Publishers Weekly articles from August 2000

Publishers Weekly archives from August 2000

BISG Projects 5% Gain In Book Sales in 2000.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Total revenues expected to reach $24.71 billion for the year TOTAL BOOK SALES are projected to increase 5.2% in 2000 to an estimated $24.71 billion, according to forecasts in Book Industry Study Group Trends 2000. If revenue growth hits...

June Bookstore Sales Jump 13%.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... JUNE MARKED THE SECOND straight month in which retail bookstore sales posted double-digit gains over revenues in the comparable months in 1999. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, retail bookstore sales rose 13.3% in June, to $1.15 billion,...

NetLibrary to Raise $82 Min IPO.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... NETLIBRARY FILED a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month, making it the first major company involved with the fledgling e-book industry to test the public markets. According to the filing,...

Bankrupt Element Books Slashes U.S. Office.
August 28, 2000... WITH ITS U.K. PARENT company declaring bankruptcy earlier this month, the U.S. arm of Element Books has undergone a dramatic overhaul. Greg Brandenburgh, senior v-p and trade publisher, left last month, and the number of employees has been...

Borders to Focus on Existing Business.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... HAVING REJECTED an offer to acquire the company earlier this year, the board of directors of Borders Group has decided not to pursue a major stock repurchasing program, although the board retains the authority to spend up to $67 million to...

Simon & Schuster Offers Fall E-book List.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... FOLLOWING THE HOOPLA surrounding Stephen King's e-book in March and months of sporadic e-book releases, Simon & Schuster announced plans to go full force into the e-book market with original and simultaneous e-book and print releases...

English/Spanish Imprint from Harper.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... In response to growth in the Hispanic marketplace, HarperCollins is launching Rayo, an imprint that will publish titles in English and Spanish for and about Latinos. The imprint will publish approximately 12 titles a year beginning in summer...

Book Group Profits Socar at RD.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... OPERATING PROFIT IN READER'S DIGEST'S global books and home entertainment group jumped 149%, to $209.8 million, on a revenue increase of 3%, to $1.56 billion, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000. The segment benefited from the inclusion...

To the Rescue of Peter Pan.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Baker, John F. Authors become accustomed to losing their editor, but what about losing their entire publisher? That's what happened to publishing insider Raquel Jaramillo, creative director at Henry Holt and noted book jacket designer,...

Chicken Soup a Universal Taste.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Publishers in many countries have bought no fewer than 400 contracts to do books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series published by Florida's Health Communications Inc., according to general manager Tom Sand, who handles foreign rights...

Berra, Hernandez Up for Hyperion.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Two notable New York Yankees of past and present have signed with Hyperion editors for books to appear next year. First up is veteran Yogi Berra, no stranger to print, who will have one of his cunningly titled books ready for next Father's...

A Rabbi on Trial.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... A trial will begin next spring for Rabbi Fred Neulander, believed to be the first rabbi ever to be charged with murder, and author Arthur Magida will be there in the front row. Magida, who has been a PBS TV religion correspondent and has...

A Little Love.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... The Warner novel A Little Love by the husband-and-wife team of Carlos and Carolina Medina has been bought for six figures for a movie by Alcon Entertainment, in the hope it could become a Latino Waiting to Exhale; the deal was put together by...

Jody Hotchkis.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Jody Hotchkiss at Sterling Lord Literistic has sold TV movie rights of The Sinatra Files by Wall Street Journal reporters Phil and Tam Kuntz to Team Entertainment....

David Levy.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Astronomer David Levy, who helped discover the Shoemaker-Levy comet, is doing a short book for Byron Preiss's ibooks imprint titled Eclipse: Journey to Darkness and Light, for which the publisher secured world rights from the Scott Meredith...

Powell's Settles Labor Dispute.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... AFTER A TWO-YEAR struggle, Powell's Books of Portland and the ILWU Local 5 announced ratification of a labor contract on August 10. In the last, but happy, chapter of an often contentious unionizing process, the labor contract for the 400...

iPublish.com to Offer Content Via Bookface.com.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... LOOKING FOR WAYS to promote its content through the Web, iPublish.com, Time Warner's e-publishing venture, has entered into an agreement with Bookface.com to make Time Warner books available for free through Bookface.com's site. Bookface.com...

POOF! HARRY ACTOR FOUND.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Warner Bros. announced last week that it has found the three lead actors for its film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, scheduled for release in November 2001. Leading the trio of British actors is Daniel...

Potter Case Headed for Trial.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... NEW YORK DISTRICT judge Allen Schwartz has refused a motion by attorneys for Nancy Stouffer to dismiss a lawsuit filed late last year by Scholastic asking that the court issue a judicial declaration that J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books do...

Lightning Source Adds Penguin Putnam.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... LIGHTNING SOURCE has entered into an agreement with Penguin Putnam to digitize the publisher's book list. Under the agreement, Lightning Source will also provide digital rights management and e-book fulfillment in a variety of formats. ...

Amazon to Conquer France.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... AMAZON.COM HAS ANNOUNCED that it will open its French online store tomorrow, Tuesday, August 29. Yet Amazon may not be as graciously received as it was in the U.K. and Germany, where it also operates online bookstores. According to the Agence...

Big Loss for BOMC.(Book-of-the-Month Club Incorporated)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... WITH THE COMPLETION of the Time Warner--Bertelsmann joint venture that formed the giant book club BookSpan, TW has "deconsolidated" the results of Book-of-the-Month Club. This accounting change breaks out BOMC's figures for the first half of...

Ole Risom, 80.(book editor)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 28, 2000... OLE RISOM, veteran children's book editor, died on August 19. He was 80. Risom was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. After working as the art director for McCall's and Better Living, he made his entree into...

Oprah's 'Open'-ing.(book endorsement)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Though a new TV season always brings a lot of speculation, there's been one constant over the last three or so years: Oprah will choose favorite novels for her on-air book club, whereupon they will shoot to the top of the bestseller charts...

Sisters in Crime.(Mary and Pamela O'Shaughnessy, authors)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... The sibling team of Pameia and Mary O'Shaughnessy, who pen the bestselling Nina Reilly legal thrillers under the pseudonym Perri O'Shaughnessy, have some celebrating to do these days. Their sixth book, Move to Strike, published by Delacorte...

Stalking the Charts.(Stalker, book)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Stalker, Faye Kellerman's 11th mystery featuring Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker (Ritual Bath was the first, in 1986), has gone higher (#4 on PWs list this week) than any of her previous books. Morrow tells us that after three trips to press,...

A Sleeper First Fiction.(Jeanne Ray, author)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Percolating below the top 15 bestsellers is a first fiction, Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray, a 60-something nurse; her inspiration for a love story featuring older people came while she was at a supermarket and noticed all the glossy women's...

Da Capo Jazzes Things Up.(Da Capo Press)
August 28, 2000... Miles Davis masterpiece is the subject of a book that fronts a hip new list for the publisher this fall Da Capo Press has long been known for quality reprints of classic performing arts titles--not for its parties. But a very popular...

An Activist Memoir Challenges The World to Listen and Heal.(Derrick Jensen, author)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... "Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam," writes Derrick Jensen in A Language Older Than Words, a book classified by its independent publisher, Context Books, as Memoir/Philosophy of Nature. An...

R.J. Julia Turns 10.(bookseller)
August 28, 2000... Balancing the head and the heart, Roxanne Coady is bubbling with ideas worth hearing R.J. Julia Booksellers in downtown Madison, Conn., is celebrating 10 years of selling books. While starting a bookstore in this small coastal community...

Beyond Baroque Announces Festival and Award.(Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, Calif., has spearheaded a new program that places authors at the heart of urban renewal. The World Beyond Poetry Festival that ran from June 7-11 was the city's first attempt to unite various...

Sidelines Made By Hand.(stationery and paper handicrafts)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Handcrafted cards convince people to send messages the old-fashioned way Letterpress and handmade cards and papers are on the increase with artisan-created, art-related sidelines. Saturn Press, of Swan's Island, Maine, specializes in...

The Reys Ride Again.(Margret Rey and H. A. Rey, authors)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... The creators of Curious George fled WWII Paris with a fifth, previously unknown, manuscript The story of H.A. and Margret Rey's narrow escape from the Nazis by bicycle, their manuscripts strapped to the racks, is now the stuff of...

The Best of Both Worlds.(Sarah Shealy and Barbara Fisch, publishing industry publicists)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... How two publicists make easy work of sharing one job If it's Tuesday, it must be Sarah. Those placing a call to Harcourt's children's publicity department in San Diego will find that Sarah Shealy picks up the phone on Monday, Tuesday and...

Pearson and Macmillan: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes.(publishing industry)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... When Pearson took over Macrmillan, analysts had misgivings--but while change has been almost constant, the publishers have never looked better It hasn't been easy keeping up with the changes at Macmillan lately. Since British publishing...

Computer Bestsellers.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Operating Systems 1 Windows 98 for Dummies. Andy Rathbone. IDG, $19.99 ISBN 0-76450-261-1 2 Mastering Windows 2000 Server, 2nd Ed., Mark Minasi. Sybex, $49.99 ISBN 0-7821-2774-6 3 UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Ed. ...

Love and Loss in the Meadowlands.(Frederick Reiken, author)(Interview)
August 28, 2000... Frederick Reiken It seems strange to meet Frederick Reiken in his office at Emerson College on the 10th floor of a high-rise tower in downtown Boston. Given the finely attuned sense of the natural world the writer displays in his two...

Southern Hospitality.(booksellers trade show)
August 28, 2000... New Orleans and Atlanta host the area's two shows Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association/Mid-South Independent Booksellers for Children Trade show meets Fri., Sept. 8--Sun., Sept. 10, at the Radisson Hotel, New Orleans, La....

Hot Doings in the South.(book publishing)
August 28, 2000... Three from the Civil Rights Era The turbulent years of the civil rights movement are the focus of three titles from the University of Alabama Press. Mobile native Roy Hoffman spent 20 years in New York City as a journalist, editor and...

Raincoast in Row With Toronto Indie.(book distribution rights case)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... RAINCOAST BOOKS, the publisher of J.K. Rowling's novels in Canada, has turned to the government to solidify its position as the holder of the exclusive Canadian rights to the popular Harry Potter books after an independent bookstore turned to...

IDG Acquires HungryMinds.com.(publishing industry)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... In a move that will couple content with an established Web-based learning platform, IDG Books has acquired Hungry Minds, an online learning company based in San Francisco. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition will make IDG's...

Questia Media Adds $90 Million in Capital.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... QUESTIA MEDIA Inc., a Houston-based research service provider set to launch in January 2001 with 50,000 books online, announced last week that it had received $90 million in second-round venture capital financing led by Oppenheimer Funds....

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.(booksellers trade show)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Trade show meets Fri., Sept.15--Sun., Sept. 17, at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Ore. Activities start on Friday at 8 a.m. with two 45-minute panels on how to work the trade show; one is designed for first-time booksellers, the...

Southern California Children's Booksellers Association.(booksellers trade show)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Annual Fall Dinner and Golden Dolphin Award Presentation to be held on Sat., Sept. 16, on the RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, Calif. Step aboard the RMS Queen Mary and step into history. Known as the "gray ghost" during wartime, this stately...

Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.(booksellers trade show)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Trade show meets Fri., Oct. 6-Sun., Oct. 8, at the Oakland Marriott, Oakland, Calif. The Friday morning program starts at 9 a.m. with a bottom-line training program for bookstore employees by Ari Weinzweig, CEO of Zingerman's deli and...

Southern California Booksellers Association.(booksellers trade show)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Educational programming scheduled on Fri., Nov. 3 and Sat., Nov. 4; Annual Authors Feast held on Sat., Nov. 4, on the RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, Calif. Independent booksellers are hot in southern California! New bookstores are sprouting...

West Coast -- What's Cookin'.(book publishing)
August 28, 2000... Graphically Speaking On December 4, 1850, the first issue of The Oregonian rolled off the press. Oregon was only a territory then, and Portland just a raw frontier lumber village (population about 700) affectionately known as...

The First Fiction Scene.(book publishing)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Eden Robinson, a First Nations woman who grew up in Haisla territory 500 miles north of Vancouver in the Canadian Pacific northwest, will be on hand at PNBA for her first novel, Monkey Beach (Houghton Mifflin, Dec.). Set in the Haisla...

Back to Boston.(booksellers trade show)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... After a year, NEBA returns to the Bay State with panels, programs and autographings New England Booksellers Association Trade show meets Fri., Sept. 22--Sun., Sept. 24, at the World Trade Center, Boston After a year's absence,...

Book News from NEBA.(North Eastern Booksellers Association)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Good Sports Fortunately the Curse of the Bambino doesn't apply to books, because three new releases are hoping to win the literary equivalent of the World Series. In October, Houghton Muffin will publish sports writer Glenn Stout and...

The First Fiction Scene.(Review)
August 28, 2000... Hot House Press in Cohasset, Mass., is a brand-new enterprise established by David Replogle, formerly among the top executive ranks at Merriam-Webster and Houghton Mifflin. Its first release is a trade paperback, Brimfield(Sept.) by Michael...

Home on the Plains.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... Mile High City hosts MPBA and has ZingTrain back on track Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Trade show meets Fri., Sept. 22-Sun., Sept 24, at the Marriott Denver Tech Center, Denver, Colo. "New things are made familiar,...

Over the Mountains And Plains.(Review)
August 28, 2000... The Wild West Lives The Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo drew 400,000 visitors to that Wyoming prairie town last July. In all of 1999, 1,100 rodeos around the country attracted 18 million people who spent $80 million in ticket sales. That's...

NAIBA's Capital Idea.(New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... The association returns to Washington, D.C., with awards, authors and more New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Trade show meets Fri., Oct. 6, and Sat., Oct. 7, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. After a...

What's New, New Atlantic?(Review)
August 28, 2000... Small Prices in the Big Apple The Marble Boy, a fragmented nude statue thought to be by Michelangelo, stands in the entrance hall of the French Embassy in New York and can be viewed for free. An outfit called Adventure on a Shoestring...

Midwest's Best.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... UMBA turns 20 and GLBA adds all-day PMA Publishing University Upper Midwest Booksellers Association Trade show meets Fri., Sept. 22-Sun., Sept. 24, at the River Centre, St. Paul, Minn. The UMBA trade show--now 20 years old--has...

Amid the Midwest.(Review)
August 28, 2000... Pennant Puzzlements The title of The Million-to-One Team: Why the Chicago Cubs Haven't Won a Pennant Since 1945 by George Castle promises inside scoop about the team's record-setting ineptitude. According to Diamond Communications...

THE PROMETHEUS DECEPTION.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... ROBERT LUDLUM. St. Martin's, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-25346-X Ludlum goes full throttle in this frantically paced, if somewhat hollow, tale of one man's efforts to thwart the forces of world domination. That man is Nick Bryson, a retired...

WHERE I'M BOUND.(Review)
August 28, 2000... ALLEN B. BALLARD. Simon & Schuster, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-684-87031-2 Nonfiction author Ballard (The Education of Black Folk), a history and African-American studies professor, combines both areas of expertise in his debut novel, to show...

GRASSHOPPER.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... BARBARA VINE. Harmony, $25 (400p) ISBN 0-609-60789-8 Writing under her Vine pseudonym, Ruth Rendell offers another of her intriguing, multifaceted psychological suspense novels (The Chimney Sweeper's Boy and The Brimstone Wedding, etc.)....

JOURNEY.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... DANIELLE STEEL. Delacorte, $26.95 (323p) ISBN 0-385-31687-9 Marital abuse in its most insidious form is the focus of Steel's (The House on Hope Street, etc.) dependable page-turner, her 50th novel. To the outside world, Washington, D.C.,...

TEMPTATION.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... JUDE DEVERAUX. Pocket, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 0-671-00203-1 Like many recent heroines of historical romance, Temperance O'Neil, turn-of-the-century New York women's rights activist, doesn't think she needs a man. The beautiful, resourceful...

MASTER OF THE CROSSROADS.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... MADISON SMART BELL. Pantheon, $30 (752p) ISBN 0-375-42056-8 * Bell manages the bravura feat of bringing coherence and novelistic focus to the intrinsically complex history of Haiti's national liberator in this second installment in his...

ODDS.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... PATTY FRIEDMANN. Counterpoint, $24 (256p) ISBN 1-58243-087-6 "There are absolutely no accidents," Anna's controlling mother tells her after her father has nose-dived off the top of a downtown New Orleans building, and Anna thereafter...

TAKING LOTTIE HOME.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... TERRY KAY. Morrow, $25 (304p) ISBN 0-688-17646-1 Set in Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century, this latest novel by the popular author of Shadow Song is an evocative, atmospheric and elegiac story of an uncommon woman and the three...

PW Talks with Madison Smartt Bell.(author)(Interview)
August 28, 2000... PW: Master of the Crossroads is your second novel about the leader of the 1790s Haitian slave revolt, Toussaint-Louverture, continuing with the same cast from your last novel, All Souls' Rising. What originally attracted you to this subject?...

ALL THE NAMES.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... JOSE SARAMAGO, TRANS. BY MARGARET JULL COSTA. Harcourt, $24 (256p) ISBN 0-15-100421-8 * The deceptive simplicity of Nobel Prize--winner Saramago's prose, and the ironic comments that he intersperses within this story of an...

MY LIFE ON A PLATE.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... INDIA KNIGHT. Houghton Mifflin, $21 (224p) ISBN 0-618-09397-4 Clara Hutt, 33, speaks for middle-class marital ennui as she reflects on her life, her indifferent husband, Robert, her two lice-ridden young boys, and her "roomy...

THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.(Review)
August 28, 2000... E.L. DOCTOROW, GUEST EDITOR, KATRINA KENISON, SERIES EDITOR. Houghton Mifflin, $27.50 (320p) ISBN 0-395-92687-4; paper $13 - 92686-6 In an anthology that once again lives up to its title, guest editor Doctorow presents an eclectic...

THE CAVE.(Review)
August 28, 2000... TIM KRABBE, TRANS. BY SAM GARRET. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 (152p) ISBN 0-374-11978-3 * Krabbe, a Dutch writer living in Amsterdam, published a sophisticated horror novel, The Golden Egg, seven years ago, which was made into a...

BURIED EVIDENCE.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... NANCY TAYLOR ROSENBERG. Hyperion, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 0-7868-6619-5 Rosenberg cannot be accused of pandering to the reader. One is never sure who to root for in her latest kinetic crime thriller, as usual set in Southern California. The...

AGENT OF JUDGMENT.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... ROBERT RICE. Forge, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-84882-X Eight years after the publication of his well-received debut Arthurian novel, The Last Pendragon, Rice offers up a pulpy thriller replete with earthquakes, floods, oceanic fish kills,...

SHADOWING HANNAH.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... SARA BERKELEY. New Island (Dufour, dist.), $15.95 paper (288p) ISBN 1-902602-04-8 Hannah Newell, almost 20, is living in London, having left her father and two brothers back home in Dublin. She moves into a house with two...

THE DRIFTING OF SPIRITS.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... GISELE PINEAU, TRANS. BY MICHAEL DASH. Interlink/Quartet, $15 paper (246p) ISBN 0-7043-8101-X The dead rule the living in this richly textured Caribbean novel by Pineau, one of the few female representatives of the Creolite movement....

SALT AND SAFFRON.(Review)
August 28, 2000... KAMILA SHAMSIE. Bloomsbury USA, $23.95 (246p) ISBN 1-58234-093-5 Clever, witty and inventive, this engaging novel tackles the challenges of reconciling one culture's progressive values with another's allegiance to family and tradition....

THE SWEET AND SOUR TONGUE.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... LESLIE WHAT. Wildside (P.O. Box 45, Gillette, N.J. 07933), $13.95 paper (146p) ISBN 1-58715-158-8 Skillfully incorporating elements of science fiction and fantasy into domestic scenes of Jewish family life, Nebula Award-winner What's...

THE RED THREAD.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... NICHOLAS JOSE. Chronicle, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-8118-2951-0 A mysterious but classic work of Chinese literature exerts an influence on an unusual love triangle in this beguiling new novel by Australian writer Jose (The Rose Crossing). In...

TIME OF THE RABIES.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... ROBERT LAXALT. Univ. of Nevada, $16 paper (92p) ISBN 0-87417-350-7 Nevada ranchers and cowboys fight a 1920S rabies epidemic in this straightforward, warmly written western novella by historical novelist Laxalt (Dust Devils; Private War)....

TIME GIFTS.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... ZORAN ZIVKOVIC, TRANS. BY ALICE COPPLE-TOSIC. Northwestern Univ., $44.95 (96p) ISBN 0-8101-1781-9; paper $14.95 -1782-7 Embroidering on the conceit of time travel, Zivkovic, a Serb writer in his 50s, presents four episodic tales,...

YOUR FATHER.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... JONATHAN MYERSON. Headline/Review (Trafalgar, dist.), $13 paper (288p) ISBN 0-7472-5906-2 Fathers, sons, the British Parliament and the new Russia all have roles to play in this semi-oedipal tale of men fighting their destinies. The...

IN SEARCH OF WALID MASOUD.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... JABRA IBRAHIM JABRA, TRANS. BY ROGER ALLEN AND ADNAN HAYDAR. Syracuse Univ., $26.95 (296p) ISBN 0-8156-0646-X In this fiercely partisan jigsaw puzzle of a novel, published in 1978 and translated here for the first time, Jabra explores the...

PALESTINE'S CHILDREN: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... GHASSAN KANAFANI, TRANS. BY BARBARA HARLOW AND KAREN E. RILEY. Lynne Rienner, $25 (160p) ISBN 0-89410-865-4 Ghassan Kanafani's meteoric literary and political career ended abruptly one morning in July 1972, when his booby-trapped car...

CANDY BARS.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 28, 2000... GERALD LOCKLIN. Water Row, $16.95 (267p) ISBN 0-934953-69-4 Jimmy Abbey is a glib literature professor who enjoys getting drunk, trolling for attractive and willing undergraduate lovers, and uttering pretentious statements like "I am...

THE GREATEST OF MARLYS.(Review)
August 28, 2000... LYNDA BARRY. Sasquatch Books, $15.95 paper (224p) ISBN 1-57061-260-9 Charmingly illustrated and written in the voices of fictional preadolescents, Barry's comics (The Freddie Stories) alternate between delightful comedy and...