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I was out sick last Thursday, so here’s my belated birthday gift to trailerdom: not a-one, not a-two, but a SIX trailer BTT post. The Youth Media Awards were announced bright and early this past Monday morning in Seattle at the ALA Midwinter conference, and here are just a few of the lauded titles in [...]

Well, that was a whirlwind hour, and I only say that because I was not in Seattle but here in Chicago, frantically trying to keep up with the rapid-fire Youth Media Awards announcements on our Facebook page (check out all the covers!). I’m sure for real-life attendees of yesterday’s announcements, the presentation was full of [...]

We’re packing our bags—and, given some of the food-loving people on staff, this probably includes doggie bags, too—for Seattle, where we’ll be attending ALA’s Midwinter Meeting from Friday, January 25 through Monday, January 28. Will you be going, too? Be sure to stop by booth #2515 to say hello. Just a few of the reasons you [...]

This trailer for John Kenney’s Truth in Advertising is, like advertising itself, as one focus group member astutely notes, all about lying. Lying that this is a real focus group, namely. “Boredom…Confusion…Just feelings.” Debut novelist and New Yorker contributer Kenney discusses the method behind his masterpiece trailer here.

It seems like just yesterday that I posted the National Book Critics Circle Award winners. So much so, in fact, that I searched for my original post to make sure I wasn’t repeating myself. Turns out it was about one year ago, and one year is enough time for a new batch of excellent titles [...]

I found it fun to imagine what exactly I was looking at in this mesmerizing trailer for Simon Garfield’s On the Map. And, as reviewer Colleen Mondor writes, “The people and places he has chosen to discuss are a collection of curiosities without peer,” most of my guesses are probably far off. The starred review [...]

With a title like “The Craig Johnson Collection,” you might think I’m referring to a catalog of Western wear that includes distressed Wranglers, sweat-stained Stetsons, and cowpie-crusted Tony Lama boots. But I’m referring to Christmas in Absaroka County, Penguin’s special e-collection of short stories by the Wyoming author who’s become a fan favorite for his Walt Longmire mysteries. I’m proud to [...]

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Journalist/author Stephanie LaCava’s memoir, trailered by the guys who made (read stumbled onto) the documentary Catfish: This “curious little book” needed and benefits from a special trailer, I think. As special as LaCava herself appearing wrapped in a snake by candlelight? That’s up to you to answer. Equally or more fun to watch without sound.

Just in time to make it onto your holiday reading list, here are the 2013 finalists for the William C. Morris Award, which honors a book written for young adults by a previously unpublished author: Wonder Show, by Hannah Barnaby, published by Houghton Mifflin, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Love and Other Perishable Items, [...]