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Fiction Reviews

| 01/12/2009 @ 07:00AM

Nobody Move Denis Johnson . Farrar, Straus & Giroux , $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-22290-1 National Book Award—winner Johnson (Tree of Smoke) goes lean and mean in this slick noir, originally serialized in Playboy last summer. Jimmy Luntz, a chain-smoking, fast-talking addictive gambler, is in the hole several grand to underworld bad dude Juarez, and he knows his kneecaps have a date ...
Safety Act Catches Publishers Off Guard

by Karen Raugust | 01/12/2009 @ 07:00AM

The children's book industry is currently dealing with a new and pressing challenge that is threatening publishers, bookstores, libraries and schools. It's not the economy or school spending or reading rates—it is a recent act of Congress, which has blindsided the industry with the implementation of stiff safety standards on all children's products, and whose application to books is vague.
Industry Scrambling to Comply with Child Safety Act

By Karen Raugust | 01/12/2009 @ 12:00AM

A new government regulation that requires testing of all products aimed at children 12 and under is causing headaches for publishers, booksellers and manufacturers. Books, audiobooks and sidelines fall under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which is set to go into effect Feb. 10; industry organizations are attempting to get books excluded from the Act, even as they work to understand just what the rules could mean for all parties involved.
Holiday Rebound: Children’s Sales Pick Up in December

By Judith Rosen, with reporting by Claire Kirch, Edward Nawotka and Wendy Werris | 01/08/2009 @ 07:00AM

Children’s books proved to be one of the most recession-resistant segments of the book business this holiday season, with the Twilight series and the latest from J.K. Rowling leading the pack.
Bottomless Tops PW Comics Week's Third Annual Critic's Poll

| 01/06/2009 @ 11:30PM

Bottomless Belly Button topped PWCW's third annual critics' poll.
Top 10 Manga for 2008

By Kai-Ming Cha | 01/06/2009 @ 11:29PM

PWCW's manga editor picks her best manga of 2008.
Comics in the Classroom

by Laura Hudson | 01/06/2009 @ 11:28PM

Long ghettoized—even demonized—in North America as puerile and pulpy, both “comic books” (traditional comics periodicals) and book-format graphic novels are now being used in both k—12 and higher education classrooms as everything from early developmental reading tools to serious literary texts.
January Comics Bestsellers

By Calvin Reid | 01/06/2009 @ 11:27PM

Jeffy Kinney's Diary of A Wimpy Kid rolls on at #1; followed by the Azzarello/Bermejo Joker and Fables volume 11 (at #6) both from DC Comics; DK's Marvel Chronicle is at #9 and Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Season 8 volume 3 is at #10
Opening the Disney Archives

By Peter Sanderson | 01/06/2009 @ 11:26PM

The Walt Disney Animation Studios—The Archive Seriesmade its debut in November with the publication of Story (Disney Editions, $50.00), a handsome 272-page hardcover collection of story art created for Disney films over nearly 80 years.
Comics Briefly

Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/06/2009 @ 11:25PM

Grant Morrison at NYCC; Stan Goldberg at MoCCA; Preview of 08: Campaign Diary; Best of the Best of 2008 lists; KA-BAAM!! Superheroes on Stage; Kevin Smith's LA Comic Store Closing and The Beat’s Year End Survey
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/05/2009

| 01/05/2009 @ 07:00AM

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to a great history of groundbreaking children's edutainment public television show Seseme Street? We can, and will, on the Web this week. Plus more of America's popular favorites: a memoir from Michael Phelps, a history of progressive U.S. politics, a cultural analysis of the Ed Sullivan Show, Jimmy Carter's latest, sex, red meat, Southern belles and Janet Evanovich.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/22/2008

| 12/22/2008 @ 07:00AM

This Week's Web: further thoughts on the potential for global apocalypse and/or spiritual rebirth in 2012; Hippies across the Middle East; systems analysis for the rest of us; an epic WWII memoir; better living through Samurai wisdom; the dirty world theory; and who's the literary construct of Virginia Woolf? Plus: true-life crime scene investigation department road trip!
Uslan and DeSanto Catch the Spirit

By Douglas Wolk | 12/16/2008 @ 03:50PM

From February through April, DC's The Spirit series will have a guest writing team: Michael Uslan and F.J. DeSanto, the producers of the Frank Miller-directed Spirit movie that's opening this month.
Coming Home: A Comic for Military Families

By Ada Price | 12/16/2008 @ 03:49PM

Working in collaboration with the U.S. Defense Department, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, the creators of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic adaptation, have created Coming Home, a comic designed to educate returning service members on the stresses and difficulties of the transition from combat duty back to domestic life.
Craddock Mambos onto Graphic Novel Scene with Stone Rabbit Series

By Stephanie Mangold | 12/16/2008 @ 03:48PM

In Eric Craddock's Stone Rabbit: BC Mambo, a bored little bunny finds himself transported into prehistoric times, leading to a Jurassic journey of mischief and morals. “It’s kind of one zany adventure after another,” said Craddock.
Comics Briefly

compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 12/16/2008 @ 03:47PM

Nick Mag Comics Awards; Archie Comics Gets New Management; New Rep Groups for Diamond Book; Today Show Picks Wimpy Kid; Paul Sizer Signs B.P.M; Dark Reign Trailer; Sandman Cover for Rain Taxi; Penny Arcade at NYCC; and Go! Comi Gets New Distributor
Panelmania: Gantz Vol. 3

Compiled by Laura Hudson | 12/16/2008 @ 03:46PM

The survivors of the first round of Gantz's deadly hunt return to their normal lives -- but not for long -- in this 17-page preview from the third volume of Hiroya Oku's Gantz, out from Dark Horse Comics in January.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/15/2008

| 12/15/2008 @ 07:00AM

This Week of Web Reviews: MLK in the words of his sister and his Montgomery contemporaries; the elegant dialogue between the stars and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell; a daughter's lyrically captured last weeks with her dying mother; the importance of emotion in rational decision making; and Torah lessons for succesful executives. Plus: pilsner pairings, easy dinners, better brains, and the perfect gift for chronic gifters: a brilliantly illustrated history of mail-order catalogs.
The Cabinet's First Lady

| 12/15/2008 @ 07:00AM

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience Kirstin Downey . Doubleday/Talese , $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-51365-4 No individual—not even Eleanor Roosevelt—exerted more influence over the formulation of FDR's New Deal or did more to implement the programs than Frances Perkins (1880—1965).
Children's Book Reviews

| 12/15/2008 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Blueberry Girl Neil Gaiman , illus. by Charles Vess. HarperCollins , $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-083808-9 In a magical blessing for unconventional girls, Gaiman (The Graveyard Book) addresses the “ladies of light and ladies of darkness and ladies of never-you-mind,” asking them to shelter and guide an infant girl as she grows.

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