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Check Out These United for Libraries Author Events at ALA: Six Events, 34 Authors

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Last week, I told you about United for Libraries’ terrific author panels at ALA: Crossing Over: Teen Books for Everyone!, Quirky Books for Quirkier Librarians, Shoot Between the Lines: Mystery Writers Reveal All, and First Author, First Book. That’s 22 authors on four panels in two days, and I’m reading every title. I can currently [...]

Sneak Preview: 12 Unexpected Titles You’ll Discover at ALA

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Anna Badkhen’s The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village; Dan Beachy-Quick’s An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky; Will Ferguson’s 419; and nine more.

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 2013: Get Ready for Some Good Discussion

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Established in 1935 by Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf to reflect her family’s commitment to social justice, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are the only American awards honoring works that confront racism and celebrate diversity. Its winners include Nobel Laureates Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott, with all but Lifetime Achievement [...]

Previewing Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge

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While the Day of Dialog panel “Getting (Re)Acquainted with the Best Voices in Fiction Today” includes several top writers back in business after a few years’ absence, the reclusive Thomas Pynchon won’t be among them. Too bad. As you’ve likely heard, his new novel, Bleeding Edge (Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Sept. 2013. 496p. ISBN [...]

Dan Brown’s Inferno: Abandon Hope (of Doing Anything but Reading) All Ye Who Enter Here

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Missing renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon? Wishing you had something really juicy to recommend to diehard Da Vinci Code fans? You’re in luck. Dan Brown—whose The Da Vinci Code is in fact the best-selling adult hardcover of all time, with 81 million copies in print worldwide, and whose subsequent The Lost Symbol sold 30 million copies—has a new book [...]

Mystery, April 2013: Timothy Williams, Peter Lovesey, Anne Perry, and More

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Award Winners Winner of a Crime Writers’ Association award (CWA) for Black August, part of an Italy-set series starring Commissario Piero Trotti, and declared one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers” by the Observer, Timothy Williams returns after a brief absence with Another Sun (Soho Crime. Apr. 2013. 350p. ISBN 9781616951566. $25). In [...]

Final April 2013 Previews: Rees on Hitler, Meyer on the Borgias, and Best Poetry of 25 Years

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Barnett, Kristine. The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing Genius. Random. Apr. 2013. 272p. ISBN 9780812993370. $27; eISBN 9780679645245. CD/Downloadable: Random Audio. MEMOIR At age 12, Jacob Barnett became a paid researcher in quantum physics, and his IQ is higher than Einstein’s was. But as a distracted toddler, he was diagnosed with autism, and Jacob’s [...]

Hilary Mantel Wins the Man Booker Prize for Bring Up the Bodies

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Sometimes lightning strikes twice, and we can only be grateful. Hilary Mantel, whose Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize in 2009—in the process redefining historical fiction and the very concept of narrative voice—has won the Man Booker again, this time for Wolf Hall’s sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. It’s only the third time that [...]

Mystery, Mar. 2013: Paul Doherty, Rhys Bowen, Erin Hart, and More

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Although this issue starts coverage of April 2013 titles, I am backtracking one month to make sure you are alerted to the wealth of mystery titles appearing in March. You’ll find a good number of award winners, including folks like Brad Parks and Erin Hart who started out with a bang. Police procedurals, gritty tough [...]

March 2013: Books for Humanists; A New Work by Nabokov, Auster and Coetzee, Blake Bailey’s Next, and More

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Auster, Paul & J.M. Coetzee. Here and Now: Letters (2008–2011). Viking. Mar. 2013. 256p. ISBN 9780670026661. $27.95. LETTERS Can you imagine a conversation between these two great writers, the sharp, cerebral Auster and the Novel prize–winning Coetzee? Here is a conversation, a collection of the correspondence they began shortly after meeting in 2008. Like all [...]

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