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Spring 2013 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers: Crime and Cross Genre
Roger Hobbs, a recent graduate of Oregon’s Reed College, delivers Ghostman, a first novel whose protagonist Random House’s Gary Fisketjon likens to “the character played by Harvey Keitel in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, a non-pareil fixer and cleaner-upper.”
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Cookbooks: Big Flavors, Big Books
Here's a look at the big cookbooks coming out this Spring, including the first cookbook in Anthony Bourdain’s line from Ecco, 'The Prophets of Smoked Meat' by Daniel Vaughn.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Business & Economics: Taking Stock
The two themes that have dominated the business book field for the past two to three years—the impacts of the Great Recession and technology—are front and center again for spring 2013.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Art, Architecture & Photography: Giants, Social Conflict, Silence, & Noise
Perhaps fashion has gone out of fashion, at least in museums, which are in the habit of producing splendid big books in connection to the Alexander McQueens and Elsa Schiaparellis of the world when shows warrant.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Comics & Graphic Novels: Childhood Rediscovered
Although new works by Bryan Lee O’Malley and Paul Pope will come later in the year, early 2013 boasts two past winners of the PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll: Dash Shaw and Rutu Modan. One recurring theme of the Spring season’s best books is an examination of childhood: the momentary joys and terrors of an average child’s day told with the detachment and sympathy of passing time.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Romance: A Second Chance at Love
Everyone has moments of wanting to turn back time, undo some terrible wrong, and get a second chance.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Lifestyle: Get Healthy, Handy, Spiritually Wise
Among diet books, paleo appears to have retreated to its cave; veganism has taken root.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Travel: Stranger in a Strange Land
Whether the phrase brings to mind Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 science fiction novel about a human returning to Earth after being raised on Mars, or Moses in Exodus 2:22, the experience of being “other” is indisputably synonymous with travel. Remember the hookah-smoking caterpillar confronting Alice with that eternal question, “Who are You?”
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Sports: Plumbing the Past in Pastime
Though sports is among the most contemporary of things, being both widely participatory and widely anticipatory—looking forward to the Big Game?—when it comes to publishing, it is very much about the past, the long view.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Social Sciences: Guns & Butter
Fresh off an invigorating, if exhausting, election season, this spring’s crop of social science titles reflects the complex cultural challenges underpinning the political battles facing the Obama administration in his second term.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Science: Once a Vice, Now a Virtue
A couple of established voices in science return this April to lead PW’s list of notables.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Politics: Power Struggles
Whether readers want a game-changing biography of Karl Marx or the first biography of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, this spring’s titles offer portraits of political responsibility at home and abroad.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Poetry: Looking Forward to Looking Back
Poetry fans have much to look forward to this spring, while many poets look hard and longingly at the past or extend old stories into the present.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Performing Arts: Celebrating Stars
No, not the astronomical variety, but the performers who have contributed their numerous talents in the Business known as Show. On stages around the world and on screens large and small, these multitalented folk exemplify the show biz anthem, “That’s Entertainment.”
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Music: The Many Sounds of Music
“Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember,” Burt Bacharach, composer and music producer, once said.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Memoir: This One Time, at Band Camp…
We are still telling stories about ourselves, our pasts, our presents, the terrible moments and the joyful ones, and how looking back and digging deep leads us to understanding.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Literary Collections: The Story Behind the Story
What do we want from our favorite writers? This spring’s books suggest that we want to peek into both their minds and their mailboxes. The following titles lead readers through past lives, current struggles, and affirm the importance of the translator’s art.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: History: In-Depth & Out Loud
2013 doesn’t mark a big anniversary for any major conflict—we don’t like our wars to begin or end on the unlucky number—but plenty of blood has been spilled throughout history, and so has a lot of ink.
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Hot Money Books—Cooling Down?: Personal Finance 2012
The recovery of the U.S. economy is definitely underway.
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African-American Interest Books 2012-13: All Our Coverage
PW's announcements of African-American interest titles for 2012-2012.
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