Publishers Weekly articles from July 2006

Publishers Weekly archives from July 2006

Publishers start selling the green lifestyle: books on green living could become big business.(Danny Seo)
July 31, 2006... When Danny Seo was a third grader, he was assigned to turn an empty plastic detergent bottle into a bird feeder. Recalling the task, Seo said he was the only kid in his class to question the aesthetics of the final product. Seo is now making...

S&S realigns sales force.(Simon and Schuster Inc.)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Simon & Schuster is reorganizing its field sales force, forming a unit that will call on both independent booksellers and certain specialty accounts. The new sales unit, which will begin calling on accounts September 5, will sell all S&S...

TWBG adds to Hachette.(Hachette-Livre acquires AOL Time Warner Book Group)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... The former Time Warner Book Group contributed 98 million euros ($121 million) to Lagardere Media's book group in the first half of 2006. Lagardere acquired TBWG on March 31. Total book sales at Lagardere's Hachette Livre subsidiary rose...

Do you, Mr. Jones?(George Jones)
July 31, 2006... Sometimes when you ask a question, you really get some answers. Last week, in PW Daily and on our Web site, our Talk Back Tuesday feature probed for readers' thoughts about how George Jones, the incoming CEO at Borders, could improve the...

Dalmatian acquires Intervisual.(Dalmatian Press )(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Dalmatian Press has acquired Intervisual Books, paying about $9.6 million to acquire the children's book publisher, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May. Dalmatian's bid topped an early offer of just over $7 million from Educational...

Nelnet buys Peterson's.(Thomson Corp. Thomson Peterson's)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Nelnet, a Lincoln, Neb., company that provides loans and other financial-related services to college students, has acquired Peterson's, the test prep and college guide publisher that had been part of Thomson Corp. According to Nelnet,...

Sales up at Meredith.(Meredith Books)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Sales at Meredith Books grew "in the mid teens" in the fiscal year ended June 30, parent company Meredith Corp. said. Operating profits "grew slightly" in the year, with final results hurt by higher returns of some licensed titles. Books that...

Thomas Gladysz, The Booksmith, San Francisco, Calif.(Louise Brooks)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is best known for playing Lulu in the silent 1929 German film Pandora's Box. Critics called her "an astonishing actress endowed with an intelligence beyond compare" and "the most seductive, sexual image of woman ever...

Bernard exits Harcourt.(Andre Bernard)(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... After a decade at Harcourt, v-p and publisher of adult books Andre Bernard is stepping down. Bernard, who's been in the business for more than 20 years, is leaving to become v-p of the Guggenheim Foundation. Stepping into Bernard's spot will...

Bracco succeeds Black at CDS.(Perseus Books Group's distribution arm appoints Sabrina Bracco)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... The Perseus Book Group has named Sabrina Bracco v-p for client services at its distribution arm, CDS. Bracco succeeds Steve Black, a cofounder of CDS. Perseus acquired CDS last year. Bracco has been at Bear Stearns, but prior to that she...

Getting 'Lost' at Comic-Con.(R.H. Stevens and Jorge Garcia)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... At the recent San Diego Comic-Con, author R.H. Stevens, who penned the new Marvel series Demons of Mercy, stopped to take a picture with her favorite Lost castmate, Jorge Garcia (aka Hurley).

Small publisher loses round in LoC fight.(Library of Congress)
July 31, 2006... The Library of Congress requires that a publisher must publish books by three different authors before its works will be included in LoC's Cataloguing in Publication program; last summer, Lev Tristin, author and self-publisher of The Pitfall...

Verso expects profits.(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... After "a number of years in the doldrums," Verso managing director Giles O'Bryen said the company has a "realistic prospect of returning to profitability" this year. Sales for the first six months of 2006 were up 70%, to $1.7 million, and the...

Lampooning for Saddam.(Saddam Hussein)(National Lampoon Inc.)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Outside the National Lampoon headquarters on Sunset Blvd., employees publicized the first title from the recently launched National Lampoon Press, The Saddam Dump: Saddam Hussein's Trial Blog.

Books out of Africa.
July 31, 2006... Next season will bring a number of literary works about Africa, written by Africans or by people who spent a portion of their lives there. Though varied in subject matter and genre, all are being hailed by critics. For fiction, see chart;...

Calendar: Aug. 6-12.(Foreword)
July 31, 2006... 8/7 Tommy Chong's The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint (Simon Spotlight) chronicles his Cheech & Chong days and the nine months he spent in prison for selling bongs. 8/8 PW's starred review of George Pelecanos's The Night...

Ronnie Sellers banks on boomers, pets.(Ronnie Sellers Productions )
July 31, 2006... After posting growth of 58% between 2003 and 2005, Portland, Maine-based Ronnie Sellers Productions is looking to baby boomers and pet lovers to continue to spark gains. Book sales are up 45% in 2006, according to president and publisher...

Reiss moves to Crown.(Crown Publishers Inc. acquired rights to Tom Reiss' two novels)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... After a major auction that reportedly included high-level bids from Penguin Press, Knopf, Norton and Spiegel & Grau, Crown's Rick Horgan snapped up world rights to the next two books by bestselling author Tom Reiss (The Orientalist) via Tina...

Spanish preempt.(The Creator's Map by Emilio Calderon)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Penguin Press editor-in-chief Scott Moyers paid low six figures in a preempt for North American rights to a debut Spanish novel titled The Creator's Map; the author is Emilio Calderon and agent Thomas Colchie handled the deal on behalf of...

More on Shakespeare.(James Shapiro's 'Contested Will: The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy' and 'The Year of Lear: 1606')(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Columbia professor James Shapiro, whose A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 recently won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., is moving from Harper to Simon & Schuster for two new Shakespeare tomes. Bob Bender took North American...

The right note.(What Would Barbra Do? How Musicals Can Change Your Life)
July 31, 2006... Zoe Pagnamenta at PFD NY has just concluded an auction for Emma Brockes's memoir, What Would Barbra Do? How Musicals Can Change Your Life; Jonathan Burnham and Claire Wachtel at Harper prevailed over Scribner and S&S (in a house bid) and...

Two for Hyperion.(Mark Frost's The Second Objective)(Kerry Cohen's Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity)
July 31, 2006... Gretchen Young just acquired a new novel by Mark Frost titled The Second Objective. The plot revolves around a little-known fact of WWII--Hitler's plan for a select group of English-speaking soldiers to infiltrate Allied lines, disrupt the...

Stage to screen to book.(Denene Millner's 'Dreamgirls')(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Journalist and author Denene Millner (The Vow; Money, Power, Respect) has signed on with Harper Entertainment's Will Hinton to write a novelization of Broadway musical Dreamgirls, the forthcoming screen version of which stars Beyonce Knowles...

Shandler up at Alloy.(Alloy Entertainment Inc. promoted Sara Shandler)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Sara Shandler has been promoted to senior editor at Alloy Entertainment. Author of Ophelia Speaks, Shandler has edited the bestselling Gossip Girl and It Girl series since joining Alloy in 2003. Before that, Shandler worked for Seventeen...

Purdy to OUP.(Christian Purdy appointed at Oxford University Press)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Christian Purdy has been named director of publicity at Oxford University Press. Purdy, who worked for Oxford from 1992 through 2000, was most recently doing freelance publicity work for Princeton University Press and Basic Books....

Grann gets WMG board seat.(Phyllis Grann joins Warner Music Group Corp.)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Apparently not content to stick to book publishing, Phyllis Grann is taking a seat on Warner Music Group's board of directors, where she'll sit on its audit committee. The one-time head of Putnam and Penguin is now a senior editor at...

Harmony's John Glusman has acquired world rights to Rich Blake's The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up, which is the story of a Buffalo, N.Y., firefighter who fell into a coma-like state for nearly 10 years, until April 2005, when he miraculously began to speak for one extraordinary 16-hour period.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Harmony's John Glusman has acquired world rights to Rich Blake's The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up, which is the story of a Buffalo, N.Y., firefighter who fell into a coma-like state for nearly 10 years, until April 2005, when he miraculously...

Lucia Watson at Viking Studio has acquired North American rights to Melissa Murphy's The Sweet Melissa Patisserie Recipe Book: Everyone's Favorite Desserts Better than They've Ever Had Them Before from Michael Psaltis at Culinary Cooperative/Regal Literary.(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Lucia Watson at Viking Studio has acquired North American rights to Melissa Murphy's The Sweet Melissa Patisserie Recipe Book: Everyone's Favorite Desserts Better than They've Ever Had Them Before from Michael Psaltis at Culinary...

Izarek up at Scholastic mag.(Scholastic Publications Ltd. promoted Stephanie Izarek)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Stephanie Izarek has been promoted from executive editor to editor-in-chief of Scholastic Parent & Child. The magazine, which has an audience of more than 7.5 million, focuses on advice for parents of children up to age 12.

Gonnason to Ten Speed.(Hayley Gonnason joins Philip Wood Inc.)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Hayley Gonnason has joined Ten Speed Press's Tricycle Press imprint as publicist. Gonnason arrives at Ten Speed after finishing a journalism internship at the Connecticut newspaper, the Greenwich Post.

Vive le Tour!(Christopher Thompson's 'The Tour de France: A Cultural History')(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... On July 24, one day after the Tour de France ended, author Christopher Thompson posed with his book, The Tour de France: A Cultural History (Univ. of California Press), at the Paris bookstore the Red Wheelbarrow.

Can Frazier meet expectations?(Charles Frazier's 'Thirteen Moons')
July 31, 2006... With bookseller buzz a key part of the marketing strategy for Charles Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons, Random House is sending out a healthy 5,000 galleys this week. But with eight weeks to go before the October 3 publication, the...

Horan heads to Harcourt.(Peter Horan joins Harcourt General Inc.)(Brief article)
July 31, 2006... Peter Horan has been named publicist at Harcourt. Horan arrives from St. Martin's Press, where he worked for the past two years.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(Bibliography)
July 31, 2006... For the past decade, Goodkind has been turning down Hollywood, convinced that his 400,000-word novels could not be compressed into worthwhile feature films. Enter Sam Raimi, director of Spider-Man and Spider-Man II, and his producing partner...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(Bibliography)
July 31, 2006... PW gave a starred review to the unabridged audiobook of Philbrick's bestseller, saying, "What makes Philbrick's book so fascinating and accessible--the way he turns the Pilgrim legend on its head and shakes out fresh insights from the crusty...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(Bibliography)
July 31, 2006... "Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller, set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. The snowy suspense will cool off {her} fans during the dog days of summer." FROM PW's REVIEW OF BROWN'S LATEST BESTSELLER, FOR...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(Bibliography)
July 31, 2006... The movie version of The Devil Wears Prada is holding its own against such box office champs as Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Monster House and Superman Returns. As of July 27, the "Meryl-Streep-as-Anna-Wintour" vehicle ranked as the 11th...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.(Bibliography)
July 31, 2006... Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which opened July 7, is the biggest movie of the year so far, grossing just under $322 million at press time. It smashed several records, beating out SpiderMan to nab the biggest all-time opening...

House of Galassi: as its 60th anniversary approaches, FSG is evolving under the hand of Jonathan Galassi.(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
July 31, 2006... Ten years ago this fall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux celebrated its 50th anniversary with a "merry and tumultuous party," according to the New Yorker, held in the grand entrance hall of the New York Public Library. At the center of it all stood...

All he needs is story.(Edward P. Jones)
July 31, 2006... There's a moment in Edward P. Jones's new story collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children--coming out in September from Amistad--when a community of well-to-do blacks watches from behind "discreetly parted" curtains ad the Benningtons move in....

Testing, testing, testing. The road to Harvard is paved with guidebooks.(Student Aids)
July 31, 2006... The two-hour long Advanced Placement Microeconomics exam was the last standardized test I took as a high school student. I still remember feeling triumphant and relieved when the proctor collected our booklets. I was done. I had survived the...

The ABCs of getting there: guides to the guides: outfitting students for the perilous trip through higher education is big business, and several companies stake their reputations on the kinds of help they deem appropriate. Here is a playbook on what the major publishers have to offer.(Student Aids)(Directory)
July 31, 2006... BARRON'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES, Hauppauge, N.Y. BMOC: Bob O'Sullivan, managing editor MAJORING IN: Study guides, college admission guides, test prep books ANNUAL OUTPUT: 47 test prep guides; 55 study guides; seven college and grad...

An autumn full of audio.(Fall Audio Listings)(Cover story)(Bibliography)(List)
July 31, 2006... The fall harvest of audiobooks is a bumper crop, offering listeners more variety than ever. In the fiction field, there are long-awaited novels from Charles Frazier and Scott Smith and the much-anticipated audio edition of the classic To Kill...

Children's fall audio & DVD.(Children's Fall Audio Listings)(Bibliography)
July 31, 2006... ANCHOR BAY Princess Natasha: Season One DVD, 72 min., $14.98, ages 8-up, Aug. Scary Godmother: Jimmy's Revenge DVD, 47 min., $14.98, ages 5-up, Aug. Thomas & Friends: Thomas' Halloween Adventure DVD, 60 min., $14.98; $19.98...

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories SUSANNA CLARKE. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 1-59691-251-0 Like Clarke's first novel, the bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, these eight stories (seven previously published) are set...

Rescue Missions: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... * Rescue Missions: Stories FREDERICK BUSCH. Norton, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-393-06252-X American letters endured a major loss in February 2006 with the sudden death of the author of North, The Night Inspector and 23 other books. Set in the...

Famous Writers School.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Famous Writers School STEVEN CARTER. Counterpoint, $23 (256p) ISBN 1-58243-356-9 Wendell Newton, the protagonist in Carter's second novel (after I Was Howard Hughes), is a former editorial staffer at America's Farmer and author (or so he...

Jack Absolute.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Jack Absolute C.C. HUMPHREYS. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-35822-9 A stage actor, novelist and playwright, Humphreys (The French Executioner) examines the American Revolution through the eyes of the inestimable Capt. Jack...

The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men RANDY W. NELSON. Univ. of Georgia, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-8203-2845-6 Running the gamut from weird to outright creepy, these 13 stories shed sympathetic light on the unseemly, the ungainly and the...

The Mission Song.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... * The Mission Song JOHN LE CARRE. Little, Brown, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 0-316-01674-8 Bestseller le Carre (The Constant Gardener) brings a light touch to his 20th novel, the engrossing tale of an idealistic and naive British interpreter,...

Fear of the Dark.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Fear of the Dark WALTER MOSLEY. Little, Brown, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 0-316-73458-6 Though the prose is a bit rough in spots, Mosley's third outing for L.A. bookseller Paris Minton and the intrepid Fearless Jones is as entertaining as its...

PW talks with Michael Cox: a contemporary victorian.(Interview)
July 31, 2006... Michael Cox, a longtime editor at Oxford University Press, is publishing his first novel, The Meaning of Night (Reviews, July 17). What were the literary models for your novel? The main literary models for the book are the Sensation...

The Splendor of Silence.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Splendor of Silence INDU SUNDARESAN. Atria, $25 (421p) ISBN 0-7432-8367-8 Sundaresan (A Feast of Roses) returns to her native India for a sprawling story of forbidden love set against the backdrop of WWII and the struggle for Indian...

The Testament.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Testament ERIC VAN LUSTBADER. Forge, $24.95 (480p) ISBN 0-765-31463-0 Bestseller Lustbader (The Bourne Legacy) jumps on the Da Vinci Code bandwagon with this high-octane but familiar tale of yet another lost gospel that would rock...

The Wrong Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... * The Wrong Man JOHN KATZENBACH. Ballantine, $25.95 (480p) ISBN 0-345-46483-4 Bestseller Katzenbach (The Traveler) manages the impressive feat of taking a thriller cliche and using it as the basis for a powerful and complex story. The...

Hood.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Hood STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD. WestBow, $24.99 (512p) ISBN 1-5955-4085-7 Lawhead (Byzantium), known for his historical and fantasy fiction, reimagines the tale of Robin Hood in his latest novel, the first in the King Raven Trilogy. Based on...

Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811 BERNARD CORNWELL. HarperCollins, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-06-053048-0 Capt. Richard Sharpe, upstart rifleman, performs a sensitive mission for Henry Wellesley, the duke of...

The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story DAVID TREUER. Graywolf, $23 (344p) ISBN 1-55597-451-1 The intertwining of two love stories results in a strangely compelling take on matters of the heart in Treuer's third novel (after The...

Under Orders.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Under Orders DICK FRANCIS. Putnam, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 0-399-15400-0 Beloved series character Sid Halley, a champion jockey, makes a welcome return in the latest fast-paced crime novel from bestseller Francis (Come to Grief). When a...

The Balance Thing.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Balance Thing MARGARET DUMAS. Harper, $13.95 paper (352p) ISBN 0-06-112772-8 In her chick lit debut (following two murder mysteries), Dumas, a Bay Area software exec, struggles admirably to create a heroine who's lovable but...

Last Notes and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Last Notes and Other Stories TAMAS DOBOZY. Arcade, $23 (192p) ISBN 1-55970-808-5 The 10 first-person stories of Dobozy's debut, remarkable for their psychological and emotional complexity, yearn to make sense of eccentric and opaque...

The Gardens of the Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Gardens of the Dead WILLIAM BRODRICK. Viking, $24.95 (366p) ISBN 0-670-03498-3 Sharply etched characters who owe a lot to the darker side of Dickens lift Brodrick's sequel to his well-received debut, The Sixth Lamentation (2003),...

Maggie.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Maggie CHARLES MARTIN. WestBow, $14.99 paper (320p) ISBN 1-5955-4055-5 Fans of Martin's Christy-nominated debut novel, The Dead Don't Dance (2004), will be delighted to see this somewhat uneven sequel in which Martin picks up the story...

The Orange Tree.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Orange Tree MILDRED WALKER, EDITED BY CARMEN PEARSON. Univ. of Nebraska, $24.95 (329p) ISBN 0-8032-4828-8; $12.95 paper ISBN 0-8032-9864-1 Known in the mid-20th century for her American chronicles (Winter Wheat; Fireweed), Walker...

When the Heart Cries.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... When the Heart Cries CINDY WOODSMALL. WaterBrook, $13.99 paper (336p) ISBN 1-4000-7292-1 In this debut inspirational novel, Woodsmall takes readers inside a contemporary Amish family where the eldest daughter, Hannah, has fallen in love...

Vicious Circle: A Novel of Complicity.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Vicious Circle: A Novel of Complicity ROBERT LITTELL. Overlook, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 1-58567-855-4 Veteran espionage writer Littell, whose 1973 debut, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, prompted critics to compare him to such British masters...

Severance: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Severance ROBERT OLEN BUTLER. Chronicle, $22.95 (264p) ISBN 0-8118-5614-3 Lively writing and a catchy conceit make this collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain a thought-provoking, if...

The Birth House.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Birth House AMI McKAY. Morrow, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 0-06-11-3585-2 Canadian radiojournalist McKay was unable to ferret out the life story of late midwife Rebecca Steele, who operated a Nova Scotia birthing center out of McKay's Bay of...

On Agate Hill.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... On Agate Hill LEE SMITH. Algonquin/Shannon Ravenel, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 1-56512-452-9 following her 2001 Southern Book Critics Circle award-winning novel, The Last Girls, Smith's 10th novel chronicles the post-Civil War life of a...

Across the China Sky.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Across the China Sky C. HOPE FLINCHBAUGH. Bethany, $12.99 paper (352p) ISBN 0-7642-0239-1 Two story lines intertwine in Flinchbaugh's disappointing, heavy-handed second novel, a sequel of sorts to 2002's Daughter of China. The main...

The Devil to Pay.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Devil to Pay HAROLD ROBBINS AND JUNIUS PODRUG. Forge, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 0-765-31148-8 Podrug (Blood Royal) carries on the late Robbins legacy of erotic thrillers with this aromatic brew of sex, danger, money, drugs and shade-grown...

Violet Dawn.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Violet Dawn BRANDILYN COLLINS. Zondervan, $12.99 paper (352p) ISBN 0-310-25223-7 As a shy newcomer in the tiny tourist community of Kanner Lake, Idaho, Paige Williams is already considered reclusive by the gregarious standards of the...

Slim to None.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Slim to None TAYLOR SMITH. Mira, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-7783-2332-3 Smith, who has been both a diplomat and an intelligence agent, convincingly conveys what life is like on the streets and sands of Iraq in her compelling new thriller (after...

A Summer All Her Own.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... A Summer All Her Own ROSANNE KELLER. NAL Accent, $12.95 paper (336p) ISBN 0-451-21943-0 Goal-oriented Anna Sandoval travels from her home in Washington, D.C., to Crete and plunges from the predictable into the uncertain. It's been a year...

Squat: A Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Squat: A Novel TAYLOR FIELD. Broadman & Holman, $14.99 paper (240p) ISBN 0-8054-3292-2 Field (Mercy Streets), a pastor on Manhattan's Lower East Side, sets his first novel in a homeless community just blocks from Wall Street. Characters...

My Name Is Bosnia.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... My Name Is Bosnia MADELEINE GAGNON, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY PHYLLIS ARONOFF AND HOWARD SCOTT. Talonbooks (Northwestern Univ. Press, dist.), $19.95 paper (256p) ISBN 0-88922-542-7 A Bosnian refugee who takes on the name of her...

The Crossroads Cafe.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... The Crossroads Cafe DEBORAH SMITH. Belle (www.bellebooks.com), $16.95 paper (488p) ISBN 0-9768760-5-1 Two damaged people find love and redemption in bestseller Smith's latest, a heavy-on-the-syrup romance that drafts 9/11 into...

Horse Latitudes.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... * Horse Latitudes PAUL MULDOON, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22 (144p) ISBN 0-374-17305-2 Muldoon is undisputedly a master poet. Many of his poems distinctly take up the poetic tradition yet skew it with half-rhymes and unlikely subjects...

Tokyo Butter: A Search for Forms of Deirdre.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Tokyo Butter: A Search for Forms of Deirdre THYLIAS MOSS. Persea, $24 (144p) ISBN 0-89255-319-7 This eighth outing from MacArthur "genius" grant winner Moss (Slave Moth, 2004) is her most ambitious. Loosely organized around the idea of...

Angle of Yaw.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Angle of Yaw BEN LERNER. Copper Canyon, $15 paper (140p) ISBN 1-55659-246-9 Employing the language of aphorism, advertising, parable, personal essay, political tirade, journalism and journal, the collage-like poems of Lerner's second...

Only the Senses Sleep.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... * Only the Senses Sleep WAYNE MILLER. New Issues (SPD, dist.), $14 paper (84p) ISBN 1-930974-65-5 The 35 poems and sequences of this mature debut take an intimate look at everyday objects and incidents. Whether sitting in an empty room...

Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems LINTON KWESI JOHNSON. Ausable (Consortium, dist.), $16 paper (120p) ISBN 1-931337-29-2 With fiery verse and spellbinding, often reggae-backed, performances, the Jamaicanborn, London-based Johnson...

The Best American Poetry 2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... * The Best American Poetry 2006 EDITED BY BILLY COLLINS. Scribner, $30 (244p) ISBN 0-7432-2967-3; $16 paper ISBN 0-7432-5759-6 In the 19th installment of this annual series, former poet laureate Collins (The Trouble with Poetry, 2005),...

Remnants of Hannah.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 31, 2006... Remnants of Hannah DARA WIER. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $14 paper (72p) ISBN 1-933517-08-5 With bemusement and surrealist flair, Wier's 10th collection tackles familiar poetic themes: the search for meaning in everyday life, estrangement...