By Louisa Ermelino, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Giveaway galleys might be fewer in number this year, so find your favorites and get there early.
While galleys might not be piled to the ceiling at BEA this year, many publishers are still bringing them in good quantities, especially in connection with those award-winning authors whose names roll off our tongues. From publishers, editors and publicists, we’ve collected the standouts and some of the whys and hows…
An unexpected kind of comic book hero is set to emerge this autumn: Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, logician, mathematician and Nobel prize for literature winner who wrote the seminal work on mathematical logic, the Principia Mathematica.
BERTRAND RUSSELL ARCHIVES
In the Bertrand Russell archives we’re always on the lookout for new and old material about Russell’s life and times and the people and events in his extraordinary circle of influence. We try to leave no stone unturned, and no subject matter is beyond our obsessive search and ever-expanding ken (with apologies to Dr. Kenneth Blackwell, the Honorary Russell Archivist and the editor of Russell).
By Benedicte Page, THE BOOKSELLER
The author of a graphic novel on the life of philosopher Bertrand Russell is one of the London Book Fair’s visiting authors this year. Greek novelist Apostolos Doxiadis, the author of Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture, has spent five years on the project, co-created with Christos H. Papadimitriou and artist Alecos Papadatos. Titled Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, it conceives of Russell as a kind of intellectual superhero to rival Superman or Spiderman. Bloomsbury will publish the book in the UK in September.
By John Psaropoulos, ATHENS NEWS
Mathematician-cum-author Apostolos Doxiadis discusses his new graphic novel and explains why brains are nothing without nurture