Publishers Weekly articles from November 2008, page 3

Publishers Weekly archives from November 2008

Book your holiday.(Foreword)
November 17, 2008... "To get pleasure out of Christmas shopping, begin early and make your selections gradually. It is quite time to begin now. There are no gifts so satisfactory and lasting as well-chosen books, and none so flattering to the taste and...

RH's holiday campaign.(Random House )(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Random House is rolling out a Web-based marketing campaign focusing on the message Books = Gifts, The promotion, open to all publishers, is aimed at getting people into bookstores and onto booksellers' Web sites. RH will post the video...

Morrow, Food Network ink deal.(William Morrow and Food Network )(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... William Morrow and Food Network have entered into a first-look deal to publish co-branded books by FN's talent and based on FN's shows. As part of the venture, Morrow (which will get the right of first refusal) will handle editorial,...

The Random House mix, 2008.(Foreword)(Company overview)
November 17, 2008... Ever since Markus Dohle took over as chairman of Random House, there has been much speculation about his plans for the nation's largest trade publisher. To date, the only significant change has been the resignation of vice chairman Ed Volini...

Harper in deal with 'WSJ'.(HarperCollins and the Wall Street Journal )(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... HarperCollins and the Wall Street Journal are entering into a three-year publishing partnership to develop books written by the WSJ's editors and reporters. Both HC and Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the WSJ, are owned by News Corp. The...

Amazon and Penguin to sponsor second award.(Amazon.com and Penguin Publications)
November 17, 2008... Between February 2 and February 8, 2009, writers with an unpublished English-language novel manuscript may submit their work for the second Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award at www.amazon. com/abna. As they did last year, PW reviewers will...

Silverstone to Rodale.(Deals)(Alicia Silverstone and Rodale Publications)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Pare Krauss at Rodale preempted a diet book by actress and animal rights advocate Alicia Silverstone, tentatively titled The Kind Diet; Peter Steinberg sold world rights. By exploring the connection between what we put in our bodies and what...

Lethal weapons.(Deals)(Dead Silence for Counterpoint)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Richard Nash and Charlie Winton have acquired Eric Nadler and Bob Coen's Dead Silence for Counterpoint. The book, which is tied in to a documentary film produced by the authors and scheduled for release in 2009, looks at the new biological...

Big YA auctions.(Deals)(The Body Finder and Gravediggers rights)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... At Harper, Gretchen Hirsch prevailed in a multiple bid situation for Kimberly Derting's debut, The Body Finder, with a six-figure offer to Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown. This is a paranormal thriller that weaves a coming-of-age romance into...

More Joy from Collins.(Deals)(Joy Bauer and Collins Publishers)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Mary Ellen O'Neill has acquired the latest from Joy Bauer, Joy's Life Diet Cookbook, with a world rights offer on option to Jane Dystel at Dystel & Goderich. This will be a follow-up cookbook to Collins's soon-to-be-released Joy's Life Diet....

New page for Penguin.(Deals)(Penguin Books' new novel from Martin Page)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Tom Roberge at Penguin has acquired North American rights to French author Martin Page's fifth novel, Peut-Etre Une Histoire d'Amour (A Love Story, Perhaps) via Valerie Borchardt. The novel is about a young man who questions his sanity when...

PW to debut cookbooks e-newsletter.
November 17, 2008... PW will launch Cooking the Books, a free e-newsletter, on December 1. The biweekly e-mail will feature cookbook-related news, reviews, interviews and features. It will be edited by Lynn Andriani. To sign up, go to...

RDR Appeals Rowling decision.(RDR Books on J.K. Rowling suit)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Lawyers for RDR Books have filed an appeal to the U. S. Court of Appeals regarding Judge Robert P. Patterson's ruling in J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros.'s copyright infringement suit against the publisher. In September, Judge Patterson ruled in...

Two Indies for Big D.(Retailing)(Dallas' new bookstores, Dicho and Legacy Books)
November 17, 2008... Dallas may pride itself on being the brashest city in the country, but for nearly three years it has lacked a large-scale independent bookstore. Earlier this month that changed, with the opening of the 24,000-sq.-ft. Legacy Books. The...

Calendar: Nov. 23-29.(Brief article)(Calendar)
November 17, 2008... 11/23 Doctor Who premiered on British TV 45 years ago today. Fans will enjoy Lance Parkin's A history: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe: 2nd Ed. 11/24 Clive Cussler's Arctic Drift (Putnam) is his 20th Dirk Pitt...

Kat Dawson, Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... I was immediately sucked into Mehmet Murat Somer's The Kiss Murder {Penguin, Dec. 30} from the opening paragraph, upon meeting the dryly sarcastic Turkish transvestite protagonist. Somer transports us into the fast-paced life of a male...

Art and altruism: Radius Books.(Artbooks)(Company overview)
November 17, 2008... Radius Books manages to combine high art aesthetics and high-end design and production with an altruistic publishing mission. The Santa Fe, N.Mex.-based publisher was launched a year ago by four book publishing professionals--book designers...

Lockhart, Bolinder to IBS-STL.(People)(Doug Lockhart and Scott Bolinder of International Bible Society-Send the Light Global)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Two former Zondervan executives are joining the Christian distributor/publisher International Bible Society-Send the Light Global. Doug Lockhart has been named president and CEO of North American operations, while Scott Bolinder has been...

March to BD&G.(People)(Camille March of Black Dog & Leventhal)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Camille March has been named editor at Black Dog & Leventhal; March was most recently associate director of publicity at Weinstein Books.

Obama titles get post-election bump.(Presidential Spike)(Barack Obama)
November 17, 2008... In a piece in last week's New York magazine titled "Obamaism," Kurt Andersen pointed out that Americans not only chose a historic candidate on November 4, they also chose "an extraordinarily fluent, subtle writer." That fact hasn't, it...

Schatz joins LibreDigital.(People)(Steven Schatz of LibreDigital)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Steven Schatz has been named v-p of global sales at the digital warehousing company LibreDigital. Schatz was most recently v-p of sales and marketing for North America at Pecaso, an SAP HCM solutions provider (which merged with Accenture)....

Moynahan to HC Australia.(People)(Michael Moynahan to join HarperCollins)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Michael Moynaban has been named HarperCollins's new CEO for Australia and New Zealand. Moynahan was managing director, Random House India, and chairman, Random House, New Zealand. Moynahan, who will take up his post in early 2009, will report...

Nobel winner and thrillers hot.(Selling Abroad)(List)
November 17, 2008... Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio debuted in the second spot on the French fiction bestsellers list in October with An Old Tale of Quest, a book about his admiration for his mother. One of France's leading science fiction writers,...

Obituaries: Ted Marcus.(People)(Obituary)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Ted Marcus, who worked at Reader's Digest, Simon & Schuster and Creative Homeowner before relocating to Kansas, died on November 10. He was 64. After leaving book publishing, Marcus became v-p for Intertec Publishers (now Primedia Corp). He...

Fred Newman.(People)(Obituary)(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... Fred Newman, cofounder of Publishing News and the British Book Awards, died last week. He was 76. Newman, who had been battling cancer, spent three decades in the book trade.

McDonell shakes up Sports Illustrated Books.(Scoring)(Terry McDonell of Sports Illustrated Group)
November 17, 2008... A lot has changed at Sports Illustrated Books since Terry McDonell took over as managing editor of the Sports Illustrated Group in 2002. The men's glossy veteran was charged with making SI.com a leading online sports destination and bringing...

Celebrating a worthy cause.(Foreword)(Odyssey Bookshop )(Brief article)
November 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As part of its 45th anniversary celebration, the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass., hosted a conversation with Stephen King and Richard Russo on November 6 to benefit the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts....

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(List)
November 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Divine Justice, Baldacci exposes the problem of methadone in our nation's coalmining communities. A native of Virginia with family roots in the Appalachian region, the author was inspired to address this true-life...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(List)
November 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to Variety, Meryl Streep "is purring over Dewey, a fact-based film about a stray cat's impact on the town of Spencer, Iowa. The project has landed at New Line Cinema. Streep is attached to star in the...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(List)
November 17, 2008... This is Sherrilyn Kenyon's fourth debut at #1 on the PW bestseller list in the past year. This is #13 in Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series, about which PW said: "This series puts a contemporary spin on classical mythology... irresistible." SMP...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(List)
November 17, 2008... Fireproof, the movie that spawned The Love Dare, Is now In its eighth week in theaters, has grossed more than and has surpassed Jonah, a Veggie Tales Movie as the #2 Christian movie of all time, behind The Passion of the Christ. The Spanish...

Hardcover religion bestsellers.(Buyers guide)
November 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "From the moment I discovered I was pregnant with sextuplets, God took me to a place of utter dependency on Him--financially, physically, emotionally, psychologically. As I learned to lean on Him and trust Him...

Paperback religion bestsellers.(Buyers guide)
November 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Shack is a publishing phenomenon that has been the focus of much discussion. In April 2009, InterVarsity Press will add to the conversation with Finding God in the Shack: Seeking Truth in a Story of Evil and...

Children's picture book bestsellers.(Buyers guide)
November 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The buzz started for ABC3D back in February, when Roaring Brook's CoUeenVenable created a catchyYouTube video that has attracted just under 800,000 viewers to date, landing the book in the top tier of Amazon's...

The next dead thing.(Children's Books)
November 17, 2008... Ever since Stephenie Meyer's vampire romances became a smash success among teen readers, particularly girls, all things dead have been given a new life--at least in the minds of children's editors hoping to take advantage of the trend. But...

The pictorial aspect of content services.(Content Services)(Q2AMedia and Vikatan Publishing Solutions)
November 17, 2008... Books devoid of photographs or illustrations are very rare nowadays. Even tomes filled with technical prose and formulas are jazzed up with engaging illustrations. This perhaps best explains the significant momentum gained by image services,...

Nickole Brown: small press publicist extraordinaire.(50 UNDER 40)(Interview)
November 17, 2008... Many small press books aren't for everyone, and with modest print runs, they are not meant to be. While there may be 2,000 people who want to read a book like Jenny Boully's The Book of Beginnings and Endings--a collection of essays, with the...

Emotional content and bio-manga: a manga collective creates biographies with a higher purpose.(Independent Publishing)(Emotional Content)(Company overview)
November 17, 2008... While working at a large magazine company in Japan, Eiji Han Shimizu had a vision to use Japanese comics, or manga, to change the world. The general concept was well received at his company, but his vision was not considered commercially...

The forever clinch: arms full of passion, never out of date.(Bibliography)
November 17, 2008... For decades, the romance novel has been defined by the "clinch" (think handsome hero; his brawny arms around a bountifully buxom damsel) on its cover. But with the success of subgenres like paranormal and an up-and-coming generation of young...

Expecting trouble.(Author Profile)(Hallie Ephron)(Interview)
November 17, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hallie Ephron--in wire-rimmed glasses, a black turtleneck and moonstone ring ("like in Wilkie Collins")--is digging into a plate of Indian food in a glass-walled restaurant above Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass....

The Possession of Mr. Cave.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... The Possession of Mr. Cave Matt Haig. Viking, $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-02056-0 "Could it have been that the desire to protect is the desire to possess?" wonders antiques dealer Terence Cave in Haig's overwrought study of a father...

Crossing the Hudson.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Crossing the Hudson Peter Stephan Jungk, trans, from the German by David Dollenmayer. Other Press/Handsel, $14.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59051-275-3 A Viennese fur dealer confronts his life's failures in this pleasantly bizarre novel...

I Can See Clearly Now.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... I Can See Clearly Now Brendan Halpin. Villard, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7703-5 Halpin's amusing fourth novel explores what happens when you mix art, love, friendship, business and children's cartoons in the Age of Aquarius. It's...

Pandora in the Congo.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Pandora in the Congo Albert Sanchez Pinol, trans, from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem. Canongate, $15.95 paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-84767-187-5 Pinol's second novel (after Cold Skin) is a fanciful metafiction that lampoons adventure...

The Women.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * The Women T.C. Boyle. Viking, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-02041-6 The genius of Frank Lloyd Wright was both magnetic and cruel, as evidenced by the succession of failed marriages and hot-blooded affairs depicted in this biographic...

PW Talks with Richard North Patterson: portraying hard things.(Q&A)(Interview)
November 17, 2008... In Eclipse (Reviews, Oct. 20), Richard North Patterson focuses on an American lawyer's desperate struggle to save an embattled freedom fighter in an oil-rich African nation that resembles Nigeria. Was there a particular event that led to...

Security.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Security Stephen Amidon. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-25711-8 An anatomist of contemporary American anomie, Amidon (Human Capital) follows, in this skillfully executed if not quite devastating novel, the serpentine...

A Darker Place.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... A Darker Place Jack Higgins. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15550-5 When world-famous Russian novelist Alexander Kurbsky decides to leave for the West in bestseller Higgins's suspenseful 16th thriller to feature former IRA man Sean...

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin. Norton, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-06800-9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In eight beautifully crafted, interconnected stories, Mueenuddin explores the cutthroat feudal society in which a...

Kill for Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Kill for Me Karen Rose. Grand Central, $16.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-51030-1 Bestseller Rose concludes her thriller trilogy that began with Scream for Me and Die for Me with a bang. In Dutton, Ga., where 13 years earlier a secret rape...

Boca Knights.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Boca Knights Steven M. Forman. Forge, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1987-6 Forman's debut, an offbeat crime novel, introduces Eddie Perlmutter, a tough Jewish Boston cop, who has had conversations since age 11 with his penis ("Hey, check...

Sucker Punch.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * Sucker Punch Ray Banks. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-101323-4 At the start of Banks's excellent sequel to 2008's Saturday's Child, Manchester PI and ex-con Callum Innes is taking a break from the investigation...

The Sound of Building Coffins.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... The Sound of Building Coffins Louis Maistros. Toby, $24.95 (360p) ISBN 9781-59264-255-7 This ambitious, vivid novel by writer, New Orleans resident and jazz record shop owner Maistros starts out in the Big Easy of 1891. Noonday...

The Housekeeper and the Professor.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * The Housekeeper and the Professor Yoko Ogawa, trans, from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Picador, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-42780-1 Ogawa (The Diving Pool) weaves a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow in her exquisite new...

The Nightingale.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... The Nightingale Morgana Gallaway. Kensington, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2728-7 Gallaway's provocative debut is a politically inspired romance set in contemporary Iraq. Before the start of the Iraq War, Leila al-Ghani's family was...

The Rose Variations.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... The Rose Variations Marisha Chamberlain. Soho, $24 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-56947-538-6 In her first novel, poet and playwright Chamberlain tells the vibrant story of Rose McGregor, a talented composer navigating academia in the early...

Three Weeks to Say Goodbye.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * Three Weeks to Say Goodbye C.J. Box. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-36572-1 Bestseller Box (Blue Heaven) explores an adoptive parent's worst nightmare in this compelling stand-alone thriller. Jack McGuane, an...

Runner.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Runner Thomas Perry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/ Penzler, $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-15-101528-3 Perry's exciting if relatively formulaic sixth Jane Whitefield novel (after 1999's Blood Money) finds Jane, a Native American "guide" who helps...

Mounting Fears.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Mounting Fears Stuart Woods. Putnam, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15547-5 In bestseller Woods's uninspired sixth Will Lee thriller (after Capital Crimes), the incumbent U.S. president, William Jefferson Lee, faces a series of crises in...

Breakneck.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Breakneck Erica Spindler. St. Martin's, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-36390-1 Det. Kitt Lundgren and her partner, Mary Catherine Riggio, of the Rockford, Ill., Violent Crimes Bureau pursue a serial killer ripped from Internet urban legend...

Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi Nanci Kincaid. Little, Brown, $23.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-00915-7 With a sensibility as sweet as a glass of sugary iced tea and a plot as placid as a hazy summer day, Kincaid's sixth book (after As...

Super in the City.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Super in the City Daphne Uviller. Bantam, $12 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-34269-8 Uviller's debut is as gleefully unpretentious as the rhinestones on narrator Zephyr Zuckerman's thrift-shop dress. "This is not a Jesus-saving kind of...

Pictures at an Exhibition.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Pictures at an Exhibition Sara Houghteling. Knopf, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-26685-9 A young French-Jewish man obsesses about taking over his father's fine art dealership before WWII, and tries to locate its lost canvases in the war's...

Roanoke.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Roanoke Margaret Lawrence. Delacorte, $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-34237-7 The author of Hearts and Bones returns with a clunky sea-crossing historical thriller that promises to imagine what may have happened to the lost colony of Roanoke....

People of the Thunder.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... People of the Thunder w. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Forge, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1439-0 Set in the 1300s largely in what is now Alabama and Mississippi, this complex novel tracks three wanderers' quest to create peace...

The Slide.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... The Slide Kyle Beachy. Dial, $13 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-34185-1 Beachy's coming-of-age debut about a clueless, jobless, self-pitying college grad is at once hilarious, strange and uncomfortable. After graduating, Potter Mays returns...

Tokyo Fiancee.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Tokyo Fiancee Amelie Nothomb, trans, from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-933372-64-8 A darling of the French literary scene, Nothomb delivers a complex story of first love set in late...

Entertaining Disasters: A Novel.(with Recipes)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (with Recipes) Nancy Spiller. Counterpoint, $14.95 paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-58243-451-3 The unnamed heroine of Spiller's debut is an L.A. epicurean who's made a career writing about her perfect dinner...

A Preacher's Passion.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... A Preacher's Passion Lutishia Lovely. Kensington/Dafina, $14 paper (344p). ISBN 978-0-7582-2941-0 Amen to Lovely's hilarious follow-up to Love Like Hallelujah, featuring her signature formula of divine and devilish folks trying to follow...

Believe Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Believe Me Nina Killham. Plume, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-452-28976-5 The overpublished religion vs. atheism debate takes a refreshing turn here. In an understated way, Killham (How to Cook a Tart) takes a modest run at the great...

Blown Coverage.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Blown Coverage Jason Elam and Steve Yohn. Tyndale, $13.99 paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4143-1732-8 With a pure shot of Christian fiction testosterone, pro NFL kicker Elam and pastor turned full-time writer Yohn offer a second Riley Covington...

Word Comix.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * Word Comix Charlie Smith. Norton, $23.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-06762-0 Smith's thrilling seventh collection begins with an odd invocation of its audience: "I Speak to Fewer People," reads the opening poem's title. Smith's speaker is an...

What Goes On: New and Selected Poems 1995-2009.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... What Goes On: New and Selected Poems 1995-2009 Stephen Dunn. Norton, $24.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-393-06775-0 Pulitzer-winner Dunn has, since the 1970s, offered pellucid free verse with a great deal of thought cast into deliberately plain...

Voices.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Voices Lucille Clifton. Boa (Consortium, dist.), $22.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-934414-11-8; $16 paper ISBN 978-1-934414-12-5 National Book Award-winner Clifton has long enjoyed national acclaim for her careful, colloquial, compact renditions of...

Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems Rika Lesser. Sheep Meadow (UPNE, dist.), $15.95 paper (175 p) ISBN 978-1-931357-60-9 Lesser has become an important translator from German and Swedish; this first Selected Poems from the New...

The Next Country.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * The Next Country Idra Novey. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-882295-71-5 The first half of this vivid debut reacts to the poet's travels, mostly in Central and South America. One poem watches "Ziggy...

Du Fu: A Life in Poetry.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Du Fu: A Life in Poetry Du Fu, trans, from the Chinese by David Young. Knopf, $17.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-71160-2 Not a biography, but instead a very coherent book of free translations, this new volume translated by Young (Black...

As It Turned Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... As It Turned Out Dmitry Golynko, trans, from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky with Rebecca Bella and Simona Schneider. Ugly Duckling (SPD, dist.), $15 (168p) ISBN 978-1-933254-36-4 In Golynko, Russian poetry has produced a Language poet...

Poetry State Forest.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Poetry State Forest Bernadette Mayer. New Directions, $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1723-1 In Mayer's 21st collection, the prolific New York School veteran mixes prose poems, pastorals, sonnets, epigrams and dream catalogues to create an...

The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Olav H. Hauge, trans, from the Norwegian by Robert Bly and Robert Hedin. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $18 (184p) ISBN 978-1-55659-288-1 Hauge (1908-1994) worked as a farmer and gardener in the fjord region of his native western...

One Sun Storm.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... One Sun Storm Endi Bogue Hartigan. Center for Literary Publishing (Univ. of Oklahoma, dist.), $15.95 (94p) ISBN 978-1-885635-11-2 More interested in the generative possibilities of questions than in their answers, the well-crafted, rangy...

Among the Mad: A Maisle Dobbs Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Among the Mad: A Maisle Dobbs Novel Jacqueline Winspear. Holt, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8216-6 Bestseller Winspear's sixth Maisie Dobbs novel (after 2008's An Incomplete Revenge) raises the stakes considerably for her psychologically...

Chords and Discords.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... * Chords and Discords Roz Southey. Creme de la Crime (Dufour, dist.), $17.95 paper (269p) ISBN 978-0-9557078-2-7 At the start of British author Southey's excellent second mystery set in 18th-century Newcastle (after 2007's Broken...

Death Was in the Picture.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 17, 2008... Death Was in the Picture Linda L. Richards. St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-38339-8 Set in Hollywood in 1931, Richards's swell follow-up to Death Was the Other Woman (2008) finds ace-in-the-hole secretary Kitty...