Publishers Weekly articles from February 2007

Publishers Weekly archives from February 2007

Publishers brace for 'second phase' of bankruptcy: cash flow could remain an issue for PGW clients.(Foreword)(Perseus Books Group)
February 26, 2007... If the Perseus Books Group is able to complete its acquisition of more than 100 PGW publisher contracts on February 28 as planned, publishers that had been distributed by the old PGW will face a new set of challenges. While Perseus president...

Singing for awareness.(Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble, New York, New York hosts Down Syndrome fundraiser)(singer/songwriters Rachel Fuller, Melissa Riggio, Pete Townshend and Steve Riggio perform)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... The Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble in New York City was one of some 500 B&N outlets that hosted a special storytime event February 19 to raise awareness of Down syndrome. Singer/songwriter Rachel Fuller performed with songwriter Melissa...

Koen-Levy closes.(Koen-Levy Book Wholesalers)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Koen-Levy Book Wholesalers, the year-old regional wholesaling operation, stopped shipping books last week and will close within three months. The company was formed by Levy Home Entertainment following the bankruptcy of Koen Book Distributors...

Desert storm.(Foreword)
February 26, 2007... My first thought in reading about the legal battle between film producer Philip Anschutz and author Clive Cussler is that Anschutz is, at best, very naive. The mogul suggests, according to the L.A. Times of February 18, that he had high...

Nelson opts out of CBA show.(Thomas Nelson)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Thomas Nelson will not attend CBA's winter trade show, CBA Advance, next year, but will instead host a three-day open house for its top Christian retail accounts in spring 2008 at its Nashville headquarters. While there was speculation...

NEA translation winners.(National Endowment for the Arts)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... The National Endowment for the Arts has presented its International Literature Awards for 2007 to Archipelago Books of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Dalkey Archive Press of Champaign, Ill.; and Etruscan Press of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The awards grant $10,000...

Kraus named Llewellyn publisher.(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Bill Krause has been named publisher of New Age house Llewellyn Worldwide. Krause, who came to the company in 2005 as acquisitions manager and associate publisher, takes the publishing reins from Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, who is now chairman....

HC launches browse inside feature.(Spreading Snippets)(HarperCollins)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... In what may be the most significant step by a major publisher to offer Web surfers deeper access to its titles, HarperCollins has launched a technology option that grants interior access to its books anywhere online. The new Browse Inside...

Comic novel 'My Holocaust' set for April.(Courting Controversy?)(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Few people other than Mel Brooks would put the words Holocaust and comedy together, but that's exactly what HarperCollins is doing for an April book by Tova Reich. The house's flagship imprint describes Reich's My Holocaust as a "comic novel...

Harris rises at ICM.(Sloan Harris)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Sloan Harris has been given the added title of co-head of publications at ICM. Harris will share the title with executive v-p Esther Newberg. Amanda Urban, who was co-head of publications, will shift to oversee the agency international...

Amaechi in S.F.(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Former NBA star and newly minted author John Amaechi was at the Union Square Borders in San Francisco last week promoting his book, Man in the Middle (ESPN Books). Flanking the author are Borders regional marketing manager Beth O'Connor (1.)...

McDonald rises at IPS.(Janet McDonald promoted to vp of client acquisitions at Ingram Publisher Service)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Janet McDonald has been promoted to vp of client acquisitions at Ingram Publisher Service. McDonald worked at Solutions America as v-p of strategic planning before arriving at Ingram in 1999 as v-p and general manager of the Christian...

Word on the street.(Hot Topic)(Recommended readings)
February 26, 2007... Though they're not quite the financial industry's answer to The Devil Wears Prada, these novels by current and former money men depict various dark sides of working on Wall Street. Bank by David Bledin Das...

Sagebrush changes name.(Tandem Library Group)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... The library services company Sagebrush Books has changed its name to Tandem Library Group. With a new Web site and a new logo, the new name more accurately describes its business.

A good yarn.
February 26, 2007... Barbara Delinsky, whose Family Tree (Doubleday) bowed early this month, was at the Freehold, N.J., Barnes & Noble, where a customer won a $250 gift basket in a raffle sponsored by Berroco Yarns. (Delinsky's novel features a knitting circle,...

Virgins and villains in Italy.(Selling Abroad)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... The first month of 2007 brought several changes to the international bestseller lists, including the debut of the top titles in Italy. In nonfiction, the bestselling title at the end of January, ReVirginity, is described as a humorous look at...

International bestsellers.(Foreword)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... International Bestsellers France FICTION NONFICTION (1) Hannibal Rising A Power Named Desire Thomas Harris Catherine Nay Albin Michel ...

Calendar: March 4-10.(Foreword)(Calendar)
February 26, 2007... 3/4 Duane Moore (introduced in The Last Picture Show and last seen in Duane's Depressed) returns in Larry McMurtry's When the Light Goes (S&S). 3/5 PW's starred review praised Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes (Atria) for...

Elizabeth Houghton Barden, Big Hat Books, Indianapolis, Ind.(Galley Talk)(The God of Animals)(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... After 25 years of reading four books a week, nothing compares to a first novel that has "it": that dazzling ability to create a world so real, it is true, and because of it we are changed. Aryn Kyle's stunning debut, The God of Animals...

Next in globalization.(Deals)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Paul Elie at FSG bested four other bidders in an auction for Aerotropolis by John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay; agent David Kuhn sold world rights for six figures. The "aerotropolis," a term popularized by University of North Carolina business...

Carson's best friend.(Deals)(Joanne Carson)
February 26, 2007... Joanne Carson, ex-wife of Johnny and friend of Truman Capote, has been immersed in canine epilepsy and the treatment of dog health-related problems for nearly three decades; she received a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry and physiology 25...

Triple crown.(Deals)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... In another auction this week, Sally Kim at Shaye Areheart Books took North American rights to debut novelist Will Lavender's Obedience; Laney Katz Becker negotiated the six-figure buy, her first fiction deal for Folio Literary Management....

Basic's Lara Heimert bought world rights to a new book by Arthur Brooks titled The Politics of Happiness; Lisa Adams at the Garamond Agency made the sale.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Basic's Lara Heimert bought world rights to a new book by Arthur Brooks titled The Politics of Happiness; Lisa Adams at the Garamond Agency made the sale. The book will examine the latest research in psychology, social science, medicine,...

Marian Wood has bought two new novels by Philip Kerr for her imprint at Putnam.(The Briefing)
February 26, 2007... Marian Wood has bought two new novels by Philip Kerr for her imprint at Putnam, both featuring Bernie Gunther, the German PI of Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy; Caradoc King at AP Watt sold North American rights, and anticipated pub dates are...

Gayatri Patnaik at Beacon has acquired North American rights to Washington University professor Christopher A. Bracey's The Black Conservative Tradition.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Gayatri Patnaik at Beacon has acquired North American rights to Washington University professor Christopher A. Bracey's The Black Conservative Tradition, a nonpartisan exploration of what it means to be a black conservative; Jacqueline...

Baseball historian and author of Voices of the Game Curt Smith has inked a two-book deal with Eugene Brissie at Lyons Press, with Ken Samelson to edit, via agent Andrew Blauner.(The Briefing)
February 26, 2007... Baseball historian and author of Voices of the Game Curt Smith has inked a two-book deal with Eugene Brissie at Lyons Press, with Ken Samelson to edit, via agent Andrew Blauner. The first is The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story, which will...

Wendy Holt at Da Capo bought world rights to A Little Fruitcake: A Childhood in Holidays.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Wendy Holt at Da Capo bought world rights to A Little Fruitcake: A Childhood in Holidays, from Homo Domesticus author David Valdes Greenwood; this is a stocking stuffer of 12 boyhood Christmas stories. No agent, and pub date is fall 2007.

Sheila Curry Oakes at St. Martin's has acquired world rights to Great Hair by Nick Arrojo from agent Lauren Galit; Arrojo, hairstylist on TLC's What Not to Wear, will reveal styling secrets for all hair types.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Sheila Curry Oakes at St. Martin's has acquired world rights to Great Hair by Nick Arrojo from agent Lauren Galit; Arrojo, hairstylist on TLC's What Not to Wear, will reveal styling secrets for all hair types. Tentative pub date is fall 2008.

Top eight reasons for buying a book.(Foreword)(Survey)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... In its third survey on the book-buying habits of Americans, the advertising firm Spier NY asked readers what factors motivated them to buy a book. Readers could choose more than one answer; below are the top eight answers. Reason ...

Huwer, Jones up at RH.(People)(Jennifer Huwer and Jennifer Jones have both been promoted at Random House )(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Jennifer Huwer and Jennifer Jones have both been promoted in the Random House publicity department. Huwer, who joined the house a publicity assistant in 2003, and Jones, who was bumped up to associate publicist in 2005, have both been given...

Levinson to time out.(People)(Lisa Levinson has been named sales and marketing director for Time Out Guides)
February 26, 2007... Lisa Levinson has been named sales and marketing director for Time Out Guides. Levinson, who will handle North America and Latin America for the magazine's travel books division, arrives from Simon & Schuster, where she spent 27 years, most...

Promos at RH children's.(People)(Jennifer Arena, Diane Landolf and Nick Eliopulos promoted)
February 26, 2007... At Random House Books for Young Readers a raft of recent promotions: Jennifer Arena has been bumped up from senior editor to executive editor; Diane Landolf from associate editor to editor; and Nick Eliopulos from editorial assistant to...

Continuum keeps hits coming in album line.(Revolution)
February 26, 2007... People may say the album is dead, but the nostalgia for it certainly is not. If you plug the term "favorite album" into Google, you'll get back nearly 800,000 hits--a testament to how much people love discussing, listing and dissecting the...

Keenan up at Plume/Hudson.(People)(Liz Keenan has been promoted at Hudson Street Press and Plume)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Liz Keenan has been promoted from publicity manager to associate director of publicity at Hudson Street Press and Plume. She has worked on such books as Judith Moore's Fat Girl and Jesse Garza's Nothing to Wear. Earlier in her career Keenan...

Weiss to Stewart, Tabori.(People)(Luisa Weiss is named senior editor at Stewart, Tabori & Chang)(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Luisa Weiss has been named senior editor at Stewart, Tabori & Chang. Weiss, who was most recently a literary scout at Bettina Schrewe, will be acquiring cookbooks and food narratives in her new role.

In this week's issue.(People)
February 26, 2007... In conjunction with this week's feature "Books & Gardens" (p. 41), a listing of forthcoming gardening titles can be found at www/publishersweekly.com/gardeningbooks.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
February 26, 2007... February 26, 2007 Hardcover Bestsellers/Fiction Last Weeks week on list (1) Step on a Crack. James Patterson. 1 ...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
February 26, 2007... Hardcover Bestsellers/Nonfiction Last Weeks February 26, 2007 week on (1) The Secret. Rhonda Byrne, 1 7 Atria/Beyond...

Paperback bestsellers/mass markets.
February 26, 2007... Paperback Bestsellers/Mass Markets Last Weeks February 26, 2007 week on list (1) Irish Dreams. Nora Roberts. 2 3 ...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
February 26, 2007... Paperback Bestsellers/Trade Last Weeks February 26, 2007 week on list (1) The Measure of a Man. Sidney Poitier 1 4 (A) Harper San...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.(List)
February 26, 2007... Children's Series and Tie-Ins Bestsellers February 26, 2007 (1) Bridge to Terabithia. Katherine Paterson. HarperCollins (A) (2) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Ann Brashares. Delacorte ...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
February 26, 2007... Audio Bestsellers/Fiction February (1) Plum Lovin' (unabr. CD). Janet Evanovich. Read by Lorelai King. Audio Renaissance. Three CDs, 3.5 hours, $19.95 ISBN 978-1-4272-0053-2 (A) (2) Step on a Crack (unabr. CD)....

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
February 26, 2007... Audio Bestsellers/Nonfiction February (1) The Secret (unabr. CD). Rhonda Byrne. Read by the author and contributors. Simon & Schuster Audio. Four CDs, 4.5 hours, $29.95 ISBN 978-0-7435-6619-3 (A) (2) The Measure...

Florida.(United States of bookselling)
February 26, 2007... In the literary world, Florida may be best known for having produced its own indigenous genre--the Wacky Florida Mystery. Purveyors, including Carl Hiaasen, Bob Morris and Tim Dorsey, are big sellers up and down the state. "Those...

March of the small presses.(Independent Publishing)
February 26, 2007... Bookended by Black History Month and National Poetry Month, March has never meant much for the book business. Now, three nonprofit organizations are hoping to raise the profile of small press books among booksellers and readers during the...

Are picture books back?(Children's Books)
February 26, 2007... In 2005, when a beleaguered picture-book market had many publishers cutting their lists in half, Chip Gibson, president of Random House Books for Young Readers, took bold action, launching a new imprint devoted solely to picture books. ...

Indie houses: navigate difficult times.(Cover story)
February 26, 2007... The importance of distribution to the success of an independent publisher has been driven home lately by the well-publicized bankruptcy of PGW's parent company, AMS. The bankruptcy has renewed debate among independent publishers over the...

Is the bloom off the rose?(Books & Gardens)
February 26, 2007... There's a sense among publishers that gardening books are the poor relation in the gardening business these days. "What's interesting is that if you look at the amount of money people are spending on gardens, garden accessories and outdoor...

A writing life imitates art.(Author Profile)(Jonathan Santlofer)
February 26, 2007... Jonathan Santlofer writes his heroes tall. "I'm 5'7" so I like to compensate," he says. And he writes them brave, something else he insists he's not. "I'm a big baby. If I see a knife on the table, I think it's going to jump up and stab me."...

Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him DANIELLE GANEK. Viking, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-03866-4 In this enjoyably tart art world sendup, winsome, apercu-spouting Mia McMurray (think Party Girl-era Parker Posey) is a gallerista--one of the...

A Much Married Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... A Much Married Man NICHOLAS COLERIDGE. St. Martin's/ Dunne, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-36383-3 Britain's moneyed upper crust comes in for a slapstick razzing in this class-skewering 10th book (after novels Godchildren and Streetsmart)...

The Uncertain Hour.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... The Uncertain Hour JESSE BROWNER. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59691-339-4 This engaging historical novel opens in A.D. 66, with Roman aristocrat Titus Petronius planning his suicide. Emperor Nero has falsely implicated him in an...

A Thousand Splendid Suns.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... * A Thousand Splendid Suns KHALED HOSSEINI. Riverhead, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59448-950-1 Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story...

The New Yorkers.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... The New Yorkers CATHLEEN SCHINE. Sarah Crichton/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-22183-6 Schine dispatches a love letter to New Yorkers and the dogs who own them in her seventh novel (after She Is Me), an ensemble novel...

The Motel Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... The Motel Life WILLY VLAUTIN. Harper Perennial, $13.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-117111-6 In a gritty debut, Vlautin explores a few weeks in the broken lives of two working-class brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan, who abruptly...

Ghostwalk.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... * Ghostwalk REBECCA STOTT. Random/Spiegel & Grau, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-52106-2 British historian Stott makes a stunning debut with this hypnotic and intelligent thriller, the first fiction release of a new Random House imprint....

Boomsday.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Boomsday CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY. Hachette/Twelve, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-57981-0 It's the end of the world as we know it, especially if bloggers are setting the national agenda. In his latest novel, Buckley imagines a not-so-distant...

Flight.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Flight SHERMAN ALEXIE. Grove/Black Cat, $13 paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-8921-7037-8 A deadpan "Call Me Zits" opens the first novel in 10 years from Alexie (Smoke Signals, etc.), narrated by a self-described "time-traveling mass murderer"...

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... * The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH. Pantheon, $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-42273-7 Smith once again combines a loving depiction of ordinary life in modern Botswana with memorable characters and an engaging mystery in...

My Holocaust.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... My Holocaust TOVA REICH. HarperCollins, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-117345-5 In this savage satire of Holocaust commemoration's misuses, Reich paints and pillories a culture of victimhood that, with its accompanying commemorative kitsch,...

Helpless.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Helpless BARBARA GOWDY. Dial, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8288-3 Love comes up against obsession in Gowdy's seventh novel (following The Romantic), and the results are at times chilling, but not always believable. Single mother Celia works...

Absolute Fear.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Absolute Fear LISA JACKSON. Kensington, $19.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1182-8 In bestseller Jackson's spine-tingling romantic thriller, the turbo-charged follow-up to Shiver (2006), photographer Abby Chastain, who played a major role in...

Hunting and Gathering.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Hunting and Gathering ANNA GAVALDA, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY ALISON ANDERSON. Riverhead, $16 paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-59448-144-4 Love cures all that ails the troubled trio of "no-hopers" in this sentimental second novel by French...

The Color of Blood.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... The Color of Blood DECLAN HUGHES. Morrow, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-082549-2 Irish playwright Hughes follows up his successful contemporary crime debut, The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006), with another gripping and gritty whodunit set in...

Tallgrass.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Tallgrass SANDRA DALLAS. St. Martin's, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-36019-1 An ugly murder is central to this compelling historical, but the focus is on one appealing family, the Strouds, in the backwater town of Ellis, Colo. Soon after...

One Big Damn Puzzler.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... One Big Damn Puzzler JOHN HARDING. Harper Perennial, $14.95 paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-113218-6 Set on a fictional South Pacific island inhabited by black bantam pigs and a clan of nearly-naked eccentrics, this excessively zany British...

Potato Tree.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Potato Tree JAMES SALLIS. Host (SPD, dist.), $25 (180p) ISBN 978-0-924047-39-8; $15 paper ISBN 978-0-924047-40-4 Readers unfamiliar with versatile author Sallis (Drive), slated to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's...

Missing Soluch.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Missing Soluch MAHMOUD DOWLATABADI, TRANS. FROM THE FARSI BY KAMRAN RASTEGAR. Melville (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 paper (508p) ISBN 978-1-933633-11-4 This stark but engrossing portrait of contemporary rural Iran by Dowlatabadi, an...

Distant Train.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Distant Train IBRAHIM ABDEL MEGID, TRANS. FROM THE ARABIC BY HOSAM ABOUL-ELA. Syracuse Univ., $22.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0859-2 This sumptuous fable from Egyptian novelist Megid, winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz award, is more...

A Poisoned Season.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... A Poisoned Season TASHA ALEXANDER. Morrow, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-117414-8 When Lady Emily Ashton, an unconventional young widow, comes to London for the social season at the start of Alexander's highly enjoyable late Victorian...

Seizure.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Seizure ERICA WAGNER. Norton, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-06148-2 The primal fear of maternal abandonment is twisted into this insistently dark, atmospheric novel by London Times literary editor Wagner, author of a story collection...

Obsession.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Obsession KAREN ROBARDS. Putnam, $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-399-15416-4 Bestselling Robards (Vanished, Superstition, etc.) adds psychological spice to a familiar love-on-the-run plot. While FBI Special Crimes Unit agent Nick Houston goes...

The Lisbon Crossing.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... The Lisbon Crossing TOM GABBAY. Morrow, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-118843-5 Gabbay's second historical thriller to feature Jack Teller falls short of the high standard set by his debut, The Berlin Conspiracy (2006). Teller, who in 1940...

The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly SUSAN MUADDI DARRAJ. Univ. of Notre Dame, $20 paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-268-03503-7 Darraj, who edited Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing, makes a capable debut...

Edward Trencom's Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Edward Trencom's Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese GILES MILTON. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-31236217-1 British author Milton (Nathaniel's Nutmeg and five other nonfiction books) makes an impressive...

I Take This Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... I Take This Man VALERIE FRANKEL. Avon, $13.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-078555-0 Veteran chick lit and YA author Frankel (Hex and the Single Girl; Fringe Girl) delivers a kooky romp about a wedding gone very awry. Penny Bracket, a...

Diary of a South Beach Party Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Diary of a South Beach Party Girl GWEN COOPER. Simon Spotlight, $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4089-0 In her debut novel, former party girl Cooper smartly focuses on the fringe freaks who fueled the nightlife in the nauseatingly hip late...

Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories SHOUHUA QI. Long River (Consortium, dist.), $18.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59265-068=2 Modern China is on full display in this mixed bag of 14 stories in which memories of the Cultural Revolution are...

Three Dreams on Mount Meru.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Three Dreams onMount Meru FRANCOIS DEVENNE, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY LAUREN YODER. Toby, $14.95 paper (212p) ISBN 978-1-59264-173-4 An African boy's tribal-tradition transition into manhood sends him on a wild, dangerous jour hey in this...

Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel JONATHAN KELLERMAN. Ballantine, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-45263-4 The 21st Alex Delaware novel (after 2006's Gone) from bestseller Kellerman contains fewer twists than usual for this contemporary...

Blackbird and Wolf.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... * Blackbird and Wolf HENRI COLE. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-11379-7 In his sixth book, Cole wants to write "something highly controlled/that is the opposite," and he succeeds. Once a poet of great formal control...

Rise Up.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Rise Up MATTHEW ROHRER. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $14 (80p) ISBN 978-1-933517-18-6 Hip, humorous, ironic, winking and deceptively footloose, the 17 stylish poems and sequences of Rohrer's fifth collection take a skewed look at the...

New and Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... * New and Selected Poems (1965-2006) DAVID SHAPIRO. Overlook, $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-58567-877-8 In the mid-'60s Shapiro met, collaborated with and imitated--with impressive facility--the first generation of the so-called New York...

Magnetic North.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 26, 2007... Magnetic North LINDA GREGERSON. Houghton Mifflin, $22 (80p) ISBN 978-0-618-71870-2 In the searching, extended meditations of her fourth collection, Gregerson (Waterborne) draws relationships between disparate subjects and historical...