Worse Than War author to be interviewed in Canadian Jewish News

Worse Than War, by Daniel Goldhagen
9781586487690 | $37.95 hc | available October
Public Affairs / Publishers Group Canada

Daniel Goldhagen will be interviewed by Canadian Jewish News when he is in Toronto next month to promote his new book, Worse Than War.

Samuel Johnson bio gets reviewed in National Post

Samuel Johnson, by Jeffrey Meyers
9780465045716 | $37.50 hc | in stock
Basic Books / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Jeffrey Meyers’ biography of Samuel Johnson was reviewed very favourably in the National Post on Sept. 19. From the review:

California-based biographer Jeffrey Meyers brings the same skills to this subject as he has previously to Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, D.H. Lawrence, Orwell and a host of others. His vocation is less Johnson than biography. Yet that is no bad thing. Obsessives do not always make the best chroniclers of a life — they tend to see everything through the eyes of their adopted subject. Meyers sees almost everything about Johnson through the prism of his craft and, in this case, often through the book’s eponymous premise. Here is Dr. Johnson in the midst of struggle. Against mental illness, physical pain, insomnia, isolation. Invincible in intellect but broken as a physical creature — it’s a portrait as paradoxical as it is compelling.

Love in Infant Monkeys reviews to come in Globe, Eye, and NYT

Love In Infant Monkeys, by Lydia Millet
9781593762520 | $18.95 pb | in stock
Soft Skull Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Lydia Millet’s new collection of short stories (all about celebrities and their animal companions) will be reviewed soon in The Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly, and The New York Times.

The Case for Books in PW, Q&Q

The Case For Books, by Robert Darnton
9781586488260  | $30.50 hc | available October
Public Affairs / Publishers Group Canada

Robert Darnton’s new book was the Publisher’s Weekly cover story on Sept. 14, and was also covered on the Quill & Quire blog:

… the general lack of concern for history among Americans has made us vulnerable to exaggerated notions of historic change–and so has our fascination with technology. The current obsession with cellular devices, electronic readers and digitization has produced a colossal case of false consciousness.

As new electronic devices arrive on the market, we think we have been precipitated into a new era. We tout “the Information Age” as if information did not exist in the past. Meanwhile, e-books and devices like the Kindle represent less than 1% of the expenditure on books in the United States.

Guardians of Being to be featured in Maclean’s

Guardians of Being, by Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell
9781577316718 | $22.50 hc | in stock
New World Library / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

The Maclean’s feature interview with Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell should be on newsstands around October 2nd.

Other media to come this fall includes a Reading Room Review in November’s Oprah Magazine and a feature in this fall’s Modern Dog Magazine.

Valentine’s Fall reviewed in Canadian Jewish News, to come in Toronto Star & Winnipeg Free Press

Valentine’s Fall, by Cary Fagan
978-1897151457 | $21.00 pb | in stock
Cormorant Books (UTP Distribution)

Cary Fagan’s new novel has been reviewed in The Canadian Jewish News and also on the online music site Mandolin Café. Reviews are also coming soon from The Toronto Star and The Winnipeg Free Press.

Elise Moser’s debut reviewed in National Post

Because I Have Loved and Hidden It, by Elise Moser
978-1897151365 | $21.00 pb | in stock
Cormorant Books (UTP Distribution)

The debut novel from Elise Moser was reviewed in the National Post on Sept. 26. From the review:

On the day of her mother’s funeral, Julia Goodman, at 40 no stranger to sorrow and disappointment, learns that she is not an only child, that a sibling, two years older, was given up for adoption at birth. With her father long dead and her mother now gone, there will be no answers from either of them.

Her quest to learn more is one of the threads running through Elise Moser’s ambitious and artfully woven debut novel, Because I Have Loved and Hidden It.

Ralph Nader does Canadian media blitz

"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!", by Ralph Nader
978-1583229033 | $29.95 hc | in stock
Seven Stories Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Ralph Nader was in Toronto promoting his new book “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” He got some great media coverage, including:

• Canada AM, Sept. 24
• CBC Radio’s Q, to air some time this week
• CBC Newsworld, Sept. 24
• BNN’s SqueezePlay, Sept. 24
• CBC’s The Hour, air date to come
• Toronto Star, Sept. 27
• Globe and Mail, Sept. 24

From The Globe and Mail:

“Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us” provides better insight into Nader’s psyche than any of the biographies published about him to date. Want to know the most important characteristic for a transformational leader? Moral courage. For a social-change foot soldier? Capacity to learn from criticism. Essential tactics to win citizen struggles? Build momentum from your epicentres and beyond using media. Use feints and distractions to keep opponents on their toes. Appeal to people’s base senses and everyday realities. Anticipate reaction from entrenched powers, and always have second-strike capacity.

Lisa Foad wins ReLit Award for Short Stories

The Night is a Mouth, by Lisa Foad
978-1550961140 | $21.95 pb | in stock
Exile Editions / McArthur & Co. (HarperCollins)

It was announced on Sept 20 that Lisa Foad’s The Night Is A Mouth has won the ReLit Award in the short stories category.

Michael Jackson Tapes author on Larry King, Dateline, Today Show, eTalk

The Michael Jackson Tapes, by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
978-1-59315-602-2 | $32.95 hc | in stock
Vanguard Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Tons of huge media surrounding the release of The Michael Jackson Tapes, compiled from more than thirty hours of intimate taped conversations that took place from 2000-2001 between Michael Jackson and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Rabbi Boteach was not only a spiritual advisor and dear friend, but the only person Michael Jackson trusted to understand who he was really as a person and to then share this with the public.

Confirmed Media:

• Larry King Live: full hour on Sept. 29
• Today Show: launch on Sept. 25, and again on Sept. 29
• Dateline: full hour on Sept. 29
• eTalk: feature on website on Sept. 25, interview with author to come
• New York Times: full page ad on Sept. 27