PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 14
Fiction from Craig Johnson, China Mieville, Timeri Murari, Peter Carey, Garth Nix, and Tania James; the first collection of Batman’s “New 52” incarnation; the follow-up to Sh*t My Dad Says, and more. more...
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Taking a look back at 150 years of same-sex partnerships
Just as president Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage, a new book takes a close look at American same sex couples, from Walt Whitman to Greta Garbo to Jasper Johns.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
An actress and a lyricist re-envision their city in photos and verse
In the handsome new coffee table book The Outdoor Museum, stage actress Margery Gray Harnick sets the scene while her husband, Pulitzer-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, provides poetic accompaniment.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Fiction from Craig Johnson, China Mieville, Timeri Murari, Peter Carey, Garth Nix, and Tania James; the first collection of Batman’s “New 52” incarnation; the follow-up to Sh*t My Dad Says, and more.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
A&E is set to launch "Longmire" in June, based on the novels of Craig Johnson—the latest of which is about to hit stores. With this look at the first chapter, you can say you knew him back when.
05/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
Week of May 7, 2012
This week, novels from Toni Morrison and Cassandra Clare, urban histories from David Talbot and cartoonist Harvey Pekar, a thriller from Larry Bond, Augusten Burroughs solves your problems, and more.
05/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
The late cartooning curmudgeon "celebrates" his hometown.
For Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, Top Shelf and Zip Comics recruited artist Joseph Remnant, whose work recalls longtime Pekar collaborator R. Crumb, but with a lighter touch and a charm all its own.
05/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
Chapter One from the new Godfather prequel
A new Godfather book hits this week, and we've got the first chapter. Working from a Mario Puzo screenplay, novelist Ed Falco goes back to 1933 New York and a 17-year-old Sonny Corleone.
04/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
Music legend Gregg Allman tells all, Dan Rather’s life in news, Sissy Spacek’s ordinary life, plus big novels from Nell Freudenberger, Rick Riordan, Charlaine Harris, and Swedish crime queen Camilla Läckberg, and more.
04/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
A passage from Sadie Jones's The Uninvited Guests
With Downton Abbey on hiatus, Sadie Jones has your fix: her twisty British country drama The Uninvited Guests, centers on a house called Sterne and the family desperate to hold onto it. Read the first chapter here.
04/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
Celebrity memoirs take center stage
A rare week gives us three celeb memoirs by boldface names: Sissy Spacek, Gregg Allman, and Dan Rather are telling all. Turns out, fame is great and all, but what stars really want is a book deal.
Barbara Vey
While I'm visiting St. Louis, author Jeannie Lin caught a Tweet I posted about coffee at a local cafe. She contacted me and we met up for a wonderful visit....
Josie Leavitt
We are blessed with a rich and vibrant core of local authors in our town. When a customer comes to us with his or her book we do our best to herald the occasion. I'm discovering that my idea of herald...
Rose Fox
Help compile lists of Asian and Asian-American SF/F authors....
Adam Boretz
Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Chomp | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
