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September 10, 2021
DC COMICS To Release “BATMAN: MUERTE POR DISENO (DEATH BY DESIGN)”, Written by Chip Kidd, Illustrated by Dave Taylor!
Here’s some fun BATMAN NEWS! Starting September 13th, 2021 a New Spanish-Language Graphic Novel by DC Comics will be available for sale both online & in Mexico. We’re talking about BATMAN: MUERTE POR DISENO (DEATH BY DESIGN), Written by Chip Kidd, Illustrated by Dave Taylor. This is a book that was originally published by DC Comics back in 2012 & now it’s going to be released in Mexico, fully-translated into Spanish… WOW!
To order your copy please click this LINK for more information.
THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR: Lawrence Wright’s New Book on THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID (Knopf)
The Host of THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR, David Remnick, recently talked with the Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Lawrence Wright about his new book, THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID (Knopf). Here is that podcast:
September 9, 2021
LA TIMES BOOK CLUB Video: BILLIE JEAN KING on ALL IN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY #Knopf
On August 24th, 2021, Tennis icon Billie Jean King talked with the LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK CLUB about her new memoir, “All In:An Autobiography,” (Knopf, Cover Design by Chip Kidd) with Times Executive Sports Editor Christian Stone. Here it is, please be sure to check it out!!
August 31, 2021
SEPT 20th – B&N Virtually Presents: ANDERSON COOPER Talks About VANDERBILT, THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DYNASTY
About this Event:
Join Barnes & Noble on Monday, September 20th, 2021 at 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm as they welcome New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, , for a live, virtual event as he discusses . In Cooper’s new book, the author chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.
For More Information, or to BUY YOUR TICKET NOW, Just CLICK HERE! This is a Live Ticketed Event. You must have a ticket to gain access & you also have the option to receive a signed bookplate with your copy of the new book shipped to you. We suggest buying your ticket early as these events usually sell out.
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ABOUT ANDERSON COOPER:
Anderson Cooper is an anchor at CNN and a correspondent for CBS’ 60 Minutes. Cooper has won 18 Emmys and numerous other major journalism awards. He has written two books which topped the New York Times bestsellers list. Dispatches From The Edge – A Memoir of Wars, Disasters, and Survival and The Rainbow Comes and Goes, which he co-wrote with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. Cooper lives in New York with his son, Wyatt.
ABOUT VANDERBILT:
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.
Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.
Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.
WTF With Marc Maron Podcast – BILLIE JEAN KING & Her New Book, ALL IN: A BIOGRAPHY
In the latest episode of Marc Maron’s WTF PODCAST Marc talks with Tennis Icon, Billie Jean King! The main reason for her appearance was to promote her new book, “ALL IN: A BIOGRAPHY” (Published by Knopf, designed by Chip Kidd).
Billie Jean King is forever remembered as the winner of the Battle of the Sexes, but the battles she fought for equal pay and non-discrimination are still reverberating today. Billie talks with Marc about her realization at 12 years old that she needed to fight for equality, her founding of the Women’s Tennis Association, and her advice for today’s players. They also talk about the mental and emotional toll of sports for all athletes, which were compounded for Billie as she struggled with her sexuality and suffered from an eating disorder.
To hear about how she overcame these struggles & also about her new book, just LISTEN DOWN BELOW!
August 23, 2021
The Atlantic Book Review – “SEEK YOU : A Journey Through American Loneliness” by Kristen Radtke!
Apoorva Tadepalli, over at THE ATLANTIC Website, just wrote this wonderful book review for “SEE YOU: A Journey Through American Loneliness” by Kristen Radtke (Pantheon Books) so please be sure to check it out!! Here’s a LINK, CLICK HERE!
KIRKUS BOOK REVIEW – GENIUSES AT WAR: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age by David A. Price
August 19, 2021
August 18, 2021
WASHINGTON POST LIVE – Billie Jean King Talks About Her New Book, “ALL IN: An Autobiography”
Former world tennis champion and social activist Billie Jean King is one of the most iconic athletes in American history. With 39 Grand Slam titles and 20 career wins at Wimbledon, King was named one of the “100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century” by LIFE magazine. King joins Washington Post opinions writer Jonathan Capehart to share stories from her remarkable life and her ongoing commitment to equality, penned in her new book, “All In: An Autobiography.” published by Penguin Random House (Knopf)!
This “Washington Post Live” Video was shown on LIVE TV on Wednesday, Aug. 18 at 11:00am ET.
Book Tour Video – THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID by Lawrence Wright
Join LAWRENCE WRIGHT, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower (9/11), for an unprecedented, momentous account of COVID-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it. From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Wright will share the story of COVID-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic.
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