Category Archives: News

News of a Brownstein memoir is music to our ears

Posted on 2 April 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Big news for fans of comedy, rock music and women with a story to tell: Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney and recent pop-culture phenomenon “Portlandia” will be publishing a memoir with Riverhead Books. Publicity director Jynne Martin tells us … Continue reading →

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Anne Tyler speaks

Posted on 30 March 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

It’s extremely rare for 70-year-old Anne Tyler to give a verbal interview—when we spoke with her in 2004, it was via email—but she’s granted her first one in decades to NPR’s Lynn Neary. (Click to listen) “I don’t have that much … Continue reading →

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Edith Wharton: The new it girl?

Posted on 28 March 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

       Jonathan Franzen may be dogging her in the pages of The New Yorker, but publishers are betting that Edith Wharton is hotter than ever, 150 years after the perceptive chronicler of New York’s Gilded Age was born. … Continue reading →

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Chris Bohjalian taps into heritage for upcoming novel

Posted on 26 March 2012 by Cat, Assistant Editor

New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalian (Midwives, The Night Strangers) has a new novel coming out on July 17! Set in Syria in 1915 and present-day New York, The Sandcastle Girls taps into the author’s own Armenian heritage for … Continue reading →

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Fall fiction: Tom Wolfe goes ‘Back to Blood’

Posted on 26 March 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

It’s been a long wait for Tom Wolfe fans, but on October 23, 2012, Little, Brown will publish Back to Blood, a novel about race relations in Miami that he reportedly sold for $7 million on a 28-page proposal. We … Continue reading →

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Fall fiction: Jamaica Kincaid

Posted on 22 March 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

It has been 10 years since Jamaica Kincaid’s last novel, but on September 4, 2012, she’ll be back with a slender book about a family in crisis, See Now Then (FSG). Kincaid, who was born in Antigua, makes several nods to … Continue reading →

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The Wimpy Kid is coming back!

Posted on 22 March 2012 by Eliza, Associate Editor

We love the Wimpy Kid series at BookPage—so much that we interviewed Jeff Kinney (at his house!) for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth; we asked him to do an illustrated Q&A for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: … Continue reading →

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Malcolm Gladwell on power in 2013 book

Posted on 15 March 2012 by Cat, Assistant Editor

Malcolm Gladwell, writer for the New Yorker and author of bestsellers The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, will release a new book from Little, Brown in 2013. Its topic? Power. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Gladwell was … Continue reading →

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A new series from Cassandra Clare

Posted on 14 March 2012 by Eliza, Associate Editor

The latest edition of Children’s Corner (featuring an interview with Paul Volponi about The Final Four—just in time for March Madness!) came out this morning, and it included some exciting news: Cassandra Clare, whose previous best-selling series of YA urban … Continue reading →

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March Madness + Linsanity = publishing fast break

Posted on 14 March 2012 by Lynn, Editor

Welcome to the world of instant book publishing. It may have taken Jeremy Lin just a few short weeks to become the hottest player in the NBA, but it has taken even less time for a publisher to release an … Continue reading →

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Book tournament season begins!

Posted on 8 March 2012 by Cat, Assistant Editor

March Madness might be exciting, but we bookworms have our own madness, as book tournament season has just begun! Today is the opening round of the 8th Annual Morning News Tournament of Books, sponsored by Field Notes. This is the … Continue reading →

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Letting go, and looking forward

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

We loved Robert K. Massie’s essay for the NY Times on the pain of a biographer leaving his or her subject behind. During our interview, he told me he didn’t think he could write about a person he didn’t respect, and … Continue reading →

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Zadie Smith’s ‘NW’ out in September

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Does anyone write about contemporary London better than Zadie Smith? The brilliant writer’s new novel, NW (Penguin Press), follows four siblings who made it out of the grim housing estate they were born into, only to be sucked back in when a … Continue reading →

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Historical fiction from T.C. Boyle coming in September

Posted on 5 March 2012 by Cat, Assistant Editor

T.C. Boyle ranks among my very favorite authors, and with an oeuvre including The Women, The Tortilla Curtain and World’s End, I imagine he tops many of your lists as well. In September 2012, Viking will publish Boyle’s next book, … Continue reading →

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Back to Barcelona with Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Posted on 29 February 2012 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Lovers of books about books fell for Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s English debut, The Shadow of the Wind, back in 2004—including BookPage. Since then, Ruiz Zafon has mostly focused on children’s books, though he took a brief foray back into the … Continue reading →

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