William Kotzwinkle, Author . Grove $23 (335p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1803-5
Kotzwinkle's first adult novel since The Bear Went Over the Mountain
(1996) is a rollicking old-school space opera complete with sensitive robots, wily space aliens and secretive societies in turmoil. In a lab hidden inside the notorious Junk...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author Doubleday Books $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-48428-2
This is certainly the season for satirical looks at publishing. After Olivia Goldsmith's The Bestseller comes this delightful fable by Kotzwinkle (whose E.T. shares with Winston Groom's Forrest Gump the distinction of being its author's best-known...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-399-13113-4
The mystery that attaches to the title of this collection of 15 short tales by the author of E.T. breathes through every story, from the seemingly straightforward ""A Man Who Knew His Birds,'' in which an ornithologist is deceived by a mad old...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author Random House Value Publishing $3.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-517-56310-6
Kotzwinkle, who has written the bestselling E. T. Storybook and The Book of the Green Planet, now turns his talent to a view of the world through the eyes of a small rabbit. The water in the sink tells the rabbit, ""I'll wash the sleep out of your...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-525-24526-1
Kotzwinkle's delightful new book seamlessly blends two genres: a sardonic, realistic Hollywood novel and an alluring psychologicalor is it occult?mystery. Middle-aged actor David Caspian, living in the Hollywood of properties, deals, unflappably...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author Marlowe & Company $17.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-395-49859-0
In this frenetic, only sporadically funny sendup of the scandal magazine trade, the author of Fata Morgana and the popular novelization of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial , mistakes clutter for cleverness. Attached to a threadbare plot about the editors...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, Joe Servello, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-395-53270-6
The Game of Thirty is an ancient Egyptian board game in which the movement of pieces, according to the casting of bone dice, foreshadows events in the lives of the players. In Kotzwinkle's ( E.T. ; Doctor Rat ) noir novel for the 1990s, Manhattan is
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, Glenn Murray, Author, Audrey Colman, Illustrator , illus. by Audrey Colman. North Atlantic/Frog $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58394-053-2
Here's a companion to Taro Gomi's Everyone Poops, albeit with less educational value. Walter, a fat gray dog with an apologetic look on his face, comes home from the pound with two children. He has incurable gas, and his family decides to...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, Glenn Murray, Author, Audrey Colman, Illustrator Dutton $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47217-9
Companion books blossom this spring. The maligned mutt returns in a sequel to last year's bestseller: Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, illus. by Audrey Colman. Father, fed up with Walter's...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, David Catrow, Author, David Catrow, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-85295-7
The author of E.T. the Extraterrestrial serves up the sentiment in this entertaining if familiar tale. Like the Velveteen Rabbit before him, the Million-Dollar Bear is a winsome, well-worn, stuffing-filled creature with an almost melancholy yearning
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, Joe Servello, Illustrator David R. Godine Publisher $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87923-555-0
Inspector Mantis (read Sherlock Holmes) and his capable companion Doctor Hopper star in this collection of mysteries, ranging from ""The Case of the Missing Butterfly'' to ``The Case of the Caterpillar's Head.'' Yes, they're insects, solving crimes...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, Joe Servello, Illustrator David R. Godine Publisher $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-87923-648-9
Collaborators Kotzwinkle and Servello have again brought out the best in each other in this collection of stories, some of which were available in a previous edition. In ""The Fairy King,'' a logger descends into the core of the tree and becomes...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, Joe Servello, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-395-50096-5
The three stories that comprise this collection are rightfully termed ``illusions,'' for Kotzwinkle is a wizard of wordplay and his creations are spellbinding achievements. Few authors can juggle fantasy, humor, stark realism and horror as...
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William Kotzwinkle, Author, Joe Servello, Illustrator Marlowe & Company $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56924-793-8
Rhyming text by the author of E.T. describes a day in the life of an anthropomorphized bunny toddler. Ages 2-5. (Dec.)
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William Kotzwinkle. Blackstone, $26.99 (316p) ISBN 978-1-0940-0925-4
Tommy Martini, the quick-tempered 26-year-old narrator of this nimble comic thriller from Kotzwinkle (The Fan Man), has spent five years in a Mexican monastery repenting the death of a young man he killed in a barroom fight during college. When word
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William Kotzwinkle. Blackstone, $26.99 (328p) ISBN 978-1-0940-0926-1
Kotzwinkle’s exceptional sequel to 2021’s Felonious Monk takes Benedictine monk and killer Tommy Martini back to his birthplace of Coalville, to honor the final request of his best friend, Finn Sweeney. Finn’s plea—in a frantic voicemail message cut
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