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Short Order: August 17
In this issue’s round-up of cookbook-related news, Collins U.K. picks up a self-published cookbook phenomenon, Stewart, Tabori & Chang launches a cookbook e-newsletter, Mastering the Art of French Cooking is outselling Julie & Julia, Almost Meatless authors Tara Mataraza Desmond and Joy Manning invite food bloggers across the U.S. and Canada to cook recipes from the book and blog about it, and the Wall Street Journal test runs personalized cookbook sites.
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Fall Dessert Books: Cake, Chocolate and Simplicity
It’s been a great year for dessert books: Ani’s Raw Food Desserts, BabyCakes, Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes, Rustic Fruit Desserts and even The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook—which covers more than just desserts—have all hit readers’ sweet spots. And before the year is over, bookstores will see even more sweet tomes. The buzzwords for this fall’s dessert cookbooks? Cakes, chocolate and simplicity.
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Review: Veselka: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York’s East Village
Veselka started as a modest candy shop/newsstand in 1954, grew into a “humble lunch counter” and is now a bustling 24-hour restaurant in New York’s East Village. Ukrainian fare mixed with American favorites fill the pages of this gift-sized restaurant cookbook, interspersed with the history and stories of the people behind the business as well as an introduction to and celebration of Ukrainian culture.
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Madoff Books Hitting Stores
With Bernie Madoff behind bars, books about the Wall Street swindler are starting to land in bookstores. Four major titles are coming out this month, and another is slated for September. Two questions linger, though: Are consumers still interested in Madoff? And if so, which book will they want to read? Borders is putting its muscle behind Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff...
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PW talks with Rachel Zucker
Zucker talks to PW about what happens when her family reads her books, and the difference between truth and imagination.
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PW talks with Richard Belzer
"Just being around all these stories from cops while playing Munch, and being a fan of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the idea of a mystery-comedy hybrid seemed right up my alley."
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Fiction Reviews: 8/17/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Robert B. Parker, Paul Auster, Alice Munro, John Burdett and Newt Gingrich. Also, K'wan fires off another Hood Rat novel, Sheramy Bundrick revisits Van Gogh, Alexander McCall Smith shows no signs of slowing down and Mark Billingham's Det. Insp. Thorne is big into another macabre case.
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The Heal Deal: New Health Titles
Health care, perpetually in the forefront of Americans’ minds, is now on the tip of our lips. Fixing our current system tops President Obama’s to-do list, but as the details of reform are debated on Capitol Hill, in the media and around the dinner table, a Quinnipiac poll released August 5 found that 52% of Americans disapprove of the way the president is handling health care, while...
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Children's Book Reviews: 8/17/2009
Reviewed this week: picture books from Loren Long, Charise Myracle Harper, Florence Parry Heide and Lane Smith, and Lauren Child; new fiction from Neil Gaiman, Kate DiCamillo and Gennifer Choldenko; and a round-up of titles about children's authors past and present, fit for kids, adults and even scholars.
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Gallup Plays to Its Strengths
The idea for Gallup Press was, in the beginning, about branding more than books. Technically, anyway. “We are heavily involved in consulting and management, but people didn't know that—people knew the polls,” Gallup Press publisher Larry Emond explained. Developing Gallup-branded books, Emond went on, started as a “marketing communications initiative.
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Why I Write: Deepak Chopra
A clue to why I write came on the day in medical school when I walked into the room where students meet a cadaver for the first time. My scalpel incised a thin line in the parchment-yellow skin, cutting from the breastbone down the belly, and in one stroke the mystery of the human body was revealed. Yet another mystery was destroyed at the same time.
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PW talks with Donald Spoto
"The years have not been kind to Grace [Kelly]. I think we live in mean-spirited times, and there's a tendency among some writers to fabricate reasons to destroy reputations."
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/17/2009
This week: David Freeland with the vanished hotspots of NYC, Tara L. Masih leads a rousing short-short story workshop, Douglas Rogers reports from his home country of Zimbabwe, Alice Eve Cohen chronicles her late-in-life pregnancy, and more. Plus children's books from Denise Vega, Melissa de la Cruz, Jessica Wollman and others.
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Q & A with Jane Smiley
Q: You obviously love horses. Is this the kind of book that you would have liked to have read as a child?
A: Well, it's more or less the kind of book I did read. When I was a child in 1960 - I was 10 and 11 that year - there were plenty of horse book series. I loved them all and read them all. I read the Black Stallion series, and other Walter Farley books. I also read Nancy Drew and other series. That was what kids' literature was back then. -
Reynolds and Fantagraphics Face the Future
Whenever comics industry observers get together to talk about the people who've made a difference in the business over the last decade, the name Eric Reynolds inevitably comes up. Recently promoted to Associate Publisher for the Seattle-based art comics publisher Fantagraphics he has overseen the company's successful navigation of the new opportunities for graphic novels in bookstores.
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Boom! Dreams Up Unique Android Retelling
Boom! Studios is heading into uncharted territory with their adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? The series, which editor Ian Brill has called a graphic translation, will mix comic art with Dick’s original text from the novel.
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August Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid: Last Straw remains king of the list followed by Naruto vol. 45, newcomer Rachel Russell’s 'Wimpy' homage, Dork Diaries, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis; Sherrilynn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter manga adaptation and Halo: Uprising.
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Jamie Rich Kills Again
Jamie S. Rich is well-known for his novels, both graphic and prose, about modern romances, including Cut My Hair, Love the Way You Love (with Marc Ellerby), and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, drawn by Joëlle Jones. He and Jones have teamed up again for You Have Killed Me, a noir mystery that's a departure from his usual subject matter.
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New Site Offers Apps for Reading Comics on Phones
Software developers at Genus have created Findacomicapps.com, a website that provides a neutral platform for developers offering apps for reading comics on the iPhone and other mobile devices through the Apple App Store.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 8/10/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Philip Roth, Iris Johansen, John Sandford, Douglas Coupland, Anita Shreve and Penny Vincenzi. Plus, posthumous short fiction from William Styron, a Fables novel, an uncensored translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece and a stellar Swedish crime debut for ANders Roslund and
Börge Hellström.
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