“There is a startling similarity between [Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father] and . . . Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s eye-opening memoir, Dreams in a Time of War,” says Marie Arana in The Washington Post. “It is admirably free of cant or sentimentality, and yet it is enough to make you weep.” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s evocative and affecting memoir of his childhood in Kenya is now on sale from Pantheon Books.
More >Baseball’s old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions in Jason Turbow and Michael Duca’s “grand slam of a book” (The Associated Press) The Baseball Codes, now on sale from Pantheon Books. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, here is an illuminating and thoroughly entertaining must have.
Catch up with the authors at www.thebaseballcodes.com and on Twitter (@baseballcodes).
More >The editor’s choice in Sunday’s Buffalo News, Hugh Raffles’s Insectopedia is “a revelation of the world of our fellow creatures . . . . In any competition for the strangest delights of this publishing year, nothing is likely to beat this A to Z investigation of bug-world . . . by a writer whose style is equal to his huge and strange task.”
Check out Hugh Raffles’s author tour and his interview with Publishers Weekly. Stay tuned for next week’s chance to win a free copy of Insectopedia, going on sale March 23!
In his SF Chronicle review, National Book Critics Circle member Gregory Leon Miller calls David Malouf’s Ransom “accessible and thrillingly profound . . . . If another novel even half as good is published before January, then 2010 will be a rich year for fiction.” Now on sale from Pantheon Books!
More >Today (3/3) is Pantheon Books founder Kurt Wolff’s birthday. In celebration, we’d like to send you a free copy of one of our spanking new March titles. Just tell us the year in which Wolff founded Pantheon for your chance to win!
Since its founding, Pantheon Books has prided itself for offering varied works by the most innovative authors on the scene. This month is no exception, and the first three people who send us the correct answer will receive a copy of The Baseball Codes by Jason Turbow; Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa’Thiong’o; or Eddie Signwriter by Adam Schwartzman. Email pantheonpublicity@randomhouse.com with your response!
More >The Sun & Anchor’s Candid and Uncensored series is now featuring a fascinating conversation between two Pantheon superstars Rebecca Goldstein and David Eagleman, who discuss the relationship among science, literature and religion in their novels Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.
More >Tune to to Rebecca Goldstein discussing the “extravagantly witty and smart” (Washington Post) 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction on the Leonard Lopate Show/WNYC-AM.
More >In celebration of the upcoming publication of Alex Ross’ ROUGH JUSTICE (Pantheon, on sale 3/30), click this link and enter to win your choice of three (3) graphic novel giveaways.
More >Warner Bros Records has announced the release of breakthrough UK band Biffy Clyro’s new album Only Revolutions. The album is named after the novel by Pantheon author Mark Danielewski. The follow up to 2007’s Puzzle, Only Revolutions will be available exclusively on iTunes beginning March 9, 2010.
According to vocalist/guitarist Simon Neil, “The title is taken from a book by Mark Danielewski, he’s my favourite writer. In half of the book the man’s telling his half of the story and the other half is the girl telling her side of the story. That really touched me. With the songs I’m trying to give both lovers’ aspect of the same story. It’s a give and take you have when you’re madly in love with someone, but also you both see exactly the same things in completely different ways. The title ‘Only Revolutions’ summed it up perfectly.”
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