Publishers Weekly articles from January 2004

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2004

Frankfurt Tuesday 'probable': Tuesday to Sunday schedule may start in 2004.(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... AFTER CANVASSING publishing groups in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and elsewhere, the Frankfurt Book Fair has decided to forgo opening the show a day earlier this year, but will "probably" add Tuesday to the schedule next year, according...

MHC sells kids' retail unit to school specialty.(News)(McGraw-Hill)
January 26, 2004... The MCGRAW-HILL COS. has abandoned its effort to sell supplementary educational materials through retail channels, reaching an agreement to sell the M-H Children's Publishing unit to School Specialty Inc. Based in Columbus, Ohio, the division...

Random house unites retail sales force.(Strategy)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... IN THE LATEST significant change in its adult sales force, Random House has combined its two separate retail sales forces into a single unit. Now, most reps will sell all adult Random titles; in the past, one retail sales force sold titles...

Jacobs leaves scholastic.(Moving On)(Michael Jacobs)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Michael Jacobs has stepped down as senior v-p of Scholastic's trade division and will leave the company next month, after completing some special retail projects for Barbara Marcus, president of Scholastic's book publishing ant distribution...

Courier Corp. upbeat despite slow start.(First-Quarter Results)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... DESPITE A DISAPPOINTING first quarter that ended December 27, executives at Courier Corp. still expect the printer/publisher to post good gains for the frill year. Total revenue in the quarter fell 4.1%, to $46.8 million, while income from...

NBCC nominees announced.(Awards)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... NINE OF THE 10 nominees for the National Book Critics Circle 2003 awards in fiction and nonfiction were published by large houses; the lone small publisher on the list was McSweeney's, for William T. Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down. The...

Allen Paschal resigns from Thomson Gale.(Changes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Allen Paschal, who took over as president of Thomson Gale when the company was formed in 1998, has resigned. Paschal had been president of Information Access Company when Thomson merged IAC, Gale Research and Primary Source Media to create...

Carlin to headline BEA benefit.(Live from Chicago)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... BOOKEXPO AMERICA has announced that comedian George Carlin will host the annual American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression/Get Caught Reading benefit at this year's convention in Chicago. The event will take place June 5 at the Navy...

A Kennedy-Lawford memoir.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... A memoir that traces the often rambunctious life where the Kennedy clan intersected with the Hollywood elite has just been preempted for Morrow by executive editor Maureen O'Brien. It's a so-far untitled book that Christopher Kennedy Lawford,...

A movie actors' travel tale.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Two young British movie stars, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, are starting out in April on an epic 20,000-mile motorcycle journey that will take them from London to New York by way of Europe, Russia and China, and then across the U.S. The...

Big Tor buy of 10-book fantasy.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... A fantasy series spreading over an expansive 10 books, written by a Canadian author and launched some years ago in the U.K., has been bought by James Mintz at Tor in a major deal. It's called Malazon Book of the Fallen, by archeologist and...

Authors as songwriters.(hot deals)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... An unusual anthology that will star a number of prominent authors as lyricists for a "lit rock" group was signed by Brooklyn's small Soft Skull Press. It's called As Smart as We Are, after a line in one of the songs, and will offer work by 17...

Ballantine's Elizabeth Dyssegaard made a two-book deal for novels with Dan Chaon, whose story collection Among the Missing was nominated for a National Book Award in 2001.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Ballantine's Elizabeth Dyssegaard made a two-book deal for novels with Dan Chaon, whose story collection Among the Missing was nominated for a National Book Award in 2001. The world rights deal, signed with agent Noah Lukeman, calls for the...

A debut thriller by Cleveland forensic scientist Elizabeth Becka, was won at auction by Hyperion's Peternelle von Arsdale.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... A debut thriller by Cleveland forensic scientist Elizabeth Becka, was won at auction by Hyperion's Peternelle yon Arsdale. It's about the hunt for a serial killer who is drowning young women in that city's Cuyahoga River and was signed, for...

Nancy Mercado at Dial Books for Young Readers bought a YA novel about a schoolgirl's romance with a rock star from British publisher Macmillan for publication this fall.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Nancy Mercado at Dial Books for Young Readers bought a YA novel about a schoolgirl's romance with a rock star from British publisher Macmillan for publication this fall. It's So Super Starry by 25-year-old Rose Wilkens, who bet friends she...

Penguin's Jane von Mehren bought a romantic comedy about a single young assistant DA who plans her love life around techniques learned from Doris Day movies.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Penguin's Jane von Mehren bought a romantic comedy about a single young assistant DA who plans her love life around techniques learned from Doris Day movies. It's The Thing About Jane Spring by New York-based Australian journalist Sharon...

Random's Jonathan Karp preempted an inspirational book about starting your own business.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Random's Jonathan Karp preempted an inspirational book about starting your own business, Lucky or Smart? by Bo Peabody, who made a fortune a dozen years ago in early Internet startups; Karp got world rights from Lydia Wills at Writers &...

After a bidding battle, the Gossip Girl series of YA novels published by Little, Brown has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros.(Short Takes)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... After a bidding battle, the Gossip Girl series of YA novels published by Little, Brown has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros. The studio did the deal for the books, by Cecily von Ziegesar, with president of 17th Street Productions...

Footprint Press adds ancillary business.(Expanding)
January 26, 2004... WHEN SUE FREEMAN and her husband, Rich, left their jobs as corporate executives at Kodak in the late 1990s, they spent half a year hiking the Appalachian Trail, then tried a new set of trails near their home in the Rochester region of New...

SmallPress tries new distribution tactic.(Innovating)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... BRUCE MCPHERSON, of the Kingston, N.Y., independent press McPherson & Co., has a new distribution concept--combine self-distribution with the opt-out model of record clubs like Columbia House. McPherson--frustrated by what he describes as...

Penguin's new Hudson Street Press.(Names)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... PENGUIN USA HAS provided some details on the new imprint that Laureen Rowland is starting. Rowland, who joined Penguin front the David Black Agency last spring (News, May 5, 2003), will oversee the newly named Hudson Street Press. ...

Funny animals.(news)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Abrams and the North Shore Animal League teamed up to sponsor a book signing for Mutts: The Comic Art of Patrick McConnell at Buchmeister Books in Chatham, N.J., last month. Accompanied by a couple of his...

Look out, Adobe, here comes FlipPublisher.(Digital Publishing)
January 26, 2004... ALTHOUGH ADOBE'S Portable Document Format has become the standard for viewing and exchanging digital documents, E-Book Systems, a Singapore-based technology firm, has developed a relatively inexpensive technology that can incorporate...

CrossGen silent on money woes.(No News Is Bad News)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVEL publisher CrossGen's financial troubles don't seem to be going away. The company has issued no public statements about its financial condition since the beginning of October (News, Oct. 6, 2003) and has not responded...

Black tie and cartoons.(news)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Cartoonists and celebrities gathered at Forbes magazine headquarters in New York City on New Year's Eve to welcome a new slate of trustees and advisory members for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art....

Park, Nikolai promoted at Thomas Nelson.(Realigning)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... FOLLOWING THE RECENT promotion of Michael Hyatt to president and COO of Thomas Nelson (News, Jan. 5), the company has formed two new book divisions and named executives to head them. Jerry Park has been appointed executive v-p and group...

Pimples, popcorn and paperbacks.(screenings)
January 26, 2004... Once upon a time, there were children's books and films and adults' books and films, and those in between had to choose whichever category was most appropriate. Nowadays, teens are more than catered to--indeed, preteens can't wait to be...

BISG confab on 'Making Info Pay'.(Conference)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... THE BOOK INDUSTRY STUDY Group and VISTA International have teamed up to sponsor "Making Information Pay: How Publishers, Distributors and Retailers Are Reinventing Industry Practices to Improve Channel Performance," a conference that will be...

Sourcebooks adds calendars.(Marking Time)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... SOURCEBOOKS IS GETTING into calendars, with an eclectic inaugural line featuring subjects ranging from cats to sex. The list of six calendars for the coming year, which will go on sale this summer, includes 2005 Poetry Speaks, which is...

Detectives' day out.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Elmore Leonard's latest bestseller, Mr. Paradise, is set in Detroit, and to thank the city's homicide detectives for helping with the novel's research, the author held a party for about 25 of the city's finest and made sure all received an...

An absolute winner.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Little, Brown calls the latest John le Carre bestseller, Absolute Friends, "the masterpiece of his career." That's heady stuff for an author whose accolades have already included such encomiums as "world's greatest fictional spymaster." Le...

Bush-bashing books.(behind the bestsellers)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... And they sell! Last week, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips hit our list at #10; this week, it climbs to #7. Phillips is currently finishing a 10-city tour and will soon...

Indies rock Lolita.(behind the bestsellers)(Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... This week's Book News hails the success of our latest trade paper bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi, as an indicator of literary titles that enjoy strong support at independent bookstores and eventually...

A hellish oops.(behind the bestsellers)(Correction Notice)
January 26, 2004... On last week's hardcover fiction bestseller list (Jan. 19), we had the wrong book in the #4 position. It should have been week #1 for W.E.B. Griffin's Retreat, Hell. Even in this bestseller column, we didn't get our information totally...

Oops, part deux.(behind the bestsellers)(Correction Notice)
January 26, 2004... In the January 5 PW, we mixed up some numbers in the text accompanying the chart on page 5. When we compared the 2003 numbers for nonfiction with 2002 and 2001, we inadvertently used fiction totals. In an attempt to straighten out the...

Book lovers of the world unite: will Reading Lolita in Tehran become one of the year's biggest book club reads?(book news)
January 26, 2004... Sometimes a book performs well in hardcover, and then becomes turbo-charged in paperback, as book club recommendations exponentially amplify the buzz. It happened with Sue Monk Kidd's first novel, The Secret Life of Bees--which sold three...

DaCapo embraces metrosexuality.(Quick Hit)(The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man)
January 26, 2004... The Zeitgeist cycle spins ever faster. On June 22, 2003, the Style section of the New York Times ran an article about well-coifed and-moisturized straight men that memorably dubbed them "metrosexuals." Within weeks the word had entered the...

Brotherly (and sisterly) love: Philadelphia's 30-year-old Giovanni's Room is thriving in the rough tides of GLBT bookselling.(bookselling)(gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender)(Company Profile)
January 26, 2004... It seems only fitting that Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, would spawn a gay bookstore. Giovanni's Room, which also shares a tenacity with local hero Rocky Balboa, recently celebrated 30 years as one of the oldest gay/lesbian...

All roads lead to ... first fiction: this season's debut novelists come from wildly divergent backgrounds and careers.(Biography)
January 26, 2004... Jack Kerley The Hundredth Man Dutton (June) "It was always in the back of my head to write a novel, and the more I was in advertising, the closer the idea came to the front," says Jack Kerley, a Kentuckian who toiled in the ad game...

Paperback writers.
January 26, 2004... The ongoing conundrum in publishing fiction: How to convince readers to take a chance on a new author? One strategy that's clearly here to stay is publishing debut novels as paperback originals rather than as hardcovers. "I'm trying to make...

Two for the show.(joint authorship)
January 26, 2004... Though it isn't exactly news when two writers join forces on a novel, it does seem unusual that joint bylines show up on several of this season's fiction debuts. The Rule of Four (Dial Press, May) by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason is a...

Crossover dreams.(Faithful)(The Perfect Play)(The Devil of Shakespeare)(Beijing Doll)(Book Review)
January 26, 2004... It's not just the Billboard Top 10 that musicians are dreaming of these days--some evidently hope to land a spot on PW's bestseller lists. Here are a few first-time novelists with musical backgrounds looking for publishing platinum this...

The Bling Blings of spring: an on-sale calendar of the season's big money titles.(Calendar)
January 26, 2004... AS A NEW FEATURE IN PW's TWICE-yearly annoucements issues, we're introducing this on, sale calendar, listing many of the biggest hardcover titles landing between March and August. Selected according to each author's track record as well as...

The 2004 race begins: authors (and politicians) vie for top honors.
January 26, 2004... AS THE SPRING 2004 SEASON gets under way, prepare for an onslaught of titles debating our country's merits and shortcomings in this election year. The Bush administration is under attack on many fronts, starting with its foreign policy....

Art & Architecture.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABBEVILLE Fine Art of the West (June, $75) by B. Byron Price delves into the traditional arts and crafts of the unsettled American West. Ray Ellis in Retrospect: A Painter's Journey (Mar., $55) by Valerie Ann Leeds focuses on the...

Biography & Memoirs.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABBEVILLE Museum Stories (May, $29.95) by Michel Laclotte. An art world insider recalls 50 years of international museum culture. ANDREWS MCMEEL Judged by Love: A Biography of William X. Kienzle (Apr., $19.95) by Javan Kienzle....

Business & Finance.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... AGATE Word of the Mouse: The New Age of Networked Media (June, $24.95) by Jim Banister analyzes how networked media are revolutionizing both business and our daily lives. 4-city author tour. AMACOM Time Power: A Proven System...

Childcare & Parenting.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ATRIA Growing Up Healthy (May, $26) by Joan Lunden and Myron Winick, M.D., advises parents in raising healthy, nutritionally conscious children. Ad/promo. 4-city, author tour. 20-city radio satellite tour. BALLANTINE The...

Contemporary Affairs.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ARCADE Getting Away with Murder: The Real Story Behind American Taliban John Walker Lindh and What the U.S. Government Had to Hide (Apr., $25) by Richard D. Mahoney investigates the death of American Mike Spann and the case of the...

Cookbooks, Wine & Entertaining.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN Baking Illustrated: The Ultimate Kitchen Companion for the Home Baker with 375 Foolproof Recipes (Apr., $34.95) by the Cook's Illustrated editors is a master baking class for home cooks. AMERICAN EXPRESS ...

Fiction/First Fiction & Collections.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... AGATE (agatepub@ameritech.net) The Team (June, $23.95) by Dawson Perkins concerns a black professional woman's recovery after being raped by a basketball star. 5-city author tour. ALGONQUIN Poe & Fanny (May, $25.95) by John...

General Fiction & Short Stories.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ALGONQUIN Wakefield (May, $24.95) by Andrei Codrescu sums up the late 20th century in a rollicking deal-with-the-devil yarn. 12-city, author tour. ARCADE The Half Brother (May, $26) by Lars Christensen scans four generations of...

Fiction/Mystery & Suspense.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ALLISON & BUSBY Dead Trouble (Mar., $25.95) by Margaret Duffy. Ingrid Langley and her husband are after a pathologist's murderer in the latest MI-5 thriller. The Railway Detective (Apr., $25.95) by Edward Marston. Insp. Robert...

Fiction/Science Fiction & Fantasy.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ACE Dead to the World (May, $23.95) by Charlaine Harris. Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse returns with her supernatural gift. BANTAM SPECTRA A Feast for Crows (May, $28) by George R.R. Martin. With the death of a monstrous...

Folklore, Myths and Legends.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... JOHN F. BLAIR Boogers and Boo-Daddies: The Best of Blair's Ghost Stories (Mar., $13.95), edited by John F. Blair staff, collects the best from each of 20 ghost story collections to celebrate Blair's 50th anniversary. THAMES & HUDSON...

Gay & Lesbian Studies.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... DK Ultimate Gay Sex (May, $30) by Michael Thomas Ford. This illustrated manual covers every aspect of gay sex. Advertising. Author tour. MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIV. PRESS Dead Boys Can't Dance: Sexual Orientation, Masculinity., and...

Health, Fitness & Beauty.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABRAMS Serge Normant/Metamorphosis (Apr., $40) by Serge Normant. A hair stylist to the stars shows his stuff. 25,000 first printing. ATRIA Unblemished!: Stop Breakouts, Fight Acne, and Change Your Life Forever with the Proven...

History.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... AARP (dist. by Sterling) My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (May, $29.95) by Juan Williams gathers eyewitness accounts from people who played an active role in the C Nil Rights movement over the past 50...

Humor.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ANDREWS MCMEEL A Friend Is... A Get Fuzzy Gift Book (May, $9.95) by Darby Conley collects comic strips from the series that portrays single life with pets. ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism...

Lifestyle & How To.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABRAMS Cuban Elegance (Apr., $40) by Michael Connors looks at the opulent lifestyle of the Spanish-Creole aristocracy of Cuba's colonial period. ANGEL CITY PRESS Barbie Loves L.A.: America's Favorite Doll Sees the Sights (Mar.,...

Literary Criticism & Essays.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... BOYDELL & BREWER Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology (Mar., $75) by John Hines aims to link archeology with the critical reading of literature. CATHOLIC UNIV. OF AMERICA PRESS Representing the Troubles in...

Nature & Environment.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABBEVILLE Ansel Adams: The National Park Service Photographs (Mar., $29.95 with CD). Orchestral music by Tim Janis provides an evocative backdrop for Adams's images of the American landscape. BALLANTINE Slipping into Paradise...

New Age.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... BEAR & COMPANY The Earth Chronicles Expeditions: Journeys to the Mythical Past (May, $24) by Zecharia Sitchin. The author of The 12th Planet provides evidence that we are not alone in our solar system. CITADEL PRESS Meditations...

Performing Arts & Film.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABRAMS John Waters: Change of Life (Mar., $37.50), essays by Marvin Heiferman, Gary Indiana, Lisa Phillips and Brenda Richardson; interview with John Waters by Todd Solondz, looks at "The Pope of Trash" and creator of the film and...

Philosophy.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism (Mar., $28.95) by Isaiah Berlin is the first collection of his writings about the U.S.S.R. Advertising. CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS Isaiah Berlin, Letters...

Photography.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABRAMS Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943 (May, $35) by Paul Hendrickson. Photos commissioned by the Farm Security Administration show a country emerging from the Great Depression to fight WWII. ANGEL CITY PRESS ...

Poetry.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ALGONQUIN The Woman I Kept to Myself (Apr., $18.95) by Julia Alvarez depicts Alvarez's Dominican Republic childhood and position as a celebrated Latina writer. BEACON PRESS New and Selected Poems, Vol. Two (Apr., $24) by Mary...

Politics.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... AKASHIC BOOKS/RDV Manual for a Wounded Dove: The Origins of the Road Map to Middle East Peace (Aug., $22.95) by Yossi Beilin. One of the plan's founding architects offers a detailed personal history. Ad/promo. BASIC BOOKS The...

Psychology.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... BROADWAY BOOKS Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children (May, $24.95) by Paul Raeburn is a memoir about the illnesses of the author's son and daughter. CORNELL UNIV....

Reference.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ALLISON & BUSBY The Crime Writer's Handbook (Mar., $12.95) by Douglas Wynn explains how to get the facts right when writing a crime or mystery novel. CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (May, $35) by Pam...

Religion & Inspiration.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABINGDON PRESS The New Interpreter's Bible Index (May, $40) provides a wealth of information for the New Interpreter's Bible 12-volume commentary series. ABRAMS John Paul II: A Pope for the People (Mar., $40), essays by...

Science.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... BLOOMSBURY Acquainted with the Night: An Intimate Journey Through the World after Dark (June, $24.95) by Christopher Dewdney explores the hours from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. scientifically, sociologically, historically and literarily. ...

Self-Help & Recovery.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ANDREWS MCMEEL 40 Days and 40 Nights: Taking Time Out for Self Discovery (Apr., $14.95) by Ilene Segalove guides readers on an excursion of personal discovery. The Book for People Who Do Too Much (May, $9.95) by Bradley Trevor...

Social Sciences.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ALGONQUIN Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Apr., $21.95) by Steve Almond offers a sugar-high tour through America's last independent candy companies. Ad/promo. 20-city author tour. AMISTAD Some...

Sports.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... ABRAMS Classic Golf (June, $35) by Rick Reilly, photos by Walter Iooss Jr., gathers 175 photographs taken over 40 years with text by Reilly. AMISTAD The Match: Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton (June, $24.95) by Bruce Schoenfeld....

True Crime.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... DK Organized Crime: An Inside Guide to the World's Most Successful Industry (Apr., $30) by Paul Lunde is an in-depth account of the criminal underworld and its inhabitants. Advertising. M. EVANS (dist. by NBN) Gangsters and...

War & Military.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... BEACON PRESS Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High and Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture (June, $28.50) by Carol Burke looks at misogyny in the modern military. BRASSEY'S Brassey's D-Day Encyclopedia:...

Women's Studies.(Spring 2004 Hardcover)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
January 26, 2004... CUMBERLAND HOUSE B.O.O.B.S.: A Bunch of Outrageous Breast Cancer Survivors Tell Their Stories of Courage, Hope and Healing (May, $22.95), compiled and edited by Ann Kempner Fisher. Ten diverse women share their experiences. GREYSTONE...

Sticky situations.(Art & Architecture)(book about chewing gum)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Thanks to two new books, readers can get their sugar fix without swallowing a single calorie. From Routledge comes Chewing Gum: An Unofficial History (May) by Michael Redclift. "This is the history of a commodity," says editor David McBride,...

Ship of jewels.(Biography & Memoirs)(book about the Queen Mary 2)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Michael Sand, executive editor of Bulfinch Press, describes Cunard's recently completed Queen Mary 2 as "the largest and most expensive ocean liner in i the world. It's taller than the Statue of Liberty, longer than four city blocks. It has...

Self-(consciousness) help.(Business & Finance)(book about first impressions)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... In both the business and personal worlds, first impressions matter greatly, as clinical psychologists Ann Demarais and Valerie White point out in First Impressions: What You Don't Know About How Others See You (Bantam, Mar.). The pair, who...

Mobile home.(Childcare & Parenting)(narrative about moving a cottage)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... The actual header on the classified ad read "Cottages for Sale, Must Be Moved," but Kate Whouley fudged a letter, making her memoir singular: Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home (Commonwealth Editions, May)....

Portrait of a difficult man.(Cookbooks, Wine & Entertaining)(biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Nicknamed "the father of the atom bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer was a notoriously perplexing person. The puzzle that he was will be addressed by former New Yorker staff writer Jeremy Bernstein in Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Ivan R....

Mail bonding.(General Fiction & Short Stories)(anthology of letters from parents)(Brief Article)
January 26, 2004... Dorie McCullough Lawson has always resisted writing. "As the daughter of a writer [Pulitzer Prize--winner David McCullough], I didn't want to write at all. Absolutely not. Too hard." Yet she reads biographies avidly, with a confessed foible....