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| Bestsellers |
Nobel Winner And Thrillers Hot
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio debuted in the second spot on the French fiction bestsellers list in October with An Old Tale of Quest, a book about his admiration for his mother. One of France's leading science fiction writers, Bernard Werber, whose bestseller Empire of the Ants was released. in the U.
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| Books of The Times: It’s True: Success Succeeds, and Advantages Can Help
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book employs the same recipe as his previous two best sellers, but does so in such a clumsy manner that it italicizes the weaknesses of his methodology.
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| Sourcebooks Scores with Obama Calendar
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Sourcebooks' 2009 Barack Obama Wall Calendar has joined the many titles about the president-elect as a bestseller.
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| BESTSELLERS
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
A list of national bestsellers compiled by Publishers Weekly
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| Washington Area Bestsellers
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Nov. 9, 2008.
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| Bestsellers lists: Fiction and non-fiction
Sat, 15 Nov 2008
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| Biographies |
Mother of Constance Briscoe weeps as she tells libel jury of struggle to raise family
Wed, 19 Nov 2008
The mother of a lawyer who says her daughter's best-selling "misery memoir" is fiction broke down in court yesterday as she told a jury how she had struggled to raise her family. Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell is suing barrister Constance Briscoe for libel. Briscoe alleged she had suffered abuse and neglect. during her south London childhood in...
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| The PW Morning Report, November 17, 2008
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Polling Expert Nate Silver in Two Book Deal; Joe the Plumber Gets Book Deal; Edward Sheehan Dead; Peter J. Levinson Dead; Miguel Syjuco Wins 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize; Thomas Keneally on the Making of Schindler; Novelists Ponder Black President; Pound. Letters to the Harry Ransom Center...
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| Sarah Palin Could Land $7 Million Book Deal
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Alaska governor Sarah Palin could recieve up to a $7 million advance for a memoir. After she spent the last few weeks talking to just about any camera put in front of her, it should come as no surprise that former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is moving closer to inking a book deal.Just. how much could the Alaska governor...
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| The Great American Query Letter
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Recently, funny things have been happening in my slush pile. I find myself receiving well-written, correctly formatted, professional-looking query letters from bad writers. Imagine my chagrin: one minute I'm intrigued by a smoothly crafted query letter, the next I'm staring down at a crackpot writing. sample.
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| A Life in Signs
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
In his first memoir, Hands of My Father (Reviews, Oct. 20), children's book author Myron Uhlberg writes of being a hearing child brought up by deaf parents. Do you think having American Sign Language as your first language helped you develop the creativity to become a writer? It played a very important. part.
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| Roger Moore: On Being Bond (And More)
Thu, 13 Nov 2008
Actor Roger Moore, who played a wry, tongue-in-cheek James Bond in seven films between 1973 to 1985, discusses his new memoir My Word Is My Bond . Moore played Bond longer than any other actor, and offers a peek behind the 007 sets.
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| Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato's home burglarized (AP)
Thu, 13 Nov 2008
AP - Two thieves broke into the house of Argentina's most famous living writer Ernesto Sabato, allegedly stealing a cell phone, a painting and a framed copy of the cover of his 1998 autobiography "Before the End."
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| George Hamilton tells all in autobiography (AP)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
AP - The recent spate of male movie stars writing their life stories, including Tony Curtis, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner, offers something that would have been verboten in their studio years: sex, sex and more sex.
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| Bush to write book; Palin may steal limelight (Reuters)
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
Reuters - Republicans may have been voted out of power but they could dominate U.S. political bookshelves with memoirs by President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush among the possible coming attractions.
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| On Poetry: Love, Your Ted
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
Ted Hughes’s letters are both an illuminating aesthetic record of a major poet and an opportunity to discuss the decades-long hoo-ha brought about by his relationship with Sylvia Plath.
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| Bellingham publisher to release Michelle Obama biographical comic book
Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Bellingham, Wash.-based publishing company Bluewater Productions will feature Michelle Obama in its "Female Force" biographical comic book series.
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| Bahrain prince sues Michael Jackson in UK court (Reuters)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Reuters - A son of the king of Bahrain took U.S. pop star Michael Jackson to court on Monday for reneging on an agreement to record a new album and write an autobiography.
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| Meg Kane: Sarah Palin hits the publishing world jackpot, but not George Bush
Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Meg Kane: Political memoirs can be a lucrative business – as long as you're not the most unpopular US president in history
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| John Sutherland: Misery memoirs sell by the million; meanwhile we overlook human tragedies on a far more epic scale
Wed, 19 Nov 2008
John Sutherland: Misery memoirs sell by the million; meanwhile we overlook human tragedies on a far more epic scale
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| Peter Levinson, Publicist and Biographer of Jazz Greats, Is Dead at 74
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
Mr. Levinson, a music publicist, parlayed his close familiarity with jazz personalities into rich and sometimes intimate biographies of them.
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| Christopher Plummer gets wordy, naughty and nice 'In Spite of Myself'
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
For some public figures, the memoir can be a means of self-defense or catharsis. Not so Christopher Plummer, bless his heart, .
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| The Exile’s Palette
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
A biography of Marc Chagall explores his impulses, his art and his complicated relationship with Russia.
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| Mother sues author daughter over abuse claims
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Another best-selling memoir, another battle over the line between truth and fiction.
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| Letters: Does Not Compute
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
To the Editor:.
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| Letters: Derange, or Re-Arrange
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
To the Editor:.
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| Children's |
DarkIsle wins Royal Mail award for Scottish children's books
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
A fantasy tale inspired by a stone dragon on a beach on Scotland's west coast has been chosen by young Scottish readers as their favourite book for pre-teens. DarkIsle by DA Nelson triumphed in the 8-11 category of the Royal Mail awards for Scottish children's books, Scotland's largest children's. book award. The fast-paced first novel...
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| Children's Book Reviews
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Picture Books How to Build an A Sara Midda . Workman/Artisan , $17.95 ISBN 978-1-57965-378-1 Offering a hands-on approach to learning the alphabet, this small-format book comes with 11 off-white foam shapes (as well as a mesh storage bag). In the book, miniature, stylized people (and the occasional dog.) work together to construct each...
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| The Next Dead Thing
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Ever since Stephenie Meyer's vampire romances became a smash success among teen readers, particularly girls, all things dead have been given a new life—at least in the minds of children's editors hoping to take advantage of the trend. But that's not to say that every project with a supernatural cast. is being green-lighted...
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| Edelman Issues Challenge On Commitment To Kids
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
For decades, Marian Wright Edelman has been a proud bullhorn on behalf of disadvantaged children. In a wide-ranging conversation with Farai Chideya, Edelman reveals whether she'd accept a post in an Obama administration and speaks about her new book, The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small.
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| Calling All Kids
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
Book World invites young artists (ages 5-12) to submit their original, colorful works of art. The winning entry will be used as the cover of our forthcoming issue devoted to children's literature, and the winner will receive a bag full of books. All entries must be received by Nov. 26.
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| 'Outliers' Puts Self-Made Success To The Test
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Why do Asian kids outperform American kids in math? How did Bill Gates become a billionaire computer entrepreneur? Malcolm Gladwell takes on these questions and more in his book Outliers. He argues that the "self-made man" is a myth.
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| NYC Teens Schmooze with National Book Award Finalists
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Some 200 student reporters from the New York City area yesterday grilled five of this year’s National Book Award finalists at the 11th annual Teen Press Conference .
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| Linda Jones Stepping Down at Borders
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Linda Jones, Borders senior v-p of merchandising for several categories including children's, will retire December 19.
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| Comics |
Emotional Content and Bio-Manga
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
While working at a large magazine company in Japan, Eiji Han Shimizu had a vision to use Japanese comics, or manga, to change the world. The general concept was well received at his company, but his vision was not considered commercially viable. Despite this, Shimizu began culling a network of manga. artists and creators, and formulating...
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| BlueWater Launches Michelle Obama Comic
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
Michelle Obama will be the subject of the latest chapter of Bluewater Productions' comic book series called "Female Force.". The comic will follow Michelle Obama, a Princeton- and Harvard-educated lawyer, from her youth on the South Side of Chicago to her community, civic service and private-sector career. successes through the 2008...
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| Fanboys and Families: Miami Book Fair Debuts Comix Galaxy
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
The Miami Book Fair International, held November 9-16, marked its 25th anniversary by launching the Comix Galaxy, a partnership between the Miami Book Fair and Diamond Book Distributors that greatly expands the presence of comics and graphic novels at the annual show.
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| Dave Gibbons and the Creation of Watchmen
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore’s artist-collaborator on the now-classic superhero epic Watchmen, provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the creation of the graphic novel in a new book just released by U.K. publisher Titan Books.
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| For Young Readers: Making the Familiar New Again
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
Oversized in every sense of the word, this comic collection of five classic tales -- all tied together by a top-hatted, polka-dot cravatted, waistcoat-wearing wolf -- abounds in graphic guffaws.
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| Comic John Hodgman Shares 'More Information'
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
In More Information Than You Require, the follow-up to the best-selling The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman offers another compilation of false facts and trivia.
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| Neil Gaiman to design a demise for Batman
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Neil Gaiman is writing a two-issue tribute to the comic-book hero, starting with Batman #686 and tentatively titled Whatever .
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| Current Events |
Iraq: Before & After, and Now
Thu, 04 Dec 2008
By Joshua Hammer Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq by Farnaz Fassihi The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq by Bing West This September, at the height of Ramadan, I flew north in a US Army helicopter from Baghdad to Samarra, a former sanctuary of. the extremist group known as al-Qaeda...
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| Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama (AP)
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
AP - Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers said Friday that he doesn't know President-elect Barack Obama any better than "thousands of other Chicagoans" and that the two never talked about Ayers' anti-war activities. In a television interview on ABC's "Good Morning America,".; the college professor disputed the...
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| Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat – and this on both sides. Again Boone survived this melee, but it took a great deal of guile to do it. When his daughter Jemima was kidnapped by a Cherokee and Shawnee war party, for instance, he needed his. backwoods know-how to track them...
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| Fiction |
Michael Crichton's Next Book May Be Canceled
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
USA Today reports that Michael Crichton's next book, which was scheduled for release in spring of 2009, has been canceled because of the author's recent death. Before Michael Crichton died last week from cancer at age 66, he had begun writing another novel. But its status remains a mystery. Until the. day his death was announced, online...
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| The Forever Clinch
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
For decades, the romance novel has been defined by the “clinch” (think handsome hero; his brawny arms around a bountifully buxom damsel) on its cover. But with the success of subgenres like paranormal and an up-and-coming generation of young readers, has the classic clinch become passé.;? No, says Borders romance buyer...
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| The PW Morning Report, November 14, 2008
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Long-lost Mario Puzo Novel; Bidding for Silverman; RDR Books to Appeal Potter Decision; European Booksellers Federation Goes After Google; Inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prizes; Stephen King, Video Star; A Game of Thrones to HBO; Half Shell Entertainment Acquires. Killing Yourself to Live; and...
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| A cutting-edge shortlist for the Costa book awards
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
If your first thought was that this year's Costa shortlist for best novel looks rather white, male and middle-aged, then your second should perhaps be that this is itself a novelty these days. Literary prize juries have given so much attention to the first novel in the last few years that one has to. be grateful to the Costa for its...
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| 'The End' Is Beginning For First-Time Novelist
Sat, 15 Nov 2008
When a first-time novelist hears his work compared to Saul Bellow, Virginia Wolfe, William Faulkner, even James Joyce, it must be both gratifying, and daunting. Such is the case with Salvatore Scibona, whose novel The End is a finalist for the National Book Award.
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| Washington novelists ponder Obama (AP)
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
AP - In the 1960s, Irving Wallace wrote a novel called "The Man," in which the sudden deaths of the president, vice president and speaker of the House bring to power a most unlikely occupant of the Oval Office: Sen. Douglas Dillman, a black man.
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| Author recalls how Schindler's List was written (Reuters)
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
Reuters - In "Searching for Schindler" Australian author Thomas Keneally recalls how he came to write the award-winning novel "Schindler's Ark," which reached global fame through Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning adaptation.
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| Writer Bryce Courtenay has no plans to slow down (Reuters)
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
Reuters - From being raised in an orphanage in South Africa to becoming one of Australia's most commercially successful authors, Bryce Courtenay's life sounds like the plot of a novel and he has no plans to slacken the pace.
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| Are 3 Novels, Revised as One, a New Book?
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Among the nominees for this year’s National Book Award in fiction is a book that some have complained is not exactly new: Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country.”
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| Books: 'Death with Interruptions'
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:38 GMT
Starting at the stroke of midnight on New Year's, in an unidentified country in an undetermined year, in Jose Saramago's new novel, "Death With Interruptions," death goes on strike.
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| Books of the Times: You Know We All Love You, Professor. Now Get Out of Here.
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
In “Gone Tomorrow,” a sharply observed yet tender novel of academic life and its many sand traps, P. F. Kluge describes the dangers that a writer-teacher faces.
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| Macabre Master Stephen King Returns To Form
Thu, 13 Nov 2008
After a flirtation with literary fiction, King returns with Just After Sunset , a collection of lurid, gore-spattered tales that can be both horrifying and heartbreaking.
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| Crime: If Austen Wrote E-Mail
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
New crime fiction by Reginald Hill, Jeffery Deaver, Christopher Fowler and Pablo De Santis — as well as the collection “Paris Noir.”
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| The Vampire of the Mall
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel “Twilight,” meets his squealing fans.
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| Amazon and Penguin to Sponsor Second Breakthrough Novel Award
Thu, 13 Nov 2008
The winner of the contest will be announced on May 22, 2009, and will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $25,000 advance.
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| Leslie Walker Williams' debut novel mines the South's rich storytelling vein
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:58 GMT
Leslie Walker Williams demonstrates the continuing power of Southern storytelling with her award-winning debut novel, "The Prudent Mariner."
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| Nino Ricci wins Governor General's Literary Award
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Toronto writer Nino Ricci has won the Governor General's Literary Award for English fiction for his novel The Origin of Species.
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| Michel Faber: faith in forgiveness
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
In his latest novel, the former militant aetheist Michel Faber adresses the consolations of religion. He talks to Helen Brown.
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| P.D. James is on the case
Thu, 13 Nov 2008
P.D. James, the grande dame of British crime fiction, has just published her 18th novel, The Private Patient (Knopf, $25.95, .
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| Manitoba's Miriam Toews wins Writers' Trust fiction prize
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Winnipeg writer Miriam Toews has won the Rogers Writers' Trust prize for fiction for her fifth novel, The Flying Troutmans.
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| Non-Fiction |
Nonfiction Reviews
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art Hugh Howard . Bloomsbury Press , $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59691-244-1 Patron of the arts is not the first association one makes with George Washington, but Howard elegantly makes the case that the founder of the nation also helped. establish America’s art...
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| Poetry |
Literary Calendar: November 17-23, 2008
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
7 P.M. Karren Alenier , author of the poetry collection Looking for Divine Transportation and a director of Washington's literary organization, The Word Works, and prize-winning poet Kevin Prufer , author of National Anthem and Fallen from a Chariot as well as the editor of PLEIADES: A Journal of.
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| What Is Art For?
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process.
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| Louis Riel poetry manuscripts to be auctioned
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
Handwritten poems by Métis leader Louis Riel, given to a jail guard before Riel's 1885 execution in Regina, will soon go up for auction.
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| Poet's Choice
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
Poetry's roots in sacred song are undeniable. Native American hunters around a fire praised the Great Spirit for sending buffalo.
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| Mike Hickey is Seattle's 2009 Poet Populist
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:12 GMT
Mike Hickey, a creative writing teacher at South Seattle Community College, has been elected Seattle's 2009 Poet Populist.
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| Prizes |
The PW Morning Report, November 19, 2008
Wed, 19 Nov 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Irving Brecher Dead; 2008 Costa Book Awards Shortlist; Nabokov’s The Original Of Laura Revealed; Patrick Ness Wins Booktrust Teenage Prize; Carrie Kania Profiled; The Lucky One to Warner Bros.; and Alicia Silverstone’s Diet Book
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| Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/17/2008
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
On the Web this week: a stunning index of Indian wildlife, the man who gave birth, country music's Southern roots, a cookbook celebration of Paris's ethnic diversity, and a Booker Prize finalist. Plus: Lana Turner's daughter, a third McCourt brother, and more.
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| Joseph Boyden wins Canadian literature award (AP)
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
AP - Joseph Boyden, a New Orleans resident who was raised in Toronto, has won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book "Through Black Spruce."
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| Ondaatje, Coupland among strong Canadian showing on IMPAC longlist
Thu, 13 Nov 2008
Michael Ondaatje, Douglas Coupland and other familiar Canadian authors have made the first cut for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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| Another prize chance for Sebastian Barry as Costa shortlists are announced
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Shortlists for the five categories of the Costa book awards avoid some of the bigger books of the year – and give others a second chance
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| Cape Breton's Julie Curwin wins international short story prize
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
Cape Breton-based writer Julie Curwin has won the 2008 Commonwealth Short Story Competition for her story World Backwards.
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| Patrick Ness beats established writers to Booktrust teenage prize
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
The Knife of Never Letting Go emerges from a strong field of contenders to take £2,500 prize
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| Reviews |
Portraying Hard Things
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
In Eclipse (Reviews, Oct. 20), Richard North Patterson focuses on an American lawyer’s desperate struggle to save an embattled freedom fighter in an oil-rich African nation that resembles Nigeria. Was there a particular event that led to your writing this book? The genesis of Eclipse lies in tragic. events that occurred in Nigeria...
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| Fiction Reviews
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
The Possession of Mr. Cave Matt Haig . Viking , $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-02056-0 “Could it have been that the desire to protect is the desire to possess?” wonders antiques dealer Terence Cave in Haig’s overwrought study of a father creepily bent on protecting his beautiful 15-year-old. daughter, Byrony...
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast
Sat, 15 Nov 2008
This week: Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter on George Plimpton; Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field; Roy Blount Jr. on language; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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| Review: 'A Great Idea at the Time' by Alex Beam
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
A GREAT IDEA AT THE TIME: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books. By Alex Beam. Public Affairs, 228 pp., $24.95.
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| Review: 'I'll Never Be French' by Mark Greenside
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
I'LL NEVER BE FRENCH (NO MATTER WHAT I DO): Living in a Small Village in Brittany, by Mark Greenside. Free Press, 256 pp., $24.
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| Reviews: 'The Seems,' 'Knucklehead,' 'Masterpiece'
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
THE SEEMS: The Glitch in Sleep, by John Hulme and Michael Wexler. Bloomsbury, 274 pp., $7.99 paper. Ages 10-14.
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| The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories by Shena Mackay - review
Thu, 13 Nov 2008
Jane Shilling hails a virtuoso who reveals the human condition through tales of cats and washing machines.
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| A Mercy by Toni Morrison - review
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
This historical fable shows Toni Morrison at her best and worst, says Caroline Moore.
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| Essay: Enough With the Sweet Talk
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
Forget unfair negative reviews. The real problem is the unfair positive ones.
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| Review: "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly
Sun, 16 Nov 2008
THE BRASS VERDICT, by Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, 422 pp., $26.99.
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| Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin - review
Fri, 14 Nov 2008
John Preston relishes the jottings of a very rare breed of naturalist.
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| General |
The Crisis & What to Do About It
Thu, 04 Dec 2008
By George Soros The salient feature of the current financial crisis is that it was not caused by some external shock like OPEC raising the price of oil or a particular country or financial institution defaulting. The crisis was generated by the financial system itself. This fact--that the defect was. inherent in the system --contradicts...
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| Desire in Berlin
Thu, 04 Dec 2008
By Ian Buruma Kirchner and the Berlin Street an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, August 3–November 10, 2008. When Ernst Ludwig Kirchner put a pistol to his head in Davos, Switzerland, on June 15, 1938, he left more than a thousand oil paintings, several thousand pastels, drawings., and prints, as well as many...
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| Just Remember This
Thu, 04 Dec 2008
By Michael Greenberg Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research by Sue Halpern Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov called his book about his childhood years, and in this incantatory title we can hear our human dread of forgetting. 'The cradle rocks above an abyss., and common sense tells us that...
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| Spellbound
Thu, 04 Dec 2008
By Michael Dirda Man in the Dark by Paul Auster I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project by Paul Auster Timbuktu by Paul Auster Squeeze Play by Paul Auster, published under the pseudonym Paul Benjamin The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster The New York Trilogy: City of Glass...
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| Frozen Scandal
Thu, 04 Dec 2008
By Mark Danner Scandal is our growth industry. Revelation of wrongdoing leads not to definitive investigation, punishment, and expiation but to more scandal. Permanent scandal. Frozen scandal. The weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist. The torture of detainees who remain forever detained. The firing of prosecutors...
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| A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over the last three hundred pages – did we will this? Are we guilty of this ending, if only by five percent? The brutal inanity of the dialogue is a warning that in Le Carré’s world, we don’t get to argue over the. proportions and scale of what we set...
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| Modern lessons from "The Great Inflation"
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
In "The Great Inflation and its Aftermath: the Past and Future of American Affluence," author Robert Samuelson revisits the runaway inflation of the 1970s and 1980s, concluding that U.S. leaders must resist the urge to "improve" today's economy with "a plethora of new taxes., spending programs and regulations...
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| Art and Altruism: Radius Books
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Radius Books manages to combine high art aesthetics and high-end design and production with an altruistic publishing mission. The Santa Fe, N.Mex.–based publisher was launched a year ago by four book publishing professionals—book designers David Chickey and David Skolkin; photo editor David Himes.; and book marketing and publicity...
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| The Pictorial Aspect of Content Services
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Books devoid of photographs or illustrations are very rare nowadays. Even tomes filled with technical prose and formulas are jazzed up with engaging illustrations. This perhaps best explains the significant momentum gained by image services, a niche segment that covers photo research and editing. For. Delhi-based Q2AMedia, a specialist in...
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| 'A Great Idea at the Time' by Alex Beam
Sat, 15 Nov 2008
Seasoned journalist Alex Beam's brisk, breezy stroll through the Great Books movement is the antithesis of the formidable publishing program that packaged those books into a daunting, 54-volume set of faux-leather tomes he describes as "icons of unreadability—32,000 pages of tiny, double-column., eye-straining type." Launched by the...
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| Wholesalers See Silver Lining in Holiday Gloom
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
The decision by many booksellers to reduce their orders for the holiday season compared to past years could prove to be a small boon to the nation's wholesalers. “We've heard from our retail customers that they are running very lean this season,” said George Tattersfield, v-p of merchandising. for Ingram Book Group, “so...
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| The Random House Mix, 2008
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Ever since Markus Dohle took over as chairman of Random House, there has been much speculation about his plans for the nation's largest trade publisher. To date, the only significant change has been the resignation of vice chairman Ed Volini and the elimination of 16 positions at Doubleday, a move made. by Doubleday president Steve Rubin...
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| Galley Talk
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Kat Dawson, Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C. I was immediately sucked into Mehmet Murat Somer's The Kiss Murder [Penguin, Dec. 30] from the opening paragraph, upon meeting the dryly sarcastic Turkish transvestite protagonist. Somer transports us into the fast-paced life of a male computer technician. by day and a drag nightclub manager...
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| Cover Stories
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Avalon Romancing the King by Jocelyn Saint James (Feb.) Designer: Catherine Casalino Subliminal message: A book that’s fun, bright and lively. Target audience: Anyone between the ages of 15 and 95 looking for a good family-friendly romance. Plot summary: Lindsey Barrett is enjoying a busy life as an. emergency room physician when Jason...
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| Can't Buy Me Love
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships Edited by Hillary Black . Morrow , $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-156096-5 While women have made enormous strides in their earning power and financial self-sufficiency in the past century, research shows that many would. still be “very willing&rdquo...
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| McDonell Shakes Up Sports Illustrated Books
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
A lot has changed at Sports Illustrated Books since Terry McDonell took over as managing editor of the Sports Illustrated Group in 2002. The men's glossy veteran was charged with making SI.com a leading online sports destination and bringing new life to the magazine. McDonell also was “determined. to have Sports Illustrated publish...
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| Two Indies for Big D
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Dallas may pride itself on being the brashest city in the country, but for nearly three years it has lacked a large-scale independent bookstore. Earlier this month that changed, with the opening of the 24,000-sq.-ft. Legacy Books. The store is situated in the north Dallas suburb of Plano, in a purpose.-built space that boasts an 1,800-sq...
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| Cussler delivers adventure, not great prose (AP)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
AP - "Arctic Drift" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 515 pages, $27.95), by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Everything you've heard about global warming is true, and it may already be too late to save humanity from mortal peril. The world is on a crash program to curtail its greenhouse gas. emissions, driving gasoline prices...
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| Nickole Brown
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Many small press books aren't for everyone, and with modest print runs, they are not meant to be. While there may be 2,000 people who want to read a book like Jenny Boully's The Book of Beginnings and Endings—a collection of essays, with the middles missing, published by Sarabande in 2007—they probably. don't live near each other or...
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| "The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World" by John Demos
Sat, 15 Nov 2008
Cotton Mather, the 17th Century Puritan minister and witch-fighter extraordinaire, wrote that "Witchcraft seems to be the skill of applying the Plastic Spirit of the World unto some unlawful purposes, by means of a Confederacy with Evil Spirits." He cautioned that this would not be fully understood "until the day when there shall not be...
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