Pete Hautman

Oct 16, 2024 | bismarcktribune.com | Simon Garfield |Pete Hautman |John Banville |Ta-Nehisi Coates

This is the season when many of the biggest-name writers unleash their latest books. The hope is that they’ll fly off library and bookstore shelves and/or stake their places in the race for honors like the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Here are four books we can’t wait to read:‘Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface’By Simon GarfieldBear with me.

Oct 15, 2024 | pantagraph.com | Simon Garfield |Pete Hautman |John Banville |Ta-Nehisi Coates

This is the season when many of the biggest-name writers unleash their latest books. The hope is that they’ll fly off library and bookstore shelves and/or stake their places in the race for honors like the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Here are four books we can’t wait to read:‘Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface’By Simon GarfieldBear with me.

Oct 1, 2024 | startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Pete Hautman

You can trace Pete Hautman’s “Answers to Dog” back to his childhood love of classics such as Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” and “White Fang” or Jim Kjelgaard’s “Big Red.”“When I was a kid, the first books that really swept me away, the first fiction I completely dove into, were dog books,” said Hautman, 72, who splits his time between Golden Valley and Stockholm, Wis. with partner (and fellow novelist) Mary Logue. “I was a typical boy of the ‘60s.

Aug 15, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Pete Hautman |Richard Ayoade |Kate Brower |Charlene Thomas

A wily border collie shakes up a boy’s quiet life in this finely tuned, heartfelt novel by Hautman (The Rat Queen). Eighth grader Evan and his distracted parents lead a monotonous existence following a daily routine that includes a strictly regimented dinner menu and not much fun.