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MR G
a novel
by Alan Lightman
“As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.”
From MR G
Enter to Win Mr g by Alan Lightman
“As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.”
So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of Creation as told by God. Become a fan of First Lit on Facebook and enter our giveaway to be one of the first to read this new novel by the author of Einstein’s Dreams!
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Coming Soon: Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson
“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.
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Joann Sfar Draws from Memory: A New Documentary
A new documentary about Joann Sfar (The Rabbi’s Cat) is set to premiere in New York City on January 25th.
About the film: Sam Ball returns with another fascinating documentary portrait, turning his lens on graphic novelist Joann Sfar, author of the popular The Rabbi’s Cat series and director of the recent film, Serge Gainsbourg (Vie HéroÏque). The film follows Sfar to his favorite neighborhood spots, as he muses on his artistic process and the influence of his Algerian and East European family heritage.
Buy tickets to the January 25th screening here, and watch the trailer after the jump!
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Does God Exist? Alan Lightman on Religion, Science, and the Universe
“As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.”
- Mr g by Alan Lightman
So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of Creation as told by God. Barraged by the constant advisements and bickerings of Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva, who live with their nephew in the shimmering Void, Mr g proceeds to create time, space, and matter. Then come stars, planets, animate matter, consciousness, and, finally, intelligent beings with moral dilemmas. Mr g is all powerful but not all knowing and does much of his invention by trial and error.
Mr g doesn’t hit stores until 1/24/12, but people are already buzzing. Ron Charles of The Washington Post calls it “a scientific vision laced with the mirthful aura of divinity.”
More >Cheers! The Pantheon 2011 Holiday Drink Guide
This holiday season, why bore your guests with the usual sangrias and rum punches when you could be serving them unique concoctions based on your favorite 2011 Pantheon books? From the Middle Eastern-inspired Habibitini to a tasty twist on the Mint Julep in honor of Louis Armstrong’s hometown, these drinks are guaranteed to get your guests talking—and reading. And add your own book-inspired drink names to our #Noveltini Twitter hashtag!
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New Alexander McCall Smith Isabel Dalhousie Book onsale TODAY
Alexander McCall Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie series continues with The Forgotten Affairs of Youth, onsale TODAY. (Pantheon Books/December 6, 2011/$24.95). In this latest installment, #8, Isabel helps a friend discover the identity of her father. Should the affairs of youth be left in the past, or can the memories help us understand the present? In her special way, Isabel leads us to a new understanding of the meaning of family.
More >Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar: Coming in 27 Volumes from Pantheon
Mark Z. Danielewski, author of cult favorites House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, will once again push publishing boundaries with The Familiar, a serial novel coming from Pantheon in 2014. The novel will be published in 27 volumes, with one new installment coming every three months. Julie Bosman of The New York Times likens this to the book version of buzzy, serialized television shows like Mad Men.
“Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler,” Danielewski told The New York Times. “It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.”
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Good Living Street Now Onsale
Tim Bonyhady’s new book Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900, is now onsale from Pantheon Books. On Friday, the New York Times published an interview with Tim Bonyhady in Eve Kahn’s Antiques column, and today Bonyhady was on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show to discuss the book. Don’t miss his PowerPoint presentation and book signing tomorrow (Thursday, 11/17) at 5 pm at the Neue Galerie New York, 1048 5th Ave at 86th St.
More >Enter to Win Pantheon’s Holiday Book Giveaway!
Become a fan of Pantheon on Facebook for a chance to get a jump on your holiday shopping! One lucky winner will receive a copy of MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman, Habibi by Craig Thompson, There but for the by Ali Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth by Alexander McCall Smith, Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth, and Bento’s Sketchbook by John Berger. Give them away to your friends and family…or keep them for yourself! Click here to enter.
MetaMaus DVD
There have been several customer reports of glitches with the DVD accompanying MetaMaus. While our internal testing has shown no problems with the DVD, we are now conducting an outside review of the product with an independent quality control firm. If you encounter any problems with the DVD, please let us know and we will send out a replacement DVD immediately. Simply provide us with your mailing address and where you bought your copy of MetaMaus (and please include your computer type and operating system so we are able to share this information with our quality control firm). Write to us via e-mail at pantheon@randomhouse.com.
