Marisa Acocella Marchetto, author of Cancer Vixen, responded to last week’s United States Preventive Services Task Force guideline that women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, not 40. In a provocative piece published by the Huffington Post, which includes a revealing original cartoon sketch, Marchetto discusses her opinions on the matter.
Cancer Vixen is now on sale from Pantheon Books.
More >The A.V. Club has named its top 25 comic books of the millenium’s first decade, with four Pantheon titles represented: The Acme Novelty Library, by Chris Ware; Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli; Black Hole, by Charles Burns; and Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi.
More >National Book Award–winning Ha Jin presents A Good Fall, an “artfully turned out” (Elle) collection of short stories delving into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America, now on sale from Pantheon Books.
Ha Jin will be appearing at Boston bookstores during the first week of December.
More >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.
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