It’s the fourth and final day of Comic-Con, and Pantheon is reporting live from booth #1515. Here’s the latest from sunny San Diego!
More >We’re reporting live from day three at the Pantheon booth (#1515) and we’re lucky enough to have Charles Yu, author of the debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (9/7), sitting with us today. Visit our flickr photo stream to see some great shots of Yu and his fans. To meet and chat with him, see and hear about the metal Book from Nowhere, and learn how you really do live safely in a science fictional universe, come on by booth #1515 to see him, and don’t miss him on the “Welcome to the Future – Are You Sure You Want to Stay?” sci-fi panel at 4:30 pm in room 4. Following the panel, Yu will be signing exclusive Comic-Con posters for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe at 5:30 pm at table AA2.
More >Live report from day 2 at Comic-Con: Today at the Pantheon booth (#1515) Chip Kidd signed copies of Bat-Manga! and Rough Justice. He also signed some of our exclusive Pantheon tote bags, which will be up for grabs following the Con. Visit our flickr photostream for new photos from today’s show, and be sure to check back in tomorrow when we welcome Charles Yu, debut author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (9/7), to the Pantheon booth. He’ll be unveiling The Book from Nowhere. To see it (and Yu) live, visit the booth tomorrow!
More >GeekDad.com blogger Jonathan Liu gave a shout-out to Charles Yu at the San Diego Comic-Con on 7/22. He looks forward to finishing How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Yu’s debut novel going onsale 9/7.
More >It has been a busy day at booth #1515 at Comic-Con. Chip Kidd has been signing copies of his books and chatting with Comic News Insider and Comics Bulletin. Science fiction fans are snagging stickers inspired by Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and can’t wait to meet him Saturday. Galleys of X’ed Out by Charles Burns are going out like hot cakes.
More >Join Pantheon graphic novel veteran Chip Kidd and debut novelist Charles Yu at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con, July 22-25 at the San Diego Convention Center. Throughout the event, both authors will appear at the Pantheon booth and on various panels.
More >Watch Alexander McCall Smith, author of Corduroy Mansions, now on sale from Pantheon Books, talk about his inspiration for this new series. Says Entertainment Weekly in an A- review, “Alexander McCall Smith is a writer of such fond, heartfelt geniality that at the end of this cozy read, fans will be grateful that the series has just begun.”
More >Hugh Raffles, author of the “miraculous” (New York Times) Insectopedia, appears on NPR’s Morning Edition (7/15) in Robert Krulwich’s segment on insects in the air. “Check out Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles,” Krulwich says, “whose essay on bugs in the air (Chapter 1) is how I bumped into this subject.”
More >This summer, Karl Rove plans to read Alex Butterworth’s The World that Never Was, which Salon.com says is: “Chillingly familiar . . . . The World That Never Was has much of value to impart, from the understanding that today’s radicals may be tomorrow’s sensible visionaries to the unanticipated perils of both terrorism and counterterrorism.” Now on sale from Pantheon Books.
More >In his sixth appearance in the New York Times since Insectopedia went on sale in March, Hugh Raffles tells us to wake up and smell the honey in his July 7 Op-Ed piece about the benefits of urban beekeeping. Raffles says: “There is nothing quite like your first open-air taste of fresh, local honey, sparkling with flavor, straight from the source. More New Yorkers should get that experience.” Don’t miss Raffles on the Kojo Nnamdi Show/WAMU-FM on 7/8 at 1 pm EST.
Raffles’ other appearances in the New York Times include raves from Philip Hoare in the Book Review, Janet Maslin in the Arts section, and Katherine Bouton in the Science Times; Raffles was also profiled in a feature by Ralph Blumenthal in the Metro section, and had a Q&A with Jennifer McDonald in the Paper Cuts blog.
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