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Presumed Guilty: True Crime
Imagine this: a decade after an unsolved double murder, your estranged spouse claims that you confessed to the crimes, and you end up behind bars for nearly 40 years.
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Cinema Redux: Summer Movie Tie-ins 2013
A major voice in the world of movies was silenced last week when beloved film critic Roger Ebert succumbed to cancer after a long and public battle.
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The Changing World of Reference: Focus on Reference 2013
The online revolution hit no publishers more directly than those that specialize in reference material. With so much information readily available electronically (some accurate, some… not), several years of handwringing followed.
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Victorian Crimes: Mysteries 2013
Only to modern eyes does the late 19th century seem cozy, staid, or secure.
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The Wide World of Sports: Sports Books 2013
Patricia Bostelman, v-p of marketing for Barnes & Noble, compares sports books to the Civil War.
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Baby, Look at You Now
A look at last year’s top-selling parenting titles provides a revealing glimpse of the continuities and the changes at the heart of the category.
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There and Back Again: Travel Books 2013
For the tech-savvy traveler, “navigation” means far more than plotting the journey from home to destination and back again.
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‘Feminine Mystique’ Turns 50
Not all readers liked Betty Friedan’s take on the “problem with no name,” when she introduced the concept in The Feminine Mystique in 1963.
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Fiction Firsts for Spring: First Fiction 2013
PW looks at 10 promising debut novels publishing this season.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Literary Fiction: The Art of the Debut
Just look at all the auctioning, pre-empting, and six-figure advancing going around for debuts and it’s clear that publishers are more hopeful about the future than the past.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Spring Forward
For spring 2013, we have collected, from more than 1,500 publishers and imprints, information on more than 11,000 adult titles.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Science Fiction & Fantasy: End Times
In 2013, some venerable fantasy series head to the great backlist in the sky.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers: Crime and Cross Genre
Roger Hobbs, a recent graduate of Oregon’s Reed College, delivers Ghostman, a first novel whose protagonist Random House’s Gary Fisketjon likens to “the character played by Harvey Keitel in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, a non-pareil fixer and cleaner-upper.”
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Cookbooks: Big Flavors, Big Books
Here's a look at the big cookbooks coming out this Spring, including the first cookbook in Anthony Bourdain’s line from Ecco, 'The Prophets of Smoked Meat' by Daniel Vaughn.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Business & Economics: Taking Stock
The two themes that have dominated the business book field for the past two to three years—the impacts of the Great Recession and technology—are front and center again for spring 2013.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Art, Architecture & Photography: Giants, Social Conflict, Silence, & Noise
Perhaps fashion has gone out of fashion, at least in museums, which are in the habit of producing splendid big books in connection to the Alexander McQueens and Elsa Schiaparellis of the world when shows warrant.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Comics & Graphic Novels: Childhood Rediscovered
Although new works by Bryan Lee O’Malley and Paul Pope will come later in the year, early 2013 boasts two past winners of the PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll: Dash Shaw and Rutu Modan. One recurring theme of the Spring season’s best books is an examination of childhood: the momentary joys and terrors of an average child’s day told with the detachment and sympathy of passing time.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Romance: A Second Chance at Love
Everyone has moments of wanting to turn back time, undo some terrible wrong, and get a second chance.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Lifestyle: Get Healthy, Handy, Spiritually Wise
Among diet books, paleo appears to have retreated to its cave; veganism has taken root.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Travel: Stranger in a Strange Land
Whether the phrase brings to mind Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 science fiction novel about a human returning to Earth after being raised on Mars, or Moses in Exodus 2:22, the experience of being “other” is indisputably synonymous with travel. Remember the hookah-smoking caterpillar confronting Alice with that eternal question, “Who are You?”
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