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Sarah Palin Biography Becomes Bestseller
Thu, 4 Sep 2008
Sarah Palin was an unknown to the vast majority of American's before John McCain chose her as his running mate. Since then we have learned a few things about Palin but many people are looking for more information. There was just one book out there about her so it isn't a surprise that the book is quickly. becoming a bestseller. The book...
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| September Comics Bestsellers
Mon, 01 Sep 2008
Diary of Wimpy Kid continues at #1 on the list, with Batman: The Killing Joke (#2), Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures (#5), Y the Last Man vol. 10 (#8) and Ultimate X-Men Vol. 18 (#10) following.
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| Best sellers: non-fiction
Sat, 6 Sep 2008
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| Biographies |
A Summer of Madness
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By Oliver Sacks Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Philosophy of a Lunatic by John Custance Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. by Kay Redfield Jamison Touched...
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| 'The Question of Global Warming': An Exchange
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By William D. Nordhaus The New York Review received many letters concerning 'The Question of Global Warming' by Freeman Dyson [NYR, June 12]. Following are comments by William D. Nordhaus, whose book A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, was reviewed in the article., as well as letters from two other...
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| Patrick Leigh Fermor: The man who walked
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
At 18 he left home to walk the length of Europe; at 25, as an SOE agent, he kidnapped the German commander of Crete; now at 93, Patrick Leigh Fermor, arguably the greatest living travel writer, is publishing the nearest he may come to an autobiography - and finally learning to type. William Dalrymple. meets him at home in Greece...
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| AOT #125: David Carr Podcasts The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own
Mon, 01 Sep 2008
New York Times columnist David Carr reads from and discusses The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. In his book, Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist. for The [.]
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| Motley Crue rocker marks National Recovery Month (Reuters)
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Reuters - Last September, Nikki Sixx's harrowing memoir of addiction, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star," debuted at No. 7 on the New York Times Book Review nonfiction best-seller list.
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| The PW Morning Report, September 4, 2008
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: U.S. and U.K. Publishers Found for The Jewel of Medina; Lynne Spears Memoir A September Pub; Perseus’ "Constellation"; Pinch Is Trumped; and New Orhan Pamuk Novel
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| 'Scattershot' A Bipolar Family Portrait
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
In his memoir, Scattershot, David Lovelace chronicles what he calls "the family sickness." Terri Cheney joins the discussion and shares details from Manic , a chronicle of her own struggle with bipolar disorder.
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| Bacardi Biography Details The 'Fight For Cuba'
Mon, 08 Sep 2008
Tom Gjelten's new book, Bacardi and the Long Fight For Cuba, threads the history of the family-owned Bacardi Rum Co. together with that of the nation in which it was founded.
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| Powerful memoir of an unlikely romance and marriage tugs at the heart
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:53 GMT
Spokane writer Glenda Burgess crafts a powerful memoir about her unlikely romance and marriage to an older man. She discusses "The Geography of Love" in two Seattle area appearances next week.
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| Palin Autobiography Reissued
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Scott Simon takes a moment to note that a biography of Sarah Palin, Republican vice presidential nominee, has been quickly reissued. The book reveals Palin's favorite meal: moose stew.
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| Pop star writes of friendship with ex-priest (AP)
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
AP - Pop star Cliff Richard has written about his relationship with a former Roman Catholic priest in an autobiography excerpted in a British newspaper on Thursday.
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| African Idyll
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
The Times’s Helene Cooper fled a warring Liberia as a child. In this memoir, she returns to confront the ghosts of her past -- and to find a lost sister.
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| New Biography Takes 'Heat' Off Dickinson Editor
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Brenda Wineapple's highly engaging biography White Heat examines the poet's enduring friendship with editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
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| Victoria Coren: So, Mr Bond, are you actually a leg or a breast man?
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Victoria Coren: New biographical information sheds an interesting light on Roald Dahl's keenness to get involved in the Bond canon
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| Tune in, Turn on, Sell Out
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
In a memoir of the commune movement, Tom Fels drops in on his fellow former residents and finds they’ve gone on the make.
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| Rocker Feels Her Way Beyond the Spotlight
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
In her new memoir, the singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield considers what happens after “your dream comes true.”
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| A Grief Observed
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
In this graphic memoir, Alissa Torres recounts losing her husband on 9/11.
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| Letters: Nuts to You
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
To the Editor:.
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| Letters: He’s No Narcissist
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
To the Editor:.
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| Letters: Lost in the Desert
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
To the Editor:.
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| Children's |
Great Britain's Age Banding Controversy Far From Over
Tue, 2 Sep 2008
Scholastic group managing director Kate Wilson says that the age banding flap in great Britain could have been handled better. The proposal to put age recommendations on children's book sent authors into a fury. A leading publisher has admitted that the introduction of age banding to children's books. has been poorly handled. The...
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| Literary Calendar
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
10 A.M. Sept. 8 is International Literacy Day, and to mark the occasion, children's author Sharon M. Draper reads from and discusses her young adult novel Copper Sun (a tale of the slave trade) at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. To RSVP, contact the International Reading.
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| 'Potter' publisher looks to promote next big thing (AP)
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
AP - On Sept. 9, the U.S. publisher of "Harry Potter" will premiere a highly ambitious series with a mystery ending for readers and a couple of puzzlers for the industry: How big is the market for a multimedia story, and can a phenomenon be conceived by a publisher rather than created by the. public?
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
This week: Christopher Buckley, author of “Supreme Courtship”; Wesley Yang on “Guyland”; Motoko Rich on the children’s author Rick Riordan; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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| New Book Collects Copp Children Stories
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Scott Simon speaks with Weekend Edition's Daniel Pinkwater, about a new book called Jim Copp, Will You Tell Me A Story? The book is a collection of three of Copp and Ed Brown's stories for children, put in book form for the first time.
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| Novel's Young Narrator Tells Family's Story
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Author Matthew Kneale discusses his new book When We Were Romans, the story of a mother and her two young children who flee London to stay with friends in Rome. Kneale wrote the book from the point of view of a nine-year-old.
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| TBR: Inside the List
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
For the past several weeks, the children’s paperback list has included not one, not two, but three different “Star Wars” books based on the animated movie “The Clone Wars.”
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| U.S. publisher buys novel about wife of Mohammad (Reuters)
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Reuters - U.S. publisher Beaufort Books has bought a novel about the Prophet Mohammad's child bride a month after Random House canceled its release, citing fears it could "incite acts of violence."
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| Comics Briefly
Mon, 01 Sep 2008
Politics at SPX; Kids’ Comic-Con 2009; PW The Beat: Google Comic; Otaku Politician; South East Asian Comics; Comics on the iPhone; Final Chapter of A.D.; and PictureBox Back To School Sale
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| Northwest author Sherry Jones' Muhammad novel will publish after all
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:11 GMT
A historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride that was pulled by Random House over concerns it would anger Muslims has found a new English-language publisher.
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| Stephenie Meyer won't complete 'Midnight Sun' novel
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:28 GMT
Stephenie Meyer, the best-selling author of the "Twilight" series aimed at teens and young adults, says she will no longer continue writing "Midnight Sun."
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| Author of Book Series Sends Kids on a Web Treasure Hunt
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
Scholastic is releasing “The 39 Clues,” a new series by Rick Riordan that is tied to a Web-based game and collectors’ cards.
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| New publishers ready to issue contentious The Jewel of Medina
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Publishers in Germany and the U.K. have agreed to publish a controversial historical novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride, Aisha.
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| Crazy about kids reading
Sun, 7 Sep 2008
How can we make reading fun for children? Author Jon Scieszka has a few surprising ideas.
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| Review: A Strange, Eventful History by Michael Holroyd
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
The stories of Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and their children make for a compelling family saga, says Michael Arditti.
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| Why making children laugh is a serious business
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Nicolette Jones introduces the first Roald Dahl prize for children's books.
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| Comeback Kids
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
How a community battered by Katrina fielded a championship football team.
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| Comics |
Shaw's Graphic Take On Ordinary Family Drama
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Bottomless Belly Button, Dash Shaw's portrait of good people with a desperate, bourgeois dignity, is a welcome break from the comic genre's usual angst-ridden post-modernity.
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| Zombies, Mayhem and Martial Arts
Mon, 01 Sep 2008
Last Gasp is publishing Tokyo Zombie, an absurd and grotesque work by manga-ka Yasunaka Hanakuma in the art style of heta uma, which literally means, "bad but good."
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| Twisted Classsics: The Work of Posy Simmonds
Mon, 01 Sep 2008
British cartoonist Posy Simmonds’s Tamara Drewe, due out from Houghton Mifflin, is a comics update of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd
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| 'Zits' cartoonist Borgman takes Ohio newspaper buyout
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jim Borgman, who draws editorial cartoons and the Zits comic strip, is one of 60 people getting .
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| Books: 'The Psychology of Superheroes'
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:55 GMT
This is the book comic-book fans have been waiting for and didn't know it: It's going to "unlaunch" a thousand debates.
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| Current Events |
Georgia and the Balance of Power
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By George Friedman The Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It has simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted. The United States has been absorbed in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as potential conflict with Iran and a destabilizing. situation in Pakistan. It has no...
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| 'One Party Country' Dissects Why Republicans Win
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
In One Party Country, journalists Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten explain what they call "The Republican plan for dominance in the 21st century." The Republicans, they argue, are "firmly in the lead when it comes to the science and strategy of attaining power — and keeping it."
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| Print Run Continues to Rise for ‘Hockey Mom’
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
Using a combination of print-on-demand and traditional offset printing, the total print run for the book about the Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is now 76,000.
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| Republicans Hit St. Paul
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
The Republican National Convention has disrupted daily operations at the Minnesota Historical Society Press, and author Amy Goodman was arrested while covering a protest.
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| Kate Adie: 'My love affair with danger'
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
As a war reporter, Kate Adie's life has often seemed under threat. Now she has written a book examining why people choose to dice with death.
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| Books of The Times: A Leader Beyond Denial, as War Plans Flounder
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Bob Woodward paints a picture of an administration shrugging off bad news and postponing decisions as the crisis in Iraq deepened.
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| Woodward: Bush 'too often failed to lead' on Iraq
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
President Bush "rarely was the voice of realism" on the Iraq war and "too often failed to lead," according to a new book by Bob .
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| Review: God's Executioner by Michael Ó Siochrú
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Marcus Nevitt praises a rich reconstruction of Irish struggles during and after the English civil war.
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| Fiction |
Dennis Lehane's "The Given Day"
Sat, 6 Sep 2008
Dennis Lehane mixes fact and fiction in historical novel set in Boston S o says Babe Ruth, recently sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees, as he explains the way of the world to a union man whose strike has been busted in Dennis Lehane's eighth novel, "The Given Day." That aphorism is. the novel's theme, although those who...
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| Familiar homecoming
Sat, 6 Sep 2008
Robinson's latest novel returns to 'Gilead' setting O ne might recall from Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Gilead" that the fictional Iowa town of the title is "just a little outpost in the sand hills, within striking distance of Kansas," a place the narrator was advised to abandon. because "leaving here is like...
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| Publisher of O.J. book to handle Muhammad novel (AP)
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
AP - The publisher that took on O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" after it was dropped in the face of public outrage has signed up another rejected project: Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina," a novel about a wife of the prophet Muhammad that Random House canceled out of concern. that it would anger Muslims...
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| Asensi delivers fun in new thriller
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:38 GMT
It's a good thing that the gambling, opium-addicted, prostitute-loving husband of Elvira De Poulain died. She would otherwise be stripped of an adventure that is so engrossing it could compel the reader to skip meals and ignore chores in a mad dash to read the book's ending.
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| Prizes awarded for 6 emerging female writers (AP)
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
AP - Three fiction writers, a poet and two essayists have been named recipients of the 14th annual Rona Jaffe Foundation's awards, grants of $25,000 each for "women writers of talent and promise in the early stages of their writing careers."
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| Russian Literary Boom Linked To Authoritarianism
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Literary critics feared that after the Soviet collapse, the easy availability of popular romance novels and thrillers would seduce Russian readers away from deeper works. Now they attribute a literary revival to the country's new authoritarianism.
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| Novel On Islam's Prophet Finds New Publisher
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Independent publisher Beaufort Books agrees to publish The Jewel of Medina after Random House backs out. Random House had feared Sherry Jones' historical novel about the Prophet Mohammed and his wife, Aisha, could be offensive to Muslims.
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| Whodunits Pack Literary Punch
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Two new novels take on the same theme: murder. Donald Pfarrer's A Common Ordinary Murder is at once both harrowing and exultant. John Darnton's Black & White and Dead All Over is for those who like a little satire with their blood.
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| Review: Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
Sukhdev Sandhu sinks into a gripping, steamy and occasionally soapy novel from one of Egypts bestselling writers.
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| 'Book Of Lies' Examines Superman's Story
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
Brad Meltzer's new novel threads together the biblical story of Cain and Abel with the actual details of Superman creator Jerry Siegel's life.
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| New in paper: Diverse fiction, non-fiction
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
From Junot Diaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao to the story of an inventor seeking a cure for his blindness, here .
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| 'Gargoyle' perches on its haunting words
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
It's hard to know whether the self-described crispy critter at the center of Andrew Davidson's unsettling debut novel is more .
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| Mushrooms poison 'Horse Whisperer' author
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
The author of the best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer is recovering in a hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms during .
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| Bowling for Justices
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
In Christopher Buckley’s new novel, the fun begins when a popular TV judge is appointed to the Supreme Court.
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| The Truth Behind Brad Meltzer’s ‘The Book of Lies’
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
Brad Meltzer talks about a little known story behind the creation of Superman and his new novel The Book of Lies
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| 'Little Book,' big story
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
There's nothing small about Selden Edwards' debut novel, The Little Book not its scale, ambitions or back story.
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| Wicked
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
A historical novel of Salem, Mass., by the descendant of a “witch.”
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| Thinking on the Sly
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
The woman and the girl who narrate this French novel are closet intellectuals.
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| Resenting multiculturalism
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
Susanna Yager reviews crime fiction
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| Review: Harm's Way by Celia Walden and The Stepmother's Diary by Fay Weldon
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Laura Thompson on two novels that dissect the wonderful ways of women.
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| Obituaries |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in February of this year and thus missed her own miracle—best-sellerdom for a first book written by an already “mature” librarian, former bookseller, and unpublished, aspiring writer. The good news, however, is that. her opus is engaging, ingenious and...
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| ‘Not For Us’: His Lost Masterpiece
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
The legendary editor Robert Giroux, who died Friday at age 94, narrowly lost the chance to publish “The Catcher in the Rye.”
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| Poetry |
Poet's Choice
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
Even 33 years after I first read Sharon Olds, I remember the fresh shock her poems delivered like a body blow. She's a keen student of the human mind, and no aspect of the agony and bliss we inflict on each other is off limits.
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| Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize (AP)
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
AP - Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday.
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| Latin American artists protest persecution of Nicaraguan poet
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
More than 60 writers and cultural leaders in Latin America have banded together and called for an end to what they say is a vendetta by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega against poet Ernesto Cardenal.
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| Poet, novelists among winners of $25,000 US prize for women writers
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
A poet from New Mexico and a nurse from Washington are among the six winners of the $25,000 Rona Jaffe Foundation awards, given annually to emerging women writers in the United States.
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| Prizes |
The PW Morning Report, September 3, 2008
Wed, 03 Sep 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Palin Wanted to Ban Books; That Secret Obama-Murdoch-Ailes Meeting; Louise Glueck Wins Wallace Stevens Award; No Kindle 2.0 This Year; Brad Meltzer Turns Into Superman; Herman Melville He Ain’t; and Horse Whisperer Author Felled By Poisonous Mushrooms.
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| Reviews |
On the Web
Sat, 6 Sep 2008
Reviews and other features from the Books section are at chicagotribune.com/books . Stories and reviews related to the Tribune literary prizes also are there, as are book suggestions and postings from our annual Read & Write project for youngsters. The Web site also has a list of 100 books for young. readers recommended by local...
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| Review: American current affairs roundup
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: American current affairs roundupBush-bashing is big business, in London and Washington as well as Cairo and Karachi, where bookshelves groan under the weight of titles like Why Do We Hate America? says James Robinson
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| Review: The Believers by Adam Mars-Jones
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: The Believers by Adam Mars-JonesClashing ideologies and repressed anger are among the subjects of Zoe Heller's fitfully brilliant history of a complex, dysfunctional New York Jewish family says Adam Mars-Jones
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| Review: One to Nine by Andrew Hodges
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: One to Nine by Andrew HodgesThe Department of Education, eternally in search of ways to 'sex up' maths and science, could do worse than adding One to Nine to the curriculum says Heather Thompson
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| Review: 'The Big Sort' by Bill Bishop
Sun, 7 Sep 2008
THE BIG SORT: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, by Bill Bishop with Robert G. Cushing. Houghton Mifflin, 370 pp., $25.
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| Review: The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: The Gum Thief by Douglas CouplandHis clever, prickly, witty observations make an ugly world not only bearable, but beautiful says Heather Thompson
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| Review: Diaries 1984-1997 by James Lees-Milne
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: Diaries 1984-1997 by James Lees-MilneIn Lees-Milne's scale of values, it is far worse to be a bore than an unrepentant Nazi says John Murray
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| Review: Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
The veteran chronicler of life on the ranch puts her characters through the mill, observes Lucy Beresford
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| Review: John Stuart Mill by Richard Reeves
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: John Stuart Mill by Richard ReevesScrupulous and compelling, affectionate but not uncritical: a fitting tribute says Heather Thompson
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| Review: The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: The Wild Trees by Richard PrestonBy the final chapters he is up in the tallest branches with his whole family says Heather Thompson
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| Review: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: Man in the Dark by Paul AusterPaul Auster follows Pirandello and Philip K Dick with decidedly mixed results says Jenny Diski
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| Review: 'Marrying Anita' by Anita Jain
Sun, 7 Sep 2008
MARRYING ANITA: A Quest for Love in the New India, by Anita Jain. Bloomsbury, 307 pp., $24.99.
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| Review: The Fallout by Andrew Anthony
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: The Fallout by Andrew AnthonyPrecise and ruthless, he smokes out left-wing hypocrisy on all sides says Heather Thompson
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| Review: Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: Now and Forever by Ray BradburyRay Bradbury still conveys his imaginings with singular vividness says Heather Thompson
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| Review: The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
The desire to be cuckolded is neither interesting nor sexy, finds Stephen Abell.
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| Review: The House of Wittgenstein by Alexander Waugh
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
The pianist Paul Wittgenstein s the hero of this family saga, finds Noel Malcolm
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| Review: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
Jason Webster accompanies Paul Theroux on the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar
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| Review: The Private Patient by P.D. James
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
P.?D. James's compassion transforms the traditional whodunit, says David Robson
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| Reviews: 'Walk the Blue Fields,' 'Train to Trieste'
Sun, 7 Sep 2008
WALK THE BLUE FIELDS, by Claire Keegan. Black Cat, 170 pp., $13 paper.
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| Review: The Private Patient by PD James
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Review: The Private Patient by PD JamesPD James's beloved hero returns, wiser than ever says Louise France
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| Spirituality |
Pick of the paperbacks
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Filming; Secrets of the Sea; A Little History of the English Country Church; Storm and Conquest; The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad; Life Class; Have A Nice Doomsday
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| Poking Fun At The 'Stuff White People Like'
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
In a new book based on his popular blog, Christian Lander tracks the trends and tendencies of white people, from fair-trade organic coffee to vintage T-shirts.
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| General |
The ‘Mash of Myriad Sounds’
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By Michael Kimmelman The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross For several weeks this spring, a sculptural installation by Richard Serra--five slender, soaring steel monoliths, fifty-six feet high and seventy-five tons each, spaced evenly apart and differently tilted just. so--occupied the emptied nave of the...
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| Official American Sadism
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By Anthony Lewis Guantanamo: Beyond the Law a series of five articles by Tom Lasseter Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact a report by Physicians for Human Rights, with a preface by Major General Antonio M. Taguba The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. and the Fight over Presidential...
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| Obama: The Price of Being Black
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By Andrew Hacker Restoring the Right to Vote by Erika Wood Crawford v. Marion County [Indiana] Election Board Florida State Conference of the NAACP v. Browning In May, Hillary Clinton described many of her core supporters as 'hard-working Americans, white Americans.' Primary voting in Pennsylvania., Ohio, and West Virginia...
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| The Woman in White
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By Joyce Carol Oates A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple. A mysterious 'confluence of...
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| "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," by Stieg Larsson
Sat, 6 Sep 2008
Investigative duo includes a disgraced journalist and a Pippi Longstocking with pierced eyebrows R eading thrillers for a living is a great job: I'd do it for nothing (don't tell my editors). But after a diet of serial killers, apocalyptic scenarios, burned-out private detectives and the usual crop. of honest or bent federal agents and...
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| Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
Jaynes, a psychologist who taught at Princeton up until his death in 1997, showed how ancient peoples from Mesopotamia to Peru could not “think” as we do today, and were therefore not conscious. Unable to introspect or contemplate metaphor-driven scenarios, they experienced auditory hallucinations. — voices of gods actually heard as...
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| Leading geneticist to write book on staying well (AP)
Tue, 02 Sep 2008
AP - Dr. Francis Collins, arguably the nation's leading geneticist and author of the best-selling "The Language of God," is working on a book that promises "stunning new revelations about why we get sick; what it means to be healthy; how we can prevent disease" and medical treatment.
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| Beaufort to Publish ‘Jewel of Medina’
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
After a PW Daily report this morning that it would be the publisher of The Jewel of Medina, Beaufort Books confirmed to the AP that it will release the book, which Ballantine dropped last month. Beaufort took on O.J. Simpson's If I Did It after that book was canceled by HarperCollins.
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| The Economy
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
Why has the American capital system run amok, taking so many for a ride? According to four recent books, the complicity reaches high and low: reckless financiers, dishonest mortgage brokers, credulous consumers and home buyers.
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| Greenspan: Don't use Fed as a 'magical piggy bank' (AP)
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
AP - Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing with government bailouts of companies whose sudden collapse could wreak havoc on the country's economic and financial stability.
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| The PW Morning Report, September 5, 2008
Fri, 05 Sep 2008
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Woodward: Bush "Failed to Lead"; Rona Jaffe Foundation Awards; Emeril to Harper Studio; Sarah Palin Pumped for Banned Books Week; Michael Hammer Dead; Peter Manso Indicted; and Oddest Book Title
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| Books: 'Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba'
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:53 GMT
With thorough reporting and an eye for rich detail, veteran National Public Radio correspondent Tom Gjelten traces the story of the Bacardi family, whose product helped shape Cuba's soul until Fidel Castro nationalized its facilities in 1960.
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| "Twilight" author drops new book after Web leak (Reuters)
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
Reuters - Stephenie Meyer, author of the best-selling young adult "Twilight" books, has put the fifth and final installment in the series on hold in protest after a partial draft was posted on the Internet.
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| Greek postmen beat zombies to win oddest book title (Reuters)
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Reuters - "Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers" benefited from a late surge in public support to win the title Friday of oddest book title of the past 30 years, The Bookseller magazine said.
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| An eye-opening warning on the hazards of everyday objects
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34 GMT
The hazards posed by everyday objects, from Teflon pans to microwave popcorn, are the subject of an eye-opening new book by a Portland journalist. Nena Baker discusses "The Body Toxic" on Wednesday at Town Hall.
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| Books: 'Soccer Dad'
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:55 GMT
If you don't care about soccer, reading "Soccer Dad" is like getting trapped in a long conversation with somebody who cares a lot more about the topic than you do.
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| The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Girl in the Green Raincoat: Chapter 1: Stuck in Bed
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
“ ‘I’m being held hostage,’ Tess Monaghan whispered into her iPhone to her friend Whitney. ‘By a terrorist.’ ”
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| The Perilous Price of Oil
Thu, 25 Sep 2008
By George Soros The following is adapted from testimony given by George Soros before the US Senate Commerce Committee Oversight Hearing on June 3, 2008.
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| Books: 'In the Land of Invisible Women'
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:51 GMT
Most job contracts don't include mentions of the death penalty, but when Dr. Qanta Ahmed agreed to a new job in a Saudi Arabian hospital, she became subject to the laws of that country.
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| Paperback of the week: The Whisperers by Orlando Figes
Sat, 06 Sep 2008
Paperback of the week: The Whisperers by Orlando FigesThe Whisperers is animated by the conflict between individual minds and the inhuman demands of totalitarianism says James Purden
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