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Washington’s Big Monkey Encourages Debate
Big Monkey Comics in Washington DC succeeds by acting as a social center for its customers.
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Children’s Book Reviews
Picture Books Monkey and Me Emily Gravett . Simon & Schuster , $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5457-6 With a lot of imagination and some creative contortions, a little girl pretends that she and her adored stuffed monkey fit right in with tribes of penguins, kangaroos, bats, elephants and... monkeys.
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Fiction Reviews
More Than It Hurts You Darin Strauss . Dutton , $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95070-7 The third novel from the author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy is an often satiric page-turner that tracks a Long Island family crisis. Josh Goldin is a happily married TV airtime salesman with an eight-month-old son.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/7
This week: the Bomb, WorldCom, the Holocaust, DNA evidence, lost baggage, dubious imperatives, reggae madness and an all-new, all-star fiction anthology edited by Zadie Smith. Plus: now you can write, write, write your way to a flatter stomach!
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 1/7/2008
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio Alec Foege . Faber and Faber , $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-571-21106-7 Journalist Foege (Confusion Is Next) brings objectivity and insight to this exploration of Clear Channel, one of the most reviled media conglomerates in the U.
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Pilgrim, Exit Wounds Top Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll
Two very different books about young men at a changing point in their lives topped the Second Annual PWCW Critics' Poll for 2007.
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Top 10 Manga for 2007
Kai-Ming Cha counts down the top manga for 2007 and looks forward to 2008.
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PW talks with Dennis Kucinich
Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich added "author" to his list of credentials (senator, congressman, mayor, reporter, et al.) with the Phoenix Books release of The Courage to Survive, a stirring, lyrical memoir that details his working-class childhood in a large, struggling Cleveland family.
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Children's Books Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 12/24
This week we look back with an NPR commentator and ahead with the 2008 presidential candidates, waste time with a bike punk and four Wisconsin sisters, marvel at 40+ years of stunning boxing photos, and face death with famous chefs.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007
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Spotlight On…William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce’s battle to end the transatlantic slave trade inspired moviegoers who saw it retold last year in the feature film Amazing Grace.
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CBA, ECPA End Talks on Merging Data Systems
After a year and a half of negotiations on combining their separate sales data-gathering systems for the Christian market, CBA (the association of Christian retailers) and the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, have announced the abandonment of that plan.
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Marvel Illustrated Adapts Literary Classics
Marvel Comics is courting the literary and educational crowd with Marvel Illustrated, a new imprint devoted to adapting classic literature into comic books.
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WGA Strike Affects Comics Creators
As the WGA strike continues, it is affecting many writers who cross over between comics and the screen.
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Comics Briefly
Eisner Awards Submissions; Graphix’s David Saylor Promoted; IDW, Gold Eagle Ink Pact; Check Out PW The Beat; Time’s Top Graphic Novels of 2007; CCS Debuts Satchel Paige Site; Papercutz on Cell Phones; Charles Burns Signs in NYC; Eyeshield 21 Goes Broadband; and Fresh Ink on G4TV
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DC Trade Book Collections Go Deluxe
Beginning in spring 2008, DC is introducing a new line of collections: Deluxe Editions, trade hardcovers with a trim size a bit larger than a standard comic book or paperback, but not quite as large as DC’s high-end, oversized Absolute Editions.
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Aimee Steinberger Talks About Japan Ai
Aimee Major Steingerger’s manga-influenced travel journal, Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventure in Japan, uses drawings, comics and journal-like entries to recount a trip she took to Japan along with two friends. The book is published by Go! Comi.
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ICv2's Anime and Technology Panel
Major manga companies are all taking an experimental approach to digital delivery systems.



