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September Comics Bestsellers
Bleach Vol. 20 moves into the #1 slot, while Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Baker hardcover (at #5) returns to the list for the second month and DC’s 52 is at #11.
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
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The Complexity of Stephen Colbert
In his first book, I Am America (And So Can You!), late-night comedian Stephen Colbert takes on everything that’s destroying America. In an interview before The Colbert Report began, you described your “Stephen Colbert” character as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-class idiot.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/3/2007
Fanon John Edgar Wideman . Houghton Mifflin , $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-618-94263-3 Psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon (1925—1961) fought to free Algeria from French rule, and wrote several key texts on colonialism, including The Wretched of the Earth. Wideman (Brothers and Keepers) offers a fragmented look at Fanon's life, presenting three narratives in fits and starts.
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Seeking the Stone Cold Truth
John Carr (aka Oliver Stone), former CIA assassin, and his spy boy compadres of the Camel Club expose political corruption in bestseller David Baldacci’s new thriller, Stone Cold.
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Richard Russo Writes What He Knows
On Richard Russo's last day on the job, in his final summer doing manual labor during college breaks, one of the carpenters on his crew told him, “Have a good life. You're going to go out and do other things, and you're going to forget about guys like us.” That's how Russo remembers it now, decades later, as we sit talking in his comfortable home in Camden, Maine.
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Indie Outreach and More for NYCC 2008
New York Comic-Con 2007 drew nearly 50,000 attendees, said show organizer Greg Topalian, who outlined plans for an expanded NYCC 2008, scheduled to be held April 18-20 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
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Viz to Publish Collected Tekkonkinkreet
In September, Viz Media will release an omnibus edition of Taiyo Matsumoto’s acclaimed 3 volume manga series Black and White.
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A New Halo from Marvel
Marvel Comics has launched Halo: Uprising, a new monthly comic book series based on the bestselling Bungie Studio videogame.
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Kyle Baker Goes to War
In the spring of 2006, many Americans were surprised to find the U.S. Army had recruited an 18-year-old boy with autism. Cartoonist Kyle Baker quickly saw the humor in the situation and the Eisner award-winning cartoonist used that story as the basis of a new satirical miniseries on the Iraq war called Special Forces.
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Comics Briefly
B&T Español Inks Marvel Pact; Andrew Steven Harris Joins IDW; Phil Yeh’s Dinosaurs Fall Tour; Top Cow Launches Wanted Website; Kim Deitch, Megan Kelso at Fantagraphics Store; New York Anime Festival Sponsors Contests; Undead Gunslingers; and DragonCon
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Poetry on TV
Celebrated poet John Ashbery has been named the first poet laureate of MtvU.
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Books for Grownups, August 2007
The third installment of PW and AARP's ongoing series of lists of new books for baby boomers features titles that will make you laugh, sooth your soul, and also stir up controversy.
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Jeff Gannon Sets the Record Straight
Remember Jeff Gannon, the White House "correspondent" for Talonnews.com who turned out to be a right-wing shill? Now the journalist who wasn’t is back in the news with a book that doesn’t exist—and another one that does. And it all revolves around the Democrats’ favorite bogeyman, former White House confidant Karl Rove.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 8/27/2007
Picture Books What Happens on Wednesdays Emily Jenkins , illus. by Lauren Castillo. FSG/Foster , $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38303-9 Radiant mixed-media art by a debut illustrator captures the warmth and candor in Jenkins's (Five Creatures) sparkling slice-of-life tale, narrated by a much-loved child in Brooklyn.
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Giving Monsters a Voice
Turning traditional fairy tales inside out, Tiptree Award—winner Valente lets witches, demons and beasts tell their own stories of seeking—and not always finding—happily ever after. The tone of In the Cities of Coins and Spice is much darker than the first Orphan’s Tales book, In the Night Garden.
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Imagining the Roads Not Taken
Two Jungian psychoanalysts suggest an inner dialogue called “active imagination” as a way to deal with unrealized dreams in Living Your Unlived Life.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 8/27/2007
Harriet and Isabella Patricia O'Brien . Touchstone , $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5220-8 Smooth flashbacks carry this inventive romp through a 19th-century New England scandal, which opens at the deathbed of Henry Ward Beecher, “the most brilliant preacher in America,” in March of 1887. Around him are his many siblings, notably his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Un...
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