Upcoming Books Thread (one only right now)

[Dante]

We now know a bit more about the anthology One Minute Till Bedtime, which Snicket is contributing to. Here's the cover art:



It releases on the 11th of November; here's the Hachette synopsis:
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Just one more before bedtime? Please??

It's time for tuck-in, and your little one wants just one more moment with you--so fill it with something that will feed the imagination, fuel a love of reading, and send them off to sleep in a snap. Reach for a one-minute poem!

Former Children's Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt presents a blockbuster collection of all-new poetry penned by some of the most beloved and celebrated poets of our time, including Jack Prelutsky, Jon Scieszka, Mary Ann Hoberman, Nikki Grimes, Lemony Snicket, Jane Yolen, and many more. Illuminated with dreamlike wit and whimsy by New York Times illustrator and award-winning artist Christoph Niemann, here is a new bedtime classic.

When the busy day is drawing to a close and the whole family is ready for rest, take a minute for poetry and send your little one off to sleep.
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I suspect it's not quite pitched at our average age group.

[bear]

judging by the other names in the synopsis, lemony snicket will probably have the only good poem in there.

[Teleram]

surprised you only said snicket instead of snicket and scieszka. the latter seems pretty up your ally.

[Dante]

One more fragmentary synopsis about Goldfish Ghost, Handler's picture book illustrated by Lisa Brown which is currently set for Spring 2017:
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Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket, illus. by Lisa Brown, Goldfish Ghost’s journey to find the perfect home and the perfect friend
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Source.

[Dante]

And another bit of informtion about Goldfish Ghost! Amazon is listing it with a release date of May 2nd (next year, obviously).

[Dante]

Handler and Kalman's Weather, Weather book for the Museum of Modern Art was meant to be out yesterday, but Amazon.com appears to have delayed it by a month, to November 29th. No official word on the subject.

Meanwhile, One Minute Till Bedtime (see above) appears to have been brought forward to November 1st, which is also verified by an image recently tweeted by Handler (though Amazon.co.uk insists on December 8th).

[Dante]

Oct 28, 2016 9:20:58 GMT -5 Dante said:

Handler and Kalman's Weather, Weather book for the Museum of Modern Art was meant to be out yesterday, but Amazon.com appears to have delayed it by a month, to November 29th. No official word on the subject.

On the other hand, considering that my copy has arrived, I think it might be out. Same goes for One Minute Till Bedtime. Note that, in both cases, there is disagreement on the release dates between Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, despite the fact that I'm pretty sure they're referring to a single common edition.

Title: Weather, Weather
Illustrator: Maira Kalman
Cover Art (MoMA):

Release Date: 27 October 2016(?) (Source); 29 November, 2016(?) (Source)
Details: Third in a collaboration with Maira Kalman and the Museum of Modern Art, the first of which was Girls Standing on Lawns, and the second Hurry Up and Wait. Vintage photography is reillustrated by Kalman, with Handler providing brief, poetic annotations. Was at some point retitled from What the Weather Was Like to Weather, Weather, a change which also entailed a fresh cover (the original can be seen here).

A Contribution to: One Minute Till Bedtime
Cover Art (Little, Brown):

Release Date: 1 November 2016 (Source)
Details: 150 original sixty-second poems intended for bedtime reading, selected by Children's Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt; a poem by Snicket is included.

[Dante]

Various updates:

I can't find where I originally mentioned the play Handler was working on, The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit. At the time of writing, if you Google "the story of the ghost of the dead rabbit," the first result is Daniel Handler's website, with the following preview text: "His first play, Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit, will be produced this fall at Berkeley Repertory Theatre." However, I cannot find this text on his website itself.

All the Dirty Parts is listed for an August 29th release date in the U.S., and an October 19th release date in the U.K.

Snicket appears to have written a story for Jon Scieszka's Guys Read: Heroes & Villains, due out April 4th in the U.S. and May 4th in the U.K.

Did I ever mention that I learned only recently that Snicket had also contributed to Jon Scieszka's Who Done It? Well, now I have. It was three years ago, but better late than never!

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uk 667ers will be able to buy daniel handler's teen sex novel on my 15th birthday

[Dante]

It's not meant to be out for another week, but it seems the Handler-fronted Rachel Ingalls collection Three Masquerades is available to purchase.

Dec 14, 2006 7:06:59 GMT -5 Dante said:

An Introduction to: Three Masquerades by Rachel Ingalls
Cover Art (Pharos):

Release Date: 14 February 2017 (Source)
Details: A collection of three novellas by the author Rachel Ingalls which Daniel Handler felt made natural companions.

[Dante]

The following books are now more or less available:

Dec 14, 2006 7:06:59 GMT -5 Dante said:

Title: Goldfish Ghost
Illustrator: Lisa Brown
Cover Art (Roaring Book Press):

Release Date: 2 May 2017 (Source)
Details: Concerns "a diminutive ghost finding his place in an all too solid world." (Source) Probably the same as described here: "I’m working on a book with my wife (illustrator Lisa Brown). [...] It’s a picture book, and it means she has to do more of the work than I do — which is the kind of collaboration I’m totally comfortable with." (Source); "Goldfish Ghost’s journey to find the perfect home and the perfect friend" (Source).

A Contribution to: Guys Read: Heroes & Villains edited by Jon Scieszka
Cover Art (Walden Pond Press):

Release Date: 4 April 2017 (U.S.) (Source); 4 May 2017 (U.K.) (Source)
Details: Superpowered adventure stories.

[Teleram]

Aw potato yes, I've been waiting for Handler to make a Guys Read contribution since the series began.

[bear]

May 2, 2017 18:34:12 GMT -5 Teleram said:

Aw ickle yes, I've been waiting for Handler to make a Guys Read contribution since the series began.

please tell me you're being cripplingly ironic

[Skelly Craig]

Oct 7, 2014 14:16:30 GMT -5 Dante said:

Title: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014
Author (Introduction): Lemony Snicket
Editor: Daniel Handler
Cover:

Release Date: 7th October 2014 (Mariner Books) (Source)

Recently met Roman Muradov, the illustrator of this rad cover--which I only now found out he's done--and whose work I've been digging since then. Incidentally, he's been inspired by Seth, amongst others, and illustrates rad stuff like Joyce, Daniil Kharms, and others (besides jobs for TNYer &the like)... Just felt like posting this bc of the really vague Snicket-relatedness.

[A comet crashing into Earth]

I'm a little worried about All The Dirty Parts after reading the Goodreads reviews for its advanced reading copy. The average rating at the moment is 3.5, which seems to be fairly usual for his books, but there's a lot of text reviews from people with the ARC who seem to think said dirty parts is really all there is to the book. Which would honestly disappoint me - I appreciate Handler's general candidness about sex and stuff, as I think it gives him the opportunity to write less restricted books than he would otherwise have, but I don't think I'd be particularly interested in a book which has that candidness as its primary purpose.
Also, one person in the comments just point out the line "Where queer can be as fluid as consent" appearing in a recurring early description of the book, which is indeed terrible and doesn't bode very well for the book.

Not that I'm not going to read it in any case (this is after all from the guy who wrote The Basic Eight, so I know he can write interesting books about teenagers), but is there anyone here who has read the ARC? And in that case, what did you think?