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“The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ’50s, New York in the ’60s: A Memoir of Publishing’s Golden Age” by Richard Seaver, edited by Jeanette Seaver (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 457 pages, $35)
“Murder in Mount Holly” by Paul Theroux (Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, 160 pages, $22)
“West of Here” by Jonathan Evison (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $15.95) Spanning more than a hundred years, “West of Here” follows the narrative one
NEW YORK – This year’s winners of the top prizes in children’s literature were honored for stories of resilience over the most everyday troubles: a boy grounded by his parents, a dog that loses its favorite toy.
"The Odds: A Love Story" by Stewart O’Nan (Penguin, $25.95) Marion and Art Fowler are struggling: with their marriage, with unemployment, with the impending foreclosure of their house. Taking a risk, they book the bridal suite at Niagara Falls’ swankiest hotel, taking a chance that the roulette wheel will salvage their finances and perhaps even save their marriage. This novel is a bittersweet gem, much like the charming "Last Night at the Lobster." O’Nan will be at Watermark Books for a ticketed event on January 26 at 7 p.m.
“The Odds” by Stewart O’Nan (Viking, 179 pages, $25.95)
“The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband” by David Finch (Scribner, 240 pages, $25)
“The Thorn and the Blossom” by Theodora Goss (Quirk Books, 80 pages, $16.95)
The students in the MFA program at Wichita State University will launch Mojo, an online literary journal, this weekend. The journal features short fiction and nonfiction pieces as well as poetry. The inaugural issue includes an interview with Tim O’Brien, author of “The Things They Carried,” the most recent Big Read Wichita selection.
Not all vampires are evil. So says a prize-winning Renaissance scholar who created a fantasy world where a centuries-old vampire intermingles with a witch who neglects her powers.
“Running the Rift” by Naomi Benaron (Algonquin Books, 363 pages, $24.95)
“Agent 6” by Tom Rob Smith (Hachette, 467 pages, $25.99)
“Everyday People” by Albert Goldbarth (Graywolf Press, 185 pages, $18)
“Alphabetter Juice Or, The Joy of Text” by Roy Blount Jr. (Sarah Crichton Books, $26)
“Distrust That Particular Flavor” by William Gibson (Putnam, 272 pages, $26.95)
“Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism” by John Updike (Knopf, 501 pages, $40)
“Radiating Like a Stone: Wichita Women and the 1970s Feminist Movement” compiled and edited by Myrne Roe (Watermark Press, 300 pages, $20)
“Songs of Unreason” by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press, 143 pages, $22)
“Emily, Alone” by Stewart O’Nan. (Penguin, $15)
“Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History 1513-2008” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Knopf, 512 pages, $50)
