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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 World Without You by Joshua Henkin
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony [“Beautiful . . . Brilliant.”—Michael Cunningham], a moving, mesmerizing new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
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Video: James Fallows Talks China Airborne on MSNBC
James Fallows, author of China Airborne, was on MSNBC Wednesday morning, to discuss China’s aviation boom. Watch the full video after the jump.
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Alexander McCall Smith on Writing Advice, A Conspiracy of Friends, and More
In this series of videos, filmed when he was in our office recently, Alexander McCall Smith gives advice to aspiring writers as part of our Writers on Writing series, talks about The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #13), and gives a sneak preview of the upcoming Corduroy Mansions novel, A Conspiracy of Friends. (And if you haven’t entered our giveaway for signed ARCs of A Conspiracy of Friends, there’s still time to enter!)
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Writers on Writing: Mark Z. Danielewski
We asked Mark Z. Danielewski – author of House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, and the upcoming The Fifty Year Sword and The Familiar – to share a tip for aspiring writers as part of our Writers on Writing series. Watch the video to see what he had to say.
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Proving Darwin by Gregory Chaitin
Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.
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China Airborne by James Fallows
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China announced its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. Its goal is to produce the Boeings and Airbuses of the future. Toward that end, it acquired two American companies: Cirrus Aviation, maker of the world’s most popular small propeller plane, and Teledyne Continental, which produces the engines for Cirrus and other small aircraft.
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Against Wind and Tide by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In this sixth and final collection of Lindbergh’s diaries and letters, taking us from 1947 to 1986, we mark her progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight, humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding the essential truth in life’s experiences through a hard-won spirituality and a passion for literature.
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Video: Peter Behrens on The O'Briens and Tips for Writers
Peter Behrens, author of The O’Briens, stopped by our offices recently to talk about his book and give some tips to aspiring writers. Click through to watch the videos.
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Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and misremember important events.
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