Mark Goldblatt, Author . Permanent $24 (176p) ISBN 978-1-57962-037-0
This ambitious debut novel from a white news columnist struggles—only sometimes successfully, with Goldblatt's remarkable ear for idiom—to debunk the notion that only African-Americans can truly understand the experiences of...
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Mark Goldblatt. HC/Broadside, $14.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-213511-7
With a clear rightward slant, journalist and novelist Goldblatt (Africa Speaks) deciphers the fallacies behind contemporary liberal bumper stickers. He skewers slogans from the aura of revolutionary icon Che Guevara to the threat Sarah Palin posed...
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Mark Goldblatt. Random, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-97142-6
Adult author Goldblatt (Africa Speaks) makes his children’s book debut with a coming-of-age novel set in 1969, a mix of awkward adolescent stumbling, pockets of sweetness, and oft-used tropes. Sixth-grader Julian Twerski has returned from a school...
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Matt Goldblatt, read by Everette Plen. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-8041-2156-9
Bullying, pride, love, peer pressure, and shame all come together for Julian “Twerp” Twerski in sixth grade. Ordered to keep a journal as an act of contrition for bullying, Twerski comes to record and eventually reflect on the ways in which he acts...
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