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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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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of January 30, 2012
This week: policy primers; fiction popular, thrilling and imported; pioneering gay writers in the U.S.; Rabbi Shmuley’s controversial return, How to Be Black, and a posthumous Diana Wynne Jones picture book.
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Excerpt: My So-Called Reproductive Imperative
With the question of gay marriage looming large in the U.S. political landscape, Beacon releases a new title by scholar-author Hanne Blank on the origins of the label used to describe “traditional” married couples.
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The Internet is Not a Force of Nature: A Q&A with Rebecca MacKinnon
In Consent of the Networked, researcher-advocate Rebecca MacKinnon dissects the issues surrounding civil rights, democracy, and internet institutions that aren’t always looking out for users' best interests.
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PW Tip Sheet: Shame on Today
What’s wrong with morning-show producers? Were they not read to as children? Were they traumatized by Charlotte’s Web? Why else would disregard the winners of the highest children’s book awards in the land?
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PW Tip Sheet: Snug as a Book in a Custom-Fit Table-Shelf
Just what you uninhibited book hoarders need: give San Francisco architect/artist Lisa Finster a stack of your favorite books, and she’ll create a beautiful coffee table with perfectly-carved spaces for each volume.
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Not Often Surprised, But Continually Amazed: A Q&A with Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian
In We’re With Nobody, readers get an insider’s perspective on the business of digging up dirt on the campaign competition, an arcane but vital political art known as Opposition Research.
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