With everything going on in Iran in the past few weeks, now is a good time to pick up, or reread, Marjane Satrapi’s moving memoir, The Complete Persepolis, of her childhood during the Islamic revolution. The San Francisco Chronicle has called it “brilliant…. A primer on Iran, Islamic fundamentalism and the Middle East.”
More >Jill Ciment’s Heroic Measures, a “gripping novel” (Publishers Weekly) about an aging couple and their beloved dachshund, is now available for sale. Hailed by Christian Science Monitor as “a wry, gentle gem of a novel,” Heroic Measures is a story told in shifting points of view about urban anxiety and love that deepens over the years between those who consider themselves family — be they two-or-four-legged.
More >Comic Book Resources, the premier online comics magazine, has written a rave review of David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp, on sale July 7.
More >The wait is over — Margot Berwin’s debut novel, Hothouse Flower and the 9 Plants of Desire, which ELLE calls a “sultry, psychedelic summer soufflé of a read,” is now on sale.
More >The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully evoking what other people wake up to do each day–and night–to make the frenzied contemporary world function.
More >Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire is gaining steam in anticipation of its June 16 on-sale date. June 12’s Wall Street Journal and New York Times each features details about Margot Berwin and her sizzling summer read.
More >Margot Berwin’s sultry debut novel, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, explores plant magic, spiritual discovery, and romantic fever in the jungles of Mexico—an adventure that finds its roots at a green market in lower Manhattan and in one very special Laundromat.
More >Alain de Botton’s signature style returns in his latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work – an exploration of work and how it creates meaning in our lives. Alain will tour the U.S. the week of June 7. Listen to his NPR interview on The Takeaway.
More >ELLE hails Margot Berwin’s Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire as a “sultry, psychedelic summer soufflé of a read.”
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