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May 2006
Former President Bill Clinton to Write Book on Citizen Activism and Service
The book, an examination of how we can move our nation and world away from conflict and towards accomplishment, opportunity, and responsibility, will be published in late 2007 or early 2008. In the book, President Clinton will discuss the groundbreaking work of the Clinton Foundation as well as the work of similarly inspired non-governmental organizations and private citizens throughout the world. Read the complete press release.
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Best American Fiction
The New York Times Book Review asked prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, to identify “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.” Toni Morrison’s Beloved won the top prize, and two other Knopf novels were honored. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels by John Updike were named runners up. View the complete list here.
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Summer Reading—do it with style!
Get the scintillating new novel Elements of Style by the late Pulitzer Prize playwright Wendy Wasserstein. And visit elementsofstyle-book.com to read wonderful tributes to Wendy, watch a video tour of Lincoln Center with her from 2002, and take a sneak peek inside the book.
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Are you a domestic goddess?
In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Now, in The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton, a new biography by Kathryn Hughes we learn about its author who was the first domestic diva of the modern age. Take our quiz to find out how well you would in Mrs. Beeton’s world.
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James Beard Award Winners
Congratulations to all the James Beard Award winners from the Knopf Group. They are:
Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin
Category: Cooking From a Professional Point of View
The New American Cooking by Joan Nathan
Category: Food of the Americas
Spices of Life by Nina Simonds
Category: Healthy Focus
Other honors included an induction into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame for An Invitation to Indian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey, and Jay McInerney won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for an article in Departures entitled: “Will Alain Ducasse Take Over the World?”
Plus, our beloved Judith Jones, a Knopf Vice President and Senior Editor who began with the house in 1957, was honored with a lifetime achievement award. Read the press release here.
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THE WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE by Don Winslow
It's a lot of work being me.
Is what Frank Machianno thinks when the alarm goes off at 3:45 in the morning. He rolls right out of the rack and feels the cold wooden floor on his feet.
He's right.
It is a lot of work being him.
Frank pads across the wooden floor, which he personally sanded and varnished, and gets into the shower. It only takes him a minute to shower, which is one reason that he keeps his silver hair cut short.
"So it doesn't take long to wash it" is what he tells Donna when she complains about it.
Keep reading this excerpt, and check out more excerpts from new novels.
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