This week, 600 booksellers gathered in Denver for the 11th annual Winter Institute, a 3-day educational conference for people who own or work in independent bookstores, hosted by the American Booksellers Association (ABA). The ABA started a new tradition on the opening night: a backlist book swap. “Backlist” titlesare books that have been around (the opposite of …
From the March 10, 2015 edition of Shelf Awareness from March 10, 2015: Today, Erik Larson’s new book, Dead Wake, about the sinking of the Lusitania, um, launches. (We have a lot of information about the book and Larson below.) It’s a striking accomplishment: Dead Wake is the latest of an outstanding series of nonfiction titles …
Erik Larson’s latest historical narrative nonfiction book, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, will hit the stores May 10. Larson is something of a pioneer and a prince of his genre—and we’re wondering how long he’ll hang out on the bestseller lists this time. The Seattle author has …
Sorry, Tom Cruise fans. It now looks as if Leonardo DiCaprio will play notorious serial killer Dr. H.H. Holmes, as portrayed in Erik Larson’s 2003 nonfiction thriller The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America.
