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October 2005
Christ the Lord by Anne Rice
Everyone is talking about Anne Rice’s new novel based on the gospels. Find out more about the book and why she wrote it. Plus view Anne’s tour schedule and order your copy now.
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Help Write a Ghost Story
This Halloween we’ll be writing a ghost story by playing Exquisite Corpse on twobrets.com, the official site for Bret Easton Ellis’s novel Lunar Park. Find out more about how the game works and register to play here.
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New American Cooking
Joan Nathan, the author of Jewish Cooking in America and An American Folklife Cookbook gives us a fabulous feast of new American recipes and the stories behind them that reflect the most innovative time in our culinary history. Visit joannathan.com to view sample recipes and stories, and find out when you can meet Joan on her book tour.
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Congratulations!
John Banville’s The Sea has been awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Knopf congratulates the author and editor on this outstanding achievement. The book will be in stores on November 8th. Pre-order your copy here, and stay tuned for more information.
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Didion Is on the Shortlist
We’re also thrilled to announce that Joan Didion’s critically acclaimed memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, has been nominated for a National Book Award in the Nonfiction category. Read an excerpt, and order your copy. Plus, find out when you can meet Joan on her book tour.
Joan found out about the award during her interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. Listen to the interview on NPR.org.
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Readers, make your opinions heard!
The Knopf First Reads program is designed to give you, the readers, a chance to review free early copies of select Knopf titles. Your review could be posted on the Borzoi Reader. This is your chance to give us feedback on our books—tell us what you think! View current reader reviews and sign up here.
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Play the Remains Silent Challenge
“This book that makes CSI and NYPD Blue look like child’s play.” —Ann Rule
From Dr. Baden of HBO’s Autopsy and attorney Linda Kenney, comes a masterful debut thriller. Visit the Remains Silent website to read an excerpt from the book, view pieces from the authors’ personal crime collection, and test your own crime-solving skills for a chance to WIN!
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The Life of Matisse
This fall, everyone will be talking about Hilary Spurling’s biography of Matisse. Read some of the previously unpublished facts about the painter’s life, find out where the author will be speaking, and order your copy here.
View more forthcoming biographies here.
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Where is Patrick Bateman?
Read Lunar Park, the new novel from Bret Easton Ellis and find out.
Plus, on Two Brets (the official website) you’ll find an interview with the author, recordings of him reading from the book, a cast of characters, and much more.
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Cast Your Vote
Mireille Guiliano is a Quills Award nominee for Debut Author of the Year and Best Health/Self-Improvement book! Cast your vote here.
In a reading group? Whether you want to all get started on Mireille’s program or talk about the phenomenon, check out our discussion guide for French Women.
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Did you train the Borzoi?
Send him to a fellow dog lover as an e-card.
Got your own dog to train? Take the B.U.D.S. Test, based on Kathy Santo’s Dog Sense, to find out what you and your furry friend see eye-to-eye on, and check out Chapter One.
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Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays by Ernest J. Gaines
In the early sixties, many of my colleagues were leaving the United States for Europe, Africa, Mexico, and so on, where they planned to write their great novels. They felt that America had become too money-crazed for them to live here and concentrate on their work. I was supposed to leave in the summer of 1962 with a man and his wife for Guadalajara, Mexico. I had been working on Catherine Carmier for three years but was getting nowhere with it. I had written it from an omniscient point of view, a first-person point of view, and a multiple point of view. I had changed the plot many times. Nothing seemed to work, and I figured it was because I needed to get away from the country, as my friends were doing. I was working at the post office during the summer of 1962 when my friend and his wife left for Mexico; I told them that I had to make some more money first, and that I would join them before the end of the year.
Keep reading this excerpt, and check out more excerpts from forthcoming fiction.
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Fan-Tan by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell, edited by David Thomson
The Prison
Under a black cloud, the prison. And within the prison, a bright rebel. The walls were extremely high, and although this was not possible, they appeared to lean inward yet also to bulge outward, and they were topped with a luminous frosting of broken glass. Seen from the heights of the modest hill named Victoria Peak--from the summer residence of the governor of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong--the prison must have looked very fine. "If the sun were ever to shine," said Annie to the Portuguee, "the glass would probably glitter. It would look like a necklace of diamonds, Lorenzo. Or a big margarita, in a square cup."
Keep reading this excerpt and browse more forthcoming novels.
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