Adult Bookseller Newsletter

In this issue: Great New Non-Fiction |  Gripping Memoirs |  New Year, New You, New Ideas, New Opportunities |  Fantastic New Fiction |  Fiction — New in Paperback |  January Indie Next List | Featured Backlist |  Audio Spotlight: MILE 81 by Stephen King |  Kara’s Book Club Pick |  Books I Can’t Stop Talking About: SimonNovels.com |  New ARCs & Galleys |  The Last Word

Great New Non-Fiction

From Dr. David B. Agus, one of the world’s leading cancer researchers, comes THE END OF ILLNESS (Free Press), a monumental work that radically redefines our understanding of life and health—from ways to view …

New 2012 titles now available from
The Crab Orchard
Series in Poetry

edited by John Tribble
from Southern Illinois University Press

Heavenly Bodies is the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry 2010 Editor’s Selection

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Author Bio

Cynthia Huntington is the author of four books of poetry, including The Radiant (winner of the Levis Prize), The Fish-Wife, and We Have Gone to the Beach, as well as a prose memoir, The Salt House. A former New Hampshire State Poet Laureate, she is professor of English at Dartmouth …

Carolina Papaleo and Rubén Stella are in Mar del Plata all January to present “Your Fourtune in a Blink”. If you like theater, this is a great show to see.  Yo Adivino el Parpadeo is a story of two contemporary milongueros (people who dance tango regularly) living out passionate moments in their lives for the stage.  Witness the two as they meet again for the first time in years. Watch the drama unfold and be drawn into the plot.  Experience each ensuing moment as it brings an unexpected joy or heartache.  The story is both …

by Karl Malantes
This book is an outstanding read.  Find it. Read it.

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain …

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Escape the winter blues. Come in from the cold,
to a great book…
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Pigeon English Stephen Kelman

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life but his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. Harri …

Submissions Period Ends February 29th

Superstition Review
is now accepting submissions of
art, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction
for Issue 9
to be launched April 1, 2012.
Please visit www.superstitionreview.com

to read submission guidelines and Issues 1 - 8 featuring:

Adrian C. Louis, Barbara Kingsolver, Billy Collins, Brenda Miller, Brian Doyle, Carol Ann Bassett, Cary Holladay, Charlotte Holmes, Dan Chaon, Daniel Orozco, David St. John, Deborah Bogen, Edith Pearlman, Elizabeth Searle, Floyd Skloot, Jane Bernstein, Jim Daniels, Joan Connor, Kelli Russell Agodon, Leslie Epstein, Mary Sojourner, Michael S. Harper, Michael Martone, Michelle Menting, Nick Flynn, …

Dear fellows:
Just to let you known that our first get-together of the year will be on Saturday, 14th of January at the same time and at the same place
We are going to talk in English, Spanish, French,a Slavic Language maybe and hang out and have a good time in a cosy atmosphere

See you in two weeks!
Pablo

Fellowships
The Vermont Studio Center holds three annual fellowship deadlines, with new juries and different awards each time.  In 2011, VSC awarded 179 fellowships to artists and writers from the U.S. and 25 other countries.
The following fellowships are available at our February 15, 2012 Awards Deadline:
Vermont Studio Center Fellowships
Sixteen awards open to all artists and writers, based entirely on merit.
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Fellowships
Four fellowships for visual artists and writers with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Each award includes a $500 stipend for travel and expenses during the residency and, if necessary, …

The Argentine Post

Buenos Aires Subway Ticket Price More Than Doubles
Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:06 AM PST
Subway ticket prices more than doubled today to 2.50 pesos (58 US cents) from 1.10 previously. The increase comes just days after the federal government turned over management of the subway system to…

By Marisa Estelrich
Translation by Graciela Lucero-Hammer
Book-cover art by Liliana Italiano
Press 53, 91 pages. $14.00
Reviewed by Stephen Page
Marisa Estelrich writes stories that have bizarre characters and plot twists. The reader needs to be open to surrealism and read between the lines in order to understand her intent. Her dream-like narratives are influenced by Borges, Lorca, and Poe.
These stories have no happily-ever-after endings. In fact, some readers may think there are no endings at all. That is not true. Estelrich writes open-window style. A window …