I am critical of the way the word “tolerance” is used. It's an extremely elastic word that can signify almost. anything short of committing...
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| From a Real-life Lara Croft
Mon, 12 May 2008
The White Mary Kira Salak . Holt , $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8847-2 A young reporter embarks on a dangerous adventure in Salak's gripping debut novel, a blend of Heart of Darkness and Tomb Raider. Like her protagonist, Marika Vecera, award-winning journalist Salak has traveled solo—and narrowly escaped. death—in the world's most...
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| Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008
Mon, 12 May 2008
Where War Lives Paul Watson . Rodale/Modern Times , $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59486-957-0 Veteran war correspondent Watson takes the reader on a graphic tour of modern battlefields from Eritrea to Afghanistan, with a particularly haunting stop in war-torn Somalia. It was in Somalia that Watson photographed. the corpse of an American...
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| Veteran Peacemakers O'Malley, Maharaj on Iraq
Mon, 12 May 2008
Veteran peace negotiator Padraig O'Malley worked on the conflicts in Northern Ireland and South Africa. Mac Maharaj played a role in the latter nation's anti-apartheid movement. Both took part in recent closed-door negotiations in Finland, aimed at bringing reconciliation among rival factions in Iraq.
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| Reporter Jonathan Steele Examines Missteps in Iraq
Tue, 13 May 2008
In Defeat , reporter Jonathan Steele contends that the Bush administration, by failing to balance military strategy with cultural sensitivities, was fighting an unwinnable battle from the day it invaded Iraq.
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| Beaverbrook story takes 2 Atlantic Book Awards
Tue, 13 May 2008
New Brunswick author and CBC reporter Jacques Poitras has won both the Booksellers' Choice Award and the Best Atlantic Published Book Award for his investigative account Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy.
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| Literary Events
Sun, 11 May 2008
10:30 A.M. Joan Bauer reads from and discusses Peeled , her new YA novel featuring a savvy student newspaper reporter, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.
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| Books of The Times: A World of Stories From a Son of Vietnam
Tue, 13 May 2008
Whether it’s the prospect of dying at sea or being shot by a drug kingpin or losing family members in a war, Nam Le’s people are individuals trapped in the cross hairs of fate.
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| Essay: 1958: The War of the Intellectuals
Fri, 09 May 2008
Fifty years ago, American critics worried about the collapsing distinction among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow.
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| Life without the war - or the daughter
Thu, 15 May 2008
Claudia FitzHerbert reviews Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
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| Isaac Rosenberg, the outsider's outsider
Sat, 10 May 2008
Nigel Jones reviews Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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| Three Soldiers
Sat, 10 May 2008
In a novel set in World War II, a sergeant commits murder in front of his unit.
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| The General's Chain of Blame in Iraq
Tue, 13 May 2008
WISER IN BATTLE A Soldier's Story By Ricardo S. Sanchez
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| Fiction |
Review of "The Calder Game"
Sat, 10 May 2008
Chicagoan Blue Balliett's latest novel for young readers F riends Calder, Petra and Tommy of Hyde Park are dealing with the trial of a new and apparently unimaginative 7th-grade teacher. On a field trip to an exhibit of Alexander Calder's art, the new teacher values standing in line quietly, rather. than reacting to the art. The Calder...
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| Fiction Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008
Mon, 12 May 2008
Goldengrove Francine Prose . Harper , $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-621411-5 In Prose's deeply touching and absorbing 15th novel, narrator Nico, 13, comes upon Gerard Manley Hopkins's “Spring and Fall” (which opens “Margaret, are you grieving/ Over Goldengrove unleaving?”) in her. father's upstate New York bookstore...
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| Crime Fiction's Familial Shadows
Mon, 12 May 2008
QUIVER By Peter Leonard Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur. 276 pp. $24.95 Life, as our leaders keep reminding us, is unfair, and that's true in spades in the book review game. To start with, roughly a zillion books are published for every one that is reviewed. What's more, even if you do get rev.
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| Cooing for a strange genius
Sun, 11 May 2008
An enchanting new novel, "The Invention of Everything Else" by Samantha Hunt (Houghton Mifflin, $24), imagines the last weeks of the Serbian engineer and dreamer Nikola Tesla as he feeds his beloved pigeons and befriends an oddball chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan.
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| Another predictable run for Sandford's Davenport (AP)
Tue, 13 May 2008
AP - "Phantom Prey" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 373 pages, $26.95), by John Sandford: We've become friends with Lucas Davenport in Sandford's 18-novel series about the rough-and-tumble ex-jock who dispatches headline-level criminals in the Twin Cities.
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| Tommy Lee Jones taking on Hemingway project (Reuters)
Thu, 15 May 2008
Reuters - Tommy Lee Jones is taking on the work of Ernest Hemingway, signing on to adapt, direct, produce and star in the writer's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream."
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| The PW Morning Report, May 13, 2008
Tue, 13 May 2008
A round-up of the latest publishing news: Rushdie Is Bookies' Favorite, Slain Officer's Novel Published, DC Madam Inspires Film and Book, NYT and LAT Disagree on Frey, Court Reinstates Prosecutor/Author
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| Death, Mental Illness and Cross-town Traffic
Sun, 11 May 2008
The so-called young adult novel isn't just a novel about young adults. It's also a) easy on the brain and b) fond of "issues." The lines are double-spaced, and often the ideas are, too.
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| New voices: Bill Folman
Thu, 15 May 2008
Bill Folman's debut novel, The Scandal Plan: or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife, tells the tale of a straight-arrow .
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| Disgraced author James Frey rebounds with messy 'Morning'
Thu, 15 May 2008
Give the bloodied but clearly unbowed James Frey points for unbridled ambition. His new novel, Bright Shiny Morning,reveals a .
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| James Frey returns, this time, with a novel (AP)
Wed, 14 May 2008
AP - The sign in the lobby of the Blender Theater, where James Frey is opening his once-unthinkable book tour, reads "NO RE-ENTRY. All exits are final."
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| James Frey takes a novel approach with 'Bright Shiny Morning'
Tue, 13 May 2008
James Frey's sprawling novel, Bright Shiny Morning, published Tuesday, is set in Los Angeles. But the author, best known as the .
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| The Fog of Love
Fri, 09 May 2008
Andrew Sean Greer’s novel is appropriately set in San Francisco’s Sunset district.
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| Rough Justice
Fri, 09 May 2008
Louise Edrich’s new novel examines the lasting repercussions of a small-town lynching.
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| The Mother Hood
Fri, 09 May 2008
Meg Wolitzer’s novel is about New York women who have stayed home too long.
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| Styron’s Choices
Fri, 09 May 2008
Essays by William Styron illuminate his fiction’s themes.
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| A scheming sexpot dismembered in a dump
Sat, 10 May 2008
Jake Kerridge reviews foreign crime fiction
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| Poetry |
Picture Books Celebrate the Fleet of Foot
Sun, 11 May 2008
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" contains plenty of nonsense words, but the poem's narrative -- a warning to beware a monster, followed by its slaying -- is clear enough.
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| Prizes |
The PW Morning Report, May 15, 2008
Thu, 15 May 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Clarke’s Last Book; Living Library; Novelist Elaine Dundy Dead; Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist; and Hemingway to Film
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| Rushdie, Coetzee shortlisted for Best of Booker prize
Mon, 12 May 2008
Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee are among the renowned authors shortlisted for the upcoming Best of the Booker prize, organizers announced Monday.
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| Reviews |
Searching for Universal LovePW Talks with Stephenie Meyer: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
Tue, 13 May 2008
The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Reviews, Mar. 31), author of the bestselling Twilight YA series (Twilight, the film, is now in production, slated for a Dec. release), features a love triangle in two bodies. Melanie, a rebel human, is the reluctant host “soul” for Wanderer, an extraterrestrial. whose race has successfully invaded...
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| Searching for Universal LovePW Talks with Stephenie Meyer: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
Tue, 13 May 2008
The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Reviews, Mar. 31), author of the bestselling Twilight YA series (Twilight, the film, is now in production, slated for a Dec. release), features a love triangle in two bodies. Melanie, a rebel human, is the reluctant host “soul” for Wanderer, an extraterrestrial. whose race has successfully invaded...
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| Girls and Violence
Mon, 12 May 2008
Best known for her Grant County thrillers (Blindsighted, etc.), Karin Slaughter has written a sequel, Fractured (review, p. 35), to her 2006 stand-alone, Triptych, which introduced an agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Will Trent, who's dyslexic. What made you decide to bring back Will Trent.? Will Trent was interesting to me...
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| The Secret Lives of Gene Simmons
Mon, 12 May 2008
In Ladies of the Night (Reviews, p. 47), the former Kiss member discusses the world's oldest profession. Your book makes the argument that prostitution gives women access to power that they would otherwise not have. Have you always felt that way? Surprise! I actually respect women. I've always had that. point of view.
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| Newly Released
Thu, 15 May 2008
May’s list of new books comes weighted with accolades, from within publishing and without. Reviews of works by Inger Ash Wolfe, Aleksandar Hemon, Chris Knopf, Stephenie Meyer, James Meek and Elizabeth George.
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| Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008
Mon, 12 May 2008
This week: the return of the Moonwatchers! Plus Georgio Armani, love songs gone wrong, Patricia Cornwell's FBI lover, and three delicious travelogues. Plus: poets from Canada and Russia, the Simpsons way of worship, and the new spaghetti noir.
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| The wrong end of history in Eastern Europe
Sat, 10 May 2008
Robert Colvile reviews A Country in the Moon by Michael Moran; Strange Telescopes by Daniel Kalder; and I Was a Potato Oligarch by John Mole
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| May you live in Fortean times
Sat, 10 May 2008
Damian Thompson reviews Charles Fort: the Man who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer
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| The Larkin Principle at work
Thu, 15 May 2008
Anne Chisholm reviews The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn
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| The legal evils of Guantanamo Bay
Thu, 15 May 2008
Alasdair Palmer reviews Torture Team by Philippe Sands
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| An indictment of US torture
Thu, 15 May 2008
Sadakat Kadri reviews Torture Team by Philippe Sands
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| Metafictional gamesomeness
Sat, 10 May 2008
Sam Leith reviews An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
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| Travelling Empire-class
Sat, 10 May 2008
Nicolette Jones reviews A Corkscrew is Most Useful by Nicholas Murray
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| Being childish for 300 years
Sat, 10 May 2008
Lucy Moore reviews Growing Up In England by Anthony Fletcher
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| Cocooned by cocoons
Sat, 10 May 2008
Victoria Lane reviews The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
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| Alexandre Dumas, beyond the grave
Sun, 11 May 2008
Jonathan Bate reviews The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas
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| How Bernardo Provenzano saved the Mafia
Sun, 11 May 2008
Harriet Paterson reviews Boss of Bosses by Clare Longrigg
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| Doris Lessing's rewriting of her parents' past
Sun, 11 May 2008
Caroline Moore reviews Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
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| Fun and fundamentalism in Cairo
Sun, 11 May 2008
Beth Jones reviews The End of Sleep by Rowan Somerville
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| He in a bomber, she in a dirigible
Sat, 10 May 2008
Lionel Shriver reviews The Reserve by Russell Banks
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| General |
Thunder from Tibet
Thu, 29 May 2008
By Robert Barnett The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer Every so often, between the time a book leaves its publisher and the time it reaches its readers, events occur that change the ways it can be read. Such is the case with Pico Iyer's account of the fourteenth. Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of...
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| Baseball when the grass, and everything else, was real (AP)
Thu, 15 May 2008
AP - "But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870" (286 pages, Ivan R. Dee, $27.50) by Peter Morris: Any institution that endures in American culture passes through an interesting transitional period, the time when it straddles the line between. an informal practice and a more...
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| Women Artists Win!
Thu, 29 May 2008
By Ingrid D. Rowland Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye by Linda Nochlin WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution an exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, February 17–May 12, 2008 In 1971, Linda Nochlin, an assistant professor of art history at Vassar, published. an essay asking 'Why Have There...
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| Author's look at Stewart, Colbert good but has hints of bias (AP)
Thu, 15 May 2008
AP - "The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart, and Company are Transforming Progressive Politics" (The New Press, 256 pages. $24.95) by Theodore Hamm: Political historians face two obligations: to describe facts accurately and to interpret nuances impartially. The. slightest hint of bias can subvert...
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| Giddy & Malevolent
Thu, 29 May 2008
By Francine Prose Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by Susanna Moore Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court by Patrick Hamilton The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by David Lodge Bob, a waiter. at the London pub from which...
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| The Customer is King at Digital Book 2008
Thu, 15 May 2008
“Give the customers what they want” was the message at Digital Book 2008, the annual conference sponsored by the International Digital Publishing Forum held yesterday at the McGraw-Hill auditorium in Manhattan. It featured panels about e-book standards, new innovations, international digital. publishing and the education...
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| The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists
Thu, 29 May 2008
By Malise Ruthven Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century by Marc Sageman Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel, translated from the German by Colin Meade The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman How We Missed. the Story: Osama bin Laden, the...
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| "The House on Fortune Street" by Margot Livesey
Sat, 10 May 2008
Novelist Margot Livesey looks at the roles of suffering, luck and imagination in making it through life I n debt up to his chin, with a case of writer's block worsening by the minute, Sean Wyman, 33, is an exile from his own life. Recently divorced, he has pulled up stakes in Oxford and moved into. his new girlfriend Abigail's house in...
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| Trade Paperback Gets Hotter
Mon, 12 May 2008
A spate of recent deals provides further proof that the trade paperback original format is an increasingly attractive option for publishers and agents—even for hotly contested material. Last week, two debuts were acquired for publication as paperback originals. First, Terry Karten at Harper beat two. other bidders for 29-year-old Lydia...
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| An angry look at Bill Clinton's life after the presidency: "Clinton in Exile" by Carol Felsenthal
Sat, 10 May 2008
An angry look at Bill Clinton's life after the presidency: "Clinton in Exile" by Carol Felsenthal L ike his childhood, like his college and graduate years, like his presidency, like his role in his wife's campaign—like everything about him—Bill Clinton's postpresidential years are a mass. of complexities and contradictions...
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| Brooke O'Donnell
Mon, 12 May 2008
Growing up a self-described “Air Force brat,” whose family moved between American military bases in Europe throughout her youth, Brooke O'Donnell is used to meeting large numbers of people on a regular basis and quickly sizing them up. “That translates into making decisions on books.,” insists O'Donnell, Trafalgar...
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| Panels Highlight the Copyright Divide
Mon, 12 May 2008
Divergent opinions were the order of the day at the 2008 On Copyright conference, held May 1 in Manhattan. Those who believe that in the Internet age copyright law stands in the way of free promotion went head to head with those who say copyright is the only thing protecting their business. Attitudes. of the day’s panelists toward the...
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| Between the Mountains
Mon, 12 May 2008
The beginning of May traditionally marks the start of spring in the alpine idyll that is Switzerland—but for the Swiss book trade, the beginning of May 2007 brought a life-changing decision: the end of retail price maintenance (RPM) for books in the German-speaking part of the country. The Swiss supreme. competition court had decided...
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| Online Advertising 101
Mon, 12 May 2008
Publishers have been moving advertising campaigns from print publications to the Web for years now and, according to one exec at an outside agency, it's become much more common to take a book campaign online. and only online. Tom McCartin, president and CEO of Walter Kremer Paino, which works with. various. book publishers, indulged PW...
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| AOT #108: Mary Roach Podcasts Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mon, 12 May 2008
Mary Roach, “the funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Salon, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Roach discusses her new book...
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| Jaffe Ready to Close Paperbacks Plus
Wed, 14 May 2008
After 38 years in the book business, Fern Jaffe will be closing Paperbacks Plus, which is the only general-interest independent bookstore in the Bronx, N.Y. A sign on the front of the store announces that “everything is on sale including the bookstore.” Unless a buyer is found, Jaffe. is targeting a final closing for...
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| Random's Search For Growth
Mon, 12 May 2008
If Peter Olson is indeed leaving Random House, his successor will still be faced with the task of finding ways to grow the world's largest trade book publisher in an industry confronted by sluggish growth. Since 2002, one way Random has looked to grow is through international expansion, a move that also. lessened its dependence on the...
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| The Content Crunchers
Mon, 12 May 2008
India's content services industry continues to buzz, loudly. For many multinational publishers, an average cost saving of 30% and a pool of top-notch Indian vendors are just what they need to survive the eat-or-be-eaten competition. For vendors, the latest statistics on the outsourcing business are music. to their ears: a predicted 35...
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| Magic Books
Mon, 12 May 2008
Despite all the talk about the future of e-books, oddly, there's not much discussion about what seems like an obvious point: e-books are different from print books most significantly because they are made of digital information, not paper, meaning they are not limited to just displaying words. Why not. videos, pop-out graphics, audio...
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| Bookstore Sales Post Another Increase in March
Tue, 13 May 2008
Bookstore sales rose 1.3% in March, to $1.03 billion, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales have increased every month so far in 2008 and finished the first quarter up 5.1%, to $4.46 billion. The 1.3% March increase was the smallest gain in 2008. The sales increase in the bookstore. segment was higher than for the...
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