In this week’s PWCW, Calvin Reid talks with former Pantheon and now Houghton Mifflin editor Anjali Singh:
Anxious to discuss new acquisitions, Singh described the graphic novels and prose works slated for release in the next year. In early 2008, Houghton Mifflin will publish Blue Pills, a memoir by Swiss comics artist Frederik Peeters, winner of the Best Book prize at Angouleme in 2002. Blue Pills is a memoir that recounts Peeters’s encounter with a young woman at a party and their subsequent romance. The woman confesses that she and her young son are both HIV positive, and the book goes on to describe the couple’s developing intimacy even as they deal with illness and the possibility of death. “It’s a life-affirming book,” Singh explained. “Yes, he learns that having sex is a little bit complicated, but he also learns that living under the specter of death teaches you to value every minute you have with the people you love.”
Also this week: A look at Fox Atomic, a Q&A with John Porcellino and news about Japanime publishing original manga.
