Monday, January 30, 2012

Wenguang Huang’s forthcoming memoir, The Little Red Guard, gets a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly

"Illuminating…Huang’s coming-of-age story eloquently describes his family coping with change and how, in a turbulent time, he made sense of the world." To read the full, starred review, click here.  

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Los Angeles Magazine chooses two Riverhead titles as must-reads for January

Shalom Auslander’s “endlessly amusing” Hope: A Tragedy and Andreas Kluth’s “fascinating” Hannibal and Me are two of Los Angeles Magazine’s Critic’s Picks for January. To read the reviews and see the full list of picks, click here.  

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

The New York Times on Shalom Auslander's "staggeringly nervy" novel Hope: A Tragedy

"Other fiction writers have gotten this fresh with Anne Frank. But they don’t get much funnier.... He is an absurdist with a deep sense of gravitas. He brings to mind Woody Allen, Joseph Heller and — oxymoron here — a libido-free version of Philip Roth... It’s a tall order for Mr. Auslander to raise an essentially comic novel to this level of moral contemplation. Yet Hope: A Tragedy succeeds shockingly well." Read more...

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Wenguang Huang, author of the forthcoming memoir The Little Red Guard, writes in Fortune about China’s economy

Wenguang Huang writes in Fortune about Chinese entrepreneurs’ interest in the U.S. To read the article, click here.  

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

David Owen's The Conundrum

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Friday, May 06, 2011

Featured Author : Jon Ronson

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Jon Ronson

About the Author

JON RONSON is a writer and documentary filmmaker. His latest book, The Psychopath Test is a New York Times bestseller. His books Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats were both international bestsellers. The Men Who Stare at Goats was made into a major motion picture in 2009, starring George Clooney. Ronson lives in London.

Author's Website   At Penguin.com  

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