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...DREAM WEAVER: Penguin Putnam is solidly behind "The Dream of Scipio" by Iain Pears (Riverhead; June 3), the author of the runaway success "An Instance of the Fingerpost." We even received a note from Susan Petersen Kennedy, the president of Penguin Putnam: "I feel compelled to write you about Iain Pears' brilliant new novel. In the midst of everyone in the arts questioning what they're doing, every person questioning the world we live in, this book reminded me of why it all matters." Kirkus agrees, giving the book a starred review. "A brilliantly constructed historical novel...This imposingly intricate...
PUBLISHING NIRVANA: Daily Variety reports that Riverhead, a division of Penguin Putnam, has bought the rights to publish the notebooks of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain for close to $4 million. Publishers got a sneak peak at the journals last week, and insiders who have read excerpts from Cobain?s 23 notebooks (about 800 pages written over several years), tell TIME the early buzz is warranted...
...tempted to distrust Charmaine Craig. Harvard educated, an actress (remember White Fang II?) with runway-model looks, she could almost have been genetically engineered by the publicist for The Good Men (Riverhead Books; 399 pages; $24.95), her ambitious first novel about an outbreak of heresy in medieval France. But one would be wrong not to trust her, because as a writer she's the real deal. And as it happens, her work has much to say about both temptation and distrust...
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...Dolan sisters--who seem to want to supplant the McCourt brothers in ubiquity--have released a book, Satellite Sisters' UnCommon Senses (Riverhead; 370 pages; $24.95). It posits, through a series of anecdotes told by each sister, that when you grow up in a large family, you develop an extra set of senses that help you both stand out from and connect to your kin. This, at least, is the conceit. But the underlying mantra of the book and the radio show is the same: talk is good. Even seemingly insignificant banter, such as the discussion about the aforementioned gravy boat...