Book clubs will ponder.. Are the rich really different? Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden Joining the ranks of Augusten Burroughs & David Sedaris, a descendent of Cornelius Vanderbilt takes a look at the decline of her wealthy blue-blooded family in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. The New York Times calls author […]
Amy Wilson, author of When Did I Get Like This?, on tour April/May 2011
About When Did I Get Like This? • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 19, 2011) When Did I Get Like This? is the hilarious story of one mother’s struggle to shrug off the ridiculous standards of modern parenting, and remember how to enjoy her children Over the last seven years of long […]
Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye, on tour April 2011
About The Long Goodbye: Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (April 14, 2011) From one of America’s foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge […]
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 […]
Lisa Napoli, author of Radio Shangri-La, on tour February/March 2011
About Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (February 8, 2011) When Napoli met the handsome Sebastian at a cookbook party in New York City, she was intrigued by this man who traveled to Bhutan regularly. And when the accomplished L.A.-based journalist (MSNBC, CNN, public […]
Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion, on tour February 2011
About Devotion • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper; 1 edition (January 26, 2010) Settling into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a […]
Angela Balcita, author of Moonface, on tour February 2011
About Moonface Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (February 1, 2011) “Angela Balcita’s love story takes a couple of artsy wanderers off the road and into the bright, scary world of transplants, dialysis, and neonatal intensive care.” —Marion Winik, author of The Glen Rock Book of the Dead From the pages of the […]
Marilyn Johnson, author of This Book is Overdue!, on tour January/February 2011
About This Book is Overdue! • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 25, 2011) Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that, in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us—expert and hopelessly baffled alike—can get along without human help. And not just any help: we need librarians, the […]
Iain Reid, author of ONE BIRD’S CHOICE, on tour March 2011
About One Bird’s Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: House of Anansi Press (Mar 1, 2011) Meet Iain Reid: an overeducated, underemployed twenty-something, living in the big city in a bug-filled basement apartment and struggling to make ends meet. When Iain lands […]
Linda Gray Sexton, author of Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, on tour January/February 2011
About Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide Hardcover: 300 pages Publisher: Counterpoint Press (January 11, 2011) Despite experiencing the agony of witnessing her mother’s multiple suicide attempts, the last of which was successful, Linda Gray Sexton found herself gripped by the same strong tentacles of mental anguish. Falling into the familiar grooves of […]