Search This Site
Recent Posts
Knopf Doubleday Info
- About Knopf Doubleday
- Contact Knopf Doubleday
- Knopf Doubleday Bookseller Center
- Knopf Doubleday Media Center
- Ordering Information
- Sitemap
Author Sites
- A L Kennedy
- A. S. Byatt
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Alexander Neubauer
- Amanda Smith
- Amy Greene
- Andre Agassi
- Andrea Wulf
- Ann Packer
- Anne C. Heller
- Anne Rice
- Anne Tyler
- Avi Steinberg
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Carl Hiaasen
- Carolina De Robertis
- Carolyn Burke
- Carolyn Cooke
- Christopher Reich
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Dan Brown
- David Allen Sibley
- David Shields
- Dianne Dixon
- Dominic Sandbrook
- Doulgas Starr
- Gish Jen
- Graeme Gibson
- Haruki Murakami
- Henning Mankell
- Howard Markel
- James Curtis
- James Ellroy
- Joan Nathan
- Joe R. Lansdale
- John Burdett
- John Casey
- John Darnton
- John Grisham
- Jon Krakauer
- Jonathan Coe
- Jonathan Lethem
- Julie Orringer
- Kate Buford
- Kevin Young
- Lee Sandlin
- Lorraine Adams
- Maeve Binchy
- Margaret Atwood
- Martin Clark
- Michael Feeney Callan
- Michael Harvey
- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
- Michael Rubens
- Nick Harkaway
- Pat Conroy
- Paul Shaffer
- Peter Mayle
- Richard Kluger
- Richard Schickel
- Richard Zacks
- Rodney Crowell
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Stephen Budiansky
- Stephen L. Carter
- Stephen S. Hall
- Steve Yarbrough
- Stieg Larsson
- Sue Miller
- Susan Conley
- The India Site (Patrick French)
- Thomas Sanchez
- Tom McCarthy
- Tom McGuane
- Tom Vanderbilt
- Vera Pavlova
- Vladimir Nabokov
Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 Available Now in Deluxe Three-Volume Boxed Set
A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, and a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s: 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious novel yet. Now the international bestseller is available as a deluxe three-volume boxed set—gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging. It’s a collector’s item in the making!
More >
Video: Daniel H. Wilson on How to Survive the Robopocalypse
In Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse, humanity takes a final, desperate stand against a deadly uprising. Of course, Robopocalypse is fiction—for now. We’re not saying that we might someday have to battle a global network of machines, but, hypothetically, what if we did? Epipheo Studios sat down with Wilson and asked him the questions that may be critical to our survival.
More >
Why We Get Fat Author Gary Taubes on The Failing Campaign to Stop America’s Obesity Crisis
In the May 7, 2012 cover story for Newsweek, Why We Get Fat author Gary Taubes discusses the research that has been ignored and the mistakes that have been made by America’s “anti-obesity establishment” in their effort to curb the nation’s growing weight problem. As Taubes explains, current campaigns to battle obesity rely on centuries-old research. The solution, he says, may rely on “changing the entire American food economy and rewriting our beliefs about what constitutes a healthy diet.” Click to read the article on The Daily Beast.
More >
Remember Ben Clayton Honored By the Texas Institute of Letters and the Western Writers of America
Congratulations to Stephen Harrigan, whose novel Remember Ben Clayton has been named the winner of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse H. Jones fiction award and the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel! Remember Ben Clayton will be available in paperback from Vintage on May 29.
More >
Enter the Headhunters Movie Sweepstakes For Your Chance to Win
Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters is now a Major Motion Picture! Corporate headhunter Roger Brown is a master of his profession, but one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle. One night, he meets Clas Greve, a man who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but potentially the answer to Roger’s financial woes: Greve owns a priceless painting, and Roger dabbles in art theft. But Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown. Read on for more about the movie and to learn how you can win a copy of Headhunters.
More >
Video: Watch Episode One of Birdsong
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks is now a major series on Masterpiece on PBS! This intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. If you missed Episode One, read on to learn how you can catch up—plus, watch a preview of Episode Two, and let us know what you think of the series so far!
More >
Fifty Shades of Grey Author E L James On Tour
They’re the books that everyone is talking about. The Los Angeles Times called them “A cultural sensation.” The ladies of The View discussed them in great…detail. And The TODAY show said that they have “caused quite a stir!” Now you can catch E L James, author of the bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy on her US tour this spring. Read on for details!
More >
A Delicious Twist on the Werewolf Legend
Meet Jake Marlowe. He loves good scotch, good books, and good meat—oh, and he’s over 200 years old. Jake is the last werewolf, and despite his physical health, he’s slipped into a deep existential crisis and has considered taking his own life. But two dangerous groups—one new, one ancient—want Jake to remain alive. In The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan delivers a powerful, sexy new version of the werewolf legend, a monstrous thriller with a profoundly human heart.
More >
Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! Named Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Our congratulations to Karen Russell, whose Swamplandia! has been named a 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction. Denis Johnson and the late David Foster Wallace were also named as finalists. Swamplandia! tells the story of thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree’s quest to save her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell’s debut novel is an arrestingly beautiful and inventive work.
More >
Born to Run Author Christopher McDougall On the Death of Ultramarathoner Micah True
Micah True, the founder of the Copper Canyon ultramarathon made famous in Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, has died at the age of 58. True was found dead in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, where he had gone for a run. “That was it. He wanted to find out more,” said McDougall, reached for comment by the Associated Press. “That led him down to the canyons and he basically never came back.”
More >New At Vintage and Anchor
Vintage Español
The Sun & Anchor
- WORD on the street (NYC: Harlem-125th Street Metro-North Railroad Station)
- WORD on the street (NYC: on the W between Queensboro Plaza and Lexington Ave.)
- WORD on the Street, Thursday (NYC: on the W between 5th Ave. and 57th St.)