04.28.09
Fahrenheit 451 get the Comic Book treatment!
Hailed for its bracing portrait of a future media-addled society victimized by the systematic burning of all books, Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 is the perfect work to highlight issues of censorship and the freedom to read. And in August, Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s Hill and Wang imprint will republish the book to do just that.
The house will publish a comics adaptation of the novel—“a graphic translation”—created by artist Tim Hamilton, overseen by Ray Bradbury himself and supported by an elaborate marketing campaign that will peg the book to the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week in September as well as a host of educational, book trade and comics industry events and promotions.
04.27.09
Dissecting Tragedy: Columbine & Bath Massacre
April 20 marked the 10-year anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School, the horrifying attack that left a nation stunned and shaping a collective sense of an irredeemable loss of innocence. In Columbine, Dave Cullen, widely regarded as the utmost authority on the event, presents the most in-depth analysis of the story to date, compiled from his own reportage as events unfolded combined with 9 years of interviews and research. Pointing out how much of the initial reporting (including his own) was deeply flawed, Cullen hopes his book will contribute to setting the story straight.
But Bath Massacre by Arnie Bernstein, a recent publication by the U of M press reminds us that such catastrophic attacks are not merely a modern development with an in-depth recounting of our own backyard tragedy, the 1927 Bath School Massacre that left 38 children and 6 adults dead at the hands of Andrew Kehoe, a disgruntled employee of the school system. Though all of the bombs that Kehoe planted did not go off, the attack was still considered the largest scale terrorism attack on U.S. soil until the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
04.21.09
New Dan Brown Novel this September!
Random to Release Dan Brown’s ‘The Lost Symbol’ in September
By Jim Milliot — Publishers Weekly, 4/20/2009
Publishing in general and Random House in particular should receive a much-needed boost this fall when RH’s Doubleday imprint releases The Lost Symbol, the long awaited next novel from Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. Random is setting a five million-copy first printing for the book, which will be released in the U.S. and Canada September 15.
Ever since Da Vinci became a worldwide bestseller in 2003 there has been much speculation about when Brown would deliver his next book. After a number of false reports, Ron Howard, director of the Da Vinci movie, said earlier this year that Brown’s next book would come out sometime in 2009. In a statement, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group chairman Sonny Mehta said Symbol “is one of the most anticipated publications in recent history, and it is well worth the wait.”
The story takes place over a 12-hour period in the life of Da Vinci protagonist Robert Langdon. “Weaving five years of research into the story’s twelve-hour timeframe was an exhilarating challenge,” said Brown in a statement. “Robert Langdon’s life clearly moves a lot faster than mine.” The book will be edited by Brown’s longtime editor Jason Kaufman.
There are more than 81 million copies of Da Vinci in print worldwide, and the book made bestsellers out of earlier Brown works, most notably, Angels and Demons; a film of Demons will be released May 15, directed by Howard and starring Tom Hanks once again as Langdon.
Kate Jacobs Announces New Book in Friday Night Knitting Club Series
In her newest newsletter posting, Kate Jacobs has announced that she is writing another book in the Friday Night Knitting Club Series!:
“Yes, I’m working on another adventure in the FNKC series. (THIS is why it’s fun to subscribe to the newsletter: I wanted to tell you before anyone else! You are truly among the first to know.) This latest story is called KNIT THE SEASON and it takes place a little over a year after the end of Knit Two. It’s really a celebration with the characters as the story spans the holiday period from Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Christmas to New Year’s.
Available on November 3, Knit the Season focuses on college-age Dakota and a holiday trip to see Gran in Scotland…and that’s all I’m going to say. For now!
Stay tuned to the website http://katejacobs.com/newsletter/lt.php?id=MUQGDgZdAAAeBAEaAFVfBwg%3D
I look forward to sharing more details and the new cover later in
the year.”
04.15.09
Author Michael Shilling, The Plurals and Free Beer! tonight at Schuler of Lansing
Rock Bottom Tour with Michigan Author Michael Shilling & The Blood Orphans at Schuler Books in the Eastwood Towne Center!
Join us at 7 p.m. tonight, April 15, for talk & signing with Michael Shilling, former drummer for The Long Winters and the Michigan author of Rock Bottom.
Featuring a special live performance by Lansing band The Plurals as the Blood Orphans and Free Beer (must be over 21)!
“To apply the language and logic of a record review: Rock Bottom sounds like Chuck Klosterman fell asleep reading Elmore Leonard while Motley Crue’s Shout at the Devil played in the background. Shilling nails the secret frustration of life in a band.” – Sean Nelson, author of Court and Spark (33 1/3) and contributor to The Best American Music Writing 2008
Once, the Blood Orphans had it all: a million-dollar recording contract from Warner Brothers, killer hooks, and cheekbones that could cut glass…but something happened on the way to glory….
Rock Bottom has been hailed by The Boston Globe as “Two parts Spinal Tap, one part Chekhov!”
04.12.09
The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson
Lisbeth Salander is a maze of contradictions: officially ruled incompetent, she is a master-class hacker and formidable strategic thinker; insane, possibly psychopathic, she retains a strong code of personal conduct that gets her through life; and suddenly rich (at the end of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), she has no idea what to do with all that money, other than leave Sweden and lay low for a while, both to escape attention from her past actions and figure out what to do next.
Unfortunately there is no escaping from certain things she has done, and the people she’s done them to Read the rest of this entry »
04.10.09
SB&M celebrates Record Store Day, April 18
On Saturday, April 18, 3 Schuler locations are celebrating Record Store Day, a celebration of independently owned record stores in the United States! On this day, all of these stores will simultaneously link and act as one with the purpose of celebrating the culture and unique place that they occupy both in their local communities and nationally.
In celebration, we will be selling special vinyl and CD and DVD releases available only at Independent Stores for this special occasion, as well as discounting manager selected titles.
Special titles include:
**An exclusive split 7” vinyl single featuring Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs performing Madonna’s “Borderline” and The Black Keys taking on Captain Beefheart’s “Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles”
**Another installment of the Neil Young Archives issued for the first time on vinyl for Record Store Day. The special vinyl package features two 200g ultra heavyweight black-vinyl discs manufactured at Furnace (Japan) in a paper-wrapped Stoughton gatefold jacket.
**Regina Spektor “Begin To Hope”, Her breakthrough gold selling album available for the first time on vinyl just for Record Store Day: 2 LP’s with 2 previously unreleased tracks never before on vinyl or cd
**CSNY “déjà vu” live: The musical companion to the 2008 feature-length documentary issued for Record Store Day. The special vinyl package features two 200g ultra heavyweight black-vinyl discs manufactured at Furnace (Japan) in a paper-wrapped Stoughton gatefold jacket.
Plus lots more… Stop in and check it out!
Participating stores: Alpine location (Grand Rapids), Eastwood Towne Center Location (Lansing), Meridian Mall location (Okemos)
