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Through a glass, brightly.
Lots of people made stained glass, but nobody made stained glass like Louis Comfort Tiffany. “Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour” (Rizzoli/Skira, $60), is a large-scale catalog published in conjunction with an exhibit of Tiffany glass at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Tiffany was a handsome man who used the malleability of his medium to practically invent fluorescent colors, and the book captures the brilliance of his designs with considerable panache.
The first part of the book is devoted to Tiffany’s windows, the second is devoted to his smaller pieces — vases, paperweights and the like. The only problem with the book is that Tiffany’s pieces demand to be seen in three dimensions, not two; the size of the stained glass windows and screens is as much responsible for their impact as the intense blues, reds and purples of the sylvan settings in which he specialized.
In the pipeline.
Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is writing a memoir, “Iron Man,” for Da Capo. The book is described as ” ‘Angela’s Ashes’ meets ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ meets ‘Spinal Tap.’ ”
Da Capo also will publish a book by David Sears called “Pacific Air,” about fighter pilots during World War II.
There will be yet another biography of Bruce Springsteen by writer Peter Ames Carlin, who’s already written books about Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney. Simon & Schuster will publish.
The Palm Beach Post
First Lines
All That Follows by Jim Crace
The hair is unmistakable: old-fashioned Russian hair, swept back from the forehead, thickly and unusually abundant. Leonard stands on the rug a meter from the television screen to see more closely. The video footage is grainy and unsteady, purposefully amateur. The man reading the prepared statement in the curtained room does not mean to be recognized. Indeed, he has masked his face to the bridge of his nose with what appears to be a child’s scarf. His voice, crudely distorted on the sound track, is childlike too. He wears sunglasses, defiantly unfashionable E-clips, 10 years old at least. The light beam from the camera is lasered at his chest and the lower half of his scarf, so that what little of the face can be seen — the ears, the eyebrows, and the forehead — is underlit and ghostly. But still the hair is unmistakable.
Hardcover Best Sellers
Nonfiction
1. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
2. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, by Chelsea Handler
3. The Pacific, by Hugh Ambrose
4. Change your Brain, Change Your Body, by Daniel G. Amen
5. Courage and Consequence, by Karl Rove
6. Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
7. American Conspiracies, by Jesse Ventura
8. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
9. Jamie’s Food Revolution, by Jamie Oliver
10. The Kind Diet, by Alicia Silverstone
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