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GUIDEBOOKS & MANUALS...... 3 ANTHOLOGIES ...... 21 Grammar...... 4 Library of America...... 23 Tips on Creativity...... 5 Screenwriting...... 6 REFERENCE...... 26 Dictionaries...... 28 MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY...... 7 Complete Idiot’s Guides...... 28 Graphic Memoirs...... 9 Living with War...... 11 COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE...... 29 BUSINESS & TECHNICAL WRITING...... 15 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPIES ORDER FORM....31 How to Say It® Series...... 15 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM...... 32 CRITICAL WORKS...... 16 New Media...... 19

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f FINISH THIS BOOK MESS WRECK THIS JOURNAL A do-it-yourself illustrated story—featuring The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes For anyone who’s ever had trouble keeping a the reader as both author and main charac- An exploration of happenings in which the journal or sketchbook—an illustrated book that ter. “Facilitates a creative process that takes creator is encouraged to embrace not having features a subversive collection of prompts, ask- something huge—like writing a book—and control over the end result. ing readers to muster up their best mistake- and breaks it down into small but powerful exer- Perigee • 192 pp. • 978-0-399-53600-7 • $13.95 mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book cises....Through a series of logical steps you HOW TO BE AN (and destroy them). have found your voice and you have written EXPLORER OF THE WORLD Perigee • 192 pp. • 978-0-399-53346-4 • $13.95 a story.”—Braid Creative & Consulting. Portable Life Museum Perigee • 208 pp. • 978-0-399-53689-2 • $15.00 An interactive guide for documenting the art Also available as an App through the iTunes App store: f WRECK THIS APP THIS IS NOT A BOOK and science of everyday life—and to finding Perigee • 224 pp. • 978-0-399-53521-5 • $12.95 your inner creativity! Features include: Perigee • 208 pp. • 978-0-399-53460-7 • $14.95 • Tools to allow you to draw, write, and erase • Share work through email, Facebook and Flickr • The ability to save your work • And much more

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Sophy Burnham Stephanie Dowrick GUIDEBOOKS f FOR WRITERS ONLY CREATIVE JOURNAL WRITING Inspiring Thoughts on the The Art and Heart of Reflection & MANUALS Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Discover inspirational instructions, 125 starter Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners topics, and 40 powerful exercises for imple- Pam Allyn Now back in print: the classic that distills wis- menting this life-transforming tool. f YOUR CHILD’S WRITING LIFE dom on the writing life, including true stories Tarcher • 272 pp. • 978-1-58542-686-7 • $13.95 How to Inspire Confidence, of insight from authors such as Agatha Chris- Creativity, and Skill at Every Age tie and James Thurber. Sherry Ellis and Laurie Lamson, editors The author of What to Read When offers the Tarcher • 224 pp. • 978-1-58542-912-7 • $15.95 f NOW WRITE! MYSTERIES “five keys” to help kids WRITE—Word Power, Suspense, Crime, Thriller, Ritual, Independence, Time, and Environment. Eric Butterworth and Other Mystery Fiction Exercises Avery • 256 pp. • 978-1-58333-439-3 • $17.00 THE CREATIVE LIFE from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers Also avalable: What to Read When 978-1-58333-334-1 7 Keys to Your Inner Genius Never-before-published writing exercises Foreword by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo from numerous bestselling, Edgar Award–, Lynn V. Andrews Tarcher • 176 pp. • 978-1-58542-270-8 • $13.95 Hugo Award–, and Shamus Award–winning WRITING SPIRIT and nominated authors. Finding Your Creative Soul Ivana Chubbuck Tarcher • 256 pp. • 978-1-58542-903-5 • $14.95 Being true to your spirit is the key to fulfill- THE POWER OF THE ACTOR ment in your work. Andrews leads readers to Gotham • 400 pp. • 978-1-59240-153-6 • $20.00 Sherry Ellis find the truth within themselves and teaches NOW WRITE! NONFICTION us what it really means to be a writer. Arianne Cohen & Colleen Kinder, editors Memoir, Journalism, and Tarcher • 240 pp. • 978-1-58542-580-8 • $14.95 CONFESSIONS OF A Creative Nonfiction Exercises HIGH SCHOOL WORD NERD from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers Rosanne Bane Increase Your SAT Verbal Score Learn the exercises and tricks the pros use, f AROUND THE WRITER’S BLOCK While Laughing Your Gluteus Off from Gay Talese’s “writer’s road map” to Lee Using Brain Science A collection of ten essays by recent college- Gutkind’s method for identifying action. to Solve Writer’s Resistance graduates-turned-writers that recount wild, Tarcher • 272 pp. • 978-1-58542-758-1 • $14.95 traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events, Includes tips on everything from writer’s NOW WRITE! block, procrastination, perfectionism, distrac- using common SAT words as a study tool. Fiction Writing Exercises from tions, self-sabotage, excessive criticism, over- Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-303836-8 • $14.00 Today’s Best Writers and Teachers scheduling, and other obstacless. Acclaimed writers Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Tarcher • 256 pp. • 978-1-58542-871-7 • $15.95 Jill Dearman Butler, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suárez, Mar- Available August 2012 BANG THE KEYS got Livesey, and others offer their personal The teacher of the “Bang the Keys” workshop writing exercises. Jefferson D. Bates encourages aspiring writers to: Begin with the Tarcher • 272 pp. • 978-1-58542-522-8 • $13.95 WRITING WITH PRECISION strongest idea; Arrange the work into a con- See also: Now Write! Screenwriting, page 6 How to Write So That You crete shape; Nurture the project with love; Cannot Possibly Be Misunderstood and Go finish. John Fox “Picks up where Strunk and White left off.”— Alpha • 256 pp. • 978-1-59257-914-3 • $16.95 FINDING WHAT YOU DIDN’T LOSE Writer’s Digest Book Club. Expressing Your Truth and Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-028853-7 • $15.00 Jacqueline Deval Creativity Through Poem-Making PUBLICIZE YOUR BOOK! Tarcher • 320 pp. • 978-0-87477-809-0 • $17.95 Dorothea Brande An Insider’s Guide to Getting POETIC MEDICINES BECOMING A WRITER Your Book the Attention It Deserves The Healing Art Foreword by John Gardner Updated Edition of Poem-Making Tarcher • 192 pp. • 978-0-87477-164-0 • $13.95 “Everything your publisher, editor, and publi- Preface by Rezak Hukanovic cist will never tell you but you need to know.”— Tarcher • 303 pp. • 978-0-87477-882-3 • $17.95 M. J. Rose, co-author of Buzz Your Book. Perigee • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-53431-7 • $18.00

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GRAMMAR

June Casagrande MORTAL SYNTAX 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs—Even If You’re Right This fun guide to English usage includes such chapters as “I wish I was taller,” “I am contin- uously watching Simpsons reruns,” and “Was it Horton that heard the Who?” Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311332-4 • $14.00 Mark Kramer & Wendy Call, editors GRAMMAR SNOBS TELLING TRUE STORIES ARE GREAT BIG MEANIES A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite from the Nieman Foundation The antidote to Eats, Shoots and Leaves—an at Harvard University uproarious and very American word book for In more than ninety essays, acclaimed writers, those who are tired of getting pulled over by such as Nora Ephron, David Halberstam, the grammar police. Tom Wolfe, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, Phillip Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-303683-8 • $15.00 Lynne Truss Lopate, and Malcolm Gladwell, take the EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES reader from story idea through publication, The Zero Tolerance and on to writing books and building a career Patricia T. O’Conner Approach to Punctuation WOE IS I as a narrative writer. Illustrated by Bonnie Timmons Plume • 352 pp. • 978-0-452-28755-6 • $17.00 The Grammarphobe’s Guide Foreword by Frank McCourt to Better English in Plain English Third Edition “Makes the history of punctuation a subject at Betsy Lerner “The best primer on English usage to come once urgent, sexy, and hilarious.”—John THE FOREST FOR THE TREES along since Strunk and White’s The Elements of Walsh. “A witty, eloquent and passionate book An Editor’s Advice to Writers Style” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) now that should be on every writer’s shelf.”—The Revised and Updated expanded with new chapters on spelling and Observer Review. This classic guide for writers, by an editor pronunciation. “A nifty guidebook to modern Gotham • 240 pp. • 978-1-592-40203-8 • $14.00 turned literary agent, remains an essential tool A Los Angeles Times Book of the Year grammar that affectionately elbows the reader in navigating the challenges of getting pub- • Teacher’s guide available at lished in a rapidly-changing industry. on every page.”—San Francisco Chronicle. http://us.penguingroup.com/tguides Riverhead • 288 pp. • 978-1-57322-331-7 • $15.00 “Remarkably generous about inviting writers Illustrated Edition behind the editorial curtain, [Lerner] sings like Illustrations by Pat Byrnes a canary the trade secrets of editors and agents, Pamela Rice-Hahn and Dr. Denis Hensley Foreword by Frank McCourt offering solid insider advice on every step of TEACH YOURSELF “An amusingly illustrated edition of Truss’s GRAMMAR & STYLE IN 24 HOURS the publishing process.”—Chicago Tribune. Alpha • 448 pp. • 978-0-02863-899-7 • $17.99 entertaining rant about and lecture on the Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-483-4 • $16.00 intricacies of the English language.”—The Miami Herald. Lara M. Robbins Elizabeth Lyon Gotham • 256 pp. • 978-1-592-40488-9 • $17.50 GRAMMAR AND STYLE A WRITER’S GUIDE TO FICTION Also available: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas A Concise, Practical Guide for AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Really Do Make a Difference 978-0-399-24491-9, Alpha • 304 pp. • 978-1-59257-657-9 • $16.95 The Girl’s Like Spaghetti 978-0-399-24706-4 Novelists and Short-Story Writers “A detailed, confident, no-nonsense guide for the serious fiction writer....Teaches writers how to craft a story from beginning to end.”— Jon Franklin Stephen Fry Library Journal.

WRITING FOR STORY THE ODE LESS TRAVELLED Perigee • 272 pp. • 978-0-399-52858-3 • $14.95 Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction Unlocking the Poet Within by a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner “Fry understands the saving role that humor can MANUSCRIPT MAKEOVER Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-27295-8 • $15.00 play in any discussion of poetry’s mechanics.”— Revision Techniques No The Wall Street Journal. “At once idiosyncratic Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore Perigee • 256 pp. • 978-0-399-53395-2 • $14.95 Bonni Goldberg and thoroughly traditional....A smart, compre- Also available: A Writer’s Guide to Nonfiction ROOM TO WRITE hensive guide to prosody.”—The New York Times 978-0-399-52867-5; Nonfiction Book Proposals Tarcher • 224 pp. • 978-0-87477-825-0 • $13.95 Book Review. Anybody Can Write 978-0-399-52827-9; Gotham • 368 pp. • 978-1-592-40311-0 • $17.00 The Sell Your Novel Toolkit 978-0-399-52828-6 Sam Keen & Anne Valley-Fox See also: The Fry Chronicles, page 8 YOUR MYTHIC JOURNEY Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling Tarcher • 160 pp. • 978-0-87477-543-3 • $14.95

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Julia Cameron f THE CREATIVE LIFE True Tales of Inspiration Cameron opens the curtain on her life—and the lives of the artists around her. “Practical, productive, and passionate, Cameron and her Believing Mirrors (“people who see our power and potential and reflect it back at us”) show Matt Madden the artistic way in an organic light that makes 99 WAYS TO TELL A STORY it seem approachable and attainable, revealing Exercises in Style how living creatively can be as calibrated as a Through drawings, homages, and parodies, work of fiction.”—Publishers Weekly. the graphic novelist illustrates the limitless Tarcher • 256 pp. • 978-0-399-16052-3 • $15.95 variety of formal and stylistic opportunities Available November 2012 available to storytellers in all media. THE COMPLETE ARTIST’S WAY Chamberlain Bros. • 208 pp. Creativity as a Spiritual Practice 978-1-59609-078-1 • $20.00 In one volume, Cameron’s core works on the David Lynch Jack Maguire creative process: The Artist’s Way, Walking in CATCHING THE BIG FISH THE POWER OF This World, and Finding Water. Meditation, PERSONAL STORYTELLING Tarcher • 752 pp. • 978-1-58542-630-0 • $29.95 Consciousness, and Creativity Spinning Tales to Connect with Others FINDING WATER “The director explores every aspect of his Tarcher • 272 pp. • 978-0-87477-930-1 • $18.95 The Art of Perseverance work in film, music, photography and other aesthetic pursuits, including behind-the- Offers guidance in the form of a twelve-week Eric Maisel, Ph.D. scenes stories about Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet program on weathering the periods in an art- THE ART OF THE BOOK PROPOSAL and Mulholland Drive and revelations on his ist’s life when inspiration has run dry. From Focused Idea to Finished Product Tarcher • 304 pp. • 978-1-58542-777-2 • $16.99 35 years of Transcendental Meditation.”— Tarcher • 288 pp. • 978-1-58542-334-7 • $15.95 Rocky Mountain News. THE ARTIST’S WAY Tarcher • 192 pp. • 978-1-58542-612-6 • $13.95 THE CREATIVITY BOOK A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Tarcher • 304 pp. • 978-1-58542-029-2 • $14.95 10th Anniversary Edition Introduction by the author Frank Barron, Alfonso Montuori, & Anthea Barron, editors Kate and David Marshall Tarcher • 272 pp. • 978-1-58542-146-6 • $16.99 f CREATORS ON CREATING MY LIFE MAP THE ARTIST’S WAY WORKBOOK Awakening and Cultivating A Journal That Will A user-friendly companion piece to The Artist’s the Imaginative Mind Help Readers Shape Their Lives Way, with more than 110 tasks, 50 check-ins Tarcher • 256 pp. • 978-0-87477-854-0 • $15.95 An introspective guided journal that com- and new writings on Morning Page Journaling. bines writing with therapeutic prompts and Tarcher • 176 pp. • 978-1-58542-533-4 • $18.95 Ira Progoff tools to help readers shape their lives by • For more Cameron titles, please visit www.penguin.com AT A JOURNAL WORKSHOP reflecting on the past, evaluating the present Writing to Access the Power of the and dreaming of the future. Lisa Currie Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability Gotham • 96 pp. • 978-159240784-2 • $16.00 f THE SCRIBBLE DIARY Revised Edition Avalable November 2012 My Brain Right Now Tarcher • 422 pp. • 978-0-87477-638-6 • $19.95 An imaginative visual diary that encourages Jessica Page Morrell readers to create a record of their days through THANKS, BUT THIS ISN’T FOR US scribbles, doodles, and writing. A (Sort of) Compassionate Guide Perigee • 192 pp. • 978-0-399-53745-5 • $14.00 to Why Your Writing Is Being Rejected Available May 2012 Sixteen to-the-point chapters—with checklists, exercises, takeaway tips, and glossary—to help aspiring writers transcend rookie mistakes. Tarcher • 320 pp. • 978-1-58542-721-5 • $16.95

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Laura Oliver, M.F.A. f THE STORY WITHIN New Insights and Inspiration for Writers SCREENWRITING Employs the compelling art of memoir to illuminate craft and touches on nuanced sub- Jay Douglas Evan S. Smith f jects only a teacher who is actively writing STALKING THE STORY WRITING TELEVISION SITCOMS knows to address. How to Find Your Screenplay’s Story Revised Edition with Help from TV’s Greatest Detectives Alpha • 224 pp. • 978-1-61564-114-7 • $13.95 Covers “everything a beginning television writer The author puts the reader in the position of needs to know about the TV industry and writ- a detective, guiding him or her through the ing scripts for sitcoms.”—Writers Write. Includes Lucile Vaughan Payne experience of finding the story that is central THE LIVELY ART OF WRITING updated examples from contemporary shows to the screenplay he or she wants to write. Signet • 192 pp. • 978-0-451-62712-4 • $6.99 such as 30 Rock, The Office,and South Park. Alpha • 256 pp. • 978-1-61564-124-6 • $15.95 Perigee • 304 pp. • 978-0-399-53537-6 • $18.00 Mary Pipher Sherry Ellis and Laurie Lamson, editor WRITING TO CHANGE THE WORLD Kate Wright f NOW WRITE! SCREENWRITING Combines practical instruction with inspira- SCREENWRITING IS STORYTELLING Screenwriting Exercises from tional commentary, featuring stories about Creating an A-List Screenplay that Sells! Today’s Best Writers and Teachers writers who have transformed society through Foreword by Arthur Hiller Features never-before-published writing exer- their work. “A straightforward, accessible introduction cises from the acclaimed screenwriters of Rag- Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-59448-253-3 • $16.00 for aspiring screenwriters who need help with ing Bull, Ali, Terminator 2, Fame, Groundhog anything from getting the structure down to Day, Cape Fear, “True Blood,” and “The Shield.” selling the work.”—Booklist. Roger Pol-Droit Tarcher • 256 pp. • 978-1-58542-851-9 • $14.95 Perigee • 288 pp. • 978-0-399-53024-1 • $17.00 ASTONISH YOURSELF! See also: Now Write! series, page 3 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life Lew Hunter Richard Walter Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-200313-8 • $14.00 LEW HUNTER’S SCREENWRITING 434 ESSENTIALS OF SCREENWRITING The Industry’s Top Teacher Reveals The Art, Craft, and Business Gary Provost the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay of Film and Television Writing 100 WAYS TO “Invaluable help to anyone who wants to Hollywood’s premier teacher of screenwriting IMPROVE YOUR WRITING learn the craft of screenwriting, written by a (UCLA) shares the secrets of writing and sell- Signet • 176 pp. • 978-0-451-62721-6 • $6.99 man whose warmth, humor, and experience ing successful screenplays. “This inspiring and are legendary throughout the industry.”— comprehensive book teaches the nuts and Burton Raffel Joel Schumacher. bolts of screenwriting with clarity, wisdom HOW TO READ A POEM Perigee • 352 pp. • 978-0-399-52986-3 • $15.95 and humor.”—Alexander Payne, Oscar-win- Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-01033-8 • $16.00 ning writer & director of Sideways. Plume • 352 pp. • 978-0-452-29627-5 • $16.00 Tristine Rainer THE NEW DIARY Introduction by the author Foreword by Anaïs Nin Steven Reiss, Ph.D. and Dan Roam Tarcher • 240 pp. • 978-0-87477-150-3 • $16.95 Gabriele Rico, Ph.D. f BLAH BLAH BLAH YOUR LIFE AS STORY WRITING THE NATURAL WAY What to Do When Words Don’t Work Discovering the “New Autobiography” Using Right-Brain Techniques to Presents advice and examples—illustrated and Writing Memoir As Literature Release Your Expressive Powers throughout with drawings—that will help Tarcher • 353 pp. • 978-0-87477-922-6 • $16.95 Tarcher • 288 pp. • 978-0-87477-961-5 • $18.95 readers reduce noise and confusion, no matter how complicated the problems they’re facing. Portfolio • 368 pp. • 978-1-59184-459-4 • $29.95 Also available: The Back of the Napkin 978-1-59184-306-1, Unfolding the Napkin 978-1-59184-319-1

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Ruth Sawyer Wendy Burden THE WAY OF THE STORYTELLER MEMOIR & DEAD END GENE POOL Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-004436-2 • $17.00 “In this dark and humorous memoir...Burden BIOGRAPHY takes us inside the family circus that was her Sandra Scofield side of the Vanderbilt dynasty, bringing Amer- THE SCENE BOOK Mark Adams ican class structure, sibling rivalry, and the A Primer for the Fiction Writer f TURN RIGHT AT MACHU PICCHU decline of the bluebloods vividly to life.”— A guide to crafting more effective scenes in Rediscovering the Gus Van Sant, director of Good Will Hunting. fiction, including examples from the work of Lost City One Step at a Time Gotham • 288 pp. • 978-1-59240-606-7 • $16.00 Lorrie Moore, Anthony Doerr, and Alice Munro. An editor of travel magazines tries to re-create Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-303826-9 • $15.00 Hiram Bingham’s original expedition to Machu Novella Carpenter Picchu. “Adams deftly weaves together Inca his- FARM CITY Patrick Scrivenor tory, Bingham’s story and his own less heroic The Education of an Urban Farmer f EVERYDAY ENGLISH escapade....[A] wry, revealing romp through “Carpenter’s captivating account of the funky How to Say What You the Andes.”—The Wall Street Journal. “Like Bill little farm she created on an abandoned lot in Mean and Write Everything Right Bryson, Adams peppers his book with interest- a rough section of Oakland puts a whole new Includes all the tools you need to speak, spell, ing anecdotes, trenchant observations and fre- twist on the agrarian tradition in America.”— and write just about anything with aplomb. quently hilarious asides.”—BookPage. Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food. Reader’s Digest • 176 pp. • Dutton • 352 pp. • 978-0-525-95224-4 • $26.95 Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311728-5 • $16.00 978-1-60652-482-4 • $9.99 Plume • 352 pp. • 978-0-452-29798-2 • $16.00 Available June 2012 Available May 2012 Amy Chua f BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER Sunil Sethi Russell Baker The story of a mother’s exercise in raising her f THE BIG BOOKSHELF GROWING UP children the Chinese way—revealing the Sunil Sethi in Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-25550-0 • $16.00 rewards and the costs. “A candid, provocative, Conversation with 30 Famous Authors Signet • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-16838-2 • $7.99 poignant and vicarious journey through the In this selection of thirty of the journalist’s Pulitzer Prize winner Chinese-American family culture. It will leave interviews, writers speak freely and frankly you breathless with its bluntness and emo- about their craft, their life stories, and the R. Dwayne Betts tion. Amy Chua is a Tiger Mother, a greatly nature of their creative impulses. A QUESTION OF FREEDOM gifted law professor and, ultimately, an hon- Penguin India • 264 pp. • 978-0-14-341629-6 • $22.00 A Memoir of Learning, Survival, Available May 2012 and Coming of Age in Prison est, loving woman.”—Tom Brokaw. Incarcerated at sixteen for carjacking, Betts Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-312058-2 • $16.00 Gail Sher reflects upon his 8-year term in Virginia’s worst ONE CONTINUOUS MISTAKE prisons, seeking to understand how his past led J. M. Coetzee f Four Noble Truths for Writers to his crime. “Betts was incarcerated…[in] a SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-019587-3 • $16.00 place in which he also discovered the incredible Boyhood; Youth; Summertime power of books and reading. He’s written his The Nobel Prize–winning author’s brilliant Pat Walsh own life-changing book, which may well pre- trilogy of fictionalized memoirs—now avail- 78 REASONS WHY YOUR BOOK vent other young men from making that able in one volume for the first time. MAY NEVER BE PUBLISHED AND detour to prison. A searing and ultimately Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-242255-7 • $20.00 14 REASONS WHY IT JUST MIGHT uplifting story.”—Hill Harper, author of Letters Available May 2012 “An excellent primer on the realities of today’s to a Young Brother. publishing world.”—Booklist. Avery • 256 pp. • 978-1-58333-396-9 • $16.00 Alice Eve Cohen Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-303565-7 • $15.00 WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW “By turns black comedy, Kafkaesque night- mare, medical mystery and crisis of faith, [this book] is ultimately a love story....A memoir of astonishing candor.”—Donald Margulies, play- wright of “Dinner with Friends.” Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-311765-0 • $15.00 f denotes new or forthcoming title COMPOSITION 2012 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY

Edward Conlon Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Cornelius Eady BLUE BLOOD & Rameck Hunt, with Lisa Frazier Page HARDHEADED WEATHER “In terms of its ambition, [Blue Blood’s] authen- THE PACT: Three Young Men Make New and Selected Poems ticity and the power of its writing, is in a class by a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Eady reflects on the newfound responsibilities itself.”—The New York Times Book Review. Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-57322-989-0 • $15.00 as he transitions from urban renter to rural Also available: Riverhead • 576 pp. • 978-1-59448-073-7 • $18.00 The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and homeowner, as well as the sobering influence of Reconnect with Their Fathers 978-1-59448-330-1 war and the intimation of his own mortality. Sloane Crosley Putnam • 288 pp. • 978-0-399-15511-6 • $14.00 Also available: Brutal Imagination 978-0-399-14720-3 HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER? George Dawson & Richard Glaubman Crosley continues her adventures living in New LIFE IS SO GOOD York City, while side trips to Paris, Portugal, Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-100168-5 • $16.00 Ruth Fowler and Alaska reveal a resourceful Everywoman GIRL, UNDRESSED equipped to fend off any potential mundanity William Deresiewicz On Stripping in New York City in maturity. “Reading like the diary entries of a f A JANE AUSTEN EDUCATION The gritty tale of a young woman’s descent thirtysomething, Crosley’s essays are brutally How Six Novels Taught Me into the world of exotic dancing and how she honest about her flaws as well as the flaws of About Love, Friendship, pulled herself out. “Fowler’s excoriating narra- others and, as a result, paint a realistic and and the Things That Really Matter tive quite effectively undermines perceptions hilarious portrait of what it’s like to be an adult The author never thought Austen’s novels of sex work as a viable form of postmodern in today’s world.”—Library Journal. would have anything to offer him, but when female empowerment.”—Guardian (UK). Riverhead • 288 pp. • 978-1-59448-519-0 • $15.00 he is assigned to read Emma, he begins view- Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311565-6 • $15.00 I WAS TOLD THERE’D BE CAKE: ESSAYS ing the world through her eyes—and discovers Stephen Fry “Crosley is a post-modern Mary Tyler Moore, that the people in his life develop the depth f THE FRY CHRONICLES and this book is wry, generous, knowing.”—A. and richness of literary characters. “Offers a An Autobiography M. Homes, author of The Mistress’s Daughter. refreshingly clear cultural and historical read- “A thoughtful book….Its camaraderie of tone Riverhead • 240 pp. • 978-1-59448-306-6 • $15.00 ing of each novel, and the combination of the scholarly and the personal provides entirely lets it wear its learning lightly yet leaves you new ways of looking at novels that I thought I with a number of new insights, new ways of Jeanne Darst already thoroughly knew. This is how ‘literary looking at things.”—The Guardian. f FICTION RUINED MY FAMILY memoir’ should be defined—not as a fake Overlook • 448 pp. • 978-1-59020-714-7 • $27.95 A memoir of a family haunted by its own autobiography, but as a personal account of myths, in which the father’s dreams of being a reading books that matter.”—Associated Press. 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Nelson George Rupinder Gill CITY KID GRAPHIC f ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING INDIAN A Writer’s Memoir of How My Second Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success MEMOIRS Childhood Changed My Life The author tells of growing up a comics- David Axe and Matt Bors The product of a strict upbringing by conser- devouring nerd in the crime-ridden projects of WAR IS BORING vative Indian parents, Gill breaks with tradi- Brooklyn, illustrating how wrenching memo- Bored Stiff, Scared to Death tion and learns how to dance, swim, drive, ries can be transformed into affirming books in the World’s Worst War Zones travel, and play in order to be happy. “A light- and cinema. “One of the seven greatest books An original look at war in the 21st century. hearted and often self-deprecating memoir ever written. It has the realness of The Autobi- NAL • 128 pp. • 978-0-451-23011-9 • $12.95 that weaves anecdotes of her unique childhood ography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color experiences into her present-day efforts to rec- Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Ann Marie Fleming reate a more conventional adolescence.”— Morrie. It’s a must read.”—Chris Rock. THE MAGICAL LIFE Vancouver Observer. Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-29604-6 • $14.00 OF LONG TACK SAM Riverhead • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-577-0 • $15.00 Also available: Post-Soul Nation 978-0-14-303447-6 A graphc memoir on the life of China’s great- Available May 2012 est magician. “An important addition to the Elizabeth Gilbert fast-fading history of vaudeville.”—Variety. Blaine Harden EAT, PRAY, LOVE Riverhead • 176 pp. • 978-1-59448-264-9 • $16.00 f ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 One Woman’s Search for Everything One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from Across Italy, India, and Indonesia Ellen Forney North Korea to Freedom in the West “A wonderful book, brilliant and personal, rich f MARBLES The journalist tells the story of Shin Dong- in spiritual insight.”—Anne Lamott, author of Mania, Depression, hyuk, one of the few people born in a North Imperfect Birds. “Gilbert’s prose is fueled by a Michelangelo, and Me Korean political prison to have escaped and mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuber- The graphic artist chronicles her own wild survived, and unlocks the secrets of the ance that is close to irresistible.”—The New York manias and deep depressions while weaving world’s most repressive totalitarian state. Times Book Review. in stories of famous bipolar artists and writers, Viking • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02332-5 • $26.95 Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303841-2 • $15.00 exploring the relationship between “craziness” Available April 2012 A New York Times Notable Book Also available: Committed 978-0-14-311870-1 and creativity. Gotham • 256 pp. • 978-159240-732-3 • $20.00 Heather Havrilesky Available September 2012 f DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Catherine Gildiner A memoir about surviving the perils of child- AFTER THE FALLS Maira Kalman hood, this book charts how the most humiliat- Coming of Age in the Sixties ing and painful moments in the author’s past In this sequel to Too Close to the Falls, the THE PRINCIPLES OF UNCERTAINTY “An irresistible book, a graphic diary full of forced her to develop a wide range of defense author dives into the 1960s, adopting many mechanisms. “I love Heather Havrilesky’s personas—HoJo hostess, FBI suspect, civil whimsy, worries, philosophical probing, offbeat observations and life-affirming enthusiasms.”— work, and have been reading her for years. rights demonstrator. But when tragedy strikes She’s smart, hilarious, unique—just terrific.”— at home, Cathy must take on her most chal- Los Angeles Times. “An exquisite and delightful and peculiarly illustrated memoir about…well, Anne Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds. lenging role yet. “A sweeping documentary of a Riverhead • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-546-6 • $15.00 turbulent time reflected in the equally turbu- the search for the meaning of life.”—Elizabeth lent life story of a resilient…young woman.”— Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-311646-2 • $20.00 Kristin Hersh Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the See also: And The Pursuit of Happiness, page 17 f RAT GIRL Rest of Our Lives. The founder of the rock band Throwing Muses Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-311985-2 • $16.00 Also available: Too Close to the Falls 978-0-14-200040-3 Matthew Parker recounts the year she was diagnosed with bipo- f LARCENY IN MY BLOOD lar disorder and discovered she was pregnant. A Memoir of Heroin, “The story of a wide-eyed soul coming to Handcuffs, and Higher Education maturity in the ridiculous cacophony of mod- A graphic memoir of a child of the 60s who ern life.’”—Mary Gaitskill, author of Veronica. was raised into a life of crime and addiction. Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-311739-1 • $15.00 Gotham • 224 pp. • 978-1-592-40662-3 • $20.00 Available August 2012 f denotes new or forthcoming title COMPOSITION 2012 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 10 MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY

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Eduardo Machado Sara Nelson Michael Pollan & Michael Domitrovich SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME A PLACE OF MY OWN TASTES LIKE CUBA A Year of Passionate Reading The Architecture of Daydreams An Exile’s Hunger for Home Berkley • 256 pp. • 978-0-425-19819-3 • $15.00 Updated Edition “We bask in the earthly paradise of a boy’s Preface by the author Cuban childhood, and when he is sent to the Bich Minh Nguyen In this story of how he built a small, wooden U.S. at age 8, we suffer. From then on we’re in STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER hut in the woods, Pollan draws connections thrall to the drama...of his search for a new A vivid memoir about childhood, assimila- among humans, their buildings, and the nat- life....Machado has filled his book with richly tion, food, and growing up in Michigan in the ural world. “An inspired meditation on the drawn characters. The richest of them of all 1980s. “Only a truly gifted writer could make complex relationship between space, the may be that neighbor whose complexities we me long for the Kool Aid, Rice a Roni, and Kit human body, and the human spirit.”— have refused to accept or understand for so Kats celebrated in Stealing Buddha’s Dinner. Francine du Plessix Gray, author of Them: A long: Cuba.”—Margo Jefferson, Eugene Lang In this charming, funny, original memoir Memoir of Parents. College. about growing up as an outsider in America, Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311474-1 • $16.00 Gotham • 368 pp. • 978-1-592-40405-6 • $16.00 Bich Nguyen takes you on a journey you See also: Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food Rules, page 19 won’t forget.”—Judy Blume. James McBride Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311303-4 • $15.00 Matthew Polly THE COLOR OF WATER AMERICAN SHAOLIN A Black Man’s Tribute Kathleen Norris Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: to His White Mother ACEDIA & ME An Odyssey in the New China 10th Anniversary Edition A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life “A wonderful true-life story with profound, “A triumph....The two stories, son’s and moth- The author resurrects the ancient term acedia, behind-the-headlines observations about Chi- er’s, beautifully juxtaposed, strike a graceful or soul-weariness, and explores its relevancy nese life.”—Dan Rather. note at a time of racial polarization.”—The to the modern individual and culture. New York Times Book Review. “As lively as a Gotham • 384 pp. • 978-1-592-40337-0 • $16.00 Riverhead • 352 pp. • 978-1-59448-438-4 • $16.00 Also available: Tapped Out 978-1-59240-599-2 novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to the literature on race.”—The Washington Meghan O’Rourke Eric Poole Post Book World. f THE LONG GOODBYE Riverhead • 336 pp. • 978-1-59448-192-5 • $14.00 WHERE’S MY WAND? A transcendent portrait of the unbearable One Boy’s Magical Triumph anguish of grief—caused by the early death Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting Caille Millner from cancer of the author’s mother—and the “Poole’s memoir of growing up gay and Bap- THE GOLDEN ROAD enduring power of familial love. “An elegant tist in the ‘70s would be worth reading if it Notes on My Gentrification and erudite treatment of grief, O’Rourke were just gut-splittingly funny....But Wand is A young writer’s search for authenticity among reaches out to the bereaved and unbereaved also a deeply moving account of a boy’s various communities of identity—black, Latino, alike.”—San Francisco Chronicle. attempt to control his world with his own techno-utopian, Ivy League, activist. “A sharp- Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-59448-798-9 • $25.95 brand of magic.”—People. minded, elegantly written memoir.”—San Fran- Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-566-4 • $16.00 Berkley • 304 pp. • 978-0-425-24101-1 • $15.00 cisco Chronicle. Paperback available April 2012 Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311297-6 • $14.00 A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of the Year Mirta Ojito FINDING MAÑANA Judith Moore A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus Penguin Speakers Bureau FAT GIRL: A True Story “In this wonderful memoir, Ojito ransoms “A fierce, sorrowful, unsparingly honest mem- herself from the seductions of nostalgia and www.penguinspeakersbureau.com oir by one of the bravest and most original reclaims instead the beleaguered Cuba of her For all inquiries, including speakers’ fees writers.”—David Gates, author of Jernigan. childhood.”—The New York Times. and availability, email Plume • 208 pp. • 978-0-452-28585-9 • $14.00 Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303660-9 • $16.00 [email protected] A National Book Critics Circle nominee

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Neil Postman Erik Reece Douglas Rushkoff AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH LOST MOUNTAIN COERCION Public Discourse A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Why We Listen to What “They” Say in the Age of Show Business Radical Strip Mining and Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-57322-829-9 • $16.00 20th Anniversary Edition the Devastation of Appalachia Introduction by Andrew Postman Foreword by Wendell Berry Leslie Marmon Silko Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-303653-1 • $15.00 “That rarest kind of work, a melding of inves- f STORYTELLER tigative reporting and deep and evocative writ- A new edition of Silko’s legendary 1981 book. Professor X ing about particular people in particular places. As she mixes Western literary genres with the f IN THE BASEMENT It makes me think of Orwell in its quiet anger oral traditions of her heritage, Silko explains OF THE IVORY TOWER and deep commitment.”—Bill McKibben, edi- Native American concepts about time, nature, The Truth About College tor of The Penguin Global Warming Reader. and spirituality and their relevance in the A controversial book that crystallized the cur- Riverhead • 288 pp. • 978-1-59448-236-6 • $15.00 contemporary world, as well as exploring how rent debate over the value and purpose of a See also: American Gospel, page 13 stories and storytelling shape persons and college education, written by a professor of communities. “Silko’s writing takes us into English literature and composition. “An indict- Frank Rich old worlds of consciousness inside the pres- ment of American education at two levels: the THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD ent, and inside ourselves.”—Gloria Steinem. high schools, for processing students who too The Decline and Fall Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-312128-2 • $20.00 often leave, diplomas in hand, with little better of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina Available September 2012 than ninth-grade educations, and the colleges, Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311234-1 • $15.00 See also: The Turquoise Ledge, page 14 for the institutional greed that inspires them to A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Washington Post Best Book of Year matriculate ever more marginally qualified Zadie Smith students while educating them on the cheap CHANGING MY MIND with part-time instructors of wildly varying Ken Robinson, Ph.D. with Lou Aronica Occasional Essays competence.”—The Washington Post. THE ELEMENT Split into four sections—“Reading,” “Being,” Viking • 288 pp. • 978-0-670-02256-4 • $25.95 How Finding Your “Seeing,” and “Feeling”—collected here are Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-312029-2 • $16.00 Passion Changes Everything Smith’s essays on topics ranging from literature Paperback available April 2012 The “element” is the point at which natural and movies to family and feminism. “[These talent meets personal passion, and Robinson essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigor- Joe Queenan looks at the conditions that enable us to find ous, erudite and earnestly open mind that’s f ONE FOR THE BOOKS that point. “Offers life-altering insights about busy refining its view of life, literature and a One of America’s great humorists takes on the discovery of your true best self. Full of fas- great deal in between.”—Los Angeles Times. one of the most controversial and widely dis- cinating anecdotes and true-to-life stories Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311795-7 • $16.00 cussed topics in contemporary culture: the about people who have found their hidden A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction of the Year future of books and reading. treasure.”—Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Also available: On Beauty 978-0-14-303774-3 Viking • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02582-4 • $24.95 Habits of Highly Effective People. Available November 2012 Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311673-8 • $15.00 Michael Specter See also: Closing Time, page 13 DENIALISM Mike Rose How Irrational Thinking Ayn Rand THE MIND AT WORK Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms THE ART OF FICTION Valuing the Intelligence the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives Plume • 192 pp. • 978-0-452-28154-7 • $16.00 of the American Worker Reveals that Americans have come to mistrust THE ART OF NONFICTION Debunks the long-held idea that people who institutions—especially the institution of sci- Plume • 208 pp. • 978-0-452-28231-5 • $16.00 work with their hands make up a less intelligent ence—more today than ever before, even as class. “A groundbreaking study….Extraordi- scientific solutions to today’s problems are narily moving, never dogmatic. Rose’s book puts needed now more than ever. TRY OUR ONLINE an important piece of the U.S.’s social puzzle in Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311831-2 • $16.00 TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE Go to www.penguin.com/toc and search by bold relief.”—Publishers Weekly. ISBN (13-digit book #) for the tables of contents Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-303557-2 • $16.00 to hundreds of Penguin academic titles. Also available: Possible Lives 978-0-14-023617-0, Lives on the Boundary 978-0-14-303546-6

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Wallace Stegner Norah Vincent ON TEACHING AND WRITING FICTION SELF-MADE MAN ANTHOLOGIES Edited with a Foreword by Lynn Stegner One Woman’s Journey Eight incisive essays from the late Pulitzer into Manhood and Back Again f CONDE NAST TRAVELER BOOK Prize–winning novelist and founder of the The author recounts the eighteen months she OF UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEYS legendary Stanford Writing Program. “Steg- spent undercover—as a man. “A thoughtful, Great Writers on Great Places ner taught many people what it meant to care diligent, entertaining piece of first-person Volume II deeply about writing and wilderness and hon- investigative journalism...a fascinating, fly-on- Stretching from Haiti to New Orleans, Belgium esty.”—Barry Lopez, author of Resistance. the-wall look at various unglamorous male to Belize, from Senegal to Sydney, this is a selec- Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-200147-9 • $15.00 milieus.”—The New York Times Book Review. tion of travel essays from Conde Nast Traveler Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-303870-2 • $15.00 Magazine. Includes work by Calvin Trillin, Rus- sell Banks, Pico Iyer, and Bill Byrson. John B. Thompson A New York Times Book of the Year f Also available: Voluntary Madness 978-0-14-311685-1 Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-312147-3 • $16.00 MERCHANTS OF CULTURE Available August 2012 The Publishing Business Also available: Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable in the Twenty-First Century Kurt Vonnegut Journeys, Volume I 978-0-14-311261-7 An in-depth analysis of how the digital revolu- ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT …And Other New and Unpublished tion is changing the game today, forcing pub- Ferdie Addis, editor Writings on War and Peace lishers to alter their practices and think hard f I DARE SAY Introduction by Mark Vonnegut about the future of the book. Newly updated Great Speeches that Changed the World A posthumous collection of previously unpub- with the chapter on “The Digital Revolution.” Includes works from Elizabeth I to Abraham lished work by Vonnegut on the subject of war. “One of the most valuable studies on publish- Lincoln, from Margaret Thatcher to Nelson “A terrific post-traumatic witnessing.”—The ing in recent decades, and promises to be the Mandela, right up to Barack Obama. Each New York Times Book Review. “The dark irony new reference point for sociological research speech is prefaced with a short bio of the that lies beneath Vonnegut’s wry, satiric work on the publishing industry.”—Cultural Sociol- speaker followed by an in-depth analysis. is always in the service of the individual...and ogy. “A fine-grained snapshot... of the terminal Reader’s Digest • 176 pp. • 978-1606524701 • $14.99 struggle of traditional publishers. [Thomp- against the system.”—The Boston Globe. Available April 2012 son’s] mordant picture of an industry in crisis Berkley • 240 pp. • 978-0-425-22689-6 • $18.00 gives publishers, writers and readers much to Hans Christian Andersen think about.”—The New York Review of Books. Ben Yagoda FAIRY TALES Plume • 336 pp. • 978-0-452-29772-2 • $16.00 MEMOIR: A History Translated by Tiina Nunnally From Saint Augustine to David Sedaris, Edited with an Introduction Héctor Tobar Yagoda examines the memoir in all its guises. by Jackie Wullschlager TRANSLATION NATION “Yagoda’s invigorating interrogation of our Deluxe Edition Defining a New American Identity language will excite every syntax-obsessed “Finally the master storyteller masterfully in the Spanish-Speaking United States reader and writer.”—Cynthia Ozick, author translated.”—Lotta Gavel Adams, U. of Wash- “Tobar has a fine storyteller’s instinct...Espe- of Quarrel & Quandary. “With its mixture of ington. “Nunnally’s new versions of the tales cially remarkable for the invisible world [he] has literary criticism, cultural history, and just amount to a recuperation of Andersen, in all his so skillfully illuminated.”—Los Angeles Times. enough trivia, Yagoda’s survey is sure to strangeness, darkness and comic subversive- Riverhead • 368 pp. • 978-1-59448-176-5 • $17.00 appeal to scholars and bibliophiles alike.”— ness—and Jackie Wullschlager’s introduction is Publishers Weekly (starred). invaluable.”—John Banville, author of The Sea. Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-482-7 • $16.00 Penguin Classics • 496 pp. • 978-0-14-303952-5 • $17.00

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LIBRARY OF AMERICA Andy Borowitz, editor Phillip Lopate, editor Ron Padgett, editor f THE FIFTY FUNNIEST AMERICAN MOVIE CRITICS f THE COLLECTED WRITINGS AMERICAN WRITERS* OF JOE BRAINARD *ACCORDING TO ANDY BOROWITZ From the Silents Until Now Foreword by Paul Auster An Anthology of Humor “With his deep knowledge of the medium, from Mark Twain to The Onion Lopate provides a tour of a century of film “Brainard disarms us with the seemingly Here are Thurber and Perelman, Lenny Bruce and the splendid writing it has inspired.”— tossed-off, spontaneous nature of his writing and Bruce Jay Friedman, Garrison Keillor and Roger Ebert. and his stubborn refusal to accede to the pieties Dave Barry and Veronica Geng, plus hilarious 750 pp. • 978-1-59853-022-3 • $19.95 of self-importance. These little works…are not lesser known pieces from The New Yorker, WRITING NEW YORK really about anything so much as what it means Esquire, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and A Literary Anthology to be young, that hopeful, anarchic time when The Onion. 10th Anniversary Edition all horizons are open to us and the future 544 pp. • 978-1-59853-107-7 • $24.95 “Includes essays, stories, and poetry by 108 appears to be without limits.”—Paul Auster, authors...and each bit of pigment contributes author of The New York Trilogy. 450 pp. • 978-1-59853-149-7 • $35.00 Joseph J. Corn, editor to a portrait that none of them could have f INTO THE BLUE written alone.”—The New York Times. American Writing 1,150 pp. • 978-1-59853-021-6 • $19.95 Sanford Schwartz, editor on Aviation and Spaceflight f THE AGE OF MOVIES Gathering sixty of the best eyewitness and Bill McKibben, editor Selected Writings of Pauline Kael participant accounts—from the Wright AMERICAN EARTH “Kael is the greatest American movie critic.” Brothers to Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn— Environmental Writing Since Thoreau —Phillip Lopate, author of American Movie this unique anthology revisits the remarkable Foreword by Al Gore Critics. “Kael is easily the finest film critic yet trajectory of Americans into air and space. A selection of essential American writings to appear and already belongs among those 750 pp. • 978-1-59853-108-4 • $35.00 that changed the way we look at the natural critical writers whose aesthetic principles… world and our place in it. Includes: Walt Whit- comprise the undeclared philosophical wealth George Kimball and John Schulian, editors man, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, of the last three-quarters of a century.”— f AT THE FIGHTS Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Clive James, author of Cultural Amnesia. American Writers on Boxing Michael Pollan, and more. Also includes a 750 pp. • 978-1-59853-109-1 • $35.00 Foreword by Colum McCann chronology of the environmental movement. A gritty and glittering anthology of a century 900 pp. • 978-1-59853-020-9 • $40.00 Ilan Stavans, editor of the very best writing and reportage about BECOMING AMERICANS the fights, from Jack London on the immortal Molly O’Neill, editor Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing Jack Johnson through H. L. Mencken on “The AMERICAN FOOD WRITING Foreword by Pete Hamill Fight of the Century” to David Remnick and An Anthology With Classic Recipes From an indentured servant’s letter home in Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. A literary feast including classic accounts of 17th-century Jamestown to Anya Ulinich’s 550 pp. • 978-1-59853-092-6 • $35.00 iconic American foods: Henry David Thoreau 2008 story of Russian émigrés, nearly 100 560 pp. • 978-1-59853-205-0 • $19.95 on watermelon; H. L. Mencken on the hot entries present the full range of the immigrant Paperback available September 2012 dog; Ralph Ellison on baked yams; and Wil- experience. liam Styron on Southern fried chicken. 750 pp. • 978-1-59853-051-3 • $35.00 753 pp. • 978-1-59853-041-4 • $24.00

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