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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More Stories and Secrets from Agatha Christie’s Notebooks, his second volume of posthumous discoveries from Christie’s unpublished notes.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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PW Tip Sheet: In Defense of Not Finishing
I am a slow reader, and not just because I read six or ten books at once. On my to-finish table are one time-travel thriller, one dysfunctional family novel, one Vietnam war novel, three books of short stories, two classics-in-translation and, most recently, a thousand-plus-page journal of psychonautical self-discovery called The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of November 14, 2011
It doesn’t get any bigger than this week’s biggest release: Jeff Kinney’s sixth entry in his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Cabin Fever, drops an astounding 6 million copies on the book-buying world this Tuesday, the biggest release of the year in both kids’ and adult books.
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Q&A: Why Kevin Wilson Loves Nicole Kidman
Just two months after the release of Kevin Wilson's debut novel, the production company of Nicole Kidman and Per Saari had acquired the screen rights--with Kidman herself expected to fill the role of clan matriarch Camille Fang. PW caught up with Wilson for a phone interview about movie adaptations, Nicole Kidman’s strangest roles, and why happy endings make no sense.
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Q&A: Deborah Davis, Keeper of Oprah's Flame
Abrams celebrates the legacy of America’s most beloved talk-show host with this week’s release of The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy. Nonfiction author Deborah Davis, whose friends describe her beat as “the rich and the dead,” was tapped to write Abrams's 25-year retrospective. The Tip Sheet spoke to her over the phone this week about condensing 25 years of television history into a six-month whirlwind of viewing, researching, and writing.
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PW Tip Sheet: The Best Books Blues
It’s that time of year again: the time when Publishers Weekly puts out our Best Books list, which—lucky you!—debuts in today’s PW Tip Sheet. Not coincidentally, it’s also the time when I discover that I’ve wasted my reading year on less-than-the-best, and subsequently tack 25 or 50 new titles onto my to-read list.
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Two Questions for a Bookseller
Jef Blocker, a manager at Atlanta’s six-year-old Bound to be Read Books, fills us in on some spooky happenings among the stacks.
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Reading List: Daniel Annechino
Daniel Annechino spent two years researching serial killers before penning his gripping and memorable debut novel, They Never Die Quietly. Just in time for post-Halloween withdrawal, Annechino gives us his recommendations for the best serial killer nonfiction out there.
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of November 7, 2011
The most noteworthy books hitting stores this week includes big guns like Stephen King, Umberto Eco, Don DeLillo and Annie Liebovitz; fringe darlings in sci-fi hero Phillip K. Dick and conservative stalwart Newt Gingrich; and highly anticipated books from Robert K. Massie (Catherine the Great) and Christopher Paolini (Inheritance). Plus: two volumes looking to cash in on earlier smash successes—Heaven Is For Real and The Hunger Games, respectively—and a biography of late, beloved author Kurt Vonnegut (yet another fringe darling, a sci-fi hero humanist stalwart).
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PW Tip Sheet: Here Come the Memoirs
This week is chock-full of memoirs...but why do we read them?
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Reading List: John Hodgman
Coming out this week is That Is All, the final installment of a trilogy of nonsensical almanacs from the sly, satirical John Hodgman (The Areas of My Expertise), contributor to The Daily Show. Hodgman shares the four books that inspired his oeuvre.
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Ranking Sherlock Holmes Stories? Elementary
"When I was asked to write The House of Silk, I reread the entire canon and promptly fell in love with them all over again, and if I have one hope for my book, it’s that it will introduce a new generation of readers to these wonderful stories."
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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of October 31, 2011
Our top books hitting bookstores this week, featuring books by Joan Didion, Condoleezza Rice, Malcolm Gladwell and Marcel the Shell. Read our reviews and full On-Sale Calendar.
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Excerpt: Don’t Peak in High School
An exclusive excerpt from The Office writer and actress Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) out on November 1 from Crown.
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Drawing Board: Awkward Family Pet Photos
Yes, Awkward Family Pet Photos is finally a book. Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, coauthors of the New York Times bestselling Awkward Family Photos, have returned with another "celebration of awkwardness."
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Literary Cage Match: Which Book Deserved to Win the Booker?
Deputy Reviews Editor Mike Harvkey and News Editor Gabe Habash settle, via cage match, who should've rightly won the Man Booker this year.
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