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Family Lines: PW Talks With Edwidge Danticat
Growing up in Haiti, Danticat had a second father—her uncle Joseph, who raised her for eight years while her parents worked in order to bring the family to the U.S. In 2004, within the span of a few months, both fathers died and Danticat’s daughter was born. This triangle of events frames the family’s story in Brother, I’m Dying.
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After the Deluge
Though Naomi Klein became well-known in Canada, the U.K. and Europe after her first book, No Logo (Picador, 2000), unmasked the global injustices hidden by glossy corporate marketing, she’s not yet a mainstream name in the U.S. She has another chance with her new populist manifesto, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books)
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Harry's in a League of His Own
The record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows provided a much needed shot in the arm to bookstore sales, which were down 4.3% through May and had fallen every month this year. The trend will undoubtedly be broken in July. The 8.3 million copies of Hallows that Scholastic reported selling in the first 24 hours was far above the sales of The Secret, the top-selling title in th...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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In a Darker Mood: Fall 2007 Religion Listings
It says something about America today that some of the bestselling books on religion were written by atheists. After years of enormous sales for self-help religion tomes, the mood of the country has darkened, and with it the attitudes of many toward faith. It was just a year ago we spotted this trend (“New in Religion: Anti-Religion,” July 10, 2006), though the debate has so domina...
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Northwest Noir
Chelsea Cain’s Heartsick, the first book in a new thriller series to feature Portland, Ore., police detective Archie Sheridan, introduces an unforgettable—and frighteningly plausible—serial killer, Gretchen Lowell.
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Children's Notes
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED? Favorite characters make a triumphant return in these summer sequels. The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer, second in a trilogy that began with The Sea of Trolls, revisits siblings Jack and Lucy. (In a starred review of the first book, PW wrote, “Fans of Viking and adventure tales will be up late nights to discover Jack's fate.
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SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes
AUGUST PUBLICATIONS Sides, the first collection of nonfiction from bestselling horror master Peter Straub, is a mixed bag. While the two decades’ worth of introductions and speeches include some intriguing material, the quirky and self-deprecating short essays by the author’s alter ego, fictional critic and academic Putney Tyson Ridge, provide little insight into Straub’s appr...
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American Born Chinese Wins Best Album Eisner
Gene Yang, Bill Willingham, Paul Pope, Darwyn Cooke and Alison Bechdel all took home awards at the 2007 Will Eisner Comics industry Awards ceremony held at the San Diego Comic-con.
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San Diego Comic Con Photo Mania
Photos from SDCC.
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CLAMP Inks Dark Horse Deal
CLAMP, Japan’s superstar all-female manga team, has signed a groundbreaking deal with Dark Horse Books to produce an original manga series beginning in 2009.
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Kodansha Wants More Global Manga
In light of the success of their first international manga contest, Kodansha, one of Japan’s biggest publisher of manga, has decided to hold a second competition, making their international competition a twice yearly event.
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Vertigo Plans Neil Young Graphic Novel; New Minx Titles
DC Comics will publish a graphic novel created by acclaimed musician Neil Young through its Vertigo imprint and also released plans for new graphic novels from Minx, its comics imprint for teenage girls.
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Manga in San Diego
Viz Media has big plans for their Shonen Jump anthology magazine including launching the serialization of the popular ongoing series Bleach in November.
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Girl Power Gets Daring
The Daring Book for Girls is a companion to The Dangerous Book for Boys—but it’s hardly "a pinkified version with tea party stuff instead of Navajo talking code," say the authors.
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Harry's Last Hurrah
At last! The loooong wait is over. Harry Potter and his cohorts finally made their literary entrance at the appointed hour of 12:01 AM on July 21.
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Three Harry Potter Fans Discuss Book Seven
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Fans Jam Comic-con Preview
Comic-con opened to the usual mob scene last night, with fans clamoring for books and industry people unveiling several movie and graphic novel deals.
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