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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Mark Sarvas has read James Wood’s new book three times already. That’s a lot, especially considering Farrar Straus & Giroux, its U.S. publisher, only put it out yesterday. But Mr. Sarvas, a lit blogger (his site is called The Elegant Variation) who recently published his first novel, really, really likes James Wood. He has a Google alert on his name, even, and thinks this new book he’s written, a...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
"Apples & Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found" by Marie Brenner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 268 pp., $24 This is a book about...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Missy By Chris Hannan Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 297 pages; $24 You might wonder why Chris Hannan, a leading European playwright whose fierce heroines have traditionally hailed from modern-day Glasgow, decided on a riotous, opium-eating prostitute for the...
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nandigramunited (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
The Israel Lobby: A Case Study In Jewish Influence The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Reviewed by Kevin MacDonald The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is a courageous, ground breaking effort. The authors are experts in the field of foreign policy, and they provide exhaustive detail on a wide range of topics....
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The Longstockings (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Congratulations to Longstocking Lisa Graff who has just been promoted to Associate Editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers! Somehow Lisa has managed to work full-time in editorial for over three years now while simultaneously writing and publishing three middle grade novels. There are only a handful of editor/writers that I know of (Jill Santopolo, David Levithan, Lisa Graff,...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Lamentations of the Father. By Ian Frazier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 194 pages. $22. Several Americans over the past 50 years may be considered comic "geniuses." A partial list would certainly include Woody Allen, Richard Pr...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Maybe you don't know Bill Knott. Hell, maybe you don't know more than five living poets, and you work in a library. But you should pop over to Knott's blog, where he publishes his poetry, and rants against his former publisher, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, and Pulitzer prizewinners alike. Now he turns his attention to librarians, or rather the stereotype of librarians. Is he serious? You decide. You...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The Story of a Marriage By Andrew Sean Greer Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 195 pages; $22 "Our belief that a person takes part in an unknown life which his or her love would allow us to enter is, of all that love demands in order to come into being, what it...
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The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Rivka Galchen spoke in favor of science last Tuesday night at the Russian Samovar before an audience of English majors, most of whom probably couldn't remember how to light a bunsen burner. Ms. Galchen, 32, was participating in a reading series curated by editors from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, the prestigious publishing house that will issue her thrilling and affecting debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances...
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Ypulse (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Madeline L'Engle's The Joys of Love (previously unpublished and written in 1950 is being reissued by Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (Publisher's Weekly) BookVideos.tv (Creators TurnHere describe it as a "new multi-publisher book-centric network." At first I thought it was a...
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Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America David Hajdu - 2008 Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York Artists and Models Frank Tashlin - 1955 Paramount Region 1 DVD I was taking classes in...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
GINA KOLATA, best-selling author and science writer for the New York Times, thinks dieters deserve a break. Her most recent book, "Rethinking Thin: The Science of Weight Loss and the Myths and Realities of Dieting" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24), suggests that when it comes to diet and exercise, we are basically predestined by genetics. It is the ol
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
"The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America" by David Hajdu Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 434 pp., $26 In the 1950s...
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Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Last night I went to hear David Hajdu speak about his new book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26). The book delves into the censorship of comics in the...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Most youngsters haven't a clue about Wangari Maathai or her Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai Claire A. Nivola Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.95, 32 pages; ages 4-8 Steel Drumming at the Apollo: The Road to Super Top Dog Trish Marx and Ellen B. Senisi Lee & Low, $22, 56 pages; ages 9-12 I, Vivaldi Janice Shefelman Eerdmans, $18, 32 pages; ages 7-11...
