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Apr 12
2011
11:29 AM ET
On the Books Apr. 12: Gay penguin book tops list of controversial books, Amazon offering ad-supported Kindle, and more
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Apr 11
2011
11:19 PM ET
Poetry you need to read: Elaine Equi, Ron Padgett, Alice Notley, Matthew Rohrer
April is National Poetry Month. Here are new collections by four exceptional poets.
• Click and Clone
Elaine Equi
(Coffee House Press)
Whether celebrating clones or revising Led Zeppelin (“That stairway only leads half-way to heaven”), Equi melds verse with aphorism, wisdom with wicked playfulness. The clone concept has really gotten to Equi; she works out the implications of scientific breakthrough in a number of poems, as well as ones that cite literary forebears to the idea of doubling a human or oneself (in Edgar Allan Poe; in Dostoyevsky). My favorite of these may be “Some Things Never Change”:
Once I had a body
always tired
of pretending
to be me.
Now long gone.
Replaced by files, codes,
a social network
held together with pins.
The reach of its reach
(you wouldn’t say arms)
much further
but still, tired.
In “A Guide to the Cinema Tarot,” she advises, “Keep your ear to the ground/I mean all the way down.” That’s an apt apercu: Equi really knows how to get down. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 11
2011
06:50 PM ET
Seven lost 'Dr. Seuss' stories uncovered for September book debut
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Random House is calling it “the literary equivalent of buried treasure.” This September, the company will release The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss, containing seven rarely-before-seen stories from the children’s lit virtuoso.
Massachusetts dentist (and Seussophile) Dr. Charles Cohen had listed original Seuss magazine prints on eBay when Theodor “Seuss” Geisel’s art director happened upon them. After meeting with Cohen in person, they decided to run the cartoons with enhanced color in the upcoming 72-page book.
Bippolo Seed hits bookstores nearly 13 years after Geisel’s previous posthumous release, and 20 years after his death. His nom de plume Dr. Seuss is, of course, synonymous with rhyming whimsy and odd, fanciful characters, and he helped define early childhoods all over the world. Seuss’s writing and illustrations have long reigned as a media empire, with TV shows, merchandising, games, and films. A movie based on The Lorax is set for release next March.
Apr 11
2011
06:32 PM ET
The 'Game of Thrones' Book Club, week 2: The plot(s) thicken, and I struggle to keep up
[Note: As I get further into the book, it's going to be more and more difficult -- if not impossible -- to avoid writing spoilers. So if you haven't read at least the first two thirds of A Game of Thrones, I'd suggest you put this post aside and read it when you're all caught up.]
Wow. Where do I even begin? At this point, A Game of Thrones‘s crazily complex narrative has been split into no fewer than five major story lines, some of which are a lot more compelling than others. (Sorry, Jon Snow; wake me up when Uncle Benjen emerges from the Haunted Forest as a zombie or a White Wizard or something.) As a result, so much is happening that I can barely keep track of it all (case in point: wait, who’s Ser Jorah again?). And since more and more characters are splintering off to have their own adventures — Tyrion’s trekking away from the Eyrie, Sansa and Arya will supposedly soon be on a boat bound for Winterfell, and so on — I have a feeling the number of disparate story lines will only grow from here. Clearly, George R. R. Martin wasn’t lying when he said that he meant his series to be “unfilmable.” READ FULL STORY »
Apr 11
2011
07:00 AM ET
Candace Bushnell signs on for two new YA novels for HarperCollins - EXCLUSIVE
Image Credit: Marion Ettinger
HarperCollins has just announced two new YA books from Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City. After successfully introducing a teenage Carrie Bradshaw in The Carrie Diaries, Bushnell has a followup on the way called Summer and the City, to be released April 26th. The sequel will tell the story of Carrie’s first summer in Manhattan and how she met her future BFFs, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte.
While it’s undecided whether the two announced books will continue the saga of Carrie’s transformation from small-town girl to Cosmo-sipping fashionista, fans of The Carrie Diaries will be excited to know of Bushnell’s plans to write at least two more books for younger readers. “Working on The Carrie Diaries and Summer and the City was an exciting and rewarding experience,” Bushnell told EW exclusively. “I’m looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.”
Should Bushnell write more about young Carrie’s exploits? Or is it time she explored a different teen character?
Apr 10
2011
07:40 PM ET
Steve Jobs authorized biography hitting stands in 2012
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Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that it will release a biography surrounding Steve Jobs’ life, with the Apple CEO’s full participation. According to the Associated Press, the book, titled iSteve: The Book of Jobs, will be written by Walter Isaacson and released in 2012. (Isaacson has previously written biographies on Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin.) The author has been working on the Jobs biography since 2009, and has had access to the CEO’s friends and family. Jobs has suffered numerous health setbacks over the years — in January, he announced he would take a leave of absence (his third) from Apple before returning to introduce the iPad 2 last month.
Apr 10
2011
11:24 AM ET
Can't get enough of AMC's 'The Killing'? You'll love these books
Image Credit: Carole Segal/AMC
AMC’s excellent new mystery series The Killing is set in the Pacific Northwest, but it’s based on a Danish show and the scenery, atmosphere, and quiet vibe are all pure Nordic noir. So if you’ve found yourself sucked in and are eager for more chilly Scandinavian-style suspense, here’s a recommendation: Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell, whose new (and final) Kurt Wallander mystery, The Troubled Man, recently hit bookstores.
Mankell has been beaten by French police and arrested by Israeli commandos. He’s worked on a Swedish merchant ship, at a Paris musical-instrument shop, and as the artistic director of an African theater company. He spent years living in the middle of a long, bloody civil war in Mozambique. And he’s managed to find time to write some 40 books, which are available in 41 languages and have sold almost 40 million copies around the world. “I have been accused of many things in my life,” he says in a feature in this week’s Entertainment Weekly. “But never of being lazy.”
Mankell is best known for his 11 books featuring Wallander, an overweight, middle-aged, diabetic police inspector who fights bad guys and personal demons in a small town at the desolate southern tip of Sweden. Fans of The Killing will love the Wallander books’ precise procedural detail, thoughtful pace, and well-drawn characters. So if you find yourself getting antsy while waiting a whole week to find out what happens next on the show, pick up one of Mankell’s books (they’re all good, but start with the first one, Faceless Killers). And be sure to check out our story on Mankell in the latest issue, on newsstands now.
Apr 8
2011
01:18 PM ET
'Heat Rises': Plot synopsis of Richard Castle's third Nikki Heat novel revealed -- EXCLUSIVE
The third book in Richard Castle’s Nikki Heat series hits shelves (for real) in September, and EW has obtained a plot description from Hyperion, which has already published two New York Times best-sellers from the crime novelist Nathan Fillion plays on ABC’s Castle, Heat Wave and Naked Heat.
The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club is just the tip of an iceberg that leads Nikki Heat to a dark conspiracy that reaches all the way to the highest level of the NYPD. But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who’s not a cop. Reporter Jameson Rook.
In the midst of New York’s coldest winter in a hundred years, there’s one thing Nikki is determined to prove. Heat Rises.
Sounds like Castle did some research during episode 216, “The Mistress Always Spanks Twice.”
Apr 7
2011
10:35 AM ET
'The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide': See Bella in her wedding dress -- EXCLUSIVE
EW has not one but two exclusive images from Stephenie Meyer’s new book, The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, which goes on sale April 12: Bella as a vampire and Bella in her wedding dress. A nice walk-up to the first Breaking Dawn film, no? I didn’t expect to like the first Twilight graphic novel as much as I did, and these illustrations are by that book’s illustrator, Young Kim, who did such a great job bringing Meyer’s characters to life.
What do you think? Is this how you visualize Bella in the upcoming film?
Apr 6
2011
05:23 PM ET
J. J. Abrams novel to come out in fall 2012: Start your speculation now!
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Clearly using some form of Lost-style (or perhaps Season 4 Felicity-style) time travel, J. J. Abrams has somehow found time between working on Super 8, the Star Trek sequel, the new Mission Impossible, and two awesome-sounding pilots, to write a novel. Okay, maybe not write, per se. Abrams is billed as the “creator” of the new book, which was just picked up today by Mulholland Books and which will be actually written by author Doug Dorst. Abrams’ contributions will probably not be unlike Guillermo Del Toro’s work on The Strain trilogy.
The novel at this point has no official title and so can be referred to, like so many other things, as Untitled J. J. Abrams Project, but it is set to release in fall 2012. According to Little, Brown’s Michael Pietsch, “Doug and J. J.’s story will explode the bonds of the novel in ways no book has ever done.” There are no plot details beyond this assertion that it will turn our minds inside out and change the future of the written word forever, but I think we’re pretty much guaranteed to see at least a few mysterious viral videos and/or hidden messages over the next year-and-a-half, coupled with wild speculation from fans. (It’s a lion!) In fact, there might even be an exclusive secret code hidden in this very blog post!*
*Spoiler alert: There’s not.
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