Catch Laurel Saville tonight at 8:30 pm/Eastern as she discusses her memoir, Postmortem. You can call into the show at 718-506-1633 to comment or ask a question.
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About the Author
Laurel Saville’s fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in The Bennington Review, House Beautiful, Room, and many other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives and writes in the Mohawk River Valley of upstate New York. To learn more about Laurel and her book, please visit http://www.laurelsaville.com/.
About The Book
Postmortem takes the reader on an emotionally charged journey that ranges from Saville's eccentric West Hollywood childhood, to a top-secret, Depression-era airplane design. Whether describing the artists of the seminal Sunset Strip gallery where Andy Warhol got his start or the hippie parties at the legendary Barney's Beanery, Saville's distinctive prose lends insight into the events and emotions that surrounded the life and death of stunning Anne Ford. This candid exploration of one woman's life and death ends up exposing unexpected truths about both mother and daughter and unscrambling the many webs that entangled Ford's exceptional life
Now he prefers offering legal services to the poor and the under-represented, from his "office" at local coffee bar The Freudian Sip. A mysterious woman with a six year old daughter comes to him for help. She's being illegally evicted from a downtown transient hotel, an interest represented by his old law firm and former best friend, Al Bradshaw. Buchanan won't back down. He's going to fight for the woman's rights.
But then she ends up dead, and the case moves from the courtroom to the streets. Determined to find the killer and protect the little girl, who has no last name and no other family, Buchanan finds he must depend on skills he never needed in the employ of a civil law firm.
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Sonya Chung's astonishing first novel tells the story of a family divided between contemporary America and a small Korean town. Long for This World is about loss and renewal and what it means to go home.
In 1953, on a remote island in South Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and sister-in-law to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on a plane back to Korea, leaving behind his wife and grown children in America. It is his daughter, Jane -- a war photographer recently injured in a bombing in Baghdad and forced to return to New York -- who journeys to find him in the South Korean town where his brothers have settled. Here, father and daughter take refuge from their demons, unearth passions, and, in the wake of tragedy, each discover something deeper and more enduring than they'd imagined possible.
Long for This World is a pointillist triumph -- depicting whole worlds through the details of a carefully prepared meal or a dark childhood memory. But Chung is also working on a massive scale, effortlessly moving between domestic intimacies and the global stage -- Iraq, Paris, Darfur, Syria -- to illuminate the relationship between troubled world affairs and personal devastation. The result is a profound portrayal of the human experience -- both large and small. Long for This World establishes Sonya Chung as a thrilling new voice in fiction.
Belong to a book club?
There is a reading guide for Long for This Worldwhich includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. These ideas should enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
______________________________________________________________ "Sunday Synopsis" is a new feature for 2010. Every Sunday, we will post the synopsis of an upcoming book that we think deserves your attention. Think of it as a mini e-paper. It'll be there in the morning when you wake up for your coffee.
Hachette Book Group is celebrating this upcoming movie with a book giveaway.
2 copies available
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. Take a peek at the reading group guide
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Fox Searchlight whose latest film, OUR FAMILY WEDDING, starring a hilarious all-star cast including Carlos Mencia, America Ferrera, Forest Whitaker, Regina King & Lance Gross, opens nationwide on Friday, March 12th!
If you are in or around Atlanta, please join us for this complimentary screening of the film on Thursday, March 11, at 7:30PM at Regal Atlantic Station in Atlanta.
Here's the movie trailer!
Each person will be allowed to print out a maximum of two passes. Feel free to pass along this information to your peers, family, friends or anyone you believe would enjoy the film.
*Please note - Remember to arrive early as screenings are always overbooked to ensure a full theater. Seating is first come-first served, and is not guaranteed.
Every now and then I check this list, just to see if I'm missing anything. Proudly, there are quite a number of debut or emerging authors on here. Some have either been featured on here or will be in upcoming months. Some have already been featured on Daily Debut (AE's Facebook Page).
This list is only determined by sales made from the independent booksellers in the southern states. To find if you're favorite southern indie bookseller reports to this list, click here
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307269980
3. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Amy Einhorn Books, $25.95, 9780399156199
4. The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova, Little Brown, $26.99, 9780316065788
5. The Man From Beijing
Henning Mankell, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307271860
6. The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $26.99, 9780060852573
7. Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $26, 9781416586289
8. Bloodroot
Amy Greene, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307269867 9. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Beth Hoffman, Viking, $25.95, 9780670021390
10. Worst Case
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316036221
11. South of Broad
Pat Conroy, Nan A. Talese, $29.95, 9780385413053
12. Kisser
Stuart Woods, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399156113
13. The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385504225
14. Roses
Leila Meacham, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446550000
15. Brava, Valentine
Adriana Trigiani, Harper, $25.99, 9780061257070
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Harper, $27.99, 9780061733635
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Crown, $26, 9781400052172
3. Staying True
Jenny Sanford, Ballantine, $25, 9780345522399
4. The Politician
Andrew Young, Thomas Dunne, $24.99, 9780312640651
5. Committed
Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021659
6. On the Brink
Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Business Plus, $28.99, 9780446561938
7. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Craft Rubin, Harper, $25.99, 9780061583254
8. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316017923
9. Drive
Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594488849
10. Stones Into Schools
Greg Mortenson, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021154
11. Have a Little Faith
Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $23.99, 9780786868728
12. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $27, 9780066211312
13. Making Toast
Roger Rosenblatt, Ecco, $21.99, 9780061825934
14. I Am an Emotional Creature
Eve Ensler, Villard, $20, 9781400061044
15. The Death of American Virtue
Ken Gormley, Crown, $35, 9780307409447
