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Art Check: The Coziest of Artforms
Interweave Press releases The Best of Quilting Arts on Dec. 13, featuring a stunning range of materials, designs, artists, and ideas taken from Quilting Arts Magazine's most popular features
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Excerpt: Jane Austen, Now With Guilt, Misery, and Mystery
An excerpt from Death Comes to Pemberly, mystery novelist P.D. James’s first foray into the world of Jane Austen, out December 6 from Knopf.
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Not Exactly Everyday Engineering: A Q&A with Brian Clegg
We asked Clegg about his new book How to Build a Time Machine, some of his favorite time travel stories, and the most important scientific discovery of his lifetime.
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PW Tip Sheet: A Comic Book Nerd's Comic Book Nerd
I came to realize just how un-cool my tastes in comics were; that is, I realized that fans of “proper” comic books were, in fact, pretty un-cool to begin with. And I was less cool than they were.
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Art Check: The Comic Genius of Walt Kelly
On December 5th, Fantagraphics launches its highly-anticipated, multi-volume collection Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, the first comprehensive collection of Walt Kelly's seminal newspaper comic.
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Three Questions for a Bookseller: Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C.
Last weekend, President Obama visited Kramerbooks at Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle with his daughters Sasha and Malia. The Tip Sheet spoke with manager Scott Abel about the Browser-in-Chief’s stop-in.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of December 5, 2011
New this week: three cozy mysteries, two less-than-cozy mysteries, inspiration for the moralist and the gastronomic, the first volume of Fantagraphic's complete Pogo comic strip collection, and more.
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The Worst Book Ever is 'Microwave for One'
In 1987, The Book Services Ltd published a slim, 144-page cookbook called Microwave for One. The book is by Sonia Allison, who has quite a few publications under her belt. But she’s best known for her masterpiece of tragedy, a book whose title and cover is so rife with sadness that one almost has the urge to brush the invisible tears from Ms. Allison’s face as she leans over her microwave and her food spread.
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Art Check: Images from These Shores
This past week, Doubleday released a lavish volume of African American history featuring nearly 900 illustrations and text by lauded author and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of November 28, 2011
Newsworthy releases this week include a star-worthy new Harry Bosch mystery from Michael Connelly, another installment in Diana Gabaldon’s much-loved Lord John series, Marie Lu’s ambitious YA series kickoff, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: Books v. The Togetherness Imperative
We all need an escape from the overstuffed holiday-time itinerary, but quiet time with a book isn’t necessarily compatible with the traditional Family Togetherness Imperative. The answer? Movies.
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Reading List: Yes! Magazine's Brooke Jarvis
On November 17, the same day as Occupy Wall Street’s Day of Action, Barrett-Kohler released a guide to the movement called This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, put together by the editors of Yes! Magazine. Here, Yes! web editor Brooke Jarvis gives us a list of follow-up titles for those who want a better understanding of the stakes.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of November 21, 2011
Picks this week include new poems from an NBA winner, everyone's favorite octogenarian funny-lady, secrets of a legendary mystery novelist, exploding numbers, wild romance, two posthumous novels, and more.
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Three Questions for a Bookseller: Rabelais in Portland, ME
Samantha Lindgren, who co-owns cookbook shop Rabelais in Portland, Me. with her husband Don Lindgren, spoke with Tip Sheet about the hot culinary titles of the holiday season.
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PW Tip Sheet: Libraries Under Attack (Literally)
At just two months old, the Occupy Wall Street movement already has its first book, released by Berrett-Koehler and the editors of Yes! Magazine on Nov. 17, OWS’s official Day of Action. Called This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, it couldn’t have dropped at a more resonant moment
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And Then There Were Notebooks: A Q&A with John Curran
Agatha Christie archivist (and lifelong fan) John Curran releases Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Agatha Christie’s Notebooks, his second volume of posthumous discoveries from Christie’s unpublished notes. Emailing from Dublin, Curran previews some of those discoveries for Tip Sheet.
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Excerpt: Sound and Somnolence
An exlusive excerpt from NBA-winning poet Nathaniel Mackey's newest volume, Nod House, out November 21 from New Directions.
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The Worst Book Ever Is 'Dildo Cay'
Dildo Cay is a book written by Nelson Hayes in 1940 and published by Houghton Mifflin and it’s also called Dildo Cay. Just wanted to stress that part. The cover of the book is pictured above, and its centerpiece, a far-off vertical shaft on the cay, does ridiculously little to dispel its unfortunate title.
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Art Check: 25 Years of Oprah
Abram's official Oprah Winfrey Show retrospective lands this Tuesday, with a 350,000-copy one-day laydown. Called The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy, it features text by author Deborah Davis and an enormous volume of photographs capturing all aspects of the 5-day-a-week institution. For a taste of what's sure to be a runaway bestseller, check out these preview photos.
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Handicapping the Field: NBA Finalists in Fiction
The 2011 National Book Award winners will be announced next week on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Below, a score-card for your office or at-home betting pool and a breakdown of the fiction contenders from 2010 NBA winner Jaimy Gordon.
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