Publishers Weekly articles from May 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2008

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-618-41887-9 Acclaimed travel writer and novelist Theroux hasn't lost his affection for...

As costs soar, will prices follow? Publishers grapple with skyrocketing bills for paper, fuel.(Foreword)
May 5, 2008... Over the past few years, publishers have successfully reduced expenses by improving the efficiency of the supply chain. But now soaring costs of paper and energy are forcing publishers to reexamine ways to keep costs from spiraling out of...

Amazon sues New York.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Amazon has filed suit in New York challenging the constitutionality of the state's newly signed measure requiring out-of-state online retailers to collect sales tax on purchases made by residents of the state. The company maintains that because...

Quebecor has $2 billion loss.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Printing giant Quebecor World reported a net loss from continuing operations in 2007 of $2.20 billion, compared to earnings of $30.6 million in 2006. Revenue in the year fell 6.5%, to $5.69 billion. Much of the loss stems from charges...

The kids are alright.(Foreword)
May 5, 2008... Here are some things "everybody" knows: Young people don't read. (See: several NEA studies.) The Internet has killed the book business, especially for people under 40. (See: everywhere you look.) New college graduates would rather work...

Hachette plans Canadian office.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... The Hachette Book Group will open a Toronto office January 1 to take over the sales of its American titles to Canada's national accounts. Since 1990, Hachette's U.S. books have been distributed by HB Fenn, which will continue to handle sales...

Booksellers protest Abe charges.(AbeBooks Inc.'s surchages on shipping)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... The decision by AbeBooks to place an 8% surcharge on seller shipping expenses has angered many of the online retailer's booksellers, who called the move shortsighted and said it discriminates against international booksellers. Abe maintains...

Jean May, manager, Murder by the Book, Portland, Ore.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... I am a big fan of Lisa Unger's work--I chose Beautiful Lies as my favorite paperback of 2006. When I received Black Out [Shaye Are-heart, May 27] I admit that I was a bit disappointed that it was billed as a "stand-alone." But as soon as I...

First-quarter scorecard ($ in millions).
May 5, 2008... Simon & Shuster A difficult comparison to the first quarter of 2007, when the company shipped $53 million worth of The Secret products, was the major factor in the decline of both sales and earnings in the first quarter. The only major...

Perl headed to S&S.(Simon & Schuster's Liz Perl )(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Liz Perl will join Simon & Schuster May 19 as senior v-p, marketing for adult publishing. She will report to Michael Selleck, executive v-p of sales and marketing, and take over the marketing duties Selleck performed before being promoted to...

Cotler exiting HarperCollins.(Joanna Cotler)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Joanna Cotler, publisher of the HarperCollins children's imprint Joanna Cotler Books, is stepping down from her position. The imprint will live on in a limited fashion, with Cotler continuing to work on a handful of titles as editor-at-large.

New York passes libel law.(Libel Terrorism Protection Act)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... New York State has enacted a law that will make it harder for "libel tourists" to threaten authors and publishers with foreign libel suits. The Libel Terrorism Protection Act prohibits the enforcement of a foreign libel judgment unless a New...

'Gourmet' starts Cookbook Club.(Reichl Channels Oprah)(Gourmet Cookbook Club)
May 5, 2008... In an attempt to help its readers "cut through the clutter" of the 24,000 cookbooks published each year, Gourmet magazine is launching the Gourmet Cookbook Club, which will select one book a month. The magazine's editors will choose books that...

Audible forms Sci-Fi imprint.(Audible Frontiers)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Audible has formed a new imprint, Audible Frontiers, which will offer a range of exclusive science fiction and fantasy titles that will be available as digital downloads solely through its Web site. The imprint will feature a number of original...

Penguin inks 'Star Wars' deal.(Star Wars: The Clone Wars)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... The Penguin Group has won a global license to publish books based on Lucasfilm's new 3D-animated film and TV franchise, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The program will extend across several imprints within Penguin Young Readers Group, DK Publishing...

Three more from Bourdain.(Deals)(Anthony Bourdain)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Daniel Halpern at Ecco has acquired Anthony Bourdain's next three books in a North American rights deal with Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell. The first book, Cooks, is a follow-up to Kitchen Confidential, in which the author explores how the...

Bent sells two.(Deals)(Jenny Bent)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Hyperion executive editor Gretchen Young bought world rights to Please Don't Feed the Daisy: Living, Loving and Eating with the World's Fattest Dog by Beverly West and Jason Bergund via Jenny Bent at Trident. The story of an unconventional...

One more for Rutgers.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Elsewhere at Rutgers, editor-in-chief Leslie Mitchner acquired North American rights to Los Angeles Times writer Scott Martelle's The Fear Within via Jane Dystel. The book recounts the 1949 Foley Square Trial, a...

American wilderness.(Deals)('Once and Future Wilderness')(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Harmony executive editor John Glusman has signed up Nature Noir author Jordan Fisher Smith for a new book, The Once and Future Wilderness, via Sandra Dijkstra, who sold North American rights. A former park ranger hailed by Newsweek as someone...

Behind the Mousketeers.(Deals)(Grand Central and Jennifer Armstrong)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Grand Central editor Celia Johnson acquired world rights to Entertainment Weekly writer Jennifer Armstrong's untitled book on The Mickey Mouse Club via Nicole Steen at Elyse Cheney, who sold world rights for six figures. This behind-the-scenes...

Calendar: May 11-17.(books)(Brief article)(Calendar)
May 5, 2008... 5/11 Give mom some laughs on Mother's Day with Jill Conner Browne's The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit (S&S and Brilliance Audio). 5/12 Celebrate the 101st anniversary of Katharine Hepburn's...

New looks for Collins Publishing.(Foreword)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... As part of its effort to promote the new Collins Publishing Group, the HarperCollins division is rolling out a new look and logo. Steve Ross, who took over as president and publisher of Collins nine months ago, said the creation of four logos...

Walker, college team on 'Twilight Zone' graphic novels.(Collaborating)(Savannah College of Art & Design)
May 5, 2008... Walker & Co. has teamed with the Savannah College of Art & Design and the estate of famed TV writer Rod Serling to produce a series of graphic novels based on the original scripts for the classic TV show The Twilight Zone. The venture was...

Powers leaving Nelson.(People)(Joe Powers)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Joe Powers is stepping down from his executive post at Thomas Nelson. Powers, who announced he would be retiring in July 2007, transitioned from CFO to executive v-p of strategic development in November.

Hunn to HC.(People)(HarperCollins' Trina Hunn )(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Trina Hunn has been named assistant general counsel in the HarperCollins legal department. Hunn arrives from Hearst, where she held the same title. Elsewhere at HC, Andrea Rosen has been promoted from v-p, special markets, to senior v-p,...

Pagnamenta going solo.(People)(Zoe Pagnamenta)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Zoe Pagnamenta is leaving Peters, Fraser & Dunlop to start her own agency, the Zoe Pagnamenta Agency. Pagnamenta was running the New York office of the London-based PFD. Her authors include Louis Masur, Alice Mattison and Ben Ratliff.

Industry stocks: April performances.(Market Watch)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Despite plenty of economic uncertainty, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index rose 4.6% in April, the first time the PWSI has posted a monthly increase this year. Stock prices at 11 companies gained in the month, while falling at five, and the gain...

A PEN plea.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Francine Prose spoke at a press conference held by PEN in New York last Thursday. The organization petitioned the Chinese government to release 39 writers who are currently imprisoned because of their writings.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
May 5, 2008... "The action-packed 12th installment in Johansen's saga featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is also a sequel of sorts to Pandora's Daughter, which chronicled the life of Megan Blair, an Atlanta physician with psychic abilities.... Johansen...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The more than four million readers of The Secret have already sampled the wisdom of James Arthur Ray, one of the modern-day teachers quoted frequently by Rhonda Byrne. In his bestseller, Ray explains the concept of...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
May 5, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] St. Martin's reports a 1.1 million first printing for Pandora's Daughter. For the first time, the publisher had both the mass market and Johansen's new hardcover, Quicksand, go on sale on the same day--April 22. The...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
May 5, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Comparing longevity on PW's four weekly bestseller lists underscores what we already know--traction is strongest on the trade paperback list. How strong? The 15 bestsellers on our May 5 list added up to a total of...

Comics bestsellers.(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Originally published in 1988, DC's The Killling Joke has been republished in a new, recolored 20th anniversary hardcover edition that takes the #4 spot on our list. Written by acclaimed comics writer Alan Moore, the...

Patterson aplenty.(Children's Books)(James Patterson)
May 5, 2008... There's no stopping James Patterson--his appeal, that is. Even hen the megaselling thriller riter with a record 39 New York Times bestsellers to his credit is writing for a narrower audience--in this case young adults his readership has proven...

Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood: indie publishers in the midwest.(50 UNDER 40)(Two Dollar Radio )(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Far from the cubicles of corporate Manhattan publishing, Eric Obenauf, 26, and Eliza Jane Wood, 28, run a publishing outfit called Two Dollar Radio out of their home in Granville, Ohio. The husband and wife sport tattoos of the company logo on...

Yes and no: is gay and lesbian publishing healthy?(Gay and Lesbian Publishing)
May 5, 2008... There's an anecdote that has been floating around gay publishing circles for the past couple of decades. The source of it is much disputed, but it was a story told to me when I first started in publishing way back in Nineteen-mumblety-mumble....

Where are we now?(Gay and Lesbian Publishing)
May 5, 2008... Keith Kahla's view that the gay and lesbian publishing sector is anemic but that the literature itself is thriving is not for everyone. We asked three major players for their sense of the state of the genre today, and got three quite different...

Series business.(Gay and Lesbian Publishing)
May 5, 2008... Last June, Boston's Beacon Press launched a new series, Queer Action/Queer Ideas, whose first two titles, Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community and Your World by Sue Hyde, and Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know About Their...

O pioneers! Cathing up with those who made a difference.(Gay and Lesbian Publishing)
May 5, 2008... When Katherine V. Forrest won the Publishing Triangle Lifetime Achievement Award on March 28 (see page 33), she said, "We have inherited a great literary mantle, because it comes from pioneers of great vision and courage." Below, we check in on...

Publishing Triangle Awards.(Gay and Lesbian Publishing)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... At New York City's New School, comedian Kate Clinton hosted the 20th annual Publishing Triangle Awards on April 28, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction and poetry published in 2007. Three legends publishing were honored with...

Comics class of '08: a new group of talented young comics artists makes its mark.(New Comics, New Artists)(Jeff Lemire, Dash Shaw, Eleanor Davis and Hope Larson)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... With the explosion of the graphic novel category, there's been a concurrent explosion in opportunities for young cartoonists. Coming out of art school, prodigious talents might once have been persuaded to follow the lucrative paths of...

On sale in June.(books)
May 5, 2008... Janet Evanovich crests summer's first big wave with two million copies, while James Patterson and Howard Roughan Sail in at one million, followed by Catherine Coulter, Danielle Steel and Clive Cussler. In nonfiction, Pete Sampras and Mark...

The Other Queen.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... * The Other Queen Philippa Gregory. Touchstone, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4912-3 In her latest foray into the lives and minds of Elizabethan shakers and movers, Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) takes on Mary Queen of Scots during her...

Downtown Owl.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Downtown Owl Chuck Klosterman. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4418-0 Four books of nonfiction (Fargo Rock City; Klosterman IV; etc.) and a steady magazine presence have established Klosterman as a pop culture writer known for his...

A Manuscript of Ashes.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... A Manuscript of Ashes Antonio Munoz Molina, trans, from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Harcourt, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-101410-1 Following Munoz Molina's acclaimed 18th book, Sepharad, this translation of his third novel (published in his...

The Yoga Teacher.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Yoga Teacher Alexandra Gray. Atlantic Monthly, $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87113-986-3 Gray (Ten Men) portrays the world of Westernized yoga, from its true disciples to spandex-wrapped poseurs, in this uplifting tale of starting over....

Train to Trieste.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Train to Trieste Domnica Radulescu. Knopf, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-26823-5 It's 1977 in Ceausescu's brutal Romania, and 17-year-old Mona Manoliu is falling for brooding Mihai Simionu, whom she meets on summer vacation in the...

The Glimmer Palace.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Glimmer Palace Beatrice Colin. Riverhead, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59448-985-3 Born in Germany on December 31, 1899, Lilly Aphrodite is orphaned almost immediately: her lonely and tragic struggle for connection and survival drives...

PW talks with Christopher Reich: the spy thriller rules.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Central Europe provides the locale for Rules of Deception (p. 43), California novelist Christopher Reich's new spy novel. You were born in Tokyo and have lived in Switzerland. In what way do you think your experiences abroad have affected...

The Good Thief.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Good Thief Hannah Tinti. Dial, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-33745-8 Set in New England, presumably in the 19th century, Tinti's Disney-ready first novel (after story collection Animal Crackers) follows one-handed orphan Ren's not quite...

boring boring boring boring boring boring boring.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Boring boring boring boring boring boring boring Zach Plague. Featherproof books (PGW, dist.), $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-9771992-5-9 Plague's debut is designed nearly to death and mocks the minor talents of the art school set....

Dogwood.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Dogwood Chris Fabry. Tyndale, $12.99 paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-4143-1955-1 In his ambitious adult debut, Fabry, the author of more than 50 novels for children and young adults, offers an unusual and occasionally confusing story with a twist....

Rules of Deception.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... * Rules of Deception Christopher Reich. Doubleday, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-52406-3 The un-put-downable sixth spy novel from bestseller Reich (The Patriots' Club, which won an International Thrillers Award in 2006) shows he's the equal...

Close.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Close Martina Cole. Grand Central, $24.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-446-17996-6 Sopranos fans will welcome British author Cole's U.S. debut, the U.K.'s #1 hardcover bestseller for 2006, which offers plenty of violence, sex, intrigue and...

Valfierno: The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Valfierno: The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa Martin Caparros, trans, from the Spanish by Jasper Reid. Atria, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-07432-9793-6 Capers don't come much ballsier than the heist of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, the...

So Long at the Fair.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... So Long at the Fair Christina Schwarz. Doubleday, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-51029-5 Fans of Schwarz's Oprah Book Club selection Drowning Ruth are likely to be disappointed by this convoluted novel about loyalty, love and obsession. Jon...

The Legal Limit.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... * The Legal Limit Martin Clark. Knopf, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 9780-307-26835-8 Clark's profound and moving third novel (after Plain Heathen Mischief and Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living) explores the disparity between justice and...

Say Goodbye.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Say Goodbye Lisa Gardner. Bantam, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0553-80433-1 In bestseller Gardner's engaging if highly disturbing 10th thriller, Delilah Rose is a Georgia prostitute familiar with pregnant FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy...

On a Day Like This.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... On a Day Like This Peter Stamm, trans, from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59051-279-1 In the quiet but evocative latest from Swiss writer Stamm (Unformed Landscape), Andreas, a 40-something Swiss...

Tiger, Tiger.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Tiger, Tiger Galaxy Craze. Grove, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1867-7 Craze's sequel to By the Shore is again told by the now teenage May, the levelheaded London girl coping with little brother Eden and wayward mother Lucy. When Lucy's...

Wifeshopping.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Wifeshopping Steven Wingate. Houghton Mifflin/Mariner, $12.95 paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-547-05365-3 Wingate's Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize--winning debut collection is dominated by first-person narratives of men with women problems. In...

The End of Sleep.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The End of Sleep Rowan Somerville. Norton, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-06660-9 Somerville's atmospheric if rudderless debut spans one action-packed day in the life of a hapless Irish journalist in Cairo, segmented into the five Islamic...

L'Assassin.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... * L'Assassin Peter Steiner. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-37342-9 Literate crime thrillers don't get much better than New Yorker cartoonist Steiner's intricately plotted sequel to his well-received debut, A...

Captives.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Captives Todd Hasak-Lowy. Harcourt, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-15-101435-4 Hasak-Lowy, author of a well-received short story collection, The Task of This Translator (2005), struggles in his debut novel, set primarily in Los Angeles. Daniel...

Real World.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Real World Natsuo Kirino, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-26757-3 Between the groans of a smog alert siren at the outset of this gripping noir from Kirino (Out), Tokyo high school student...

The Flirt.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Flirt Kathleen Tessaro. Avon, $13.95 paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-112576-8 When charming, penniless would-be actor Hughie Armstrong VenablesSmythe answers a mysterious London ad for "an attractive, well-mannered, mentally flexible young...

Everything Nice.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Ellen Shanman. Bantam, $12 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-34053-3; $5.99 mass market ISBN 978-0-553-59147-7 Here's a chick lit heroine with beauty and brains--and a bad-ass attitude that lands her in trouble. Out-of-work, out-of-love and...

The Amnesiac.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Amnesiac Sam Taylor. Penguin, $14 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-14-311340-9 British author Taylor (The Republic of Trees) makes his U.S. debut with a complex work of metafiction that will resonate with Jorge Luis Borges fans. James Purdew, a...

Swansea Terminal.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Swansea Terminal Robert Lewis. Serpent'sTail, $14.95 paper (266p) ISBN 978-1-85242-975-1 In Lewis's wryly amusing, darkly contemplative sequel to The Last Llanelli Train, ex-PI Robin Llywelyn is down and out in Swansea, only interested in...

Closer to Fine.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Closer to Fine Meri Weiss. Kensington, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2690-7 The opening 20 pages of this debut griefer show New Yorker Alexandra Justice, then 24, bonding with her brother Ashley--34 and dying of AIDS in his Upper West...

Hit and Run.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Hit and Run Lawrence Block. Morrow, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-084090-7 While in Des Moines for one last job in MWA Grand Master Block's solid fourth Greatest Hits thriller (after Hit Parade), hit man John Paul Keller takes to the road....

The Sugar Queen.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Sugar Queen Sarah Addison Allen. Bantam, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-80549-9 Allen's second bewitching offering (after Garden Spells) is a candy jar of magical characters and mystical adventures set in an ordinary North Carolina town. At...

The Dark of Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Dark of, Day Barbara Parker. Perseus/Vanguard, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59315-461-5 This tantalizing novel of suspense from bestseller Parker (The Perfect Fake), the first in a new series, introduces 37-year-old C.J. Dunn (formerly...

Curse of the Pogo Stick.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Curse of the Pogo Stick Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56947-485-3 In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill's unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos (after 2007's Anarchy and Old Dogs), members of the Hmong tribe, an...

Fisherman's Bend.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Fisherman's Bend Linda Greenlaw. Hyperion, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4013-2235-9 A large aquaculture corporation hires Jane Bunker, "newly deputized marine insurance investigator" of Green Haven, Maine, to document some vandalism aboard the...

Cockatiels at Seven: A Meg Langslow Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Cockatiels at Seven: A Meg Langslow Mystery Donna Andrews. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-37715-1 Snakes alive? Newlywed amateur sleuth Meg Langslow finds a creepy crawler at every turn in Andrews's charming ninth...

Mad about the Boy?(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Mad About the Boy? Dolores Gordon-Smith. Soho Constable, $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-56947-511-9 Set in 1923, Gordon-Smith's second Jack Haldean novel (after 2007's A Fete Worse than Death) vacillates between cozy country-house mystery and...

The Sour Cherry Surprise: A Berger and Mitry Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Sour Cherry Surprise: A Berger and Mitry Mystery David Handler. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-37669-7 At the start of Handler's assured sixth mystery starring film critic Mitch Berger and police trooper...

The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls John R. King. Forge, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 9780-7653-1801-5 King's muddled alternate version of the epic final battle between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty teams the Baker Street sleuth with William...

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere John McFetridge. Harcourt, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-101442-2 Canadian author McFetridge's complex crime caper, whose title comes from Toronto-born Neil Young's first album with Crazy Horse, follows Toronto...

Via Delle Oche.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... * Via Delle Oche Carlo Lucarelli, trans. from the Italian by Michael Reynolds. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $14.95 paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-933372-53-2 Set in 1948, Lucarelli's magnificent final volume in his De Luca trilogy (after The Damned...

Losing Ground.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Losing Ground Catherine Aird. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-36889-0 The theft of an 18th-century portrait of one of the owners of Tolmie Park in Berebury, Calleshire, just before flames destroy part of the historic...

The Word of God (or, Holy Writ Rewritten).(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... * The Word of God (or, Holy Writ Rewritten) Thomas M. Disch. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $14.95 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-892391-77-3 Satire, sociology, religion and biography get tossed into a blender in New Wave poet and fantasist Disch's latest...

Invisible Fences.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Invisible Fences Norman Prentiss. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $30 (170p) ISBN 978-158767-184-5 This flawed novella, the first standalone publication by short story writer Prentiss, covers well-worn ground while adding little of...