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Lilli Carré Looks Into the Lagoon
Comic creator and animator Lilli Carré has been a talent to watch since Tales of Woodsman Pete hit the stands in 2006. Her first graphic novel, The Lagoon, came out from Fantagraphics Books this October.
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Nonfiction Reviews
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi War Criminal Neil Bascomb . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-618-85867-5 After WWII, notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann lived comfortably in Buenos Aires under an alias.
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The Ballot or the Bullet
Collier (The Bottom Billion) surveys the causes and costs of political violence—and etches out a path to peace in Wars, Guns, and Votes.
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Chinese Gothic
Yiyun Li follows a much-lauded story collection with The Vagrants, a gothic tale of corruption, murder and political paranoia in 1979 China.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/08/2008
This week's Web: a lurid gallery of pulp illustration, a clever tribute to small town dead folk, a guided tour of New York's graffiti scene, a Chinese dolphin's long odds, a philosophical approach to being right all the time, and the uncollected works of fascinating and repulsive multimedia trailblazer Ana Mendieta. Plus: more Lincoln, more audio, and poetry from Hilda Raz.
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The Dementia Spiral
In Welcome to the Departure Lounge, Meg Federico tells the alternately hilarious and heartfelt story of caring for her 80-year-old mother, suffering from dementia.
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The Sandwich Generation
Mother in the Middle: A Biologist's Story of Caring for Parent and Child Sybil Lockhart . Touchstone , $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4155-4 In this impressive debut memoir, Lockhart, a former UC-Berkeley neurobiologist, chronicles her struggle to raise two daughters while tending her own mother, rapidly deteriorating from Alzheimer's.
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Fiction Reviews
The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund Jill Kargman . Dutton , $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-95098-1 In the gilded age of a few months ago, hedge fund managers were “the kings of ka-ching.” Of course, now they're not, and there's a sparky frisson to Momzilla author Kargman's lively chronicle of a queen of ka-ching who ditches her hedge fund manager hubby.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Tsunami! Kimiko Kajikawa , illus. by Ed Young. Philomel , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25006-4 An earthquake, a fire, a tidal wave and selfless heroism, all packed into 32 pages, guarantee that this story will hold the attention of even the most restless listeners. Four hundred villagers are saved from death when Ojiisan, a wealthy old rice farmer on the mountainside, feels trem...
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Q & A with Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud burst on the YA scene back in 2003 with The Amulet of Samarkand, the first book in his bestselling Bartimaeus Trilogy. Disney-Hyperion will publish Heroes of the Valley, Stroud’s first novel since the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Children's Bookshelf spoke to Stroud from his home in England.
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Public TV Uses Nature Comics to Teach and Promote
Since 2006, the Public Broadcasting Service has been publishing an annual comic book series that illustrates how comics can be used as an informal educational tool as well as how effective the medium can be for marketing and promotion.
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Chapel Hill Comics: The Evolution of a Comics Bookstore
Late last month Chapel Hill Comics marked its fifth anniversary with its second move, more than doubling its space from 800 to 1800 sq. ft. space.
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Liquid City Drips with Southeast Asian Comics Talent
Southeast Asia recently has risen in prominence in the U.S. comics scene, with Malaysian artist Lat seeing his seminal cartoons released stateside by First Second and the Filipino Leinil Yu drawing Marvel's summer blockbuster Secret Invasion. There's perhaps no better time, then, for an anthology of comics from the region.
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Lynda Barry's What It Is—Personal Growth for Troubled Times
The author ponders her personal growth as Lynda Barry's wisdom helps guide her to a stronger place.
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December Comics Bestsellers
Jeff Kinney’s Rodrick Rules continues to top the list; followed by DC’s Azzarello/Bermejo Joker at #2; Stephen King’s The Long Road Home returns, this time at #5 and Jim Butcher’s Welcome to Jungle (this week at #9) is on the list for the second month in a row.
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Comics Briefly
Neal Adams NYCC Quest of Honor; 2009 Glyph Awards Submissions; Changes at Newsarama; Help Rich Faber; New Ardden Comic Series; Bluewater Plans Poe Comic; Gene Colan Retrospective and Anders Nilsen Exhibition
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The Golden Age: Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot
Renowned sociologist and MacArthur winner, Lawrence-Lightfoot documents the rich possibilities for intellectual growth and personal transformation between the ages of 50 and 75 in The Third Chapter.
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Nonfiction Reviews
One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food Michael Schaffer . Holt , $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8711-6 A Fast Food Nation for dog lovers, this astute and amusing investigative report offers a “journey into the $41-billion-a-year world of the modern American pet.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings Elizabeth Spires . FSG/Foster , $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-33528-1 Of interest to adults as well as children, this handsomely produced black-and-white book intriguingly combines photography, sculpture and poetry. The illiterate child of freed slaves, William Edmondson (1874—1951) experienced religious vi...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/01/2008
This week's Web: the manufacture and maintenance of American racism, the disappearing culture of California cetaceans, trance states in human learning and self-help, and the long rise of women in advertising (no, Peggy was not the first). Plus! An audio fiction bonanza: Dafoe and Woods read King, Weiner reads Dick, Stuart Masterson and Glass read together—and more.
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