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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007
Picture Books What Will Fat Cat Sit On? Jan Thomas . Harcourt , $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-206051-0 Fat Cat is ready to take a seat, and all the other animals firmly believe it's not a matter of “what” but rather “whom” he will choose for his resting place. Solidarity quickly breaks down—“Sit on the Pig! Sit on the Pig!” shrieks Chicken in full Furie...
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Children's Audio Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007
The Aurora County All-Stars Deborah Wiles , read by Kate Jackson. Listening Library , $30 unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hours ISBN 978-07393-4883-3 Jackson hits a home run as the inspired choice to read Wiles's (Each Little Bird That Sings) latest, a heartfelt story with baseball at its center. Her slightly raspy voice, shaded with an occasional twang, is perfect for bringing to life the cast of...
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007
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Akashic Takes Black Goat
Poet and novelist Chris Abani has found a new home for Black Goat, the poetry imprint he founded in 2004 and continues to direct. Originally launched under California-based Red Hen Press, Black Goat is now an imprint of Brooklyn indie publisher Akashic Books, the house that published Abani's novella Becoming Abigail and his forthcoming novella Song for Night.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/10/2007
Miscarriage of Justice Kip Gayden . Hachette/Center Street , $22.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59995-687-9 Nashville Circuit Court judge Gayden’s mixed debut tracks a tragic love story that begins at a Tennessee Christian summer camp in 1896. There, pastor’s daughter Anna Dennis, 16, and Walter Dotson, a third-year Vanderbilt medical student, fall hard for each other.
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DC Comics, Random House Ink Distribution Pact
After being distributed to the book trade for 20 years by Warner Books/Hachette, DC Comics will move its bookstore distribution to Random House next spring. Among the benefits of the switch, DC executives hope Random will be able to expand sales of graphic novels and comics into independent bookstores.
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Dobson Up at Presbyterian Publisher
David Dobson has been named acting director of publishing at the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. Dobson, who had been director of product management since 2004, will now oversee the marketing and editorial programs for PPC's two book imprints.
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For the Love of Tezuka; Vertical To Publish MW
In October, Vertical will continue its program of publishing classic manga with the release of Osamu Tezuka’s MW in an omnibus edition collecting the entire multivolume work.
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Women SVA Grads Quickly Rise
Recent grads from the cartooning program at the School of Visual Arts are quickly getting hired, and many of them are women, a contrast from days past.
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Lucha Libre: To Live and Wrestle in L.A.
Drawing on superhero comics and Mexican pop culture, Lucha Libre tells the story of the Luchadores Five, ordinary guys in Mexican wrestling masks who fight car stereo-hungry werewolves and evil Elvis impersonators.
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Comics Briefly
Baltimore Comic-con; Howl! Fest 2007; SPX 2007 Guest List; New Shows On Kid’s WB! and Back to Press For Anita Blake Vol. 1
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Sex & Silliness: Maki Murakami’s Gravitation
PWCW talks with the creator of the boys love hit Gravitation about getting started and working in the Japanese manga business
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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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