The Times of London just announced their Best Books of the Decade with Pantheon titles in abundance: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi coming in at #2, The Accidental by Ali Smith at #29, and Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware at #79.
More >Check out the trailer of Haiku, the searing new novel from Andrew Vachss, author of the acclaimed Burke series, which follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost.
More >Three independent area booksellers visited The Brian Lehrer Show this morning and left their recommendations for holiday gift suggestions.
Christina Onorati of WORD Bookstore chose our own Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli!
Be sure to stock up in time for the holidays!
More >Marisa Acocella Marchetto, author of the “inspiring, empowering, and visually stunning story” (The Trentonian) Cancer Vixen, now on sale in paperback from Pantheon Books, will be a guest today on The Faith Middleton Show, part of Connecticut’s Public Broadcasting Network.
Tune in today at 3 pm EST and then again at 10 pm EST. You can also listen live at WNPR.org.
More >In case you missed last night’s episode, go to www.thedailyshow.com to watch Jon Stewart hosting Jake Adelstein, author of the “gripping” (Time) Tokyo Vice. Dave Davies of NPR’s Fresh Air calls the book “a journalist’s memoir unlike any I’ve ever read.”
More >PEN presents five internationally acclaimed writers exploring the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. Don’t miss Francine Prose, Mary Gordon, Ana Menendez, Michael Thomas, and Sam Tanenhaus for readings and observations about the power of the word
When: Saturday, November 14
Where: Chapman Conference Center (Bldg. 3, 2nd Floor), Miami Book Fair
What time: 11:00 a.m.
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.
More >In a Newsweek web exclusive about three new books dealing with the fall of the Berlin Wall, Andrew Bast calls Revolution 1989 “a must-have accounting” and asserts that “Sebestyen’s brilliantly written narrative unfolds in brief, gripping episodes.”
More >From Andrew Vachss, the author of the acclaimed Burke series, comes Haiku: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a journey to recover what each has lost. The answers to each man’s questions trigger shocking explosions that hit you with all the visceral power we have come to expect from this fierce and dynamic writer.
More >From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War, is now on sale from Pantheon Books.
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