Word: villard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Villard Books...
...Pittsburgh" -- a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay -- was received with glad cries that still reverberated when his short story collection, "A Model World," appeared. And then? Well, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. "Wonder Boys" (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel that character Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. TIME critic John Skow pans Wonder Boys as a "series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together...
PUBLISHER: VILLARD; 800 PAGES...
PUBLISHER: VILLARD; 325 PAGES...
...plagues cosmologists: How did the universe grow into its present form? Did it all start with the Big Bang, or the Great Void? The Great Attractor, or the Great Wall? Science writer Michael D. Lemonick follows this adventure of discovery in The Light at the Edge of the Universe (Villard), which will be published next month. While the answers still elude cosmologists, Lemonick's chronicle draws us compellingly into these mysteries. Together with his colleagues, he demonstrates how responsible journalism can create a Big Bang...