Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Book Buzz
Oprah has chosen Jeffrey Eugenides' controversial book about a hermaphrodite, Middlesex (2003), for her new book club read. Multiple reviews at Complete Review.
And the publishing industry's BookExpo America is over; here are some highlights reported by USA Today:
- Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert's book, I Am America (And So Can You!), is due out in October and is predicted to be "just as big as Jon Stewart's' America:The Book.
- It will be a big fall for history titles, including Rick Atkinson's The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (October) and The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 (September) by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns.
- Most-talked-about fall fiction: Alice Sebold's The Almost Moon and Ann Packer's Songs Without Words.
Labels: bestsellers, bookexpo, colbert, eugenides, fall fiction, history, middlesex, oprah, sebold
