Anastasia Suen - Developmental Editor

Superheroes! Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of the Comic Book Culture
by Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor (Authors)
304 pages

Booktalk: Based on the three-part PBS documentary series Superheroes, this companion volume chronicles the never-ending battle of the comic book industry, its greatest creators, and its greatest creations. More than 500 full-color comic book panels, covers, sketches, and photographs!

Snippet: Like most pulp scribes, Lester Dent has a house name imposed on his work–Kenneth Robeson–just in case he couldn’t make his onerous deadlines. However, like Walter Gibson, he was devoted to his creation and kept at it for years without replacement. (His trick for banging out the stories was different than Gibson’s: Dent simply stopped mid-sentence when he took a break and picked right back up.)

The Art of Growing Old: Aging with Grace
by Marie De Hennezel (Author)
Translated by Sue Dyson

Booktalk: In this timely and essential book, de Hennezel offers a fresh perspective on the art of growing old. She confronts head-on the inevitable grief we sustain at the loss of our youth and explains how refusing to age and move forward in life is actually what makes us become old. Combining personal anecdotes with psychological theory, philosophy, and eye-opening scientific research from around the world, she shows why we should look forward to embracing everything aging has to offer in terms of human and spiritual enrichment. The Art of Growing Old is a thought-provoking, brave, and uplifting meditation on the later years as they should be lived.

Snippet: Can we learn at sixty, seventy, or eighty to liberate our buried creativity if we have not done so earlier in life? Yes! It is never to late to meet ourselves, and to liberate the feelings or emotions we have been holding prisoner. It is never to late to develop our creativity, rediscover our childhood souls, and trust our intuition.