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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/14/2007
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Gossip Girl’s Got Legs
Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl series (Little, Brown) first hit the YA book scene in 2001, touted as fun chick lit for the younger set—Sex and the City for teens.
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Greg Garrett: Saved by the Movies
Among the many people and things he credits with saving his life while he was struggling with depression, author Greg Garrett includes an Episcopal parish in Austin, Tex.; the music of the Irish rock band U2, and movies such as Magnolia and The Matrix.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/7/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 5/7/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/7/2007
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New Web Feature: Video View
Americans can’t get enough of online videos, and the book world has noticed. Publishers, authors and even fans are using sites like YouTube and Google Video to promote books. PW is tracking this trend through a new Web column, Video View.
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First Kids Comic-Con a Big Hit
Kids' interest in comic books is healthy and strong if the first annual New York City Kids Comic Con was any indication.
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Hot Galleys for Kids
As you're weaving through the aisles, keep your eyes peeled for these offerings from children's book publishers.
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Selznick’s ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’ Is Al Roker Choice for Kids
Today Show segment encouraging kids to read throughout the summer makes Scholastic novel its first choice.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/30/2007
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Fordham Gets $50,000 to Publish Italian-Americana
What happens when a director of a university press is passionate about a book but shy of cash to publish it? He starts fundraising.
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Kelly Link Brings YA Collection to Viking
Acclaimed literary fantasist and publisher of her own work signs deal with Viking for children’s book
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Jonathan Santlofer's Dispatch from Sleuthfest 2007
Successful mystery author Santlofer spends a weekend with 225 people "with murder on their minds."
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Nelson Crashes First Duke Lacrosse Book
On June 5, Thomas Nelson will publish A Rush to Injustice: How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshadowed Truth and Justicein the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, the first book on the headline-grabbing scandal.
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On the Road with T Cooper
Novelist T Cooper talks with PW in a Web-exclusive Q & A about feeling like a rock star in Germany, reading at Google, and what punk rock taught her about planning a book tour.
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Anyone Can Start a Blog: a Web-Exclusive Q & A with Tao Lin
PW Talks with fiction writer and blogger Tao Lin about his new novel and story collection both coming from Melville House, depressing books and literary life on the Web. He also gives a guided tour of his Internet.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/23/2007
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In Praise of Leonard Michaels
The author of the 1981 satire The Men's Club influenced a generation of short story writers. One of them, David Bezmozgis, explains why, saying, "My debt to him is immeasurable."
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New Pottermania Titles Exclusive to Borders
Borders is selling two exclusive, original Harry Potter-related titles as part of its promotion for the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.



