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Excerpt: Jeff Shaara's 'A Blaze of Glory'
Confederate cavalry lieutenant James Seeley defends a depot in the tense opening chapter of Jeff Shaara's A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, the first book of his new trilogy.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 21, 2012
Among our faves this week: new novels from Richard Ford, Bruce DeSilva, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alyson Noël, and Jeffrey B. Burton, plus an Austen-centric debut from Kim Izzo.
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First Look: Expelled by Luke Harding
The new Russian criminal state makes a disturbing first impression in a memoir from The Guardian's recently-deported Moscow correspondent.
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Rivers of Sewage and Radiation: PW Talks with Andrew Blackwell
With Visit Sunny Chernobyl, journalist-filmmaker Andrew Blackwell tours the most polluted spots on earth -- and makes a pretty good case that you should, too.
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What's New in Cuba: Images from 'Cuba: Contemporary Art'
Get your first look at an exceptional new volume of contemporary Cuban art that PW called beautiful, stunning, and rare.
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First Look: As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson
A&E is set to launch "Longmire" in June, based on the novels of Craig Johnson—the latest of which is about to hit stores. With this look at the first chapter, you can say you knew him back when.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 14
Fiction from Craig Johnson, China Mieville, Timeri Murari, Peter Carey, Garth Nix, and Tania James; the first collection of Batman’s “New 52” incarnation; the follow-up to Sh*t My Dad Says, and more.
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Art Check: A Broadway Couple Shoots NYC
In the handsome new coffee table book The Outdoor Museum, stage actress Margery Gray Harnick sets the scene while her husband, Pulitzer-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, provides poetic accompaniment.
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Same Sex, Different Story: PW Talks with Rodger Streitmatter
Just as president Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage, a new book takes a close look at American same sex couples, from Walt Whitman to Greta Garbo to Jasper Johns.
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First Look: The Family Corleone by Ed Falco
A new Godfather book hits this week, and we've got the first chapter. Working from a Mario Puzo screenplay, novelist Ed Falco goes back to 1933 New York and a 17-year-old Sonny Corleone.
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Harvey Pekar, Back From the Dead
For Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, Top Shelf and Zip Comics recruited artist Joseph Remnant, whose work recalls longtime Pekar collaborator R. Crumb, but with a lighter touch and a charm all its own.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 7, 2012
This week, novels from Toni Morrison and Cassandra Clare, urban histories from David Talbot and cartoonist Harvey Pekar, a thriller from Larry Bond, Augusten Burroughs solves your problems, and more.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 30, 2012
Your long, long list of titles going on sale in the week ahead.
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Art Check: Gursky's Extraterrestrial Perspective
Three photos that tell a very short version of Gursky's story: his images are epic, his subject matter is the entire world, and his perspective is, in his words, "alien”—a view from above and beyond.
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Eye on the Stars: Big Week for Celeb Memoirs
A rare week gives us three celeb memoirs by boldface names: Sissy Spacek, Gregg Allman, and Dan Rather are telling all. Turns out, fame is great and all, but what stars really want is a book deal.
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Book Excerpt: 'The Uninvited Guests' by Sadie Jones
With Downton Abbey on hiatus, Sadie Jones has your fix: her twisty British country drama The Uninvited Guests, centers on a house called Sterne and the family desperate to hold onto it. Read the first chapter here.
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PW Picks: Week of April 30, 2012
Music legend Gregg Allman tells all, Dan Rather’s life in news, Sissy Spacek’s ordinary life, plus big novels from Nell Freudenberger, Rick Riordan, Charlaine Harris, and Swedish crime queen Camilla Läckberg, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: The Great Pulitzer Debate
As you probably know already, the collective outrage of the publishing world found a new and wholly unexpected target this week: the Pulitzer Prize award selection committee.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 23, 2012
The long, long list of this week’s releases.
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Excerpt: Care and Caring, Time and Efficiency
In her debut, physician Victoria Sweet pulls the curtain back on her 20 years at San Francisco’s Lagunda Honda Hospital, the country’s last “almshouse” for the poor and chronically disabled.
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