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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008
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Ditlow Joins Brilliance
Tim Ditlow, former publisher of Listening Library and publisher at large for Random House Audio, has joined Grand Haven, Mich.-based Brilliance Audio.
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Tor Books, Seven Seas Together at Last
The new joint venture between New York City sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor Books and L.A.-based manga publisher Seven Seas to create a manga imprint is a match made in pop culture heaven.
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Burns and Palmiotti Explore the Docks
Inside Dock Walloper, filmmaker Edward Burns's foray into the comics-to-movie track in Hollywood.
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Genshiken: Kio Shimoku and the Otaku Soul
Kio Shimoku is the manga-ka of the beloved Japanese geek-culture series Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture. The 9 volume series from Del Rey Manga completed its publication this month. The series revolves around a college visual media club where a small group of otaku gather to obsess about their favorite anime, manga, videogames and related activities.
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Disney’s Haunted Mansion Hardcover
Originally published as an anthology comic series by SLG Publishing, the first six issues of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Vol. 1: Welcome, Foolish Mortals is being collected in an attractive limited edition hardcover.
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January Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid stays on top followed by Naruto and Stephen King’s Dark Tower.
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Washington’s Big Monkey Encourages Debate
Big Monkey Comics in Washington DC succeeds by acting as a social center for its customers.
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Children’s Book Reviews
Picture Books Monkey and Me Emily Gravett . Simon & Schuster , $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5457-6 With a lot of imagination and some creative contortions, a little girl pretends that she and her adored stuffed monkey fit right in with tribes of penguins, kangaroos, bats, elephants and... monkeys.
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Fiction Reviews
More Than It Hurts You Darin Strauss . Dutton , $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95070-7 The third novel from the author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy is an often satiric page-turner that tracks a Long Island family crisis. Josh Goldin is a happily married TV airtime salesman with an eight-month-old son.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/7
This week: the Bomb, WorldCom, the Holocaust, DNA evidence, lost baggage, dubious imperatives, reggae madness and an all-new, all-star fiction anthology edited by Zadie Smith. Plus: now you can write, write, write your way to a flatter stomach!
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 1/7/2008
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio Alec Foege . Faber and Faber , $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-571-21106-7 Journalist Foege (Confusion Is Next) brings objectivity and insight to this exploration of Clear Channel, one of the most reviled media conglomerates in the U.
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Pilgrim, Exit Wounds Top Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll
Two very different books about young men at a changing point in their lives topped the Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll for 2007.
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Top 10 Manga for 2007
Kai-Ming Cha counts down the top manga for 2007 and looks forward to 2008.
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PW talks with Dennis Kucinich
Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich added "author" to his list of credentials (senator, congressman, mayor, reporter, et al.) with the Phoenix Books release of The Courage to Survive, a stirring, lyrical memoir that details his working-class childhood in a large, struggling Cleveland family.
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Children's Books Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/24
This week we look back with an NPR commentator and ahead with the 2008 presidential candidates, waste time with a bike punk and four Wisconsin sisters, marvel at 40+ years of stunning boxing photos, and face death with famous chefs.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007



