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...history of race relations in America, there are quite a few blank spaces. Here are two books determined to fill them in. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin; 358 pages; $25), is a quietly devastating account of Tulsa's two-day convulsion of blood and of the struggle years later to return the riot to living memory through a commission of inquiry. Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House; 528 pages; $35) is a powerful history of a practice so common...
...BOXER SHORTS: Kirkus is rhapsodic about "The Shadow Boxer," a debut novel by Steven Heighton (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin; February 25), giving it a starred review. "The ghosts of Jack London, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac all hover approvingly over a terrific first novel by Heighton, an Ontario poet and story writer...One of the finest coming of age tales in recent years, and a splendid novelistic debut by a writer who seems to be just now entering a most impressive maturity." Author tour...
...building for "The Lord of the Rings," which opens on December 19 in 10,000 theaters internationally. The mass-market paperback edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring" (Ballantine; paperback) is already No. 1 on PW's mass-market list. "The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide" (Houghton Mifflin paperback) is No. 11 on the 12/9 NYT paperback nonfiction list...
While the upcoming student productions of The Who’s Tommy and Three Sisters rehearsed upstairs, and the Pinter plays held tech rehearsal in the Experimental Theater, a different kind of event was humming in the Loeb’s West Lobby. On Oct. 22, the Houghton Mifflin Company sponsored the third annual benefit reading from the 2001 edition of its publication, The Best American Short Stories. The evening benefited PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists) New England, the regional branch of the only worldwide organization of writing professionals, and made for a worthy excuse to put incredible talent...
...people will need books more than ever. It will take writers to make sense of all this." - Wendy Strothman, publisher of Houghton Mifflin, to Publishers Weekly...