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Featured Author : Chang-rae Lee

Riverhead Books — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:01:32 -0500

Chang-rae Lee

^{About the Author}

Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, and Aloft. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

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Entertainment Weekly on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered

Riverhead Books — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:11:17 -0500

“[Lee] writes dense and gorgeous prose...[he] shows great tenderness for his [characters], even as he refuses them easy redemption. The final paragraph of his beautiful and tragic novel is as sublime and transcendent as any I can remember. A” more...

Daniel H. Pink on CNN.com

Riverhead Books — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:11:08 -0500

Pink lays out some of the principles in Drive and offers practical examples of how you can get a start on better motivating yourself and those around you. Learn more about Drive, fed-ex days, and finding your sentence here. Plus, check out his conversation with Diane Sawyer in this video.

O Magazine on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered

Riverhead Books — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:54:41 -0500

Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered continues to rake in the praise. In addition to a starred Kirkus and fantastic Publishers Weekly reviews, O, The Oprah Magazine raves that The Surrendered is “a landmark novel about love and war...The plot is complex, as Lee (the author, most recently, of Aloft) raises profound questions about the role of fate, accident, and choice in every life....impossible to put down.” more...

Malcolm Gladwell Chooses Daniel H. Pink’s Drive for The New Yorker Book Club

Riverhead Books — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:58:47 -0500

As a part of The New Yorker’s Book Club, Malcolm Gladwell has selected the March pick: Drive by Daniel H. Pink. Gladwell claims, "[Pink] tackles the question of what motivates people to do innovative work, and his jumping-off point is the academic work done over the past few decades that consistently shows that financial rewards hinder creativity. These studies have been around for a while. But Pink follows though on their implications in a way that is provocative and fascinating.” Be on the look out for live discussions and reactions from other New Yorker staff writers and contributors. Read an interview with Daniel H. Pink here.

Walter Mosley Wins NAACP Image Award

Riverhead Books — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:21:11 -0500

Walter Mosley’s The Long Fall won the NAACP Award for a work of literary fiction! And Tyler Perry was honored with the Chairman’s Award for his philanthropy and career achievements. The NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. See the other winners here.

The Boston Globe Talks to Paula Butturini

Riverhead Books — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:03:23 -0500

In Keeping the Feast, Paula Butturini celebrates the role food and its pleasures played in her family’s recovery. She talks to The Boston Globe about the importance of sitting down at the table for meals, her love for Julia Child, and what she would serve at a VIP dinner.

Time Magazine on Judith Warner’s We’ve Got Issues

Riverhead Books — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:40:43 -0500

“In this impassioned book, the author argues that childhood mental illness is real, widespread and painful to families caught in its grip.” more...

David Aaronovitch Talks to All Things Considered

Riverhead Books — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:16:52 -0500

All Things Considered talks to David Aaronovitch about his new book, Voodoo Histories, which tackles the intriguing question of why well-educated, reasonable people sometimes believe “perfectly ridiculous things.”

The New York Times Praises Judith Warner’s We’ve Got Issues

Riverhead Books — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:30:05 -0500

Journalist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Perfect Madness, Judith Warner, releases her newest book today, We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication. The New York Times weighs in: “Journalists who cobble together enough anecdotes to support a preset agenda are all too common, and presumably Ms. Warner could have managed to do just that. Instead, she actually let her research guide her thoughts: it whirled her perspective a full 180 degrees and, as she would be the first to affirm, lifted the scales from her eyes…she remains immutable on one point: the myth of the overmedicated child is just that—an allegory but not a reality.” more...