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Questions for a Bookseller: Hollywood's Diesel Books
With six of the nine best picture Oscar nominees being book adaptations, we asked John Evans of Diesel Books in Malibu and Brentwood to comment on movie tie-in editions and other Oscar-related issues.
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PW Picks: Week of February 20, 2012
Burning up the Picks list this week: top-notch crime fiction from the late Donald E. Westlake, sophomore novelist Matt Pavelich, and Arthur Ellis Award winner Peter Robinson.
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Excerpt: Just Like Your Handsome Father
Adam Wilson’s debut, the aimless-young-man novel Flatscreen, comes anointed by masters of the form Tom Perrotta (“the slacker novel to end all slacker novels”) and Gary Shteyngart (“OMFG”).
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The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books
"A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There's nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what you're going to read next."
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When Gamblers and Readers Get Together, Anything Can Happen: A Q&A with Tupelo Hassman
Tupelo Hassman’s debut Girlchild is a novel that drops us into the Reno trailer park home of Rory Hendrix and invites us to be the only other member of her Girl Scout troop.
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If They Only Knew Her Secret: A Q&A with Anne Sebba
Already a bestseller in the UK, That Woman takes a fresh look at the much-vilified American-born divorcee for whom Prince Edward abdicated the throne.
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Exercising the Moral Imagination: A Q&A with Eyal Press
Beautiful Souls probes the legacy of human goodness versus a corrupt mob mentality: the whistleblower in the financial industry, the U.S. military prosecutor who resigns over conditions at Gitmo.
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On-Sale calendar: Week of February 13, 2012
Your nearly-definitive list of what’s dropping this week.
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PW Tip Sheet: Courage!
Last week, the account of a 19-year-old’s affair with JFK made headlines—and there’s more sex-and-celebrities memoirs on deck. But there’s also a far more noble trend at work in this week’s releases.
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Excerpt: New Yorkers for Animals
In The Darlings—what we called “two parts Too Big to Fail, one part The Devil Wears Prada”—debut author Cristina Alger introduces Paul Ross and the family he marries into, the Darlings of Manhattan.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of February 13
Our picks this week include a Girlchild and That Woman, Darlings and Disenchantments, Beautiful Souls and bunny detectives, the Emergency State and The Last Great Senate, and more.
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Excerpt: I'm a Mess, But So Are You
Comedian and TV writer Sarah Colonna is following her boss Chelsea Handler into the world of wittily self-deprecating/self-aggrandizing memoir with Life As I Blow It, out Feb. 7 from Villard.
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For the Dedicated Fan: A Q&A with Daniel Wallace
More than a book, Book of Sith is a collectable souvenir and a multimedia experience, with a mechanized case that automatically opens, disgorging the blood-red hardcover with flashing lights and Star Wars sound effects.
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Problems Innovate Too: A Q&A with David Owen
In The Conundrum, David Owen sounds a wake-up call for those who think they’re helping by eating local, buying more fuel-efficient cars, and fitting their house with compact fluorescents.
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On-Sale calendar: Week of February 6, 2012
Your not-quite-comprehensive guide to what’s dropping the week of February 6.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of February 6
This week, picks take us to thrilling territory, onto alternate worlds, back to the Renaissance, and into the Mumbai slums. Plus: a comedic memoir, a “magically delicious” YA series kickoff, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: This Has All Happened Before
Barnes & Noble has just announced that it won’t be carrying Amazon-published titles. Independent booksellers are balking too. Why does this all sound so familiar?
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Art Check: First of the Steampunks
In their latest illustrated volume, Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett re-team for a look back at the forgotten pulp hero of American “invention fiction” from the late 1800s, inventor and adventurer Frank Reade.
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Questions for a Bookseller: Outwrite Bookstore in Atlanta, Ga.
Many in the publishing industry were saddened to hear on Thursday, Jan. 26, that Outwrite Books & Coffeehouse, which had served the GLBT community in Atlanta since 1993, had closed its doors.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of January 30, 2012
Your quasi-comprehensive list of releases for the January-February crossover, intuited by psychic government agents sequestered in a secret missile silo behind 24 inches of solid concrete.
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