NEW YORK (AP) – Brandon Sanderson, whose title “Spirit and Truth” is prominent in the future. printing seasonhe sees nothing wrong with the idea of ”escape.”
“It is the ability to go to another world and deal with other people’s problems, problems that are not our problems. It’s an important tool in our lives,” the fantasy novelist told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview. Sanderson fans have been waiting four years for “Spirit and Truth,” the fifth volume of pages 1,300 in his “Stormlight Archive” fantasy catalog.
He admits, with different opinions, that others will take a little time to finish it.
“They’re going to read the whole thing in two days, which is incredibly satisfying and scary,” he says. “You put your heart and soul into something this long, you know the fans are it will be done in a few days and they say, ‘When is the next one?’
The presidential elections are expected to make headlines this fall, but booksellers are looking to Sanderson and others to support the wave of fantasy and hybrid romance stories that have been selling strongly in the past few years. “Wind and True” is one of the expected works that include “Absolution” by Jeff VanderMeer, “The Great When,” “The Great When,” Cecy Robson’s “Bloodguard” and “Throne of Wolves” by Kerri Maniscalco, part the second of his “Prince of Sin”. series.
According to Circana, which controls 85% of the retail market, dream sales have been increasing over the past five years, and since last summer have increased by almost 75%, driven is in part by the million-selling fantasy authors Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros.
“Imagination is a huge part of the growth of the US publishing book market,” says Circana analyst Brenna Conner, who cites sales driven by #BookTok readers as a strong point. “I also believe that escapism is an important part as many readers look for stories with elements of escape to combat the stress and fatigue of the daily news cycle.”
At Barnes & Noble, senior librarian Shannon DeVito recognizes that fantasy is wide and varied, mixing horror with romance and mystery. He cites Maas and Yarros, and upcoming releases such as John Gwynn’s Norse novel “Voyage of the Damned” and “The Fury of the Gods” and Ann Liang’s fiction “A Song to Drown Rivers “.
“It’s event proof,” DeVito says of the dream and its offshoots. It does not depend on the news of the day.
The fallout of the election
President Joe Biden the decision not to seek re-election may have had little effect on the fantasy market, but it raised the profile of the fall campaign and left a gap in the press agenda: No one had time to write serious books about the new Democrat candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris. The best chance of revelation comes from Bob Woodward’s “War”, which focuses on dealing with Biden’s conflicts Ukraine and the Middle East, but also promises information about Harris and the presidential race.
Publishers of anti-Biden books are moving ahead with planned fall releases, including Former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani “The Biden Crime Family.” Republican challenger Harris, Former President Donald Trump, has a book of photographs and anecdotes to come“Save America,” whose cover features AP’s photo of himself bloodied and fist raised after an assassination attempt in July. His wife, former first lady Melania Trump, presents the memoir “Melania.” Donald Trump’s great-niece and best-selling author, Mary Trump, returns with more family (scary) stories in “Who Could Ever Love You.”
HR McMaster, who served briefly as national security adviser during the Trump administration, wrote “At War With Us.” Sometimes a Trump opponent Hillary Clinton thinks about marriage, faith and politics in the essay collection “Lost, Found.” 2025 architect Kevin Roberts’ “Dawn’s Early Light,” for which GOP vice president JD Vance wrote the foreword, has been delayed until after the election amid Republican efforts to distance themselves from the controversial second term plan. Trump. But pre-election readers might consider recommendations from Joel B. Pollak’s “Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 50 Days,” with an introduction from a Trump ally. Steve Bannon.
Prose and poetry
“Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney is a story of grief and sibling rivalry from the best-selling author of “Ordinary People” and “Conversations with Friends.” Nobel Prize Olga Tokarczuk ‘s “Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story” is the Polish author of “The Magic Mountain” classic by Thomas Mann. Nobelist Annie Ernaux of France combines invitations and images in “The Use of Photographs” with the eternal Nobel candidate Haruki Murakami expands on the short story “The City and Its Solid Walls,” which its Japanese publisher says is “a soulful, 100% pure Murakami world.”
Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Strong “The Playground” touches on everything from climate change to artificial intelligence, as fellow Pulitzer winner Louise Erdrich sets “The Mighty Red” on a farm in beet of North Dakota during the recession of 2008. In “Tell Me Everything,” Pulitzer winner. Elizabeth Strout returns to the fictional Crosby, Maine, and such friends from “Olive Kitteridge” and “Olive, Again” as the main character of the elderly and writer Lucy Barton.
I didn’t intend to write about them again. I think I keep bringing them back because they’re so familiar to me,” Strout says. They feel as real as real people. I know they’re not real people, but they feel like real people.”
John Edgar Wideman combines fiction, history and memoir in “Slaveroad,” and Rebecca Godfrey’s “Peggy” is a biography of art collector Peggy Guggenheim that was completed by Leslie Jamison after Godfrey’s death in 2022. Fiction new ones also come from Richard Price, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Kate Atkinson, Janet Evanovich, Rachel Kushner, Richard Osman, Tova Reich, Paula Hawkins, Jami Attenberg and Rumaan Alam.
Margaret Atwood began his career as a poet and his verse is collected in “Paper Boat: New and Kheth Poems: 1961-2023,” while “Blues in Stereo” presents the first work since the late Langston Hughes. Award winners Paul Muldoon, Kimiko Hahn and Matthew Zapruder all have collections coming out, as well as new books from Billy Collins, Ben Okri, Frank X Walker and E. Hughes.
“Dear Yusef” is a tribute to the famous poet Yusef Komunyakaa that includes contributions from Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson and Sharon Olds.
“Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology” collects poetry from the 17th century to the present.
Taylor-ed
Like all pop culture phenomena, from the Beatles to “Star Wars,” Taylor Swift ‘The appeal is not limited to one form of art. His songs and his life have inspired books for young adults, children’s books and autobiographies and the tide continues.
Katie Cotugno’s “Heavy Hitter” is an athlete/pop star romance based on Swift’s part with NFL great Travis Kelce, while “The 13 Days of Swiftness” is a graphic novel for holiday shoppers. who can sing lines like “12 strings of weeping.” and “11 beaded necklaces.”
The “Poems of Needy Souls” playlist includes poetry by Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay and other spirits who are said to be relatives of Swift’s. Biographies/critical studies include the graphic novel “Taylor Swift: Wildest Dreams,” by Erica Wainer and Joanie Stone, and Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield’s “Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Revived Pop Music.”
Famous and near famous
Lisa Marie Presley “From Here to the Great Unknown” was almost done before his death in 2023 and was completed by his daughter. Riley Keough. In “Didion and Babitz,” Lili Anolik uses newly discovered characters as she compares California landscapes. Joan Didion and
class=”LinkEnhancement”>Eve Babitz, who died within a few days of each other in 2021 and their lives, Anolik documents, were more connected than previously known.
Books by famous people will also be included Cher “Remembrance, Part One,”Al Pacino “Sonny Boy,” Josh Brolin’s “From Under the Truck,” Kelly Bishop’s “The Third Gilmore Girl” and Connie Chung’s “Connie.” Pedro Almodovar shares stories-images-musings in “The Last Dream” and Neneh Cherry looks back on her life and music in “A Thousand Threads.”
Past and present
“Patriot” is a posthumous memoir of a jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Judge of the High Court Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote “Lovely One: A Memoir,” Malcolm Gladwell returns to the popular field “Tipping Point Revenge,” and Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the power of stories, and misinformation, in “The Message.”
Many books are about racism in US history and those who fought against it. David Greenberg’s “John Lewis” is a biography of civil rights activist and congressman, while Wright Thompson of “The Barn” promises new information about the murder of Emmett Till. Russell Cobb “Ghosts of Crook County,” as Name of David Grann “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells of a white oil man from Oklahoma who wants to steal Native property. In “The Black Utopians,”
Aaron Robertson traces a century of planned society and asks, “What does a black Utopia look like?”
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This story changed the name of the author of “The Black Utopians” from Aaron Robinson to Aaron Robertson.
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