About Attachments Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (April 14, 2011) Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. Jennifer tells Beth everything she can’t seem […]
Archives for January 25, 2011
Oscar Hijuelos, author of Thoughts Without Cigarettes, on tour June 2011
About Thoughts Without Cigarettes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Gotham (June 2, 2011) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his novels that feature locales as exotic as beautiful Havana and subjects as universal as family, dreams, love, and music. For his latest project, he writes from the heart about the people and […]
John Pollack, author of The Pun Also Rises, on tour April/May 2011
About The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Gotham (April 14, 2011) The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. […]