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  • Pinsky Lends His Voice to Alzheimer’s Film

    The day his newest collection of poems was released, former poet laureate Robert Pinsky was in Chicago to support a documentary on Alzheimer's.

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/22/2007

    Christmas Books We Three Kings Gennady Spirin . S&S/Atheneum , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82114-1 Opulence befitting royalty characterizes Spirin's (The Tale of the Firebird) lush, jewel-hued watercolor-and-colored-pencil interpretation of the beloved carol about the three wise men (and their extensive entourages) who traverse afar.

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/22/2007

    Resistance Owen Sheers . Doubleday/Talese , $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-52210-6 Poet Sheers takes readers to a small Welsh village during a speculative WWII—featuring a German invasion of Britain—in his auspicious debut novel. It’s 1944 and Sarah Lewis and the women in Ochlon valley are left alone after all the local men disappear one night.

  • Making the Crime Personal

    Cops, criminals and neglected families collide with disastrous results in Person of Interest, the third novel from Theresa Schwegel, whose debut, Officer Down, won the Edgar Award for best first novel.

  • Hollywood Revealed

    Children of L.A. royalty (actor Dennis Hopper and producer Leonard Goldberg) put their pedigree to good use in Celebutantes a collaborative first novel. What inspired you to take up your pens against your hometown? Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper: We met several years ago at the annual Oscar Party at Mr. Chow’s.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 10/22

  • Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/22/2007

    Falling into Manholes: The Memoir of a Bad/Good Girl Wendy Merrill . Putnam , $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-399-15455-3 Merrill’s debut collection of essays—which details her many troubled relationships, struggles with bulimia and alcoholism, and sexual adventures—tries too hard to entertain the reader and ends up disappointing instead.

  • Cosby Shows "tough, thoughtful" side in Sociological Self-Help

    Today, Bill Cosby graces Oprah Winfrey's couch to discuss his new book, Come on, People!, which fleshes out his polarizing opinions on the state of black America and provides a thorough guide for black families struggling with poverty; to celebrate Cosby's return to Harpo Studios, PW weighs in with an online exclusive review.

  • Cosby Shows "tough, thoughtful" side in Sociological Self-Help

    Today, Bill Cosby graces Oprah Winfrey's couch to discuss his new book, Come on, People!, which fleshes out his polarizing opinions on the state of black America and provides a thorough guide for black families struggling with poverty; to celebrate Cosby's return to Harpo Studios, PW weighs in with an online exclusive review.

  • Monkey Business at SPX 2007

    SPX, the annual celebration of small press and self-published comics, drew hundreds of exhibiting artists, even more fans and this year's Ignatz Awards featured a cartoonist in a gorilla suit.

  • Army@Love Goes to War

    Rick Veitch’s bawdy Iraq war satire is pretty close to the absurdity level of the real thing.

  • Thinking, Writing and Making Comics in China

    Chinese comics and illustration artist Rain (Ru An) is one of the most popular comics artists in China today.

  • Defining Love: Naomi Nowak’s House of Clay

    Using romance and cynicism, Nowak defines love and how we use love it to define ourselves.

  • Sergio Aragonés’ Groo Turns 25

    Aragonés’s dimwitted barbarian returns with a special anniversary issue and much more.

  • Comics Briefly

    New Yorker Laughs; Lookin’ Good Cap; Harper Gets Strange; Monsters at MoCCA; Marvel in Spanish and Special Edition Palestine

  • Norton Acquires Graphic Work by Small

    A graphic memoir by award-winning children's book author and illustrator David Small has been acquired by Norton.

  • Fiction Reviews: Week of 10/15/2007

  • Children's Book Reviews: 10/15/2007

  • Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 10/15/2007

  • From Spidey to King

    They call him “The Karate Kid.” Soft-spoken comics veteran Ralph Macchio shares a name with the lead actor of the 1980s martial arts classic, but he's never seen the movie, although he still receives fan mail asking whether he's the star. “Depending on my mood, I'll either say yes or no,” Macchio says, laughing.

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