[CLClist] FW: ANCHOR/VINTAGE AUTHORS AVAILABLE FOR READINGS: Spring 2009

[Deb Zulick]

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From: Perreault, Russell [mailto:RPerreault at randomhouse.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:09 AM
To: Perreault, Russell
Subject: ANCHOR/VINTAGE AUTHORS AVAILABLE FOR READINGS: Spring 2009

 

In case you plan to be at BEA (or are scheduling spring 2009), below is a
preview of the authors available for readings and lectures between January
and April 2009.  Please let me know what interests you. Hope to see you at
BEA.

ANCHOR BOOKS & VINTAGE BOOKS AUTHORS AVAILABLE FOR READINGS: Spring  2009

 

Below is a rough list of authors available and when. Be aware that all
publication dates and cities listed are tentative, and that some authors’
availability are extremely limited.  Also, some authors listed below are not
scheduled for tour, but I am happy to approach them on an individual basis
depending on budgets and availability, and a few have lecture agents, so you
maybe contacted by them also.  Please let me know who interests you.  Thank
you.

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**For more information, review copies, or if you would like to schedule an
author, contact Russell Perreault,  <mailto:rperreault at randomhouse.com>
rperreault at randomhouse.com. You can also look at
<http://www.randomhouse.com> www.randomhouse.com for details on the books
and authors.**

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**If you have not looked at the new website for the Knopf Speakers Bureau,
please check out:  <http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/ksb/>
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/ksb/**

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Vintage Books & Anchor Books Spring 2009

January

THE SENATOR’S WIFE by Sue Miller (Boston).  A highly charged, superlative
new novel about marriage and forgiveness.

*Readings in Boston, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Kansas
City, Denver

YOUR INNER FISH: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human
Body by Neil Shubin (Chicago).  An illuminating organ-by-organ journey
through the human body that explains why we look the way we do, by the
scientist who made the front pages of the New York Times with his discovery
of a "fish with hands."

*Appearances in New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee,
Austin, Houston, Denver, Portland and Upon Request

HOMECOMING by Bernhard Schlinck (Germany & New York).  The first novel by
Bernhard Schlink since the international bestseller The Reader: the
suspenseful story of a man's search across continents for the truth about
the father he thought had died in WWII.  

*Readings Upon Request

WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy, a new translation by Richard Pevear and
Larissa Volokhonsky (France).  The rapturously acclaimed new translation of
Tolstoy's classic novel, from the premier Russian-English translators
working today.

*Select Appearances

THE NATION GUIDE TO THE NATION Edited by Richard Lingeman with an
Introduction by Victor Navasky and Katrina vanden Huevel (New York).  A
lifestyle guide for progressives on both coasts, and everywhere in the land
in between. Part Whole Earth Catalogue, part Zagat Guide, part Craig's List,
and part 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, this volume will help
left-of-center types find left-leaning shops, cultural institutions, and
gathering places in their own hometowns and on the road.

*Appearances in New York, San Francisco, Boston and Upon Request

THE BOOK OF DEAD PHILOSOPHERS by Simon Critchley (New York).  A smart and
often laugh-out-loud-funny book that explores the history of philosophical
thought on mortality and the brief lives (and deaths) of more than two
hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Critchley has
created a register of mortality that is by turns tragic, amusing, bizarre,
sad, pathetic, and absurd.

*Select Appearance in New York and Upon Request

A FREE LIFE by Ha Jin (Boston).  A vibrant, heartbreaking novel of a family
of Chinese immigrants adjusting to 1990s America.

*Select Readings

DAY by A.L. Kennedy (U.K.)  A brilliant new novel about war and remembrance
from one of Britain's most iconoclastic and highly acclaimed young writers.

*Select Readings

THE STAR MACHINE by Jeannie Basinger (Connecticut).  An immensely
entertaining and lively look into Hollywood's "star machine," examining how,
at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 50s, the studios
worked to manufacture movie stars.

*Appearances Upon Request

SELLOUT: The Politics of Racial Betrayal by Randall Kennedy (Boston).
brilliant and provocative deconstruction of the politics of racial betrayal
in America, and how accusations of "selling out" stigmatize members of the
black community.  

*Select Appearances Upon Request

MY FIRST MOVIE, TAKE TWO by Stephen Lowenstein (U.K.).  Ten more fascinating
interviews with some of the most celebrated directors working today about
their first experience with film and the first movies they made, by British
director Stephen Lowenstein.  

*Select Appearances Upon Request

DID LINCOLN OWN SLAVES?  And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham
Lincoln by Gerald Prokopowicz (North Carolina).  An entertaining and
informative biography of Lincoln told in a question and answer format
organized chronologically, which will appeal to anyone with even a passing
interest in Lincoln, as well as Lincoln buffs.

*Appearances Upon Request

NEAR DEATH IN THE ARTIC Edited by Cecil Kuhne (Dallas).  A wide-ranging
collection of extraordinary tales of survival at the poles of the earth.

*Appearances Upon Request

ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL MANNER OF THINGS SHALL BE
WELL by Tod Wodicka (Germany).  A mesmerizing debut novel featuring one of
the most winning oddball characters around: Burt Hecker, medieval
enthusiast, mead-addict and widower, who sets off a modern-day Arthurian
quest to find his estranged son.

*Readings Upon Request

PALACE OF ILLUSIONS by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Houston).  A new novel
and critically acclaimed interpretation of the world famous Indian epic,
Mahabharat--told from the point of view of the wife of the five brothers in
the tale.

*Readings in Boston, Washington, DC, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, Houston,
Seattle, San Francisco

THE DEVIL’S FOOTPRINT by John Burnside (U.K.).   A chilling story of evil in
a small Scottish village, the novel explores the elemental forces of
everyday life: love, fear, grief, and the hope of redemption.

*Readings Upon Request

THEY KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT: The Rise of the Neocons by Jacob Heilbrunn
(Washington, DC).  A definitive history of the rise of the neoconservative
movement, and its effects on American foreign policy.  

*Appearances Upon Request

DAY OF EMPIRE: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—And Why They Fall by
Amy Chua (New Haven, CT).  A wide-ranging comparative analysis of what has
made--and unmade--the great empires of the past, with timely lessons for
21st century America.

*Appearances Upon Request

 

February 

THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON by Susan Jacoby (New York).  One of the most
important books of the year: A dazzlingly insightful analysis of the
anti-rationalism, anti-intellectualism, and anti-scientism that increasingly
characterizes American cultural and intellectual life.

*Appearances in New York and Upon Request

THE SOUL THIEF by Charles Baxter (Minneapolis).  A novel of graduate school
friendships and stolen identity.

*Select Readings

THE WAY THROUGH THE DOORS by Jesse Ball (Chicago).  An unexpected love story
about two young people, Selah and Mora, as they attempt to create a world
they can live in.

*Readings in New York, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee

THE COMMONER by John Burnham Schwartz (New York).  A mesmerizing, moving,
and surprising novel of the rarified and controlled existence at once hidden
and exposed world of the contemporary Japanese royal family.

*Readings Upon Request

HIS ILLEGAL SELF by Peter Carey (New York).  From the two-time Booker
Prize-winner Peter Carey, comes this gleeful, heartfelt novel about a young
boy trying to navigate the truth of his family on an adventure in tropical
Queensland.

*Select Readings

THE THING ABOUT LIFE IS THAT ONE DAY YOU’LL BE DEAD by David Shields
(Seattle).  An exhilarating book on the mortal condition from crib to
oblivion that paradoxically brings a renewed, and profound appreciation of
life.

*Appearances Upon Request

JUDAS HORSE by April Smith (Los Angeles).  Maverick FBI Agent Ana Grey is
back in a suspense-charged, breathlessly exciting thriller about going
undercover into the volatile core of an eco- terrorist cell in the pacific
northwest.

*Appearances Upon Request

COMFORTABLY NUMB: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation by Charles Barber
(Connecticut).  A powerful indictment of the abuse of psychiatric medicines
in America today that examines our fascination with quick-fix drugs like
Zoloft.

*Appearances Upon Request

LUCIA: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant (Italy).
The intimate and romantic story of the fall of Venice and rise of a new age
as seen through the eyes of the author's ancestor Lucia Mocenigo.

*Appearances Upon Request

CONVERSATIONS WITH WOODY ALLEN: His Films, The Movies and the Moviemaking by
Eric Lax (Los Angeles).  From the author of the best-selling biography Woody
Allen--the most informative, revealing, and entertaining conversations from
his thirty-six years of interviewing the great comedian and filmmaker.  

*Appearances Upon Request

PRESIDENT LINCOLN: The Duty of a Statesman by William Lee Miller (Virginia).
>From "one of America's most distinguished historians" (The New Yorker) comes
the riveting follow-up to Lincoln's Virtues, focusing on the sixteenth
president's internal moral struggles during his White House years.

*Appearances Upon Request

THE LOST CITY by Henry Shukman (New Mexico).  A riveting adventure story set
in the Peruvian hinterlands, The Lost City follows a British ex-pat in
search of the ruins of a long-hidden, ancient empire.

*Readings Upon Request

THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN by Per Wahloo and Major Sjowell (Sweden).  The
incredible Martin Beck series of mysteries by the legendary renowned crime
writing duo—all ten books will be reissued by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

* Maj Sjowall is available for Select Readings Upon Request

RESISTANCE by Owen Sheers (New York).  A beautifully written and powerful
love story set during the imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in
WWII.

*Readings in New York and Upon Request

March

THE VIEW FROM THE SEVENTH LAYER by Kevin Brockmeier (Little Rock).  a
masterful collection filled with the remarkable voice and vision that have
become the hallmarks of his acclaimed, heartbreaking fiction.

*Readings Upon Request

THE 21st CENTURY ECONOMY by Randy Charles Epping (Switzerland).  The
definitive introduction for anyone who wants to be able to understand how
the new twenty-first century economy affects us all.

*Appearances Upon Request

THE AMATEUR SPY by Dan Fesperman (Baltimore).  A searing thriller for the
post-9/11 world in which a foreign-aid worker and the wife of a prominent
D.C. surgeon are ensnared in turbulent Middle Eastern intrigue.

*Readings Upon Request

CHASING WINDMILLS by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Northern California).  A
provocative and unlikely love story, a modern-day rendering of West Side
Story that starts on a New York subway car and blossoms under the windmills
of the Mojave Desert.  

*Select Readings

SEVERAL LIVES OF JOSEPH CONRAD by John Stape (U.K.).   From a leading Conrad
scholar, a new biography of the multi-cultural modernist master whose work
is ever more relevant eighty years after his death.

*Appearances in New York and Upon Request

CITY OF THE SUN by David Levien (Connecticut).  A riveting thriller about a
broken Midwestern couple who turn to an enigmatic private detective to
investigate what happened to their teenaged son who has been missing for
fourteen months.

*Readings in New York, Connecticut and Upon Request

SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the
Civil War to WWII by Douglas A. Blackmon (Atlanta).  In this groundbreaking
historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most
shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived
from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.  

*Appearances in Atlanta and Upon Request

PANAMA FEVER: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew
Parker (U.K.). A thrilling tale of exploration, conquest, and politics in a
bold retelling of the construction of the Panama Canal.

*Appearances Upon Request

 

April 

OUR STORY BEGINS: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolfe (San Francisco).
>From one of the most highly-regarded short story writers in America, the
first collection in over a decade. Comprised of twenty-one classics and ten
powerful new stories.  

*Select Readings Upon Request

CHE’S AFTERLIFE by Michael Casey (South America).  While there are scores of
books about Che Guevara, no book has looked specifically at the iconic photo
taken by Alberto Korda-- the world's most reproduced photo. How did it get
on baby t-shirts, bikinis, vodka bottles, and posters in dorm rooms
everywhere? Casey’s book tells us about our global culture, from Cuba to New
York to Buenos Aires to Sydney, and how it's become a global brand.

*Select Readings Upon Request

THE OPEN ROAD: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
(Santa Barbara).  By one of our most perceptive observers of Asia and
Buddhism, the first book to consider seriously and at length the Dalai
Lama's ideas and his work as politician, globalist, and philosopher, drawing
on 33 years of talks with him.

*Select Appearances Upon Request

TRAUMA by Patrick McGrath (New York).  A riveting psychological thriller
about a psychiatrist who treats trauma victims and who has some traumas of
his own.

* Readings Upon Request

TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS by George Johnson (Santa Fe).  From the
acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book
on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science.

* Appearances Upon Request

RELENTLESS PURSUIT: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America by Donna
Foote (Los Angeles).  A riveting, revealing account of a year in the lives
of four young college graduates in the first year of Teach for America, this
book exposes the hard truths and surprising details behind this fascinating,
enigmatic program.  

* Appearances Upon Request

McMAFIA: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny
(U.K.).   A groundbreaking study of global organized crime, which spans six
continents and accounts for an estimated 20% of the world's GDP.

* Appearances Upon Request

BEING HOMOSEXUAL and BECOMING GAY by Richard Isay (New York).  Dr. Isay's
groundbreaking study that challenged the homophobia of the psychoanalytic
community, now revised with updated research and current scientific data.
And a revised edition of Dr. Isay's groundbreaking and classic take on how
men accept their homosexuality, now updated with new scientific data.

*Appearances Upon Request

PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: A Scientific Exploration into the World of
Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku (New
York).  Celebrated author and renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku
explores what futuristic technologies may be possible--from teleportation to
telekinesis, from time travel to laser death rays--as scientists'
understanding of the universe's physical laws grows.

*Appearances in New York, Atlanta, Austin, Houston, Chicago, Madison,
Milwaukee,  Denver, Portland and Upon Request

LAMBRUSCO by Ellen Cooney (Boston).  A novel of love, life, and Italian wine
set in the Second World War.

*Readings in New England Upon Request

TERROR AND CONSENT: The Wars of the 21st Century by Philip Bobbitt (Austin).
In this urgent reconceptualization of the Wars on Terror, Bobbitt provides a
provocative critique of conventional thinking and shows what we must do to
defuse international terrorism.

*Appearances Upon Request

THE BIG SQUEEZE: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steve Greenhouse
(New York).  From one of our leading writers on labor and the workplace, a
chilling examination of the squeeze on the American worker.

*Appearances Upon Request

THE GINSENG HUNTER by Jeff Talarigo (Boston).  Beautiful and provocative,
this novel explores the little-known world of North Korea through the eyes
of a Chinese observer.

*Readings Upon Request

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