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December 20, 2013 marked the release of one of
Russia’s most notable political prisoners. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was given a
presidential pardon and quickly moved to serve as an advocate for civil society
in Russia through his foundation, Open Russia. Since his release he has raised awareness of
Russia’s perilous economic state as well as speaking out against The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-40762762815266440722015-01-22T14:57:00.002-05:002015-02-24T10:43:55.032-05:00RIGHT OF BOOM: THE AFTERMATH OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM
ON SALE NOW: RIGHT OF BOOM by Benjamin E. Schwartz
With New Year’s resolutions being set there is a global
determination to rearrange priorities.
Gym memberships are being filled out, diet goals are imposed, and many
are seeking to amend battered bank accounts. With all of these personal boosts
of morale happening in cities across the nation it begs the question how will
our nation The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-12315600858673730692014-12-05T13:48:00.001-05:002014-12-05T13:48:58.487-05:00Russian Literature Week 2014 In 2002, The Overlook Press acquired Ardis, a company specializing in translations of Russian Literature, and we have since been committed to making the great Russian masterpieces—both classic and contemporary—available in the English language. We celebrate these works every day, but we are excited to dedicate this week to honor them through this year's Russian Literature Week!
The RussianThe Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-11221116793713127872014-11-17T11:42:00.000-05:002014-11-17T11:42:04.635-05:00Embarking on a Filmic Love Affair with MISSING REELS
In The Awful Truth, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play a divorcing couple determined to frustrate each other’s attempts to find new love. In The Crowd, young John Sims sets out for New York City, determined to become one of those stars of the big city. In Love Affair, a French painter and an American singer, both already engaged, fall in love against all odds.
All romances of some sort, these The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-29816343725488516472014-11-07T14:30:00.003-05:002014-11-07T14:30:53.128-05:00WHY IS VICTORIAN CRIME SO APPEALING?
Kate Colquhoun on her new book, Did She
Kill Him?
Author
Piece
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it about Victorian crime that still manages to grab us by the throat? We seem
to have a limitless appetite for stories that similarly gripped the
imaginations of our great-grandparents. Is it that we live The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-30725487087651715512014-11-04T17:44:00.000-05:002014-11-04T17:57:13.658-05:00A Missing Reels Book Giveaway
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You know all those great classic movies on Netflix you keep
promising yourself you'll see soon? The films that are filled with quips from
old-school Hollywood's elite—Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Jean
Harlow—that you pass over before landing on yet another The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-23603512874058761552014-10-15T08:57:00.001-05:002014-10-15T08:57:32.995-05:00Dave Zeltserman's Five Favorite Horror Novels
To celebrate the release today of The Boy Who Killed Demons, author Dave Zeltserman recommends his five favorite horror novels:
1) I am Legend by Richard Matheson
Brilliant book, and the best of the modern vampire novels.
If you think you know the book from the movies (Last Man on Earth, Omega Man, I am Legend),
you sort of do. A worldwide plague has turned everyone but Robert The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-3445747321549484312014-10-06T08:36:00.003-05:002014-10-06T08:36:51.247-05:00The Overlook Press at New York Comic Con 2014
October 9th marks the beginning of the 2014 New
York Comic Con, and The Overlook Press is excited to announce that for the
first time ever we will be joining the much-anticipated annual event. From
October 9th to 12th, The Overlook Press will be at the Javits Center at Booth #128, ready to introduce some of our amazing
titles to Comic Con fans.
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There is no better time to connect the past with the present than the end of summer when the changing of seasons is on the forefront of our minds. In preparation for an impending September, pore over Julia Lovell’s latest historical volume, THE OPIUM WAR, out today.
THE OPIUM WAR sheds light on the complicated modern relationship between China and Great Britain. The Opium Wars of the The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-82000525814107705252014-07-24T08:27:00.001-05:002014-07-24T08:30:08.689-05:00An Interview with Toby Ball
Toby Ball is the critically acclaimed author of THE VAULTS and SCORCH CITY. INVISIBLE STREETS, available July 24, is the third in the thriller series.
This is your third novel, and it follows some of the same characters as the first two. Was it challenging to write a book that stood alone from The Vaults and Scorch City but would also please fans of the first two books?
Spacing The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-3525165835092480612014-07-16T08:48:00.000-05:002014-07-18T10:33:54.651-05:00 Christina Nichol's WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICITY Book Tour Kicks Off! <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Rosie Thomas, the acclaimed
author of The Kashmir Shawl, is at it again. This time, she’s taking her
passionate prose to 1870's England. Thomas’s latest novel THE ILLUSIONISTS effortlessly
swirls romance with adventure in an enchanted Victorian setting. In the thick
of all the magic and mayhem is an unforgettable cast of characters, who all, by
a twist of fate, join together to become a The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-9149897874489658632014-06-18T16:31:00.000-05:002014-06-23T14:23:51.901-05:00Pick Your Poison
Summer is a time littered with little landmines of temptation. Ice cream trucks, poolside cocktails, afternoon naps, trashy beach reads: pick your poison. If literal poison (or true crime literature) is your indulgence of choice, check out THE POISONER, a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Penned by English journalist Stephen Bates, THE POISONER synthesizes The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-88586769365662465432014-06-10T10:53:00.001-05:002014-06-10T11:06:14.843-05:00World Cup Reading List<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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A poem for the day. "Look at Me," from the new bilingual collection: Vladislav Khodasevitch: Selected Poems, just published by Overlook, translated from the Russian by Peter Daniels, with an introduction by Michael Wachtel.
Born in 1886, Khodasevitch came of age among the famed avant-gardists of Russian poetry. An innovative classicist in an era dominated by relentless experimentation, The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-28059658961184146142014-04-30T13:57:00.000-05:002014-04-30T14:35:24.554-05:00Interview: Stephen Bates, author of THE POISONER
Stephen
Bates turns his eye to 19th century Victorian England and the period’s
most notorious medical serial killer Dr. William Palmer in his latest book The Poisoner, on sale
May 15th. The
Poisoner offers a deeply
researched and revelatory look at one of the most fascinating true crime
stories in history. In 1856 William Palmer was convicted of murdering his best
friend, but was The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-15381048462850670072014-04-27T10:50:00.002-05:002014-04-28T14:19:21.633-05:00Acclaim for John Spurling's THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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little snippets thanks to twitter, texts, and a slew of other platforms geared
towards abbreviated prose. But what happens when you take it a step further and
compile over a decade worth of memories into short, The Overlook Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550598305249520556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19631111.post-54428520746238265012014-03-07T16:50:00.000-05:002014-03-07T16:53:34.403-05:00The Tooth Fairy: Clifford Chase's New Memoir On Sale Now
Everyone at Overlook is brimming with excitement over Clifford Chase’s new book THE TOOTH FAIRY, but we’re not the only ones! Check out Alexander Chee's review for Slate and see for yourself why everyone is raving about Chase’s
radically candid new new memoir!
The White Space Between the Sentences
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