On the nonfiction side the agency has Bryan Charles's There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From (Open City/Grove Books, Nov. 2010), the author's coming-of-age account of his arrival in ...New York from the Midwest and the turn his life took after he started a job at Morgan Stanley in the south tower of the World Trade Center, days before 9/11. According to the agency, the book's "a moving and warm portrait of families trying to prepare for the future." Ed Victor The agency will be shopping Eoin Colfer's new adult novel, Plugged (Overlook, Aug. 2011), a noir from the bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl books about an Irishman in New Jersey who gets pulled into "a world of murder, kidnapping and corrupt cops"; rights sold in the U.K. From Ranulph Fiennes is Killer Elite (Ballantine movie tie-in), an adventure story about secret organizations--one a group of contract killers and the other a group of ex-soldiers--that was originally published in the '90s as The Feather Men. From Tahmima Anam is The Good Muslim (HC, May 2011), the second novel in the author's Bengal trilogy, after 2008's A Golden Age (winner of the Guardian First Book Award); rights sold in Brazil, France, India, Italy, the Netherlands, and the U.K. The agency has another posthumous work from Robert Bolaño, Los Sinsabores del Verdadero Policia (FSG, spring 2011), which it says is the novel the author was writing from the early '90s and which his two major works, The Savage Detectives and 2666, grew out of; rights sold in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, U.K. Then there's Bowie: Object by David Bowie (no U.S. pub, delivery Dec. 2010), which the agency says is the first in a series of books by the pop icon in which he explores his creative process by featuring 100 things from his "archive."
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332.
Around the Booths: P - R Tardiff, Jill A; Niernberger, John; Patrick, Diane
The Publishers weekly,
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Drawings: for Hopkins Co. Architects canvas boat and tote bag (filled with promotional items) manufactured by L.L. Bean; pecan 'n' cookbook gift from Cane River Pecan Co.; Ronnie McDowell's Unchained ...Melody and Greatest Hits CDs with The Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowell and Edie Hand. PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INT'L ECONOMICS Featured: Russia the Balance Sheet by Anders Aslund and Andrew Kuchins; Global Warming and the World Trading System by Gary Clyde Hufbauer et al.; How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy by Anders Aslund; U.S. Pension Reform by Martin Neil Baily and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard; The Euro at Ten , edited by Adam S. Posen and Jean Pisani-Ferri. POMEGRANATE COMMUNICATIONS Featured sidelines: cards, including thank-you, gift-enclosure-, note- and holiday; calendars; postcard books; "knowledge" card decks; journals; jigsaw puzzles; gift-wrap; bookmarks; address books; boxed recipe cards; book of days. READER'S DIGEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS Featured: Disney Princess and the Frog Movie Theater Storybook and Movie Projector ; Jonas Rockin' the Dream Musical Microphone (Disney Jonas Brothers); WonderPets Save the Day Press 'n' Play Musical Storybook ; Fun with Barbie and Friends Storybook and Magnetic Playset ; Sesame Street Elmo Loves Hugs! .
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Davis reviews several books, including The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, 2666 by Roberto Bolano and translated by Natasha Wimmer, Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago and translated by Margaret ...Jull Costa, and Greed by Elfriede Jelinek and translated by Martin Chalmers.
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Hunting Corderian Rhetoric Bolin, Bill
Composition Studies,
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Bolin reviews Selected Essays of Jim W. Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing edited by James S. Baumlim and Keith D. Miller with a foreword by Wendy Bishop and Beyond ...Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric edited by Theresa Enos and Keith D. Miller.
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, whose publication was timed for the hundredth anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet's birth in 1904, clearly aims to be the authoritative one-volume ...collection of Neruda in English translation, and in its nearly thousand-page length, to reinforce his dominant role in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. Faced with the challenge posed by the size and unity of Neruda's poetic collections, Stavans has resorted to the "bleeding chunk" approach, inexplicably mutilating such organically conceived sequences as The Heights of Macchu Picchu in the process. English-speaking readers new to Neruda would be better advised to forgo this collection and pick up City Lights's recent anthology, The Essential Neruda, containing a careful selection of fifty poems in new or revised translations and on sale for a fraction of the FSG book's price. -
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The New Yorker,
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"Chilean-born writer Roberto Bolano is notorious in Spanish-speaking countries for having proclaimed that magic realism 'stinks.' He derided Gabriel Garcia Marquez as 'a man terribly pleased to have ...hobnobbed with so many Presidents and Archbishops'; he called Isabel Allende a 'scribbler' whose 'attempts at literature range from kitsch to the pathetic.' Bolano's obstreperousness was sometimes a pose--much like his preference for being photographed in a black leather jacket, sternly sucking on a cigarette--but his self-described 'gratuitous attacks' had salutary effects. He helped liberate Latin-American writing from the debased imitations of magic realism that followed the global conquest of Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'--all those clairvoyant senoritas and intercourse-inspiring moles--and reestablished the primacy of such cosmopolitan experimentalists as Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar. Of course, some calculation lay behind his position. There was one living Latin-American novelist whose avid bookishness and formal cleverness made him the obvious heir to the modernist tradition: Roberto Bolano." (New Yorker) This profile of Bolano's life and literary career includes discussion of his famous work, "The Savage Detectives."
Relationships, in Roberto Bolano's world, tend to be febrile but fleeting, yielding memories suffused by the afterglow of emotion; his narratives are often the testimonies of people the wanderers ...leave behind. It's no coincidence that Bolano's most heartbreaking creation--the rebellious, doomed poet at the heart of his 1998 masterwork, "The Savage Detectives," which Farrar, Straus has just published in translation--is named Ulises.
