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Fall 2013 Announcements: Art - The Stories of Art
It’s the scholar’s task, claimed H.W. Janson, “to doubt what has been taken for granted.”
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Music - A Return to the Classic(al)
Last year, Paul Elie, in Reinventing Bach, placed the German composer in a 20th-century light.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Memoir - We Are Family
When we remember, we look back, but memoirs, while commonly exercises in navel gazing, can also hand over a wide landscape as well as that small point of pain or epiphany or, hopefully, light.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Literary Biographies, Essays & Criticism - The Boys Are Back in Town
Gender parity in review coverage, bylines, and awards is a constant topic of conversation in the literary community, fueled by sites like VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, and controversies like PW’s recent kerfuffle with Claire Messud.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Lifestyle - Sacred Cows and Other Tips
Where’s the envy button? Not only do French women not get fat, they also age well—presumably like French wine and cheese.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: History - Wartime All the Time
With the war in Afghanistan nearing its 12th year, some have begun to opine that being at war is the new norm.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Fiction - Return to Bountiful
The rest of this year and the beginning of the next, readers will hear from an abundance of literary superstars—Atwood, Banks, Harrison, Gurganus among them.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Cooking - Of Chefs and Restaurants
This season, New York City seems to be the It place for cookbooks spawned from restaurants. Specifically, Brooklyn.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Comics - More Than Words
Biography, fantasy, SF, historical novel, superhero—whether factual or fictional, this season’s best comics and graphic novels follow no set trend except an eclectic approach to storytelling.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Business - Superpower Stories
With the American economy slowly growing in 2013, many of the most intriguing business books for the fall focus on some of the country’s best-known companies rather than offering advice on how to jump-start the national economy, as many books in recent seasons have done since the start of the Great Recession.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Fall Books - All Our Coverage
These are the notable books of fall 2013, picked by our editors across 20 categories, culled from over 14,000 titles from nearly 1,400 publishers.
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PubWest Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Counterpoint’s Jack Shoemaker
PubWest has awarded its 2013 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award for long-lasting contributions to the Western book community to Jack Shoemaker, editorial director and vice president of Counterpoint Press.
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Exploring LGBT History: LGBT 2013
The LGBT Pride Month is celebrated each June in remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall riots, and from a vantage point midway through this year’s observance it seems especially fitting that some of the season’s recent and forthcoming titles uncover and explore the LGBT experience from a historical angle.
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TeleBrands: Selling Books ‘As Seen on TV’
From the man behind the Slice-O-Matic food slicer, the Ped Egg “no-mess” way to remove callouses, and Pocket Hose, “the amazing expandable garden hose,” comes a new product: physical books.
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Welcome the Millennials: Business Management and Leadership
Something different is afoot in the workplace these days, due in no small part to the rise of the Millennials, aka Generation Y—loosely defined as people born between 1980 and 2000.
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Presumed Guilty: True Crime
Imagine this: a decade after an unsolved double murder, your estranged spouse claims that you confessed to the crimes, and you end up behind bars for nearly 40 years.
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Cinema Redux: Summer Movie Tie-ins 2013
A major voice in the world of movies was silenced last week when beloved film critic Roger Ebert succumbed to cancer after a long and public battle.
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The Changing World of Reference: Focus on Reference 2013
The online revolution hit no publishers more directly than those that specialize in reference material. With so much information readily available electronically (some accurate, some… not), several years of handwringing followed.
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Victorian Crimes: Mysteries 2013
Only to modern eyes does the late 19th century seem cozy, staid, or secure.
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The Wide World of Sports: Sports Books 2013
Patricia Bostelman, v-p of marketing for Barnes & Noble, compares sports books to the Civil War.
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