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Michael Meyer, author of

The Last Days of Old Beijing Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed.
Live from Beijing, The Today Show/NBC/View show.
Interview on CBS Early Morning/ View show.
CNN.com interview from Beijing, View show.
"[The Last Days of Old Beijing is] striking for the unsentimental pictures [it] paint[s] of the urban poor, whose homes and way of life are being eradicated to make room for malls and high-rises...The local characters who share this intimate environment with him - some young, some old, most without resources to live elsewhere - give Mr. Meyer's portrait its flesh tones. (The chance to eat hot pot with his neighbors makes winter his favorite season, even though his breath freezes inside the house.) But his history of land development in Beijing, from the time of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci to Mao to the present, and of attempts in Hanoi, Havana and other Communist cities to preserve their own sense of place, are just as compelling (and sad) to read."—Richard B. Woodward, New York Times Travel Section.

Eric Roston on Colbert Report

Eric Roston, author of

The Carbon Age How Life's Core Element has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat was Steve Colbert's guest this week on Comedy Central. Watch the show.

Whicher Thrills The New York Times

Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times calls The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher "[A] fastidious reconstruction and expansive analysis of the Road Hill murder case...Summerscale smartly uses an energetic narrative voice and a suspenseful pace, among other novelistic devices, to make her factual material read with the urgency of a work of fiction. What she has constructed, specifically, is a traditional country-house mystery, more brutal than cozy, but presenting the same kind of intellectual puzzle as her fictional models and adorned, as such books once were, with wonderfully old-fashioned maps, diagrams, engravings, courtroom sketches and other illustrations...More important, Summerscale accomplishes what modern genre authors hardly bother to do anymore, which is to use a murder investigation as a portal to a wider world. When put in historical context, every aspect of this case tells us something about mid-Victorian society...The author's startling final twist both vindicates her fallen hero and advances an 'aggressive' attack on moral hypocrasy in his day and ours.". Click here to activate the book's intriguing, interactive web site.

Wall Street Journal Features Live From the Campaign Trail

Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the Twentieth Century and How They Shaped Modern America is featured in the Wall Street Journal . Congratulations to author Michael Cohen. Read review.

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The Boston Globe Appreciates Salt River

Salt River
"'Salt River' is an elegantly crafted murder mystery that mixes rural melancholia with minimalist lyricism..."Salt River" is a highly unusual, atmospherically unique mystery novel, and fans of noir fiction will find much here to keep them turning its pages.—Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe

BUZZ is Big on Political Blogs for AMPC

Larry Sabato and Brian Lehrer of WNYC had a great interview recently. If you missed it, listen here.
A More Perfect Constitution is creating a buzz on internet blogs such as The Daily Kos. Check it out all the buzz

New York Times Bestselling Author

"It is hard to imagine a more inviting account of the artistic civil war that raged around the Paris Salons of the 1860's and 70's, or of the outsize personalities who transformed the way the world looked at painting."—William Grimes, The New York Times

Judgment of Paris by Ross King Jump for reviews.

Sable Island's Author Wins Award

The 28th Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Prize, the longest running writing award in Atlantic Canada, was presented to Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle for

Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic. Read release. Go!