Author Archives: Cat, Editorial Assistant

About Cat, Editorial Assistant

Cat loves 'The Women' by T.C. Boyle and 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories' by Sandra Cisneros. She is the only person over the age of seven to still have a hamster (probably).

7 questions with . . . William Landay

Our February Mystery of the Month, Defending Jacob by William Landay, taps into a parent’s worst nightmare. No — worse. Assistant D.A. Andy Barber’s son seems the most likely suspect for a neighbor’s brutal murder. Andy finds himself desperately defending … Continue reading

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Recipe of the week: The Lady in Red

After cooking with Barbara Kafka’s newest cookbook (and our February Cookbook of the Month), cooking columnist Sybil Pratt “can solemnly swear that there really is ‘glorious food’ without gluten and lactose and without ersatz ingredients.” Kafka’s The Intolerant Gourmet is … Continue reading

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Publishing’s Tools of Change

The topic on the minds of everyone in publishing these days is the constant change within the industry—eBooks, digital reading devices, Amazon.com vs. Barnes & Noble, etc. The 2012 O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conference in New York … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm’ by Mei-Ling Hopgood

The Top Pick from our January Lifestyles column is How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood, a fascinating study on the differences in parenting techniques from all over the world. The title alone had me interested—then I read … Continue reading

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Audiobooks.com launched

Audiobooks.com, the first unlimited cloud-based streaming service for audiobooks, launched this week. For $24.95/month, subscribers have access to thousands of best-selling titles via iPhones, iPads, Android devices and other internet-enabled mobile devices. You can even bookmark your audiobook (cool!) and … Continue reading

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Maurice Sendak and the Grim Colberty Tales

After reading Dave Eggers’ Vanity Fair portrait on Maurice Sendak (“My work is not great, but it’s respectable.”) and listening/crying through Terry Gross’ interview of Sendak on “Fresh Air” (“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and … Continue reading

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Recipe of the week: Korean Short Ribs

Sixteen of the Internet’s best food bloggers come together to share their very favorite home-cooking recipes in Good Bite Weeknight Meals. Writes our cooking columnist Sybil Pratt, “Every clearly explained recipe adheres to Good Bite’s mantra, ‘delicious made easy,’ and … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Enjoy Every Sandwich’ by Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.

Weight loss, kicking bad habits, reading more—these are all great New Year’s resolutions. But one of the books from our New Year, New You feature goes beyond the average life adjustment. Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It … Continue reading

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Recipe of the week: Blueberry Almond Breakfast Polenta

Our January Cookbook of the Month shares some of the best home cooking on the web, all plucked from the best of the best of Food52. The blog hosts a recipe contest in a different category every week, and these … Continue reading

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7 questions with . . . Teresa Medeiros

Teresa Medeiros‘ The Pleasure of Your Kiss is our January Top Pick in Romance. It heats up the desert with the tale of a notorious adventurer sent to rescue his brother’s fiancée—who happens to be his first love from long … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Winter Palace’ by Eva Stachniak

No question about it—Catherine the Great is the new literary “it” girl. Following Robert K. Massie’s spectacular biography Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Eva Stachniak’s third novel The Winter Palace has a welcome home on our bookshelves. It … Continue reading

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Recipe of the week: Slow-Cooker Jambalaya

Our January Cooking column is all about the best recipes for home cooking, and Good Bite Weeknight Meals gets its 140 recipes from food bloggers (very similar to our Cookbook of the Month, The Food52 Cookbook). The selections in these … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Hope: A Tragedy’ by Shalom Auslander

Let’s be honest. Sometimes book trailers can get a little blah. But hands-down, the best ones always feature whatever odd point of view the author has (i.e. trailers for Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, as seen here and … Continue reading

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7 questions with . . . Taylor Stevens

Don’t you love when an author’s backstory is just as interesting as his or her fantastic new book? Take Taylor Stevens, for example, whose second Vanessa Michael Munroe novel, The Innocent, is featured in our January Whodunit column. Self-employed spy … Continue reading

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Weekly links: ‘Twilight’ by famous authors, Dave Egger’s shower curtain, tweeting authors

io9.com shared Lizzie Stark’s answers that age-old question: What if great literary writers of the last 200 years had penned Twilight instead? For example: Flannery O’Connor: When Native American werewolf Jacob threatens her with death, Bella reconsiders her hardcore racism, … Continue reading

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