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Biography celebrates Surrealists' enigmatic muse
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Book looks back at life and death of Nusch Éluard, French model and artist painted by Picasso and photographed by Man Ray She was the quiet woman of Surrealist Paris and an enigmatic muse that inspired some of the greatest art of the 1930s and 40s. But Nusch Éluard, a beautiful model who sat for. Picasso and posed for Man Ray, has...
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| Rove's Memoir: 'The Empire Strikes Back'?
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Karl Rove released a memoir Tuesday that many reviewers criticized as being more defense of George W. Bush-era policies than revealing look at the legendary operative once dubbed "Bush's Brain." But most political memoirs share a similar aim: to get a jump on shaping history as it's written.
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| 'Angelology': A Cross-Bred Monster Of A Mystery
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
The first novel by Danielle Trussoni follows the struggle between nefarious human-angel hybrids and the band of mortals trying to keep them in check. Trussoni, author of the acclaimed memoir Falling Through the Earth, maintains a balance between literary artistry and complex adventure.
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| Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli’s Work
Sun, 07 Mar 2010
In memory of a son killed in a terrorist attack, a Palestinian lawyer paid for an Arabic translation of the autobiography of Israel’s most prominent author and dove, Amos Oz.
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| Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011 (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
AP - Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.
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| Letters Capture American Grief After the Kennedy Assassination
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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| 'Little Billy's Letters' at a glance
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Excerpts from the responses by prominent figures to letters from "Little Billy," the grade-schooler alter ego of prankster Bill .
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| Country star Tammy Wynette lived a sad song
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
A new biography's title says it all: 'Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen.' It paints a portrait of a sad, stormy life.
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| Harper Buys Scott Brown Memoir
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
After word spread throughout the industry that a book proposal from newly elected Massachusetts.
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| Children's |
Disney films that little boys would like to see
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
As Disney rebrands Rapunzel as Tangled, we imagine what other children's stories and fairy tales could be made more appealing to boys Disney is taking no chances. Book publishers have long since realised that anything that sounds too obviously girly is a complete no-no for the unfairer sex – hence. JK Rowling's books weren't published...
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| What We're Reading, March 9 - 15
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Is the biblically inspired Angelology the next Da Vinci Code? James Hynes' Next causes us to inaugurate the genre "Mick lit" (think middle-aged men and the Rolling Stones). A prominent advocate of No Child Left Behind reverses course. And ace spy John Wells is back, undercover and in deep.
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| Sunday Routine | Rebecca Stead: For Rebecca Stead, a Day to Recharge the Brain’s Batteries
Sat, 06 Mar 2010
Why the author of the prize-winning children’s book “When You Reach Me” sets aside Sunday as a time for not writing.
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| Dutton Children's Pre-Empts YA Debut for Six Figures
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
In a deal for six figures, Dutton Children's Books bought a debut YA novel by a young editor at.
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| On to Bologna!
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
As children's publishers from the world over convene in Italy later this month (March 23–26),.
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| Lerner Moves into YA Market with Carolrhoda Lab
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Lerner Publishing Group has announced that the Minneapolis-based children's book publisher will.
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| HMH Children's Buys Buzzed-About Anne Frank Novel
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
In another buzzed-about pre-Bologna acquisition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's bought.
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| Lee & Low Gets New Imprint
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Independent children's book publisher Lee & Low will launch a new imprint, Tu Books, in fall.
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| Comics |
Vertical To Publish Twin Spica Space Training Manga
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
Vertical, Inc, a New York City-based boutique publisher of all things Japanese, from hard-boiled.
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| Amazon.com Glitch Offers Super Discounts on Graphic Novels
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
In what is being described as a computer glitch, Amazon.com's Top 100 Book List was filled with.
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| New look for Del Rey's Ben 10 and Bakugan Graphic Novels
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
While Del Rey manga is popular with serious manga fans, their top three sellers in bookstores,.
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| Life in Comics: Why San Diego Might Not Love Comic-Con
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
A couple of years ago, on the way to the San Diego airport, the taxi driver asked me and my.
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| Comics Reviews: 3/8/2010
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
The latest graphic novels by Dash Shaw and Jame sSturm are reviewed, along with several.
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| Current Events |
Sunnis Who Fled Iraq Remain In Exile
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, about 4 million Iraqis have fled their homes. Another 2 million have fled the country entirely. Throughout the war, NPR's Deborah Amos has spent much of her time with Iraqis who fled to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. She has a new book out: Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile and Upheaval in the Middle East...
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| A Grim 'Eclipse': Deb Amos On Iraq's Sunni Exiles
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Since the U.S. invasion, 4 million Iraqis have had to leave their homes. An additional 2 million have left the country entirely, and many are still outside its borders. NPR's Deborah Amos tells the story of these displaced Iraqi citizens in her new book, Eclipse of the Sunnis.
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| Publisher Pulls 'Last Train From Hiroshima'
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
In February, Henry Holt & Company stopped the presses on The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, amid questions of fraud. Motoko Rich, publishing reporter for the New York Times , shares what Pellegrino said to her about the allegations.
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| Books of The Times: Lives Scarred by War in ‘The Surrendered,’ by Chang-rae Lee
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
With “The Surrendered,” Chang-rae Lee has written the most ambitious and compelling novel of his already impressive career.
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| Book Review | 'The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers,' by Nancy Sherman
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
A philosopher and psychoanalyst documents the stories of veterans and brings a dual perspective to the experience of war.
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| Visuals: Histories of Maps and Other Visual Books
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian “war rugs.”
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| Fiction |
David Foster Wallace archive goes to U. of Texas (AP)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
AP - The archive of writer David Foster Wallace, best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center library and museum at the University of Texas, the center announced Monday.
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| Puchner's Debut Novel Forthright, Detailed
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
In Eric Puchner's novel Model Home , a father relocates his family from the Midwest to Southern California, but his dreams for success, and theirs, falls flat. It's the first novel by the award-winning short-story writer.
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| Books of The Times: James Hynes’s ‘Next’: A Job Interview to End All Interviews
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
In James Hynes’s new novel, a middle-aged man on a one-day trip to Austin, Tex., for a job interview comes full to life at long last.
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| Stage adaptation of John Grisham novel is planned
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
A stage adaptation of John Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, will have its world premiere next year in Washington in what .
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| Books roundup: International voices
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Three of these four novels are debuts, with authors sharing their stories from Norway, Italy, Afghanistan and Ethiopia.
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| Ian McEwan interview: warming to the topic of climate change
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Ian McEwan's new novel Solar brings humour to the climate change debate - and he is preparing to take some flak.
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| Israeli novel, Russian poem collection win prizes (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
AP - An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation.
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| Amazon, Diamond Deal with Aftermath of Computer Pricing Snafu
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Amazon.com’s Top 100 Book List returned to reality—Kathryn Sockett’s novel The Help was.
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| The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge by Patricia Duncker: review
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Jake Kerridge marvels at the twists in Patricia Duncker's thriller about a mass suicide
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| 3/9/10 Monitor Books podcast, including interview with Heidi Durrow, author of "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Author Heidi Durrow discusses her debut novel, "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky."
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| Non-Fiction |
Bearing witness is a sacred trust | Timothy Garton Ash
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Every writer of reportage ought to learn from the Kapuscinski controversy. Creative non-fiction is a slippery slope Had he lived a few years longer, Ryszard Kapuscinski might well have won the Nobel prize for literature. Although these things are shrouded in Vatican-like secrecy, I bet that he was. on the Swedish Academy's rolling...
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| Reviews |
Film Weekly meets The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
This week's podcast meets The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo AKA Swedish actor Noomi Rapace, talks LA and Tolstoy with Danny Huston, and reviews Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Paul Greengrass's Green Zone. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Swedish author Stieg Larsson's literary sensation about a. crack computer hacker who teams up...
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| Review: `House of Versace' built on solid ground (AP)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
AP - "House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival" (Crown, 352 pages, $26), by Deborah Ball: "House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival" chronicles the life of fashion designer Gianni Versace, from his humble beginnings in Reggio., a town in southern Italy, to his...
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| The Kreutzer Sonata: Film review
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Danny Huston stars in another intelligent film transposing Tolstoy to LA. By Peter Bradshaw British-born director Bernard Rose, known as a horror specialist for his 1992 shocker Candyman, is showing some stunning form with his modern adaptations of Tolstoy. After a conventional account of Anna Karenina., Rose brought off a brilliant...
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| Review: 'Out of League' takes title too literally (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
AP - Remember the hoo-ha over whether Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl made a believable couple in Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up"?
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| Book Review | 'Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town,' by Christopher de Bellaigue
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.
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| Skippy Dies by Paul Murray: review
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Philip Womack is enchanted by a dark tale of adolescence, Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
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| General |
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Tony Jud t Félix Vallotton In 1992 I was chairman of the History Department at New York University—where I was also the only unmarried straight male under sixty. A combustible blend: prominently displayed on the board outside my office was the location and phone number of the university’s. Sexual Harassment Center. History was...
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| They Did Authorize Torture, But …
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
David Cole John Yoo; drawing by David Levine Whatever else you might say about John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who drafted several memos in 2002 authorizing the CIA to commit torture, you have to admit that he’s not in the least embarrassed by the condemnation of his peers. On. February 19, the Justice Department...
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| Google partners with Italy for groundbreaking book scanning deal
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Google and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage have reached an agreement to digitise up to a million out-of-copyright works at the national libraries in Florence and Rome, including some by Galileo. And it's just two weeks after an Italian court gave three Google executives suspended prison sentences. over a video of bullying on...
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| Britain: The Disgrace of the Universities
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Anthony Grafton Oxford Fellows ‘envisaging the weather’; drawing by Max Beerbohm from Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story , 1911 British universities face a crisis of the mind and spirit. For thirty years, Tory and Labour politicians, bureaucrats, and “managers” have hacked at the. traditional foundations of academic...
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| Author reveals the unwritten rules of baseball (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
AP - "The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime" (Pantheon Books, 304 pages, $25), by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca: Major League Baseball is a complex, intricate game with a thick rule book that covers everything. from balks and bunts to force...
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| Giving up book shopping
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
My purchasing habits are out of control, so I've decided to renounce the charms of Amazon and concentrate on stuff I've already bought Inspired by Bibi van der Zee's powers of self-denial , I've decided to get all Puritan on my literary ass. I'm not talking about giving up books for a week: that would. be weird; I'd have to talk to...
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| The New Tower of London
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
Martin Filler The winning design for the US Embassy in London, by KieranTimberlake (KieranTimberlake Architects) One of the most well-intentioned artistic initiatives ever undertaken by the United States government has turned out to be among its least successful: the embassy design program meant. to present America’s best...
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| Father, daughter make baseball a year-round quest (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
AP - "The Baseball Fan's Bucket List: 162 Things You Must See, Do, Get, and Experience Before You Die" (Running Press, 288 pages, $15.95), by Robert Santelli and Jenna Santelli: Baseball is played by the boys of spring, whose sport also runs through summer and spills into the first. several weeks of fall...
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| Three Family Secrets We Can't Keep
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
Everyone has his or her own secrets, but what happens when your most intimate ones are shared with loved ones? Family secrets can be the hardest to hide — and the most provocative. Martha Toll suggest three books for when no one knows you better than your family — and that's the problem.
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| 'The Poisoner's Handbook': CSI's Jazz Age Roots
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Deborah Blum's history of the birth of forensic science details the work of Charles Norris, New York City's first chief medical examiner, and Alexander Gettler, Norris' head toxicologist. The two advanced many of the technologies that allow scientists to track toxic substances in the body.
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| Author writes about loss, family in India and US (AP)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
AP - "Secret Daughter" (William Morrow, 352 pages, $23.99), by Shilpi Somaya Gowda: Sometimes the image in our minds of what we have lost is far greater than the loss itself, and so it is for Asha, who was given up for adoption by her birthparents in India.
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| Readers say when
Sun, 7 Mar 2010
Putting aside a book before finishing it is not a simple thing, as I noted in a recent column. Many of you agreed. I received more than 150 e-mails from those who, like me, have felt guilt, shame and uncertainty at the prospect of quitting a book prior to the last page.
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| Genghis Khan, Asian conqueror, on women's rights (AP)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
AP - "The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire" (Crown Publishers, 334 pages, $26), by Jack Weatherford: If anyone in central Asia 800 years ago could be called a feminist, one was Genghis Khan.
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| After Financial Ruin, Plotting America's 'Comeback'
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
David M. Walker is the former comptroller general of the United States. His book, Comeback America, details the current financial crisis and offers his ideas on controlling spending and restoring fiscal responsibility in the United States.
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| Booksellers fighting Amazon's Canadian bid (Reuters)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Reuters - Fearing an apparent assault by Amazon.com on Canadian culture, the Canadian Booksellers Association is urging the federal government to block the U.S. Internet retailer from establishing a physical presence north of the border.
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| How free markets sank the U.S. economy (Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Reuters - Two years ago, a poisonous brew of bad economics, lax regulation, and egregious behavior boiled over, scalding the financial system and pitching the United States into its steepest downturn since the Great Depression.
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| Deception And 'The Devil And Sherlock Holmes'
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
David Grann spent years documenting true stories of obsession and deception. He includes an improbable international impostor and the mysterious death of a Sherlock Holmes scholar in his book, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
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| Father G Sees Past Gang Tattoos, To The Heart
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Los Angeles is home to nearly 86,000 gang members. When they want to quit "gang banging," many call Fr. Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest. Father G, founder of Homeboy Industries, talks about his book, Tattoos On The Heart.
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| Anniversary Party Postponed
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
To all my friends:Today is the 3rd year anniversary of my first blog for PW. The plans are all in place for a great celebration. Unfortunately, sometimes life gets in the way. Right now my.
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| WW Ladies Book Club Blurbs
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Rich Again by Anna MaxtedRead by LorettaBorn to a fabulously wealthy father, two daughters, Emily and Claudia, are completely unlike as might be possible. Emily, at 16, has plans to marry and.
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