PublishersLunch
There is a wave of praise for Sonali Deraniyagala's
memoir
of life after the tsunami, which is Amazon's spotlight pick for the month and
one of the BN's favorites as well (also
tipped as one of our spring
memoir/biography buzz books to watch for), as Mohsin Hamid's How
to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia releases tomorrow as well after competing
pre-publication first reviews in the NYT and Washington Post last month.
It's a
very competitive week for new releases, including Anne Carson's Red
Doc, Andrew Pyper's The
Demonologist, and nonfiction from Jeb Bush (on
immigration), Sandra
Day O'Connor, Christa Parravani's memoir
(touted by multiple booksellers), and basketball coach Pat
Summitt.
The New England Journal of Medicine gave new life to
multiple Mediterranean
diet cookbooks and the NYT took note of Britain's No. 1 fad hit The
Fast Diet. Tom Stoppard's five-part adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's
End has been airing on HBO, and a poll
of top novelists agreed with Philip Roth's
own pick for his best book (which he had asserted "a lot of people
hate").
We also feature all 6
NBCC winners as Flaherty-Dunnan first
fiction winner Ben Fountain adds the PEN/Hemingway
award to his prize chest for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. As also
covered elsewhere in Lunch, PROUST
WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST will be the sole Jonah Lehrer work still in print from
HMH after they remove
from sale HOW
WE DECIDE, which remains available today.
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