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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 2, 2012
All the books coming out next week, in one convenient location: it’s your list of lists!
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PW Picks: Week of April 2, 2012
The newest from Robert Olmstead, Joseph Wambaugh, Anne Tyler, Alexander McCall Smith, Mo Willems, and Holly Hobbie, plus a little international bestseller called Fifty Shades of Grey. And more!
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Art Check: A Beauty Mark on the Sun
In the illustrated volume The Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present, Sydney astronomer Nick Lomb looks at the history, science, and significance of the rare alignment among Earth, Venus, and the Sun.
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Notable Stories
Welcome to your one-stop shop for book-related interestingness. Here you'll find an array of reading recommendations, commentary, and good ol' articles of authors and book lovers talking about why they love the books they love.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of March 26, 2012
Once again: the most complete list of next week's releases you're likely to find anywhere.
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PW Tip Sheet: This Week in Autism
One obvious constant in autism is the yearly increase in diagnoses—and a similar increase in books on it. On average, 2011 saw 18 autism books released every week. This week, there’s just 12. (12!)
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PW Picks: Week of March 26, 2012
Fiction dominates, from buzzed-about thriller The Professionals to mass-market romance A Week to Be Wicked. In nonfiction there’s Rachel Maddow, and for kids: a dragon in the library. Plus more!
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Art Check: Holzer Takes Frankfurt
American artist Jenny Holzer has been creating outsized text-based art for more than 30 years, stripping the idea of language-as-art to its barest, then writing it large across the modern landscape.
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I Know There Is a Lot Going On: A Q&A with Zack Parsons
Liminal States is a time-spanning, genre-leaping, “awe-inspiring” novel that coheres in spite of its moving parts—which also include a prequel serial, alt-reality web sites, art, music, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: The 64-Year-Long Road Trip
A warm mid-March weekend: the perfect time to load up the car, grab your favorite travel guide, and head out on a road trip. Unless you’re an Alaskan, in which case it’s probably already in your car.
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Excerpt: Chess is All Memory
In her inspired debut, Jennifer DuBois charts the course two disparate but intertwined characters: a world chess champion living in St. Petersburg, Russia, and an English lecturer in Cambridge, Mass.
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What Videogames Can Be: A Q&A with Anna Anthropy
Anna Anthropy has made a big stir in the world of small videogames,. In Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, she examines the auteur-driven, boundary-bending videogame revolution she helps lead.
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Sexuality, Independence, Economic Empowerment: A Q&A with Liza Mundy
In her latest, journalist Liza Mundy (Michelle: A Biography) looks at the emerging generation of women heads-of-household who make more than—or otherwise do without—the man of the house.
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Art Check: Where to Park It
Just in time for your spring break road trip, the 7th edition of The Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges features a complete update and revision and, for the first time, full-color photos.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of March 19, 2012
Once again, the Tip Sheet brings you the most complete and to-the-point list of this week’s new books anywhere.
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PW Picks: Week of March 19, 2012
This week: thrillers form Coben and Patterson; lit fic from Jennifer DuBois and Kevin Moffett; memoirs from a Marine and a novelist; a Wolf Won’t Bite!, a Sugar-Frosted Nutsack, and more.
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Excerpt: Despite These Dark Portents
In her latest, novelist Heidi Julavits looks at female relationships through the story of a school for psychics, and a young student just beginning to learn the power and pitfalls of her psychic gift.
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Excerpt: I Never Taught Writing
Writing coach Don Fry has worked with more than 10,000 writers during his career. On March 13, Writers Digest and F+W Media will release Writing Your Way, his first title aimed directly at writers.
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Whatever the Emergency Is: A Q&A with Lisa Bedford
Lisa Bedford is an average mom who, over the past four years, has become an expert survivalist. In The Survival Mom, she documents strategies for every conceivable emergency and disaster.
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Getting the Government Out of Our Bedrooms: A Q&A with Dale Carpenter
In Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, law professor Dale Carptenter examines the landmark 2002 case resulting from the arrest of two gay men in their home by sheriff’s deputies.
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