|
| | | August 14, 2017 |  Brooklyn Day of Dialog 2017 Barbara Hoffert, - @barbarahoffert National Book Award winner Alice McDermott, exploring the Irish immigrant experience in mid-20th-century New York. Stephanie Powell Watts, relaunching an award-winning story collection following her inaugural Sarah Jessica Parker Pick for ALA’s Book Club Central. Uzodinma Iweala, returning more than a decade after Beasts of No Nation, with a novel for which the phrase eagerly anticipated was invented. Granta Best of Young American Novelists Dara Horn, fictiously visiting immortality. Sam Graham-Felsen, chief blogger of the 2008 Obama campaign, with a first novel about a white boy in a mostly African American school. Plus editors from major publishers like Norton, Algonquin, Penguin Random House, & more. That's the lineup so far at LJ's Brooklyn Day of Dialog, with more to come, taking place Friday, September 15, 1:15-5:00 p.m. Check out SLJ's morning session, too, and register now! |
|
|
|  Banville, Mamet, Zadie Smith, & More | Barbara's Picks, Feb. 2018 No, John Banville and Zadie Smith aren't coming up with new novels but terrific nonfiction—a travel/memoir and an essay collection, respectively. David Mamet isn't offering a play but his first novel in more than a decade. Laura Lippman isn't returning to her popular Tess Monaghan series but branching out into James M. McCain–inspired noir. And Stephanie Powell Watts isn't doing a quick follow-up to her ALA Book Club Central pick but bringing a celebrated earlier collection to a larger audience. Lots of good surprises for February. |
|
|
| | Surprise New York Times best-selling author Karl Ove Knausgaard and Scotland's "Nobel laureate in waiting" Ali Smith both have books titled Winter this month. And both books are part of quartets named after the four seasons. But the similarities stop there. Grab these titles, juicy good historical fiction from Melanie Benjamin and Bernard Cornwell, and more. |
|
|
|  Winter Thrillers | Fiction Previews, Feb. 2018 Veteran thriller authors Alex Berenson, Lisa Gardner, Jonathan Kellerman, & John Lescroat have new novels in February but look also for new voices, like Brendan Duffy, whose The Storm King follows up his film-optioned debut, House of Echoes, and John Marrs, whose The One is a big hit in the UK. |
|
|
| Poetry Beyond the Basics
- Heather Derr-Smith, Thrust
- Meghan O'Rourke, Sun in Days
- Bao Phi, Thousand Star Hotel
- Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead
- Marcus Wicker, Silencer
|
|
|
| |
| | | Literary Highlights | Fiction Previews, Jan. 2018 
Among these half-dozen terrific literary titles are books by personal favorites James Anderson, quickly following up his debut, The Never-Open Desert Diner, and Thisbe Nissen, returning after more than a decade. Plus the last book from celebrated Vermont writer Howard Frank Mosher. |
|
|
|  Timely Debut Novels | Jan. 2018 The immigrant experience in America, refugee boat people suspected of being terrorists in Canada, a white boy struggling to make friends in a mostly black school, dystopian withdrawal, and the denial of basic reproductive rights to women—these are some of the issues explored by these timely debut novels. |
|
|
| |  Seeking Justice, Uncovering the Past, & More | Nonfiction Previews, Jan. 2018 The president of the National Bar Association and a leading civil rights attorney who recently represented Trayvon Martin’s family, Benjamin Crump relies on numerous cases he has tried to argue that the justice system is rigged actually to harm people of color. Other titles range from the health consequences of adverse childhood expereinces to reconstructing a family scattered and shattered by war and Holocaust. |
|
|
|  Day of Dialog | Brooklyn Coinciding with Brooklyn Book Festival, this special-engagement event on September 15 will feature both Festival and metropolitan-area authors with panels modeled on Library Journal and School Library Journal’s long-running and annually sold-out Day of Dialog events. Get the inside scoop on the hottest new books—plus book giveaways and author signings! |
|
|
|  Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. |
|
|
| | | |
|
|
|
Winter with Knausgaard & Ali Smith, Cornwell Revisits Shakespeare, & More | Barbara's Picks, Jan. 2018
