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PW talks with Richard Belzer
"Just being around all these stories from cops while playing Munch, and being a fan of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the idea of a mystery-comedy hybrid seemed right up my alley."
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Fiction Reviews: 8/17/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Robert B. Parker, Paul Auster, Alice Munro, John Burdett and Newt Gingrich. Also, K'wan fires off another Hood Rat novel, Sheramy Bundrick revisits Van Gogh, Alexander McCall Smith shows no signs of slowing down and Mark Billingham's Det. Insp. Thorne is big into another macabre case.
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The Heal Deal: New Health Titles
Health care, perpetually in the forefront of Americans’ minds, is now on the tip of our lips. Fixing our current system tops President Obama’s to-do list, but as the details of reform are debated on Capitol Hill, in the media and around the dinner table, a Quinnipiac poll released August 5 found that 52% of Americans disapprove of the way the president is handling health care, while...
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Children's Book Reviews: 8/17/2009
Reviewed this week: picture books from Loren Long, Charise Myracle Harper, Florence Parry Heide and Lane Smith, and Lauren Child; new fiction from Neil Gaiman, Kate DiCamillo and Gennifer Choldenko; and a round-up of titles about children's authors past and present, fit for kids, adults and even scholars.
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Gallup Plays to Its Strengths
The idea for Gallup Press was, in the beginning, about branding more than books. Technically, anyway. “We are heavily involved in consulting and management, but people didn't know that—people knew the polls,” Gallup Press publisher Larry Emond explained. Developing Gallup-branded books, Emond went on, started as a “marketing communications initiative.
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Why I Write: Deepak Chopra
A clue to why I write came on the day in medical school when I walked into the room where students meet a cadaver for the first time. My scalpel incised a thin line in the parchment-yellow skin, cutting from the breastbone down the belly, and in one stroke the mystery of the human body was revealed. Yet another mystery was destroyed at the same time.
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PW talks with Donald Spoto
"The years have not been kind to Grace [Kelly]. I think we live in mean-spirited times, and there's a tendency among some writers to fabricate reasons to destroy reputations."
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/17/2009
This week: David Freeland with the vanished hotspots of NYC, Tara L. Masih leads a rousing short-short story workshop, Douglas Rogers reports from his home country of Zimbabwe, Alice Eve Cohen chronicles her late-in-life pregnancy, and more. Plus children's books from Denise Vega, Melissa de la Cruz, Jessica Wollman and others.
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Q & A with Jane Smiley
Q: You obviously love horses. Is this the kind of book that you would have liked to have read as a child?
A: Well, it's more or less the kind of book I did read. When I was a child in 1960 - I was 10 and 11 that year - there were plenty of horse book series. I loved them all and read them all. I read the Black Stallion series, and other Walter Farley books. I also read Nancy Drew and other series. That was what kids' literature was back then. -
Reynolds and Fantagraphics Face the Future
Whenever comics industry observers get together to talk about the people who've made a difference in the business over the last decade, the name Eric Reynolds inevitably comes up. Recently promoted to Associate Publisher for the Seattle-based art comics publisher Fantagraphics he has overseen the company's successful navigation of the new opportunities for graphic novels in bookstores.
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Boom! Dreams Up Unique Android Retelling
Boom! Studios is heading into uncharted territory with their adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? The series, which editor Ian Brill has called a graphic translation, will mix comic art with Dick’s original text from the novel.
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August Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid: Last Straw remains king of the list followed by Naruto vol. 45, newcomer Rachel Russell’s 'Wimpy' homage, Dork Diaries, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis; Sherrilynn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter manga adaptation and Halo: Uprising.
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Jamie Rich Kills Again
Jamie S. Rich is well-known for his novels, both graphic and prose, about modern romances, including Cut My Hair, Love the Way You Love (with Marc Ellerby), and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, drawn by Joëlle Jones. He and Jones have teamed up again for You Have Killed Me, a noir mystery that's a departure from his usual subject matter.
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New Site Offers Apps for Reading Comics on Phones
Software developers at Genus have created Findacomicapps.com, a website that provides a neutral platform for developers offering apps for reading comics on the iPhone and other mobile devices through the Apple App Store.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 8/10/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Philip Roth, Iris Johansen, John Sandford, Douglas Coupland, Anita Shreve and Penny Vincenzi. Plus, posthumous short fiction from William Styron, a Fables novel, an uncensored translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece and a stellar Swedish crime debut for ANders Roslund and
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Why I Write: Michael Psilakis
I grew up in a Greek bubble on Long Island, nurtured by immigrant parents who raised their kids as though they had never left the homeland. Through a tumultuous adolescence and into young adulthood, writing was one of the few outlets I had to express my emotions. It was a valuable part of my life. As I got older, though, and eventually found that my true passion was cooking, the written word fa...
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Handicapping the Michael Jackson Books
When Michael Jackson died on June 25, publishers scrambled to get everything they had on the King of Pop into stores and online. The results have been varied, from new deals for out-of-print titles to foreign-rights sales for self-published authors. PW breaks down some of the current and forthcoming MJ books.
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Children’s Book Reviews: 8/10/2009
This week: picture books by Jon Scieszka and David Shannon, Deborah Hopkinson and Carson Ellis, and Yin Chang Compestine and James Yamasaki; novels from Patricia Reilly Giff, Ann M. Martin, Kaleb Nation and Adriana Trigiani; and an extensive round-up of fall picture-book biographies.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/10/2009
This week, stars for Michael Gecan's study of America's Midlife Crisis, Amir D. Aczel's archeological adventure, Idan Ben-Barak's tour of microbes, Sam Chapman's gossip-busting management techniques, James M. Bergquist's history of the mid 19th Century, and Julia M. Usher's plans for eight awesome cookie parties.
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Prime Cuts: Cookbooks Remain Hot
Julie & Julia opened last week, bringing Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking—specifically her boeuf bourguignon—back into vogue. The film, based on Julie Powell's memoir Julie & Julia and on Child's autobiography, My Life in France, is also giving cookbooks a major boost.
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