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- 12 June 2012
'The Red House' by Mark Haddon
An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. (Doubleday)
'Heading Out to Wonderful' by Robert Goolrick
(Algonquin) The author of the smash hit A RELIABLE WIFE returns. This time, the setting is 1948 Virginia, and a mysterious man rolls into town with only two suitcases to his name. But it's when he becomes involved with the wife of the richest man in town that things really get complicated.
'Beautiful Ruins' by Jess Walter
Jess Walter's latest is a little lighter than his last two novels—it deals with Hollywood and unrequited love rather than the aftermath of 9/11 or the implications of our financial crisis. The action begins on the coast of Italy in 1962, where a young man glimpses a beautiful actress and falls in love. Fifty years later, he heads to Hollywood to find her. (Harper)
- 19 June 2012
'Mrs Robinson's Disgrace' by Kate Summerscale
From the author of the bestseller THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER comes another investigation of a famous case that shook the foundations of middle-class Victorian life. This time, it's a divorce scandal. (Walker)
- 10 July 2012
'Gold' by Chris Cleave
We can't wait for Chris Cleave's take on the friendship between two female athletes who, on the eve of the Olympics, must make a choice between their personal and professional goals. (S&S)
- 24 July 2012
'Broken Harbor' by Tana French
From the publisher: In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. (Viking)
- 31 July 2012
'Where We Belong' by Emily Giffin
A successful TV producer in her 30s sees her life come crashing down when the child she gave up for adoption 18 years ago comes knocking on her door.
- 21 August 2012
'Winter Journal' by Paul Auster
Facing his 63rd winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful.
Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
