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Publishers Weekly 23 When Mars Met Venus Self-Help Books Aren’T Just for Men—Or Women—Anymore FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HIT BROADWAY SHOW COMES A GROUNDBREAKING NOVEL. “The hit musical will make you cry just as much in book form.” —Entertainment Weekly “A powerful exploration of grief and depression and the many ways we’re present (or not) for those around us without always knowing it.” —David Arnold, bestselling author of Mos uitoland AUDIOBOOK ALSO AVAILABLE DearEvanHansenNovel.com | #DEHNovel P UBLISHERSW EEKLY. COM O CTOBER 8, 2018 Volume 265 October 8, Advertisement Number 41 2018 ISSN 0000-0019 “Apostol’s layers of narrative, pop culture UHIHUHQFHVDQGEOXUULQJRIKLVWRU\DQGÀF- tion make for a profound and unforgettable journey….” F EATURES —Publishers Weekly 23 When Mars Met Venus Self-help books aren’t just for men—or women—anymore. They target a more inclusive demographic: the reading public. 33 Escaping from Time Jonathan Franzen’s new essay collection, The End of the End of the World, holds out hope for the future. 1–32 Miami Book Fair Preview We talk with several authors appearing at the fair, which runs November 11–18 at Miami Dade College. N EWS 4 Print Unit Sales Up in 2018 to Date Insurrecto In the January–September period, sales of print books rose 2.5% over Gina Apostol. the first nine months of 2017, helped by strong adult nonfiction titles. Soho Press, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-944-9 6 Diversion Scores The publisher, which started as an e-book-only operation in 2010, recently released a memoir by Rick Pitino, former head basketball coach at the University of Louisville, with an announced 20,000- copy first print run. Apostol (Gun Dealer’s Daughter) fearlessly probes the long shadow of forgotten American imperialism in 8 Deals the Philippines in her ingenious novel of competing lmmakers. Chiara Brasi, daughter of the director of Cory Doctorow closes a six-figure deal with Tor; William Morrow nabs The Unintended, a Vietnam War movie shot in the a debut novel by an assistant at Curtis, Brown UK; and more. Philippines, comes to Manila to make her own lm. She hires Magsalin, a translator, to take her to the Philippine 9 Ta-Nehesi Coates in France island of Samar (near where Magsalin was born) and the The author has released the French edition of his bestselling We town of Balangiga, site of a brutal American massacre of Were Eight Years in Power through Editions Présence Africaine, a revolutionaries in 1901 during the Philippine-American historic French-African publishing house based in Paris. War. Chiara and Magsalin craft two very different scripts for the lm. One script focuses on Cassandra 11 Blizzard Publishing Powers Up Chase, a well-connected photographer who travels to the Philippines to produce stereographs of the American This October, the division is launching an ongoing audiobook series military’s actions. She faces extreme hostility from and new hardcover books based on Blizzard Entertainment’s massively the soldiers, including the inexperienced and devoutly popular video game franchises. Catholic Capt. Thomas Connell. The second script more elusively follows Caz, a Filipino school teacher, 12 Sunmark Pushes Two Japanese Bestsellers who mourns the death of an eccentric lm director she The Tokyo-based house, which was the original publisher of Marie had an affair with in the 1970s. This is a complex and Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, has high hopes for aptly vertiginous novel that deconstructs how humans two new titles in the U.S. and abroad. tell stories and decide which versions of events are remembered; names repeat between scripts, and directors suddenly interrupt what feels like historical narration. VISIT US ONLINE FOR ADDITIONAL NEWS, Apostol’s layers of narrative, pop culture references, and REVIEWS, BESTSELLERS & FEATURES. blurring of history and ction make for a profound and unforgettable journey into the past and present of the Philippines. 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