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This is the cover I wanted to run with. Ah well.
Inside publishing jokes are just the best.
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Our booth is set up at San Diego Comic-Con! Visit us starting tonight at 7, or tomorrow through Sunday! http://pantheon.knopfdoubleday.com/2012/07/02/sdcc-2012-schedule/
The film version of Easy Money is finally coming out in the U.S. on July 11th!
Directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House), EASY MONEY is a Swedish crime thriller based on the international best-selling novel Snabba Cash by Jens Lapidus. Lower-class business student JW (Joel Kinnaman from AMC’s ‘The Killing’) falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm’s wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his lifestyle, he’s lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from both the police and Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when he’s unexpectedly saddled with caring for his young daughter. As JW’s journey ventures deeper into the dark world of organized crime, the fate of all three men becomes entangled and ends with a dramatic struggle for life and death.
Feast your eyeballs on a panel from Chris Ware’s Building Stories, coming in October. Gorgeous, right? If you want to see a larger version (with text that’s readable without squinting!), click through to our site.
Leela Corman talks about her graphic novel, Unterzakhn!
Check out this fantastic interactive map of trends in temperature changes in the U.S. since 1970. It’s by our friends at Climate Central, the authors of our upcoming book Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future, which hits shelves on 7/24.
Oedipus Snark had a number of distinctions in this life. The first of these—and perhaps the most remarkable—was that he was, by common consent, the only truly nasty Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament. This was not just an accolade bestowed upon him by journalists in search of an amusing soubriquet, it was a judgement agreed upon by all those who knew him, including, most notably, his mother. Berthea Snark, a well-known psychoanalyst who lived in a small, undistinguished mews house behind Corduroy Mansions, had tried very hard to love her son, but had eventually given up, thus joining that minuscule group—mothers who cannot abide their sons. So rare is the phenomenon, and so willing are most mothers to forgive their sons any shortcoming, that this demographic—that is to say, in English, these people—is completely ignored by marketeers. And that, as we all know, is the real test of significance. If marketeers ignore you, you are not worth bothering about; you are nothing; you are—to put it brutally—a nondemographic.
- from A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
(How much do you love this cover? Puppy!)
At Comics: Philosophy and Practice this weekend in Chicago, Chris Ware revealed more details about his highly-anticipated latest project, Building Stories, coming from Pantheon this October. As attendee Kathleen Dunley put it, Building Stories is “many little books in a beautiful box.”
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share more of this exciting new graphic novel with you.
“Chris Ware’s BUILDING STORIES is the rarest kind of brilliance; it is simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, shockingly intimate and deeply insightful. There isn’t a graphic artist alive or dead who has used the form this wonderfully to convey the passage of time, loneliness, longing, frustration or bliss. It is the reader’s choice where and how to begin this monumental work — the only regret you will have in starting it is knowing that it will end.”
- J.J. Abrams
“The problem with unintended consequences isn’t with the consequences, it’s with the unintended. Just because you didn’t intend for something to happen doesn’t mean you didn’t want it to happen.”
- Charles Yu, Sorry Please Thank You
We’re so, so excited for this book, which comes out 7/24!
Alexander McCall Smith gives advice to aspiring writers as part of our Writers on Writing series.
We asked Mark Z. Danielewski - author of House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, and the upcoming The Fifty Year Sword and The Familiar - to share a tip for aspiring writers as part of our Writers on Writing series. Watch the video to see what he had to say.
