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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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Panel Mania: Cat Burglar Black
In Richard Sala's Cat Burglar Black, K., a teenage girl who was raised in an orphanage where she was trained as a thief, is sent to a boarding school for cat burglars on a mysterious aunt's recommondation. In this preview K. shows off her skills to her new classmates. Cat Burglar Black will be released by First Second on September 1st.
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What Are You Reading?
Throughout August we’ve been featuring kids across the country, talking about the books they’re reading this summer.
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Q & A with Gennifer Choldenko
Q: When you finished writing Al Capone Does My Shirts, did you think Moose’s story wasn’t finished? How did this second book come about?
A: Actually, while I was working on the first book, there was so much material and I tried to shove it all in the first book. But honestly, it was so challenging to write the first book. So when I finished the first one, I did not want to do a second one. I knew there was a lot more to Moose’s story, but I needed time away from it. -
Mobil Travel Guides to Become Forbes Travel Guides
A tried and true travel guide is getting a major overhaul: starting in October, Mobil Travel Guides will be known as Forbes Travel Guides. The exclusive licensing agreement also means that the Mobil Four and Five Star Award designation for hotels, restaurants and spas will go by the new name of Forbes Four and Five Star Award, beginning with the 2010 ratings announcements.
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Stitches: Peering into a Dark Past
A newcomer to the world of graphic novels, David Small has already captured the attention of the industry and readers. The Caldecott-winning artist is a veteran illustrator of children’s books. His first graphic novel, Stitches: A Memoir, was one of the hits of BEA, and has been making the rounds of the blogs leading up to its publication on September 8.
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Miyazaki Receives Triumphant Welcome in US
Hayao Miyazaki, who is known for his feature length animation movies such as Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, Howl’s Moving Castle, and his 2003 Academy Award winner, Spirited Away, visited California as part of the effort to welcome and promote his new movie, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.It was also a chance for Americans to honor the revered director.
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To Japan and Back: Cirque du Freak Travels the World
Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak is a story with legs: originally an Irish young adult novel, it was licensed in Japan and proved so popular there that it was adapted into a manga with art by Takahiro Arai. It's the story of a boy who takes a flyer for a mysterious circus only to find it has a cast of ghoulish performers. Now U.S. graphic novel publisher Yen Press is translating the manga into English, with an initial print run of 65,000 copies for volume 1.
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