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 | From Erik Wander, your About Books & Literature Editor This week we've got Lauren Weisberger's much-anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada; zombies, both in print and in theaters; a debut novel by Kiese Laymon; some award-winning young adult fiction and more. Looking for some ideas about what to read next? Here's a look at some of what our books and literature guides have been up to lately. | |
A World War against Zombies
The 2006 novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is Max Brooks' follow-up to The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) and an apocalyptic horror story about, you guessed it, a war against zombies. Brooks constructs the narrative, as the title suggests, from individual accounts of the war several years hence. "Instead of being shocked by the thought of zombies, the populace just shrugs them off as another over-hyped media scare tactic, like SARS or the Bird Flu," writes our Contemporary Literature reviewer. "Once the zombies begin to sweep across the earth, the world's governments all begin to fall back on cold war era nuclear strategy, namely securing areas that are defensible and sacrificing the civilian population for the sake of long term human survival." Read the book before you see it in theaters.
| Revenge Wears Prada
Author and former assistant at Vogue Lauren Weisberger is back with the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada (2003), a novel that didn't exactly gain critical acclaim but was adapted into a hugely successful movie with a star-studded cast that included Meryl Streep, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Miranda Priestly, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. Miranda and her assistant, Andrea (portrayed by Hathaway in the film version), are back in Weisberger's 2013 follow-up, Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, but will readers like it as much as the first book?
| 'Long Division' a Complex, Compelling Debut
"Two parts Southern Literature, one part Magical Realism with a healthy dose of time-travel, Kiese Laymon's Long Division is as unlikely and compelling a literary fusion as you'd hope to find in a debut novel," writes our Contemporary Literature guide in this review. Complete with interwoven plotlines, a character named "City" and time travel, the novel, which takes place in part in 2013, 1985 and 1964, is about race, love and coming-of-age in post-Katrina Jackson, Mississippi. It's a "serious book" but has "a thread of humor running through it," according to our guide, with a nod to Haruki Murakami. Find out what you can learn about Long Division.
| 'In Darkness' Wins Young Adult Fiction Award
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) announced that In Darkness by Nick Lake was this year's Michael L. Printz Award-winner for excellence in young adult fiction. Find out why and what other authors took home YA literary awards.
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