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Fiction Reviews: Week of 4/16/2007
The Septembers of Shiraz Dalia Sofer . Ecco , $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-113040-3 Sofer's family escaped from Iran in 1982 when she was 10, an experience that may explain the intense detail of this unnerving debut. On a September day in 1981, gem trader Isaac Amin is accosted by Revolutionary Guards at his Tehran office and imprisoned for no other crime than being Jewish in a country where ...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/16/2007
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On the Road with W. S. Di Piero
Why clubs are the best venues for literary readings and other wisdom from a traveling bard.
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Online April Is the Coolest Month
From Bukowski to blogs, poetry publishers are stretching out on the Web for National Poetry Month
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Mantle Book Out At Home
To launch Peter Golenbock’s controversial 7:TheMickey Mantle Novel, Lyons Press is doing an all-out promotional blitz centered on New York. There's only one thing missing—the book.
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Brandon Graham tours King City
King City is a sprawling metropolis, where a criminal underground has planted roots and grown to be as inextricable as the pavement in the streets.
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Comics Bestsellers: April
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Comics Briefly
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Grave Robbing with Richard Sala
What scares frightmaster cartoonist Richard Sala? Well, judging by his work, normalcy.
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Kirby's Fourth World Lives—at DC
Jack Kirby was one of the most imaginative and visionary creators in the history of American comic books. His Fourth World story, originally serialized in DC Comics' Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, The Forever People, New Gods and Mister Miracle, had some of his most important character creations.
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Panelmania: Korgi
In this 8-page preview of Christian Slade's irresistible fantasy tale Korgi, Ivy and her dog Scout are about to make a strange and frightening discovery. Korgi will be available in May from Top Shelf, which will introduce the series with an original story in Owly & Korgi, Top Shelf's Free Comic Book Day giveaway issue on May 5.
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Viz Media and Manga in the U.S.
With the success of the wildly popular Naruto and Death Note, Viz Media is at the head of the game in manga publishing.
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Your Uncle Feininger's World
Of all the giants of comics art, Lyonel Feininger had the shortest career, lasting a mere 10 months at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Octavia Butler: Graphic Novelist?
Agent Merrilee Heifetz is shopping the late sci-fi writer's works to comics publishers. She says the writer was a comics fan and collector who would have wanted to see her work go graphic.
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Mosley's Ex sues for Share of Earnings
Former wife wants half a million plus interest.
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Danger Was Their Game
The Dangerous Book for Boys may hit on two cultural taboos—sexism and endangering children—but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a U.K. bestseller. Co-author Conn Iggulden talks about his nostalgia for the good old days, when boys raced go-carts and hunted rabbits.
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In Celebration of Poetry
Children's poetry has been getting more exposure recently, making headlines at the end of last year when Jack Prelutsky was named the first-ever Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
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Orbit Readying for Launch
Orbit, the new Hachette science fiction and fantasy imprint scheduled to launch this fall, has added a new trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson to its list.
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Children’s Paperback Backlist
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Revolutionary Road: The Movie
A new generation of readers will be introduced to Richard Yates, thanks to a film featuring Titanic stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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