
1. Babayaga, by Toby Barlow
2. Night Film, by Marisha Pessl
3. Sea Creatures, by Susanna Daniel
4. The Cuckoo's Calling, by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith
5. Let Him Go, by Larry Watson (event at Boswell 9/10)
I think we've already covered these titles in other posts, but let's see what more we can dig up. Paul Constant in Seattle's The Stranger promotes the Elliot Bay Toby Barlow event for Babayaga by noting " If Barlow can get armies of nerds excited about a book-length poem about a lycanthrope war, a stylish Cold War novel about a spy running up against characters from Russian folktales is a slam dunk."

And I missed this interview with Colleen Jurkiewicz in the OnMilwaukee.com for our event with Susanna Daniel. Still worth reading! Here's a tidbit on Sea Creature's inspiration: 'I got the idea from a monologue by Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk With Me. It's hilarious, which my book is not. I saw it years ago, the original recording, and I was thinking the whole time, "Oh my God, what would it be like to be married to someone with those problems?'"

1. Zealot, by Reza Aslan
2. When Spiritual but Not Religious is Not Enough, by Lillian Daniel
3. Lawrence in Arabia, by Scott Anderson
4. Turn Around Bright Eyes, by Robert Sheffield
5. I Wear the Black Hat, by Chuck Klosterman
A book club sponsored by Immunuel Presbyterian Church is meeting on Wednesdays to discuss Lillian Daniel's When Spiritual and Not Religious is Not Enough. Here's Reverend Daniel speaking to Religion and Ethics Newsweekly on the PBS website. I found an interview on the Austin American Statesman site for Turn Around Bright Eyes, but that's for subscribers only. Alas, there'll be a lot less linking in the future, unless the papers choose the limited-number-of-hits option, like the New York Times and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, but them's the breaks if it saves the papers.
1. Date Certain, by Reuben Eisenstein
2. Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
3. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny (ticketed event 8/27)
6. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
7. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
8. The Way Out, by Meg Choi (event at Boswell 9/6)
9. Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
10. The Silent Wife, by A.S.A. Harrison
I was trying to figure out what has led to a resurgence of Ernie Cline's Ready Player One in sales at Boswell. Besides renewed bookseller enthusaiasm, all I have so far is this article in Wired about the cultural impact of Back to the Future.
1. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
2. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
3. Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
4. Who I Am, by Pete Townshend
5. How Children Succeed, by Paul Tough
How do you pop a paperback sale when the author isn't touring and book clubs aren't likely? In the case of Who I Am, there's the feud that One Direction has stirred up by using the chords of "Baba O'Reilly" for their own "Best Song Ever"? It turns out that Pete Townshend has been the peacemaker here. According to Jerem Larson at Radio.com, it's not the first time.
Books for Kids:
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
3. Wildwood, by Colin Meloy
4. The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan
5. Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
Harper's teen division is following the playbook for The Hunger Games in a different kind of way than you'd expect. Though they published the paperback of Divergent, they postponed indefinitely the paperback of Insurgent, which was originally scheduled for last spring. Here's Veronica Roth speaking with Cotton Codinha in Elle on boyfriends, style, theology and more. A tidbit:if I were a mature writer, I would want to set a book in 1980s communist Romania."
Alas, I won't get a finished copy of the Journal Sentinel unitil I get home. Once I'm there, I'll add an addendum of the printed reviews
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