An excerpt from The Wild Things

So with the new film coming out, directed by Spike Jonze, (in addition to being just plain awesome) Dave Eggers' (author of You Shall Know Our Velocity, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) new book has been generating a lot of excitement. Or could it be the limited "Fur Covered Edition"?

The New Yorker ran an excerpt that... well, let's just say I'm excited, and I hope you will be too!

Here's a brief synopsis: based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze The Wild Things is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, his sister is becoming a teenager and no longer has interest in him. At the same time, Max finds himself capable of startling acts of wildness: he wears a wolf suit, bites his mom, and can’t always control his outbursts. During a fight at home, Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Funny, dark, and alive, The Wild Things is a timeless and time-tested tale for all ages.

A Chapter From Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About A Boy, etc.) has a new book coming out on September 29 called Juliet, Naked. Mr. Hornby was kind enough... or clever enough... or his publisher was clever enough... to post the first chapter of the book on his official website. No matter, it's still a "hooray!" from those of us eagerly awaiting it's landing on shelves. So click while you can and wet thine tongue!

And in the vein of teasery (is that a word?) here's some hype/ephemera/media coverage regarding the release:

Reviews:

Julie Myerson for The Observer

Martin Fletcher for The Independent

Alex Blimes for GQ Daily

And finally.....

Dexter by Design

Jeff Lindsay's latest installment in the "Dexter" series, Dexter By Design, will be hitting the shelves on September 8th. According to Reuters, Lindsay is said to have admitted that "sometimes he creates a victim who reminds him of a person he would like to see done away with.
"'I'm not saying I'm different from anybody else, I think we all have a list' of enemies, he said. 'One of the reasons people like Dexter is that he does something about it.'

Perhaps everyone is a little bit diabolical? Or is that just me? Okay, I'm a lot diabolical. For instance I remember reading Fight Club for the first time and thinking "ooh I've thought that before." Either way, we've got this book to look forward to next week! Well, those of us that don't go off the deep end and try to blow up a building via our split personality...

The Lost Symbol

Only a few days left before the official release of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown! Very little needs to be said on Brown's behalf, the bestselling author of The DaVinci Code. According to Beliefnet: The only information Doubleday has released so far is the book's cover art and sporadic Twitter "clues" that hint at Freemasonry, religion and America's founding fathers. Well, I for one am relishing in the crypticness (is that a word? I'll ask the OED later) surrounding the book. In the mean time...