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Pantheon’s founder, Kurt Wolff, was born in Germany in 1887. He emigrated to the United States in 1941 and began publishing major works in translation. Today its authors include, Julia Glass, James Gleick, Ha Jin, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Alexander McCall Smith, and graphic novelists Marjane Satrapi and Art Spiegelman. Read more
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The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski
In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.
Mark Z. Danielewski Answers Your Questions and Reveals The Fifty Year Sword Cover!
Fans of Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves, Only Revolutions) have been waiting patiently to see the cover for The 50 Year Sword (on sale 10/16/12). Well we’re happy to announce that the wait is almost over – at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, August 23rd, 2012, you’ll get your first glimpse at the cover, designed by Peter Mendelsund, exclusively on io9.com! Better still, Mark will stick around io9.com until 3 p.m. EST to answer reader questions.
Can’t wait until 2 p.m. to ask Mark all your burning questions about his projects past, present, and future? Then you’re in luck, because he’ll also be on Twitter on Thursday answering questions from his followers from 1-2 p.m. EST, leading up to the big reveal on io9! Follow him at @markdanielewski and start asking your questions at 1 p.m. EST on August 23rd, and be sure to use the hashtag #T50YS!
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Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul by Giulio Tononi
From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of science as well.
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Watch the Trailer for Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu
Having a bad day? Feeling low? Work got you down? Are you currently in the middle of getting a root canal? (And if you are, why are you surfing the Internet?!) If so, give Precision Living Solutions a call. They’ll feel the pain so you don’t have to. Watch the trailer, and read more about this extraordinary service in “Standard Loneliness Package,” the first short story in Charles Yu’s collection Sorry Please Thank You.
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Listen to Joshua Henkin's The World Without You Playlist!
What do Loudon Wainwright, The Cure, and Elvis Costello have in common? They all served as inspiration to Joshua Henkin when he was writing The World Without You! Check out the playlist he put together for the novel that Gary Shteyngart calls “[w]itty, poignant, and heartfelt.”
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Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu
The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
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The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group is heading back to San Diego for Comic-Con 2012! We’re bringing together some of your favorite authors for four fun, swag-filled days in sunny San Diego. We’ll be updating this post with more information as we get closer to Comic-Con, so keep checking back!
Global Weirdness by Climate Central, Inc.
Finally, in clear, accessible prose, a fascinating new book that explains climate change—its implications for the future and what we can and cannot do to avoid further change—to the layperson.
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People Are Raving About 'The World Without You'
Joshua Henkin’s The World Without You is on sale today! To celebrate, we’ve rounded up a smattering of the fantastic things reviewers have been saying about this wonderful book.
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A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
It’s back to Corduroy Mansions—the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London’s hip Pimlico neighborhood—for the third installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s latest beloved series.
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