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Nan A. Talese was established in 1990 and has built a distinguished list of fiction and nonfiction writers, including Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan. It is distinguished both by new authors of fiction and nonfiction, as well as the authors Mrs. Talese has published for many years. Among its writers are Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Jennifer Egan, and Ian McEwan. Read more
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Avi Steinberg at NYPL Feb. 9
Avi Steinberg, author of the “acidly funny” (NYTBR) memoir Running the Books, will speak at the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan branch this Wednesday, February 9 at 6:30 pm. Details here. The author will be in discussion with Nicholas Higgins, the NYPL Correctional Services Librarian, about his memoir, a trenchant exploration of prison culture that addresses the hilarious and intricate moral puzzles he faced during his two years as a Boston prison librarian.
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Margaret Atwood's New Book Cover Revealed!
There are still eight months to go until publication, but we wanted to give you an early look at the cover for Margaret Atwood’s latest, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. We’d love to hear what you think! Please share your thoughts on Facebook .
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Video Interview: Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan, recent recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, talks to Matt Ridley about the novelist as psychologist, the genius of Jane Austen, and how he saw the spirit of his latest book Solar at the ill-fated Copenhagen climate change conference: click here to view.
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Ian McEwan Wins Jerusalem Prize
Ian McEwan has won Israel’s prestigious literary award, the Jerusalem Prize, with the jury hailing him as “one of the most important writers of our time.” The prize will be awarded at the 25th International Jerusalem Book Fair this February. It is given biennially to a writer whose works have dealt with themes of individual freedom in society. Past winners include Bertrand Russell, Simone de Beauvoir, JM Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Susan Sontag, Arthur Miller, Haruki Murakami, and this year’s Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Jules Feiffer: National Jewish Book Award Finalist
Jules Feiffer’s “resonant, self-lacerating and frequently hilarious” (New York Times Book Review) memoir Backing Into Forward has been named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award! The ceremony to honor the 2010 winners will be held on March 9th in NYC at the Center for Jewish History. This event is at 8:00PM and is free and open to the public.
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Must-Read Q&A on the Art of First Person Writing
In an illuminating Q&A with Gelf Magazine, Avi Steinberg expounds on the practice of immersive journalism and describes the moment he realized he was living his first book. “Once a person decides, or more often recognizes, that he is a writer, he becomes more vigilant in seeing everyday detail in terms of consciously created narratives. I think this compulsion to translate everyday life into a story is in fact what first makes a person to decide to write. For someone like this, it’s either writing, or going around talking to himself.”
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Declared Best of 2010 by Amazon and B&N!
We’re thrilled to see that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have named Encyclopedia of the Exquisite one of the Best Books of 2010! Taking a cue from the exotic encyclopedias of the sixteenth century, which brimmed with mysterious artifacts, the beautifully illustrated compendium focuses on the elegant, the rare, the commonplace, and the delightful. Click here to read reviews in The New York Times Book Review and The Wall Street Journal.
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Reading Jackie by William Kuhn
On the outside, the intensely private former First Lady may have seemed enigmatic, but Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was actually making her rich inner life known to the public every time she published one of the hundred books she edited in the last two decades of her life. On sale today, William Kuhn’s revelatory Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, is the first book that goes behind the way she looked to show the way she thought.
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Marie Antoinette’s Perfect Pouf
Pouf: An extravagant eighteenth-century hairstyle
Besides the Mohawk, no other hairstyle has gone to the aesthetic extremes of the late-eighteenth-century pouf, when stylists built women’s tresses up into towers and decorated them with baubles and figurines like hair-framed dioramas.
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A Ceremonial Nuisance
Gloves: Hand coverings made with a separate sheath for each finger and for the thumb
Fads in length and color came and went, but long or short, trimmed or plain, well into the twentieth century no lady would venture out into public without her gloves. Fashion-conscious women of the rococo era changed their gloves five times a day and left them on while eating meals and when playing the harp or clavier. Conversely, a noble with gloved hands could touch nothing of value. Friends were always offered a bare handshake, a custom that continues to this day.
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