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Music as Memoir

by Mark Rotella | 03/31/2008 @ 06:00AM

In a poem set to music by his lover Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden implored the patron saint of music, “Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions/ To all musicians, appear and inspire.” Or as Nikki Sixx, bassist and songwriter for heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, acknowledges inspiration in his bestselling memoir, The Heroin Diaries: “I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Sear...
Classic Do-Over

| 03/31/2008 @ 06:00AM

Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen . Modern Library , $35 (960p) ISBN 978-0-679-64019-6 Matthiessen’s Watson trilogy is a touchstone of modern American literature, and yet, as the author writes in a foreword of this reworking, with the publication of Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River and Bone by Bone, he felt, “after twenty years of toil.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 03/31/2008 @ 06:00AM

Why I Came West: A Memoir Rick Bass . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (250p) ISBN 978-0-618-59675-1 In the summer of 1987, nature writer Bass stumbled into the Yaak Valley in northwestern Montana and fell in love. A native of Houston, Bass worked as a geologist in Mississippi before heading west to find his home and his vocation as a writer.
Children's Book Reviews

| 03/31/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books What to Do About Alice? Barbara Kerley , illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic , $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-92231-9 It’s hard to imagine a picture book biography that could better suit its subject than this high-energy volume serves young Alice Roosevelt. Kerley (The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins) knows just how to introduce her to contemporary readers: “Theod...
Fiction Reviews

| 03/31/2008 @ 06:00AM

The Seamstress Frances de Pontes Peebles . Harper , $25.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-06-073887-7 This lavishly detailed if overlong debut novel set in 1920s and '30s Brazil follows two sisters who share excellent sewing skills, but take divergent paths into adulthood. Crippled by a childhood accident and mocked for her deformities, Luzia is considered unmarriageable.
Speed Racer Returns

by Kai-Ming Cha | 03/31/2008 @ 04:00AM

From the X-Men and Superman to the forthcoming Iron Man and Dark Knight movies, Hollywood has taken a keen interest in the comics game. Now comics publishers are taking a cue from the studios and their comic book—inspired films—and their ability to generate book sales. Remember the 1960s animated cartoon Speed Racer, an early example of Japanese anime finding a kids audience in th...
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/31/2008

| 03/31/2008 @ 04:00AM

This week: Poetry, poets, puppies and psychopathology; marginalized voices from Native America and the Civil Rights movement; dedicated craftsmen and flighty counter-dependents; and a dazzling debut novel with a "polyphonic narrative." Plus: how do you measure up against McCain, Clinton and Obama?
ComicsPRO Gets Everyone on the Same Page

By Heidi MacDonald | 03/25/2008 @ 01:37PM

Retailers and publishers came together to discuss many issues pertaining to the industry at the recent ComicsPRO meeting in Las Vegas.
Stranded: Virgin’s New Sci-Fi/Superhero Drama

By Ian Brill | 03/25/2008 @ 01:36PM

Comics writer Mike Carey’s new book, The Stranded, is about a group of aliens that live amongst us, but who don’t even know that they’re from another world. The new comics series is a collaboration between Virgin Comics and The Sci-Fi Channel and will also be produced as a TV show.
Hergé at One Hundred

By Ian Brill | 03/25/2008 @ 01:35PM

English-speaking fans of Hergé’s Tintin can read two new books by Great Britain’s leading “Tintinologist,” Michael Farr: The Adventures of Hergé and Tintin & Co., both are published by Last Gasp and vividly illustrated with Hergé artwork.
Johnny Boo: Kochalka for Kids

By Laura Hudson | 03/24/2008 @ 02:11PM

In June, Ignatz Award-winning creator James Kochalka will release his latest work for children, Johnny Boo: The Best Little Ghost in the World.
Realbuzz Studios: Panels and Parables

By Brigid Alverson | 03/24/2008 @ 02:10PM

RealBuzz Studios produces manga-style comics with Christian values without hitting the reader over the head with a Bible.
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008

| 03/24/2008 @ 06:00AM

In this week's Web roundup: culinary tours domestic and international, an improv comedy legend and a comic up-and-comer, the economic realities of global energy crisis and the new world order it's engendered, memoirs from a librarian and a teen with OCD, and a powerful resource for parents facing the death of a child. Plus: an inviting look at Winslow Homer and a novelist's take on Mary, mother of Jesus.
Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008

| 03/21/2008 @ 06:00AM
Fiction Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008

| 03/21/2008 @ 06:00AM
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008

| 03/21/2008 @ 06:00AM
SPLAT! Makes Splash

By Laura Hudson and Heidi MacDonald | 03/18/2008 @ 05:15PM

Over 150 cartoonists, librarians, editors, publishers and would-be cartoonists, attended “SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Symposium,” a one day conference sponsored by the The New York Center for Independent Publishing in Manhattan.
Chris Hart Moves How-To Empire to Sterling

By Kai-Ming Cha | 03/18/2008 @ 05:14PM

Popular how-to-draw author Chris Hart has moved from his longtime publisher, Watson-Guptill, to Sterling Publishing and will launch a new line of drawing books for Sterling’s crafts/DIY imprint Sixth & Spring.
Funnies Business: Alex Ross Banished to the Back of the Catalogue

by Todd Allen | 03/18/2008 @ 05:13PM

Star comics artist Alex Ross has taken a group of public domain superhero characters; updated them with new covers and new stories and created Project Superhero, a new work that will be published by Dynamite Entertainment.
Where's Waldo? Perth, Australia

by Ian Brill | 03/17/2008 @ 01:15PM

Alex Cox, the director of the eccentric 1980s punk sci-fi film Repo Man, has teamed up with artist Chris Bones to create a graphic novel sequel to the cult film.

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