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Fiction Reviews: Week of 11/19/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/19
This week's list gets salacious with carnal robots, striptease pioneer Gilded Lili St. Cyr and good old-fashioned Bets, Drugs and Rock & Roll; sentimental with family dinner and other people's dogs; serious with psychotherapy and women's tales of Choice; and sick fresh with Streewear from around the globe.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 11/19/2007
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Meaning Maker
Lee's fourth book of poems, Behind My Eyes, is an accessible mix of homespun spirituality, meditation on the plight of his Chinese immigrant family and musical language. Here, he talks about God, his readers and the contemporary poetry scene. Many of these poems have spiritual themes.
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Fall 2008: New Comics from Pantheon
Pantheon is gearing up for a big fall season in 2008 with plans to release five comics-related titles, including much anticipated works by Art Spiegelman, David Mazzucchelli and David Heatley.
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The Return of the King
Mark Evanier's long-awaited biography of comics great Jack Kirby promises to be one of the big publishing events of 2008.
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The Many Series of Steve Niles
Prolific 30 Days of Night author Steve Niles has a dizzying array of projects waiting in the wings, both prose and comics.
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MangaNovel Offers Digital Access, User Translations
Toshiba's recently launched online manga service may revolutionize worldwide digital distribution of manga
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IDW to Publish Umezu Horror Manga
This month, IDW is releasing its first manga, Reptilia by Japanese horror master Kazuo Umezu
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Comics Briefly
Vertigo to Publish Demo; Amazon Picks Dark Tower; ‘Unseen Peanuts’ Exhibition; RH Signs Iron Man Novels; NYAF Unveils Programming; The Spirit Movie Website[ Rivkah on PBS; PW's Best Comics 2007; Del Ray Debuts Blog; Anime on Starz; and New York Previews Shooting War
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Viking Clash Pits Old Against New in Northlanders
Acclaimed writer Brian Wood’s new Viking epic Northlanders mixes the modern sensibilities of his DMZ and Demo with the appeal of a colorful pre-modern era, as in 300. P
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Panel Mania: Dan Dare
In this 6-page preview of the first issue of Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine's Dan Dare, Britain's greatest space commander, Danel McGregor Dare, comes out of retirement to fight a new and terrible threat from Outer Space. The first issue was released this month by Virgin Comics.
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War as a Human Experience
British novelist Pat Barker, who won the Booker Prize in 1995 for The Ghost Road, the final volume of her Regeneration trilogy, revisits World War I in Life Class.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 11/12/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 11/12/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/12
This week, an all-star lineup: Dennis Kucinich's childhood memoirs, Rhett Butler's People, Nancy Drew's Clues for Real Life, Rudolph, Frosty, and Captain Kangaroo, as well as the usual assortment of Mogrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds.
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Just Let Go
In The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner searches for the happiest place on Earth. Why did you decide to study happiness? Normally, news correspondents—and I was a foreign correspondent for 10 years—go to the least happy countries, where there's war or famine or civil strife and we look for the least happy people and spend lots of time interviewing them.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 11/12/2007
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Gordon Lee Case
A mistrial was called in the trial of Rome, Ga. comics retailer Gordon Lee, after the prosecutor reneged on an agreement not to mention previous legal actions against Lee.
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Robert Kirkman: Hardest Working Writer in Comics?
Besides working on a screenplay for Paramount, Robert Kirkman is involved with a staggering number of comics projects for Marvel, DC and Image.



