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Best Books of 2006 In the last few years, comics have moved straight past mere respectability into gorgeous high-art editions, including two this fall from Yale that just take my breath away. Ivan Brunetti's new Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories is the finest of the recent comics collections, for production quality, Brunetti's great taste, and his willingness to step back and let his choices--and his idiosyncratic arrangement of them--speak for themselves. But as much as I like that book, Todd Hignite's In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists is even more delicious. The interviews with eight of the very best drawing today (including Crumb, Clowes, Ware, and Brunetti himself) are arranged to let the artists curate their own work aand their influences, all printed in glowing color. Yum! --Tom
Pick of the Month in Music Now is the time to rediscover Tom Waits's early albums, including Closing Time. Proving that you don't need a golden voice to describe sentimental moments, Waits reconnects old lovers, refers to luck as a lady, and describes the moon as various kinds of fruit, all over some of the loveliest melodies in his catalog. If it's romance you seek, this is "a little trip to heaven." ~Leah
Need a Big Book for the Winter? 650 Pages... Settle down in your favorite reading chair with Janis Cooke Newman's Mary, a rich novel about Mary Todd Lincoln. This is a book readers will immerse themselves in from start to finish. --Brooke
A Father and Son Baking Story Dylan Schaffer and his gregarious father, Flip decide to enroll in a week-long bread-making class at the French Culinary Institute. What results is a heart-warming memoir of father and son bonding over baking, "a meditation on family, forgiveness, and the restorative power of food." --Brooke
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There's nothing Amazon.com editors love more than recommending new products to friends. That's why we've established our Editors' Picks program: to give you our heartfelt opinions of our favorite items, be they new, old, or as yet unreleased. These are the books, music, movies, and other products we truly love and want others to enjoy, too.
