Publishers Weekly articles from April 2006

Publishers Weekly archives from April 2006

Key decisions near in Lightning Source, On Demand dispute: patent fight will impact future of POD.(On Demand Machine Corp., print on demand)
April 3, 2006... A little more than two years after a St. Louis jury shocked the print-on-demand industry by ordering Ingram and its Lightning Source division to pay $15 million to the On Demand Machine Corp. for infringing ODMC's patent, both sides are waiting...

Tokyopop, Harper ink manga pact.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... After announcing in February that it would renew its distribution deal with Perseus/CDS, Tokyopop has instead jumped tn HarperCollins, which will now distribute all Tokyopop titles in North America, beginning in June. This is also a...

Hastings expands used books.(Hastings Entertainment)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Hastings Entertainment will expand sales of used books to at least 23 new stores this year. The retailer began selling used books last year and now offers them in 14 stores. The company credited the sale of used books with helping to lift...

Does 59% add up?(playing with numbers, children's and religious book sales)
April 3, 2006... There is no question that, boosted by more than 13 million copies sold of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, sales in the children's hardcover segment were up significantly in 2005. But did sales really rise 59%, as reported by the...

SOS.(Marin County, California residents protests the opening of Barnes and Noble for local bookstore Book Passage)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Fearing the loss of local bookstore Book Passage, last weekend about 50 Marin County, Calif, residents marched to the Corte Madera Town Center to protest the opening of a Barnes & Noble superstore in the local mall.

Tower launches online bookstore.(Tower Records)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Tower Records' on and off relationship with books is on again, now that the chain has launched an online bookstore offering 600,000 titles and a 40% discount on bestsellers. Baker & Taylor is handling fulfillment, data and software. Through the...

Solid export gains in 2005.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Book exports to Canada rose 6.6% last year, helping to increase total 2005 U.S. book exports 8.8%, to $1.89 billion, according to figures from the U.S. Commerce Department. Shipments to the U.K., the second largest market for U.S. books,...

Grolier Poetry Shop sold.(Grolier Poetry Book Shop )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... The 79-year-old Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., the oldest poetry bookstore in the country, has been sold to Ifeanyi Menkiti, a poet and professor at Wellesley College. Louisa Solano, who owned the 404-sq-ft. store...

Tentler heads S&S Digital.(Simon and Schuster division names)(promotion of Kate Tentler )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Simon & Schuster has renamed its online division S&S Digital Media and promoted Kate Tentler to head the unit as senior v-p. Tentler has been with S&S since the online unit was launched in 1996. The S&S Digital team will continue to run and...

Taylor up at Lightning.(David Taylor, Lightning Source UK)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... David Taylor has been named senior v-p, global sales. He will continue as managing director of Lightning Source U.K. and split time between the U.S. and the U.K. offices.

Newhart, Poundstone at BEA.(BookExpo America)(Comedians Bob Newhart and Paula Poundstone)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Comedians Bob Newhart and Paula Poundstone will perform at BEA's annual Book Industry Foundation benefit on Saturday, May 20. The two are first-time book authors: Newhart's I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This is coming from Hyperion in September,...

Greg Mitchell, book buyer, Rainbows and Triangles Books, New York City.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... For an independent bookstore with a gay sensibility, Andrew Holleran is one of the cornerstone authors to our collection. Dancer from the Dance is my favorite book of all time. I'm happy to report that his first novel in over a decade, Grief...

An au lait touche.(Hollywood Reader)(Michael Gates Gill's book to be filmed by Universal Studios)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Starbucks has been much maligned of late, but Michael Gates Gill has only good things to say. In How Starbucks Saved My Life, a 102-page book proposal that made the rounds last week, the former ad exec credits the coffee behemoth for hiring him...

London confidential.(Hollywood Reader)(James Ellroy to write script of 'Land of the Living' for New Line Cinema)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... The adaptee has become the adaptor. In a change of pace, novelist James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia) will be shaping another author's work--Nicci French's thriller Land of the Living (Warner, 2003)--for New Line Cinema. The tale (by writing team...

Hung up on hookups.(Hollywood Reader)(Dimension buys rights to anti-Rules dating guide 'The Hookup Handbook')(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Though the distributor of Sin City and the Scream trilogy isn't the first studio that comes to mind for romantic comedy, Dimension (the Weinstein Company's genre arm) has optioned the rights to Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler's anti-Rules...

A good cause.(Children's authors attending literature festival, Explore-A-Story)(Wonder of Reading)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Children's authors Henry Winkler (Hank Zipzer series), Barney Saltzberg (Goodnight Kisses) and David Shannon (No, David!) read during Explore-A-Story, a literature festival in Hollywood that benefits Wonder of Reading, a nonprofit organization...

Adams Media tries a series of moves.(Adams looks to expand its series sales through its agreement with About.com)
April 3, 2006... After enduring what COO and publisher Scott Watrous acknowleged was "a challenging marketplace" in 2005, Adams Media, which is owned by F+W publications, is looking for growth from series books in 2006. The Avon, Mass.-based publisher is...

Bestsellers by the numbers.(Foreword)(Brief article)(Statistical data)
April 3, 2006... 19.4 million: Total copies sold of top 10 fiction bestsellers, 2003 17.9 million: Total copies sold of top 10 fiction bestsellers, 2004 11.1 million: Total copies sold of top 10 fiction bestsellers, 2005 25.3 million: Total copies...

Calendar: April 9-15.(Foreword)
April 3, 2006... 4/9 After amassing 500,000 deaths, the Civil War ended today in 1865. The American Civil War: 365 Days collects excerpts from diaries, letters and speeches with 522 illustrations. 4/11 Mollie (Moosewood Cookbook) Katzen teams with...

Friedlander, Baldwin together again.(Beau Friedlander)(Margo Baldwin)
April 3, 2006... The last year at Chelsea Green Publishing couldn't have been better. Not only did the house report another increase in revenue--see PW's fast-growing small press feature (Mar. 6)--but in an unusual example of burying the hatchet, Chelsea Green...

Little, Brown takes two.(Little, Brown teamed up with Warner's Les Pockell )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Little, Brown's Geoff Shandler has preempted world rights to Mary Gabriel's The Family Marx; the sale was made by Brettne Bloom at Kneerim & Williams. The book will draw upon neglected and never-before published documents and journals to tell...

Another for S&G.(The End of the Jews)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Chris Jackson has made his first buy as executive editor at the high-profile new Double-day imprint, a novel by Adam Mansbach titled The End of the Jews. Agent Victoria Sanders made the world rights sale. The book is a saga that traces a...

Riverhead's first novel.(Riverhead will publish the novel in 2007)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Meanwhile, Spiegel and Grau's former colleagues are staying busy; Riverhead's Megan Lynch has just preempted a novel by Jami Attenberg titled The Kept Man, which tells the story of a young wife whose painter husband has fallen into a coma, and...

Penguin.(Marian Lizzi as senior editor at Penguin's Perigee Books imprint and Penguin's G. P. Putnam's Sons imprint)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Marian Lizzi, a senior editor at Penguin's Perigee Books imprint, will add the title senior editor at Penguin's G. P. Putnam's Sons imprint, and will acquire titles in health, fitness and practical nonfiction.

Interweave Promotions, hires.(Interweave appointments)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Anne Merrow, previously an editor at Thomas Dunne Books, has been hired as an editor. Ann Budd, an author and Interweave magazine editor, has been promoted to books editor. Paulette Livers, previously a designer, has been promoted to art...

Pryor's story.(Cherise Davis has acquired book by Jennifer Pryor)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Touchstone senior editor Cherise Davis has acquired a book by Jennifer Pryor, wife of Richard, about her relationship with the late comedy icon, from Larry Kirshbaum of LJK Literary Management. The yet-untitled book will tell the story of their...

Alexander's new score.(Harvest House )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Seattle Seahawks' star running back Shaun Alexander has signed with Oregon-based Christian publisher Harvest House to write Touchdown Alexander: My Story of Faith, Football and Pursuing the Dream, due out this August, just before the start of...

Fact, fiction from Crown.(Deals, licencing agreements of Crown Books )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... John Glusman has acquired North American rights to Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Religion and the Untold Struggle for Islam's Generation by Mark LeVine, via agent Sandy Dijkstra. This tour of contemporary Islamic culture through the rock, hip-hop...

Doubleday Broadway promotions.(David Drake)(Allison Rich)(Nicole Dewey)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... David Drake, v-p, director of publicity Broadway Books, has been named executive director of publicity for Broadway. Allison Rich, v-p, director of publicity, Doubleday, has been named executive director of publicity, Double-day and Spiegel &...

RH Audio.(Random House Audio Publishing Group appoints Amanda D'Acierno)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Amanda D'Acierno, publicity director, will add marketing to her duties.

Peer eye for booksellers.(Retailing)(Point Reyes Books)
April 3, 2006... Do more to promote your unique place in the community--that was the key recommendation made by the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association's new Peer Eye team to Kate Levinson and Steve Costa, owners of Point Reyes Books in...

Reading at risk.(Letter to the editor)
April 3, 2006... Regarding "Publishers Hunt for Readers" (PW, Mar. 20), your readers should not think that I "backtracked somewhat"--or at all--from either the results of our Reading at Risk survey or from my presentation of it in the face of differing...

Corrections.(Letters)(Correction notice)
April 3, 2006... The profile of author Julia Alvarez (Mar. 27) was written by Marcela Valdes. PW's 2005 bestseller list (Mar. 27, p. 22) listed several hardcover fiction titles in the wrong order. The Mermaid Chair is #7, Light from Heaven is #8 and The...

Thomas Nelson.(Tommy Nelson Inc. appoints Michelle Sanders)(Rutledge Hill appoints Melanie Bryant)(J. Countryman appoints Emily Sweeny)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Michelle Sanders, formerly with United Methodist Publishing House, has been named publicity director for Tommy Nelson. Melanie Bryant, formerly publicist for Nelson Books, has been named publicist for Rutledge Hill. Emily Sweeny, marketing...

iUniverse.(appointment of Judy Klein)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Judy Klein, an executive at FSG for 12 years, has been hired as a subsidiary and foreign rights consultant.

Qureshi joins Free Press.(Amber Qureshi)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Amber Qureshi, formerly with Picador, has been named an editor.

Eber to Krupp.(Krupp Kommunications appoints Jim Eber)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Jim Eber, whose background in publicity includes a stint as director of publicity at Workman, has joined Krupp Kommunications as senior v-p.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(Statistical table)
April 3, 2006... Hardcover Bestsellers/Fiction Last Weeks April 3 2006 week on list 1 The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown. 1 155 Doubleday,...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(Statistical table)
April 3, 2006... Hardcover Bestsellers/Nonfiction Last Weeks April 3, 2006 week on list 1 Marley & Me John Grogan. 1 21 Morrow,...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(Table)
April 3, 2006... Paperback Bestsellers/Mass Market Last Weeks April 3, 2006 Week on list (a) 1 No Place Like Home. -- 1 Mary...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(Table)
April 3, 2006... Paperback Bestsellers/Mass Market Last Weeks April 3, 2006 week on list 1 The Mermaid Chair. Sue Monk Kidd. 1 3 ...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.(Table)
April 3, 2006... Audio Bestsellers/Fiction April 1 The 5th Horseman (unabr. CD). James Paterson and Maxine Paetro. Read by Carolyn McCormick. Time Warner AudioBooks. Seven CDs, eight hours, $39.98 ISBN...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.(Table)
April 3, 2006... Audio Bestsellers/Nonfiction April (a) 1 Inspiration (abr. CD), Wayne Dyer. Read by the author. Hay House. Four CDs, four hours, $23.95 ISBN 1-4019-0725-3 2 Your Best Life Now (abr. CD). Joel Osteen....

Talese gets the story.(Author Profile)(Gay Talese)(Interview)
April 3, 2006... Tina Brown's words are affectionate but blunt: "Dear, clear Gay," she writes a faxed letter. "I have come to feel that we should really kiss off this penile saga and have you do something more rewarding." It is 1993 and Brown, then editor...

Fantasy goes literary: novels with supernatural elements are finding a new readership.(increasing demand for fantasy fiction)(Cover story)
April 3, 2006... Talk about a fantasy. In 2002, a largely unknown writer's debut novel sold out a 50,000 first printing and went on to be translated into 36 languages and garner nearly three million copies in American hardcover sales alone. The book was the...

Too geeky for its own good? a new science fiction column in the New York Times provokes a war of the words.(The New York Times Book Review)(Cover story)
April 3, 2006... The sci-fi community held its breath last month when the New York Times Book Review launched a regular science fiction column, "Across the Universe." The publication had been giving, at best, spotty coverage to sci-fi. This new column, it...

The Keep.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Keep JENNIFER EGAN. Knopf, $24 (256p) ISBN 1-4000-4392-1 Claustrophobic paranoia, intentionally mediocre writing and a transparent gimmick dominate Egan's follow-up to Look at Me, centered on estranged cousins who reunite in Eastern...

The Scent of Your Breath.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Scent of Your Breath MELISSA P., TRANS. BY SHAUN WHITESIDE. Grove Atlantic/Black Cat, $12 paper (130p) ISBN 0-8021-7022-4 A breathless autobiographical second novel by this bright young Sicilian writer (1 O0 Strokes of the Brush Before...

To Feel Stuff.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... To Feel Stuff ANDREA SEIGEL. Harcourt, $14 (288p) ISBN 0-15-603150-7 Seigel's sophomore effort is a scattershot case study in illness, love and the unexplained. Elodie Harrington is an undergraduate at Brown University who lives in the...

A Disorder Peculiar to the Country.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... A Disorder Peculiar to the Country KEN KALFUS. Ecco, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-06-050140-5 It's a familiar New York story: Joyce and Marshall Harriman's divorce battle escalates from a skirmish to a full-fledged territorial conflict, as both...

Between, Georgia.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Between, Georgia JOSHILYN JACKSON. Warner, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 0-446-52442-5 The biological daughter of poor, scared teenager Hazel Crabtree, Nonny Frett was left at birth with the wealthy, respectable Frett clan--a secret that doesn't keep...

One Mississippi.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... One Mississippi MARK CHILDRESS. Little, Brown, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 0-316-01211-4 When his father is relocated from Indiana to Minor, Miss., in 1973, 16-year-old Daniel Musgrove finds himself a classic fish out of water. At Minor High, the...

My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time LIZ JENSEN. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 1-59691-188-3 When 25-year-old Charlotte Schleswig begins telling her madcap tale in 1897, she's a successful prostitute roaming the suburban streets near...

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow FAIZA GUENE, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY SARAH ADAMS. Harcourt, $13 paper (156p) ISBN 0-15-603048-9 College-aged Guene was raised by Algerian immigrant parents in a Parisian housing project; in her debut novel, a French...

Waking Lazarus.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Waking Lazarus T.L. HINES. Bethany House, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 0-7642-0204-9 In this promising if sometimes grisly debut of inspirational suspense, Hines introduces Jude Allman, a man who has been declared clinically dead several times, but...

Grief.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... * Grief ANDREW HOLLERAN. Hyperion, $19.95 (160p) ISBN 1-4013-0250-5 An understated, eloquent novel by Holleran (Dancer from the Dance) captures the pain of a generation of gay men who have survived the AIDS epidemic and reached middle age...

The Flamenco Academy.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Flamenco Academy SARAH BIRD. Knopf, $25 (400p) ISBN 1-4000-4084-1 When Cyndi Rae Hrncir, 17, moves with her family to Albuquerque, N.Mex., her Czech heritage makes her an outsider. When her father, and the father of "bad girl" Didi...

Seven Loves.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Seven Loves VALERIE TRUEBLOOD. Little, Brown, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 0-316-05893-9 May Nilsson, a retired Seattle high school English teacher, looks back on her life through the episodic prism of those she has cherished. At center stage are...

Instant Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Instant Love JAMI ATTENBERG. Random/Shaye Areheart, $21 (272p) ISBN 0-307-337820 Attenberg's first novel focuses on the precise moments at which a handful of women fall in love, out of love and back in again: spontaneous Holly; her...

Triangle.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... * Triangle KATHERINE WEBER. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23 (240p) ISBN 0-37428142-4 The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers, most of them women, and galvanized efforts to reform working conditions in sweatshops. In...

Kensington Gardens.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Kensington Garden RODRIGO FRESAN, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY NATASHA WIMMER. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (368p) ISBN 0374-18101-2 The "tycoon hermit of children's literature," Peter Hook, kidnaps the child star of the upcoming film...

The Girl I Wanted to Be.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Girl I Wanted to Be SARAH GRACE MCCANDLESS. Simon & Schuster, $12 (192p) ISBN 0-74328518-2 From the start of this thoughtful novel it's clear that the girl who 14-year-old Presley Moran wants to be is her vivacious, daring and...

Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... * Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night EDITED BY JAMES PATTERSON. Mira, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-7783-2299-8 The blurry line between mysteries and thrillers gets even fuzzier in this outstanding anthology of 32 new stories by such top...

The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel JEFFREY DEAVER. Simon & Schuster, $26 (416p) ISBN 0-7432-6093-7 Bestseller Deaver's twisty seventh Lincoln Rhyme novel (after 2005's The Twelfth Card) pits Rhyme, the quadriplegic NYPD detective,...

The Last Spymaster.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Last Spymaster GAYLE LYNDS. St. Martin's, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 0-312-30159-6 This classic espionage thriller from bestseller Lynds (The Coil) strikes a perfect balance between the private lives of her characters and the blood and...

Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way BRYAN CHARLES. Harper Perennial, $13.95 (256p) ISBN 0-06-088298-0 Recent high school grad Vincent Sweeney, though unmistakably sweet, also masquerades as crass, courts his own demise by baiting bar...

The Birthdays.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Birthdays HEIDI PITLOR. Norton, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-393-06127-2 On a rainy summer weekend, the Miller clan gathers, for the first time in four years, at their summer house on an island off the coast of Maine to celebrate patriarch...

Across a Hundred Mountains.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... * Across a Hundred Mountains REYNA GRANDE. Atria, $23 (272p) ISBN 0-7432-6957-8 Grande, a 2003 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, turns in a topical and heartbreaking border story for her debut. Juana, 11, loses her baby sister in a flood, and...

Touchy Subjects: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Touchy Subjects: Stories EMMA DONOGHUE. Harcourt, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-15-101386-1 In contrast to previous books focused on feminist retellings of fairy tales (Kissing the Witch) and revisionist imaginings of historical and folkloric female...

Let It Be Morning.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Let It Be Morning SAYED KASHUA, TRANS. FROM THE HEBREW BY MIRIAM SHLESINGER. Grove Atlantic/Black Cat, $13 paper (288p) ISBN 0-8021-7021-8 Kashua's second novel (after Dancing Arabs) illuminates the lives of Israel's Arab minority. An...

6 Chambers, 1 Bullet.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... 6 Chambers, 1 Bullet SONNY BARGER WITH KEITH AND KENT ZIMMERMAN. Morrow, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-06-074531-2 In a triumph of content over style, Barger and his erstwhile sidekicks, the Zimmermans, offer up another face full of road dust...

The Serial Killers Club.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Serial Killers Club JEFF POVEY. Warner, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-446-57842-8 British author Povey, who has written for such TV shows as the BBC's Eastenders, makes a real splash with his first novel, a darkly comic spoof of the serial...

Adelaide Piper.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Adelaide Piper BETH WEBB HART. WestBow Press, $13.99 paper (320p) 1-5955-4027-X Debutante Adelaide Piper grows up in the small industrial community of Williamstown, S.C., with dreams of attending a faraway prestigious college and honing...

Girls' Night Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Girls' Night Out EDITED BY CHRIS MANBY, CAROLE MATTHEWS, SARAH MLYNOWSKI. Harlequin/Red Dress Ink, $14.95 paper (40Op) ISBN 0-373-89579-8 The 25 stories in this anthology (following Girl's Night In) come from the shiniest names in chick...

Tenderwire.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Tenderwire CLAIRE KILROY. Harvest, $14 paper (312p) ISBN 0-15-603204-X The slapstick fallout from a violinist's purchase of a rare instrument of dubious origin makes for a taut, confident American debut by Irish writer Kilroy. A...

Electric Flesh.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Electric Flesh CLARO, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY BRIAN EVENSON. Soft Skull, $13 paper (144p) ISBN 1-933368-23-3 Three story lines fuse and ignite in this brief novel by the French metafiction master who publishes under a single name (which...

Riding Westward.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Riding Westward CARL PHILLIPS. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 (64p) ISBN 0-374-25003-0 The prolific, always articulate Phillips attained late-'90s acclaim for a series of books (among them Pastoral and From the Devotions) whose intricate...

Dear Ghosts.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Dear Ghosts, TESS GALLAGHER. Graywolf, $20 (160p) ISBN 1-55597-443-0 Gallagher's big, emotion-rich volume is her first in 14 years: she enjoys dual reputations as an accessible, likable maker of verse about scenes and spaces in women's...

Splay Anthem.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Splay Anthem NATHANIEL MACKEY. New Directions, $15.95 paper (112p) ISBN 0-81121652-7 Published in installments across several decades, Mackey's two epic series--one called Mu, the other Song of the Andoumboulou--bring the attitudes of free...

Book of Longing.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Book of Longing LEONARD COHEN. Ecco, $24.95 (232p) ISBN 0-06-112558-X Renowned singer-songwriter Cohen also boasts a reputation as a writer for the printed page, especially in his native Canada. This capacious collection (his first since...

On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... * On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay ROBERT CREELEY. Univ. of California, $21.95 (80p) ISBN 0-520-24791-4 Creeley, who died last year at 78, is among the American masters born in the 1920s, a generation that includes John Ashbery and...

The Curved Planks.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Curved Planks YVES BONNEFOY, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY HOYT ROGERS. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22 (232p) ISBN 0374-18494-1 The first poetic associations of Bonnefoy, an octogenarian French poet often mentioned in the same breath as Paul...

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea MARK HADDON. Vintage, $13.95 paper (80p) ISBN 0-307-27569-8 Despite the Curious Incident--like title, fans of Haddon's novel will find this collection's pleasures less...

Meteoric Flowers.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 3, 2006... Meteoric Flowers ELIZABETH WILLIS. Wesleyan Univ., $22.95 (98p) ISBN 0-8195-6813-9 Guided by the spirit of 18th-century botanist and intellectual Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), the poems of Willis's fourth book attempt to reclaim...