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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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Art Check: Illustrating Isabel Toledo
In Roots of Style, “designer’s designer” Isabel Toledo shares the story of her life and career, including fashion tips, while her husband Ruben Toledo shares his exquisite illustrations.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of March 12, 2012
Your mostly-complete list of books going on sale in the next week.
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PW Picks: Week of March 12, 2012
This week in picks: Dale Carpenter, Marilynne Robinson, Mark Bittman, Roland Barthes, M.J. Rose, Heidi Julavits, Lauren Groff, Olen Steinhauer, Lyndsay Faye, Madeline George, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: This Week in History
Historical fiction makes up more than half of the just-released Orange Prize longlist, and scripted historicals are in full force on TV and at the movies. They’re also all over the On-Sale Calendar.
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Excerpt: Think Small, Basic, Ugly, Economical, and Foreign
For Mad Men fans with the TV DTs, the Tip Sheet gives you another dose of 1960s adman excitement, this time from Andrew Cracknell’s The Real Mad Men, just out on Feb. 28 from Running Press.
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PW Tip Sheet: William Gay's Last Road Trip
MacAdam/Cage editor-in-chief Sonny Brewer tells the story of his final road trip with his close friend William Gay, whose work drew comparisons to Faulkner and O’Connor, and who died on Feb. 23.
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