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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/14/2008
This week: American dreams get analysis, archaeology shines a new light on the Dark Ages, a professional wrestler's murder-suicide, behind the scenes of the world's wine market, and a dazzling tour of historical Chinese art. And for the rockers: the Beatles in America and No Wave in New York.
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July Comics Bestsellers
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A Mother's Story
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir Elizabeth McCracken . Little, Brown , $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-316-02767-0 In this stunning memoir of the death in utero of her first child only days before his birth, McCracken has succeeded in writing a beautiful, precise and heartbreaking account without sentimentality or pity.
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San Diego Monster-Con
The San Diego Comic Convention has long been the preeminent event of the comic book industry, an annual pop-culture phenomenon that attracts more than 100,000 fans and grows larger and more prominent in the general culture every year. Much of the recent mainstream attention comes courtesy of the convention's significant Hollywood presence that has drawn both the event and the medium further int...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 7/7/2008
On the Web this week: the joy of repetition, the nitty-gritty of China, the story of a Guantanamo Bay translator, the life of a lesbian literary hero, and practical family eating for the eco-, community- and health-conscious. Plus: Monk in print, Finn in audio, counterterrorism in the 1980s and famous deciders deciding badly (from King Priam to G.W.Bush).
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Keith Knight's Really Big Book
Let's just call this the year of Keith Knight. Dark Horse is publishing The Complete K Chronicles: A Comprehensive Collection of Keith Knight's Award Winning Strip, a gigantic 500-page omnibus of some of Knight's funniest and most eccentrically insightful cartoons of the past 15 years.
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Dabel Bros, Del Rey Turn ‘Wheel of Time’ into Comics
Dabel Brothers Publishing announced plans to team up with Del Rey Books to create a comics version of acclaimed fantasy novelist Robert Jordan’s bestselling 11-volume Wheel of Time series.
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Comics Briefly
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Not Your Daddy's Seinen; Violent Gantz Comes to the U.S.
This month, Dark Horse will publish Gantz, a violent, sexually explicit and surreal series that many American manga fans thought would never be licensed for the U.S. market.
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Life in Comics #5: Creator Rights and Small Publishers
Tokyopop's controversial new Manga Pilot program has reignited discussion of creators rights in comics.
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Secret Acres: Not So Secret Any More
One of the most impressive debuts at this year's MoCCA Festival was Secret Acres, a new comics imprint launched by Barry Matthews and Leon Avelino. Their first two books and Samuel C. Gaskin's Fatal Faux-Pas and Eamon Espey's Wormdye.
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Brian K. Vaughan In A New York State of Mind
This month DC Comics Wildstorm imprint is releasing a deluxe hardcover edition of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris's superhero series Ex Machina.
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Crime and Comic Books: Gary Phillips’s High Roller
Boom! Studios is publishing High Rollers, a new four-issue comics mini-series written by crime and mystery novelist Gary Phillips, detailing the rise of a Los Angeles gangster.
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PW Talks with Paul and Anne Ehrlich: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
In Dominant Animal (Island Press), ecologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, who authored the highly influential The Population Bombforty years ago, recalibrate their vision and find that, despite some progress (heading off some of their more dire 1968 predictions), our species is still overshooting the capacity of the planet to sustain itself, and must change our ways.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/30/2008
This week on the Web: death and what you can do about it, death and what a war zone reporter does about it, more speculative history from China enthusiast Gavin Menzies, an author's memoir of the tour supporting her last memoir, scientists examine the human-centric importance of all Earth's critters, and a classic of American photography turns fifty.
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Hit Parade: PW Talks with Lawrence BlockA Web-Exclusive Q&A
Prolific mystery writer Lawrence Blocks talks to PW about his latest series starring Keller, the laconic, stamp-collecting hitman on the brink of retirement. William Morrow will publish Hit and Run on Block’s 70th birthday.
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Viz Media Owners Revamp Licensing Unit
Shueisha and Shogakukan—the two Japanese publishers that own the American-based manga publisher Viz Media—have entered into a new partnership to expand the company’s licensing and mechandising arm.
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