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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are the 2013 finalists for the William C. Morris Award, which honors a book written for young adults by a previously unpublished author: Wonder Show, by Hannah Barnaby, published by Houghton Mifflin, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.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, [...]

  It’s funny how, when you spend your life immersed in books, unbidden thoughts of a book can presage an event. We’ve been focusing here at Booklist on the best books of 2012 for our Editors Choice list, but a 2013 title kept popping up in my mind. This morning it surfaced again, and I found [...]

Booklist‘s December 1 Spotlight on Science and Health, now live on Booklist Online, has me thinking about self-help books. After all, many self-help books offer, or purport to offer, the science of health—tools for assessment that, if acted upon, can improve the reader’s physical or mental well-being. We don’t review a lot of self-help books [...]

By the time you’re watching this trailer, it’s probably too late to learn to cook a turkey in time for Thanksgiving dinner, even if said learning would only take four hours. Luckily, The 4-Hour Chef author Tim Ferriss wants you to know how to do a bunch of other stuff, too–use knives! memorize things! speak [...]

Despite heavy damage to their building due to Hurricane Sandy, the National Book Foundation’s spirits weren’t dampened and they carried on with the celebration of this year’s best books. The winners were announced last night at a red-carpet, black-tie event. Here are the award-winning titles along with links to Booklist reviews. Fiction The Round House, [...]

In this quick little trailer, Neil Gaiman. Tells us that he. Went to China. And held a baby giant panda. Who was the inspiration. For Chu’s Day. In summary: Baby giant panda. Baby giant panda. Baby giant panda. Baby panda. Sneezes. I can’t help but wonder though. If perhaps Neil Gaiman. Like 150,000,000 other people. [...]

Here’s something new and clever in Trailerland that I’ve never seen before: Antoine Wilson’s “mockumentary” of filming a book trailer for Panorama City, complete with Rainn Wilson cameo and lots of highly technical stage directions. An author who’s both involved in his own book trailer and having a good time doing it earns high marks [...]