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Sew What's New
Some phenomena that begin as narrowly focused fads can morph into entire lifestyles—consider the life choices that can extend from going vegan (yoga? Prius? Green Party?). These days, the same holds true with crafting. What began with Uma Thurman's knitting obsession and the hipster battle cry that “knitting is the new yoga,” has since engendered a Knitting Olympics, a bestsel...
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Epistolary, My Dear Watson: PW Talks With Charles Foley
Literary sleuths will find many clues about the creator of Sherlock Holmes from the letters in Arthur Conan Doyle, co-edited by the writer’s great-nephew Charles Foley.
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The Gift of Lightning
I'm just a writer,” Charlaine Harris says. “I write whatever I'm interested in at the moment. And I'm definitely a genre author. But the question is: Which genre? Harris's Harper Connelly and Southern Vampire series have been described as “urban fantasy,” but Harris laughingly insists that they are actually “rural fantasy.
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Love (and War) in a Time of Tuberculosis
Andrea Barrett, whose historical fiction spans centuries and the globe, follows a group of tuberculosis patients at the onset of WWI in her latest novel, The Air We Breathe. What made you decide to write a novel about tuberculosis patients? It grew sideways out of something I had written before, a story called “The Cure” in the book Servants of the Map—about two women running ...
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Not Your Mother's Parenting Books
On July 12, a tearful Amy Polumbo appeared live on The Today Show to talk about some incriminating photos she says someone used to try to blackmail her into forfeiting her Miss New Jersey title. When she posted the pics on Facebook, the social networking site that's all the rage for the college set, Polumbo thought they could only be accessed by approved personal friends.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 8/13/2007
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Mystery Notes
SEPTEMBER PUBLICATION Charles Ardai, the founder of Hard Case Crime and the author of some razor-sharp modern noir himself (Songs of Innocence), tells a diverting crime tale in verse in The Good-Neighbor Policy: A Double-Cross in Double Dactyls. While the local homicide captain is off fishing, Pennsylvania deputy coroner Adrian Hennessy fields a surprising call from an elderly busybody who has ...
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 8/13/2007
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Children's Audio Reviews: Week of 8/13/2007
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Children's Notes
TALE OF MYTHIC PROPORTIONS Touted as a facsimile of an 1825 text by Lady Hestia Evans, an admirer of Lord Byron, Mythology by Dugald A. Steer, newest in the 'Ology series, serves as an interactive primer on Greek myth. Chock-full of flaps, foldouts and such removable goodies as Oak Leaves of the Oracle and a silver obol to pay for a journey across the River Styx, this enticing package also co...
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 8/13/2007
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Portland’s Periscope Is Up
The largest comics studio in the U.S. isn't in New York or L.A., its in Portland, Ore. Periscope Studios was founded by artists like Steve Leiber, Ron Randall, Karl Kesel and others.
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CMX Manga Line Hits Stride
Entering its third year of operation, CMX, DC Comics’ manga imprint, is hitting its stride, offering an eclectic lineup of manga and introducing the U.S. market to new genres.
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Comics Bestsellers for August
Naruto is back on top and joined on the comics bestseller list by Marvel’s Anita Blake and Planet Hulk; and DC’s Fables series.
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Kodansha Launches Second Manga Contest
Kodansha, one of the largest publishers in Japan, has decided to launch another manga contest. The Morning International Manga Competition, presented by Kodansha’s manga magazine Weekly Morning, is soliciting submissions from artists around the world.
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Comics Briefly
Paul Gravett at MoCCA; Second Kinokuniya Store For NYC; Fourth Printing for D&Q’s Moomin; Viz Releases Tekkonkinkreet; and Tokyopop Signs with William Morris
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Donna Barr Raises the Afterdead
Donna Barr has self-published Afterdead, a new collection of comics and prose that brings together her principal characters in one series.
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George R. R. Martin's Adventures in Comics Part 1
Hugo and Nebula Award—winning fantasy author George R.R. Martin has licensed his Song of Ice and Fire prequel novellas, The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword, to Marvel Comics for both comic books and graphic novels.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 8/6/2007
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