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PW Picks: On Sale the Weeks of December 26, 2011 and January 2, 2012
It's an escapist fiction downpour! With releases from Tami Hoag, Eloisa James, Dean Koontz, Robin Cook, James Patterson, William Gibson, Sara Paretsky, Janet Evanovich, Tod Rob Smith, Daniel Handler, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: Invasion of the Price Snatchers
The example of two book businesses in the news this week--Amazon.com and Shakespeare & Co.--raise an important question: Yes, businesses are meant to make money, but is that really all we should expect of them?
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of December 19, 2011
Our helpful weekly selection includes nonfiction on what it means to be human, what it means to live on a one-of-the-kind planet, how to find a new best friend, how to plan for the next market collapse, and more.
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When Kindness Attacks: A Q&A with Barbara Oakley
The Tip Sheet asked Barbara Oakley, one of the editors of Pathological Altruism, to explain the concept that’s been taking scientists, economists, and book reviewers by surprise.
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Three Questions for a Bookseller: Ditch Amazon Day at Third Street
For one day at Third Street Books, customers who brought in proof of a cancelled Amazon account got 15% off their purchase and a five-dollar gift certificate. PW caught up with owner Sylla McClellan to see how it went.
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Art Check: Rayner's Colorful New Croc
This week, FSG releases Catherine Rayner's latest, Solomon Crocodile, about a lonely reptile with a knack for trouble. Here, they share a few images with the Tip Sheet ahead of Solomon's Dec. 20 release.
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Excerpt: The Shootist and the Playwright
In the opening scene of Mike Resnick's The Doctor and the Kid, Doc Holliday meets a clever, up-and-coming young playwright named Oscar Wilde.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of December 19, 2011
Your complete release calendar for Monday the 19th through Sunday the 25th.
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Three Questions for a Bookseller: Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
With one tweet, author and comedienne Mindy Kaling (1.58 million followers) shut down the Harvard Book Store’s (uniquely awesome) web site smack in the middle of Cyber Monday, 2011. Co-owner Jeff Mayersohn spoke with the Tip Sheet about how it went down.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of December 12, 2011
Picks this week include a big new Norwegian thriller from master-of-the-form Jo Nesbø, a fresh adventure from Tom Clancy, a girl's guide to hunting and cooking, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: Real Books Don't Die
Rumors of the printed book's death continue apace, as news outlets across the English-speaking world decide "book design" is the medium's (latest) last hope.
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From Turbulent 60s to Turbulent Teens: A Q&A with Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders, 72, is a storied icon of the 1960s counterculture, an author-poet-scholar-activist-musician-bookseller-underground publisher with a new memoir of the 60s called Fug You.
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Excerpt: A Coming-of-Age Reader for the ADD'd
On Dec. 15, Persea Books releases an anthology of short-short coming-of-age stories called Sudden Fiction Youth, featuring 65 tales of no more than 1000 words each. Catch a three-story preview here.
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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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