tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70437425431977636412024-03-05T17:11:53.472-08:00The Rookery PressNews from The Rookery PressRookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-91522528636122185442008-12-01T15:23:00.000-08:002008-12-01T15:39:55.562-08:00PIANO, PIANO, PIENO on sale November 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7iq-zF-4vrsIS1K7SK7qdHUs4FJDlcd98SmnPEccJ2-S7tnsrTn5OSwd4lmdA_MKvAiRy7k86VYbwfPq4SqZBzFsJFC1CJfPHCcnOObDlxrcyMdnNDf4d8ajJugZywIuGWtgcGGB5OBO/s1600-h/pianojacketfinalfront.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7iq-zF-4vrsIS1K7SK7qdHUs4FJDlcd98SmnPEccJ2-S7tnsrTn5OSwd4lmdA_MKvAiRy7k86VYbwfPq4SqZBzFsJFC1CJfPHCcnOObDlxrcyMdnNDf4d8ajJugZywIuGWtgcGGB5OBO/s320/pianojacketfinalfront.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274970017886409730" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:180%;">PIANO, PIANO, PIENO: Authentic Food from a Tuscan Farm </span>by Susan McKenna Grant</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >“</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Piano, Piano, Pieno</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > is full of … spectacular pasta recipes . . . delicious results.” </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > —Pittsburgh </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Post-Gazette</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />“Slowly, slowly, full” is how the lovely Italian phrase piano, piano, pieno translates, and it describes to perfection the experience of this book and the Slow Food movement, begun in Italy to promote a style of cooking with fresh, local ingredients, cooked classically, with attention and care. More than 200 hundred recipes, accompanied by evocative narratives of farm life and gorgeous color photographs of the food and the region, take the reader deep into the secret rural places of Italy, including the author’s spectacular organic farm/agriturismo, La Petraia. Unusual in its scope and depth, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Piano, Piano, Pieno</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> is an indispensable addition to any serious cook’s library.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />“A lovely book that speaks with confidence and authority about Italian food traditions...The recipes are clear and inviting, the writing gracefully informative.” </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">—Naomi Duguid, author of </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Hot Sour Salty Sweet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">“<span style="font-style: italic;">Piano, Piano, Pieno</span> is a hymn to the joy of pure, Italian cooking, by a woman who has lovingly nurtured an ancient Tuscan farm into an abundant renaissance. Susan McKenna Grant's recipes, for such delights as pappa al pomodoro, ciabatta, or bigoi in salsa, are clearly presented, and sing of the magical simplicity of Italian country cooking. She writes with gusto of the rich history, in some cases almost forgotten, of the foods and traditions of her adopted Italian home. Bravissima!" —Lorenza de Medici, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Italy, the Beautiful Cookbook </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Tuscany, the Beautiful Cookbook</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">learn more about La Petraia at www.lapetraia.com</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">12/1/08</span></span>Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-15170143076910115052008-10-22T08:35:00.000-07:002008-10-22T09:20:49.139-07:00MA GASTRONOMIE on sale October 30<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigrEDiz9TkElFYHEbMo1amYogAUbd8WUBuHXQ7u0FSDBhzY2gALwqMgiyFV7XzVjBJqrhRTjjKvbzQpZjyow0-0DQcOy71imWDqr0ewkLoV2QgS8a1HYK9bNU9R-gHr2l0z5sAeIx-SBt/s1600-h/gastromoniefinaljktcropped.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigrEDiz9TkElFYHEbMo1amYogAUbd8WUBuHXQ7u0FSDBhzY2gALwqMgiyFV7XzVjBJqrhRTjjKvbzQpZjyow0-0DQcOy71imWDqr0ewkLoV2QgS8a1HYK9bNU9R-gHr2l0z5sAeIx-SBt/s320/gastromoniefinaljktcropped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260008392426869250" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >MA GASTRONOMIE<br />by Fernand Point</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >introduction by Thomas Keller</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">translated and adapted by Frank Kulla and Patricia Shannon Kulla<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />One of the landmarks of French cuisine, and cult favorite of chefs and foodies alike, is back in print in an all-new edition</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >First published in France in 1969 and in the U.S. in 1974, Fernand Point’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Ma Gastronomie</span> is one of the enduring classics of French cuisine, taking its place alongside works of Carême, Lucien Tendret, and Escoffier. An undisputed creative genius of French gastronomy and founder of the legendary La Pyramide restaurant in Vienne, halfway between Paris and the Riviera, Fernand Point revolutionized French cuisine, building on its traditions and creating his own versions of the great classical dishes. <span style="font-style: italic;">Ma Gastronomie</span> is the record of this achievement. Long unavailable, except for a rare, second-hand copy surfacing on the market now and then and selling for hundreds of dollars, <span style="font-style: italic;">Ma Gastronomie</span> has become a cult favorite of chefs and foodies over the years. This essential volume is as celebrated for Point’s wise, witty, and provocative views on food as for his remarkable, inventive recipes—over 200 of them—carefully compiled from his handwritten notes.<br /><br />“I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the twentieth century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking—he has been an inspiration for legions of chefs. It was the first cookbook that opened my eyes and made me more conscious of the entire dining experience. It made me think of the guest, and the culture surrounding food and restaurants.” —Thomas Keller, The French Laundry<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-family:arial;">“If someone were to take away all my cookbooks except for one, I would keep Fernand Point’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Ma Gastronomie</span>. For me, his philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart. Point said that if you are not a generous person you cannot be in this field.” </span><span style="font-family:arial;">— Charlie Trotter, Charlie Trotter’s</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">“Before Point, cooking was a just a job; after, it was a calling.”</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> — Molly O’Neill, <span style="font-style: italic;">The New York Times<br /><br /></span>"This book changed my life." —Marco Pierre White</span> </span></span><br /></span>Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-840646181623563932008-10-22T08:09:00.000-07:002008-10-22T08:32:52.448-07:00SNITCH JACKET now in paperback<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgdQ3m27gPdD3Qbyj34-0QPWm8Ibb0CDEyO3Kr5L44zvnYsJ0No8KAeyjtMImxkKTjyjGp1eJsg3wwBr_5C6z_EojtE1r8FyQe9qm4DdKr9XOHJUF3ALAvV7GBygTuOil-LS9k-0a33BX/s1600-h/newsnitchcover2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgdQ3m27gPdD3Qbyj34-0QPWm8Ibb0CDEyO3Kr5L44zvnYsJ0No8KAeyjtMImxkKTjyjGp1eJsg3wwBr_5C6z_EojtE1r8FyQe9qm4DdKr9XOHJUF3ALAvV7GBygTuOil-LS9k-0a33BX/s320/newsnitchcover2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259999330494607154" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Christopher Goffard's Edgar-nominated neo-noir novel SNITCH JACKET is just out in paperback. Chris attended the SCIBA Author's Feast this past weekend as a finalist for the T. Jefferson Parker Mystery Award.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />Praise for SNITCH JACKET—</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >“</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Snitch Jacket</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > is a great read, full of the blood and grit of true character....it announces the arrival of a great new writer in Christopher Goffard.” —Michael Connelly</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >“<span style="font-style: italic;">Snitch Jacket </span>is a wonder of sentences that sing . . . the sights and smells and fast talking are all so memorable that we can't help looking forward to what comes next from this talented writer's mind and pen.” —Sarah Weinman, <span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />“Goffard's prose shimmers with intelligence and humor, and he has a keen ear for telling detail. Fans of such cultish neo-noir scribes as Charlie Huston and Duane Swierczynski will be richly rewarded.” —<span style="font-style: italic;">Publishers Weekly</span>, starred review </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >“In its dark vision [Snitch Jacket] would probably give Raymond Chandler </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >night sweats . . . you won't close it until the last page.”</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > —Gregory McNamee, <span style="font-style: italic;">St. Petersburg Times </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >“Goffard writes like an angel and plots like a demon.” —Guardian (UK)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >“Benny Bunt hangs around what may be the scummiest bar in SoCal . . . </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >A big payday is coming . . . as in a Tarantino screenplay.” —<span style="font-style: italic;">New York</span> magazine</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >“Christopher Goffard sees Southern California with a keen eye, and he writes with an incandescent humor that is remarkable. Pull up a seat at the narrator's favorite bar—the Greasy Tuesday—and enjoy the madness going on around you.” —T. Jefferson Parker </span>Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-78835834474923454262008-05-05T16:43:00.000-07:002008-05-05T16:55:57.539-07:00Praise for TEN BAD DATES WITH DE NIRO<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPdf7HuRpgvdKJgDpSph_396-1xxgk68ffIARTVaq1EJg3MJZ6gyaQeg-yhTywPg7zygJ-hW0h4ru3q-QuXTcdZZp3q8cei88tINsBbSj17lGH1yLzyQPk-wFEb1m2IJ0CLB-QvDx6groN/s1600-h/tenbaddatesdeniroRGB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPdf7HuRpgvdKJgDpSph_396-1xxgk68ffIARTVaq1EJg3MJZ6gyaQeg-yhTywPg7zygJ-hW0h4ru3q-QuXTcdZZp3q8cei88tINsBbSj17lGH1yLzyQPk-wFEb1m2IJ0CLB-QvDx6groN/s320/tenbaddatesdeniroRGB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197044423122526722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Edited by Richard T Kelly <br />Just published by The Rookery Press</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">"</span><span style="font-size:100%;">By the time you come to the end of "10 Bad Dates" you will find that you've been exposed to, and forced to contemplate, just about everything worthwhile in movie history, from "Swiss Miss" to "Shanghai Express" (harnessing Sternberg's "exotic artifice to the mood of romantic fatalism" in Graham Fuller's fine phrase). <span style="font-weight: bold;">You will also be closer to the essential truth about movies, which is that they achieve their best effects, the things that stay with us and make a few of them seem forever great, through the most ephemeral means—a curl of smoke, a curl of hair, the curl of a lip</span>...</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >a stimulating, necessary volume—and virtually alone among cinematic studies in the wit of its arguments and the seductiveness of its style</span><span style="font-size:100%;">.<span style="font-weight: bold;">" </span> <br /> —Richard Schickel, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Los Angeles Times</span>Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-44938135416364555892008-01-24T17:31:00.000-08:002008-01-24T17:54:08.326-08:00SNITCH JACKET IS EDGAR NOMINEE<a style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjirIf6bJmkds-xoaNUs8othT3QjlvorqyM2mJDQLm9idBzPfOsrKOIiMLVs59YYvE2lhqcCkvja8_vVCwb9fcSLslkyJgQaU1wAwJ7eJjSxM1bPCdFAzndyYMDa2t2TgVcUfnTU_QGC43w/s1600-h/poe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjirIf6bJmkds-xoaNUs8othT3QjlvorqyM2mJDQLm9idBzPfOsrKOIiMLVs59YYvE2lhqcCkvja8_vVCwb9fcSLslkyJgQaU1wAwJ7eJjSxM1bPCdFAzndyYMDa2t2TgVcUfnTU_QGC43w/s320/poe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159221592235467458" border="0" /></a><br /><span family="SANSSERIF" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Geneva;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > The Rookery Press</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > is thrilled to report that </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Christopher Goffard's SNITCH JACKET is one of five finalists for the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel,</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >as announced by the Mystery Writers of America on January 18. Congratulations, Chris! And thanks to all the booksellers, readers, reviewers, and the sales team at Overlook and Penguin who backed SNITCH JACKET early on and who have been so brilliantly supportive of Rookery in our first year of publishing.<br /><br />Read more about <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">SNITCH JACKET</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">,</span> below.</span><br /></span>Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-47677157237149567162007-08-23T12:33:00.000-07:002007-08-23T12:53:41.108-07:00New from Rookery: SNITCH JACKET by Christopher Goffard<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Snitch-Jacket-Christopher-Goffard/dp/1585679542/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898558&sr=1-1"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfRYD1owZBYnJR4zxSw7GjI2BhnZqBw9jXPV94gC_wy43Qg8rRcSuQf9PUEUsDgC6-pIj4_VVweKXfD6elyS2XrDuTbut_xWsUu3HWkmAJ7NmOqP_xGJt3Fff_gUzphmC1kvL4pbmbHsNr/s400/517j8rvgCFL._SS500_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101983181670174242" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snitch-Jacket-Christopher-Goffard/dp/1585679542/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898558&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SNITCH JACKET by Christopher Goffard</span></a><br /><br />Benny Bunt is an over-educated misfit, ex-speed addict, and barfly who makes pocket money snitching on his friends. You will like him.<br /><br />“Everyone knows that California sunshine is the world’s loneliest light,” says Benny, who inhabits an underworld of desperados and grotesques and spends much of his free time at the Greasy Tuesday, a squalid, southern California neighborhood dive teeming with local legends.<br />One night, one of these legends walks through the door: Gus “Mad Dog” Miller, a huge, tattoo-laden Vietnam vet who sports a necklace of severed ears and whose job at the Greasy Tuesday is “to keep the riffraff out.” “But everyone’s riffraff here,” Benny protests. Six months later, Benny, transfixed by this twisted Falstaffian personality, is arrested on suspicion of double murder after attending the freak “Howling Head” festival in the Mojave Desert.<br />Combining elements of classic noir, dark comedy, and a misfit’s memoir reminiscent of <span style="font-style: italic;">Notes from Underground</span>, Christopher Goffard, a reporter for the <span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span>, brings life to the darker side of west coast counter-culture in a literary crime novel that will be a delight for fans of Elmore Leonard, the Coen brothers, Carl Hiassen, and Charles Bukowski.<br /><br />“Christopher Goffard sees southern California with a keen eye, and he writes with an incandescent humor that is remarkable. Pull up a seat at the narrator's favorite bar—the Greasy Tuesday—and enjoy the madness going on around you.”<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> —T. Jefferson Parker, author of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">California Girl</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Fallen</span><br /><br />STARRED REVIEW <span style="font-style: italic;">Publishers Weekly</span>: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Snitch Jacket </span> Christopher Goffard. Overlook/Rookery, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-58567-954-6<br /><br />"In Goffard's impressive debut, a darkly comic romp through the Southern California underworld, Benny Bunt, a 41-year-old dishwasher, finds his main escape in the Greasy Tuesday, a blue-collar bar in Costa Mesa. Among the recidivist misfits, his is a harmless familiar face. What they don't know is that Benny is a snitch who earns pocket money by ratting out his buddies to the cops. Enter one Gus “Mad Dog” Miller, a massive, bearded Vietnam vet, covered with prison tattoos; Gus holds court at the bar with outrageous tales of his exploits, military and criminal. Gus soon becomes Benny's best friend, and seeks his assistance in a contract killing. Only problem is, the police “botch” their surveillance and Benny ends up taking the fall for a double homicide committed at the Howling Head festival in the Mojave desert. Goffard's prose shimmers with intelligence and humor, and he has a keen ear for telling detail. Fans of such cultish neo-noir scribes such as Charlie Huston and Duane Swierczynski will be richly rewarded. (Oct.)"<br /><br />Buy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snitch-Jacket-Christopher-Goffard/dp/1585679542/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898808&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Snitch Jacket</span></a>.Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-81586842760185578902007-07-13T10:39:00.001-07:002007-08-23T12:51:12.626-07:00MOTHERLAND by Lesley Chamberlain *Now Available*<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Motherland-Philosophical-History-Lesley-Chamberlain/dp/1585679526/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898600&sr=1-1"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFJnOS9yFAwURVRmzKxZZPx9LzEhDdAk-9baBsJUPcwkj4JJXhZw3GjSgluDtQmutCgPLYz66jCLd07fopBKxYRDFCmOTpEvgEH19DNmUlPkOlBJlAETfY6zfjov-2n6uJ1OrySx43Fgv/s400/motherlandnew.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086737758949945842" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Motherland-Philosophical-History-Lesley-Chamberlain/dp/1585679526/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898600&sr=1-1">MOTHERLAND</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Motherland-Philosophical-History-Lesley-Chamberlain/dp/1585679526/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898600&sr=1-1"><br />A Philosophical History of Russia<br />Lesley Chamberlain</a><br /><br />A “splendid” (<span style="font-style: italic;">Daily Telegraph</span>) and invaluable introduction to the key Russian thinkers of the past 200 years and an eloquently-narrated journey in the history of ideas.<br /><br />Includes sections on the key pre-Revolutionary philosophers in Tom Stoppard’s <span style="font-style: italic;">The Coast of Utopia</span>: Alexander Herzen, Vissarion Belinsky, Pyotr Chaadaev, Mikhail Bakunin, Nikolai Stankevich & Ivan Turgenev<br /><br />In this “lucid primer of Russian thought” (<span style="font-style: italic;">Times Literary Supplement</span>), Lesley Chamberlain finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions: “what makes a good man?” and “what is the right way to live?” The nineteenth-century ideal of a happy man living in a just society became, in Russia, a quest to effect wholesale transformation of society. Chamberlain shows how this moral passion, manifesting itself in philosophy and literature, existed in both pre- and post-revolutionary Russia. She reveals that 1917 did not represent the watershed we once thought, and shows how the dream of a plain and simple life reached its negative apotheosis under Lenin. In <span style="font-style: italic;">Motherland</span> (Overlook/Rookery, July 9, 2007<br />352 pp, $35.00 [CAN $43.50], 978-1-58567-952-2) Lesley Chamberlain has produced a radical new interpretation of Russian intellectual history that, finally, gives a glimpse in to the soul of that singular country.<br /><br />“A searching intellectual history of modern Russia . . . Provocative, and sure to inspire learned discussion, if not controversy.”—<span style="font-style: italic;">Kirkus</span><br /><br />“Delving fearlessly into her complex and understudied subject, Chamberlain provides a useful synthesis of 200 years of thought by nearly 40 Russian philosophers . . . This useful reference and historical corrective should inspire further study into a neglected but rich intellectual landscape.”—<span style="font-style: italic;">Publishers Weekly</span><br /><br />ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lesley Chamberlain is a writer and reviewer distinguished for her wide-ranging work from travel (<span style="font-style: italic;">In the Communist Mirror</span>) to philosophy (<span style="font-style: italic;">Nietzsche in Turin</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Lenin’s Private War</span>) to fiction. She lives in London.<br /><br />Buy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Motherland-Philosophical-History-Lesley-Chamberlain/dp/1585679526/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898600&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Motherland</span></a>.Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-87902652038498091942007-04-24T10:07:00.000-07:002007-08-23T12:52:49.728-07:00THE SISTER: A Novel of Emily Dickinson by Paola Kaufmann<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5tTlMwEjBZD7mmrA5s0spNlF8HwrI0P8vQCNiyRo8wGsUIC5Djj7vpxI5Kg1RJcTwbVTjPFWB2huNmJ_nnu4ZF0C_m4W6-olN92nxm0hekXzWr2TOlMQ7gJ5PctbVF-FN8L70VnTVLfig/s1600-h/Sister.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5tTlMwEjBZD7mmrA5s0spNlF8HwrI0P8vQCNiyRo8wGsUIC5Djj7vpxI5Kg1RJcTwbVTjPFWB2huNmJ_nnu4ZF0C_m4W6-olN92nxm0hekXzWr2TOlMQ7gJ5PctbVF-FN8L70VnTVLfig/s400/Sister.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057042847057779458" border="0" /></a>Still today, more than 120 years after her death, Emily Dickinson is relevant, modern, controversial, and fascinating; her fan base impressive in numbers and in breadth, and her influence on writers and poets evergreen, even inspiring our top video game designers to build a prototype game around her called “Muse.” As a woman, she is largely thought of as a recluse and spinster who lived her entire life in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the home of her birth; as a poet, she wrote some of the most daring and original poetry of the nineteenth century. This verse is often said to be her only contact with the outside world, but not much is understood about the inner world that gave rise to it.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> The Sister</span> (Overlook/Rookery, June 1, 2007, 272 pp, $24.95, 978-1-58567-951-5) probes this world, revealing Emily Dickinson’s tense relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, the men in her life, and her secret views on religion and love, all seen through the eyes of her younger sister Lavinia. Drawn from authentic journals, documents, and letters from the Dickinson family, The Sister fills in a vital missing piece of the jigsaw, getting us closer to understanding the enigma that is Emily Dickinson.<br /><br />“Sensitively captures the dark, secretive nature of these thorny New England characters.” <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">—Kirkus</span><br /><br /><br />ON THE WRITING OF <span style="font-style: italic;">THE SISTER</span>: “In researching this book, an earlier view of Emily Dickinson ended for me, undoing the myth of the genius madwoman dressed in white and shut away in her house. After reading numerous biographies and letters (from both sides of the family), my impression was that of a more rebellious, vital and revolutionary woman than the legend suggests. For me she was revolutionary because she always did exactly what she wanted in an age where such an attitude was not tolerated. Women either married, locked themselves in a convent, spent their lives as schoolteachers, or died in childbirth. There was no alternative. Emily Dickinson wanted to write, to read, to bake bread, to be left in peace. And this is precisely what she did. But she only managed to do this thanks to the help of her sister Lavinia, who lived an essentially parallel life, never marrying, nor having children (because, deep down, she never wanted to), and who was the lifeline to the outside world. No small feat.” --PAOLA KAUFMANN<br /><br />ABOUT THE AUTHOR: <span style="font-style: italic;">Paola Kaufmann was born in 1969 in Rio Negro, Argentina. She combined fiction-writing with a successful career as a biologist and scientific researcher. She received the Casa de las Américas Prize for The Sister, which has been published to acclaim in 8 countries. Her latest novel, The Lake, recently won the prestigious Planeta Prize for Fiction. She died of cancer in September, 2006, at the age of 37.<br /><br /></span><span>Buy </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Novel-Emily-Dickinson/dp/1585679518/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5483197-0958022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187898736&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Sister</span></a><br /></span>Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-74145709461550014142006-12-01T11:58:00.000-08:002006-12-01T12:01:06.505-08:00Now Available: Patrick Suskind's ON LOVE AND DEATH<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6201/859831853417695/1600/370911/suskindfrontnew.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6201/859831853417695/400/718833/suskindfrontnew.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In <span style="font-weight: bold;">ON LOVE AND DEATH</span>, Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing fiction: an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death. In this witty and thought-provoking meditation on the two elemental forces of human existence, he brilliantly draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex in a traffic jam, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love at an advanced age, and as mythical as the stories of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus.<br /><br />Patrick Suskind was catapulted to international fame in 1985 with the publication of <span style="font-style: italic;">Perfume</span>, which went on to top bestseller lists around the globe and is now a major film from DreamWorks Pictures starring Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Dustin Hoffman. Suskind has received great acclaim for all his subsequent writing and remains a notoriously private person, living close to Munich in the town where he was born.<br /><br />Buy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Death-Patrick-Suskind/dp/158567950X/sr=8-6/qid=1165003178/ref=pd_bbs_sr_6/104-5975925-9955107?ie=UTF8&s=books"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">On Love And Death</span></a>.Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043742543197763641.post-25567038257376437742006-11-01T12:03:00.000-08:002006-12-01T12:07:58.226-08:00From Bookstandard: Overlook Press' Tracy Carns Launches The Rookery Press<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6201/859831853417695/1600/990486/rookerylogo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/6201/859831853417695/400/620328/rookerylogo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Overlook Press' Tracy Carns Launches The Rookery Press</span><h4> </h4> <i>October 24, 2006 </i> By <a href="mailto:KMaul@thebookstandard.com"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kimberly Maul</span></a> <span class="body"><br /><br />Tracy Carns, the long-time publishing director of The Overlook Press, will launch a new independent publishing company, The Rookery Press, with its first title, Patrick Süskind’s <i>On Love and Death</i>, set to be released on Nov. 28. <br /><br />“The goal is to publish a tightly-chosen list of titles by good authors,” Carns said in a statement yesterday. “Books that are serious, interesting, well-designed and well-produced. Other than that, there are really no rules.” The new company will publish 12 titles its first year and eventually get to 20 titles a year. Carns plans to focus on serious nonfiction, some literary fiction, reprints, drama, and illustrated books in the areas of fashion, interiors, design, art, theatre, and film.<br /><br /></span><span class="body"><!-- end generated ad //--></span> <span class="body"> <!--endclickprintexclude-->“I’m hugely excited about looking for unusual opportunities and alliances and exploring the potential in publishing a smallish list,” Carns said. “There’s flexibility in being small.” The Rookery Press will work in association with Overlook Press and will operate in the offices of Overlook in New York.</span>Rookery Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00923850898205158999noreply@blogger.com0