News - Book Launches
News - Book Launches
Recently in the news expressing his opinions about Scotland’s independence in a New York Times Op-Ed piece, Alan Cumming is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, producer and director. His moving memoir NOT MY FATHER’S SON will be published by Dey Street Books on October 7, 2014.
An excerpt from Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn’s forthcoming book, A PATH APPEARS, was published on the front page of the Sunday Review for September 14th. Knopf will publish the book on September 23, 2014.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sidney Sheldon’s most popular and enduring heroine—Tracy Whitney of If Tomorrow Comes—returns in a sensational sequel full of passion, suspense, and breathtaking twists. Coming in hardcover from William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers on October 7.
Mark Whitaker’s biography of Bill Cosby received a starred review in Booklist, which called the book “a compelling look at a man who has a major impact on American race relations and television and whose “Cosby effect” helped prime the nation for its first black president.” The book was also discussed in a recent article on Cosby in the New Yorker. Simon & Schuster will publish the book on September 16, 2014.
Meryle Secrest’s biography of Italian fashion designer, Elsa Schiaparelli, received a starred review in Booklist. The review calls Secrest an “ever-curious and wonderfully adept biographer” and calls the book “richly illustrated and endlessly intriguing.” Knopf will publish the book on October 7, 2014.
PRINCE LESTAT by Anne Rice was named one of the top 10 most anticipated books of the fall by Kirkus Reviews. Knopf will publish the book October 28, 2014
Neil Gaiman, author of New York Times bestsellers The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods said of Alan Cumming's upcoming book:
“Equal parts memoir, whodunnit and manual for living, NOT MY FATHER'S SON is a beautifully written, honest look at the forces of blood and bone that make us what we are, and how we make ourselves. I was completely sucked in.” Dey St. will publish the hardcover October 7, 2014.
Josh Weil continues his “Two Guys, Two Books” coverage on Salon.com, in which he is traveling the country for the publication of his debut novel, THE GREAT GLASS SEA, alongside fellow novelist Mike Harvkey. THE GREAT GLASS SEA was published by Grove Atlantic on July 2, 2014.
Lin Enger’s THE HIGH DIVIDE was named a Big Indie Book of Fall 2014 by Publishers Weekly. Algonquin will publish the book on September 23, 2014.
Amazon named PRINCE LESTAT, Anne Rice’s first book in the Vampire Chronicles since 2003’s BLOOD CANTICLE, as one of the Fall’s “Blockbuster” books. Knopf will publish the book October 28, 2014.