In Print

September 04, 2008

(All listings are tentative and subject to change.)

The New York Times Book Review -- September 7

SYNCOPATIONS: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark By James Campbell (Univ. of California)
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER By Anne Enright (Grove Press)
A FREEWHEELIN' TIME: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties By Suze Rotolo (Broadway Books)
THE HOUSE AT SUGAR BEACH By Helene Cooper (S&S)
JUST FINE THE WAY IT IS By Annie Proulx (Scribner)
AMERICAN WIDOW By Alissa Torres (Villard)
SUMPREME COURTSHIP By Christopher Buckley (Twelve/Warner Books)
OTHER LIVES By Andre Brink (Sourcebooks)
GUYLAND: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men By Michael Kimmel (HarperCollins)
ONE MORE YEAR By Sana Krasikov (Spiegel & Grau)
THE NIGHTENGALES OF TROY By Alice Fulton (Norton)
FARM FRIENDS By Tom Fels (RSI Press)
THE CORPSE WALKER: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up By Liao Yiwu (Pantheon)
I DON'T: A Contrarian History of Marriage By Susan Squire (Bloomsbury)
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER By Kathleen Kent (Little, Brown)
WALK THE BLUE FIELDS By Claire Keegan (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic)
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG By Muriel Barbery (Europa)
THE HURRICANES By Jere Longman (PublicAffairs)
Daniel Maurer, BROCABULARY, Collins

The New York Times Book Review -- September 14

TIME OF THEIR LIVES By Al Silverman (St. Martin's)
BUILDING MANHATTAN By Laura Vila (Viking)
LADY LIBERTY: A Biography By Doreen Rappaport (Candlewick)
WANGARI'S TREES OF PEACE: A True Story from Africa By Jeanette Winter (Harcourt Children's Books)
FOREVER WAR By Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
DRY STOREROOM NO. 1 By Richard Fortey (Knopf)
NOTHING IS QUITE FORGOTTEN IN BROOKLYN By Alice Mattison (Harper)
TWO MARRIAGES By Philip Lopate (Other Press)
WAY OF THE WORLD By Ron Suskind (Harper)
GLIMMER PALACE By Beatrice Colin (Riverhead)
IS THERE A RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT? By Alan M. Dershowitz (Oxford Univ. Press)
WOMAN OF ROME: A Life of Elsa Morante (HaperCollins)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOOBy Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
CITY OF REFUGE By Tom Piazza (Harper)
PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: The Story of Wangari Maathaiv By Claire A. Novla (FSG)
GENIUS By David Harris (Random House)
THE LIMITS OF POWER: The End of American Exceptionalism By Andrew J. Bacevich (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
DINOSAURS ON THE ROOF By David Rabe (S&S)

Washington Post Book Club -- Book World Live
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Each week ET Washington Post Book World Live features a discussion based on a story or review in each Sunday's Book World section.

September 9: Chelsea Handler ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? It's Me, Chelsea, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
September 2: Sandra Tsing Loh, MOTHER ON FIRE, Crown (also the author of A YEAR IN VAN NUYS)
August 20: Paul Roberts (author of THE END OF OIL) THE END OF FOOD, Houghton Mifflin
August 12: Ron Suskind, (Pulitzer Prize-winner), THE WAY OF THE WORLD: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, Harper

Washington Post Book World -- September 7

HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman (FSG)
THE BODY TOXIC: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being by Nena Baker (North Point Press/FSG)
POISONED PROFITS: The Toxic Assault on Our Children By Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff (Random House)
THE BLACK HOLE WARS: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind (Little, Brown)
FREEDOM'S BATTLE: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention By Gary J. Bass (Knopf)
SEPTEMBER SONGS: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years By Maggie Scarf (Riverhead Books)
POLANSKI: A Biography by Christopher Sandford (Palgrave Macmillan)

SCIENCE
MICROCOSM: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer (Pantheon)
NATURE'S CLOCKS: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything By Doug MacDougall (Univ. of California Press)
SIDE EFFECTS: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial By Alison Bass (Algonquin Books)

FINANCE
BAD MONEY: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips (Viking)
THE NEW PARADIGM FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros (PublicAffairs)
FINANCIAL SHOCK: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis by Mark Zandi (FT Press)
THE WORLD IS CURVED: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy By David M. Smick (Portfolio/Penguin)

FICTION
HOME by Marilynne Robinson (FSG)
ANATHEM by Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
AMERICAN WIFE by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)

Daily Book World Reviews In The Washington Post's Style Section
September 8 - September 12

A CURE FOR NIGHT: A Novel by Justin Peacock (Doubleday)
PUTIN'S LABYRINTH: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia By Steve LeVine (Random House)
BLACK & WHITE AND DEAD ALL OVER: A Novel by John Darnton (Knopf)
THE LAUGHTER OF DEAD KINGS: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense By Elizabeth Peters (Morrow)
MS. HEMPEL CHRONICLES by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Harcourt)

Daily Book World Reviews In The Washington Post's Style Section
September 15 - September 19

SWEETHEART: A Novel by Chelsea Cain (St. Martin's Minotaur)
THE DUEL: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali (Scribner)
THE BLACK TOWER: A Novel by Louis Bayard (Morrow)
THE LAST THEOREM by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl (Del Rey)
TO LOVE WHAT IS: A Marriage Transformed By Alix Kates Shulman (FSG)

Washington Post Book World -- September 14

THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO: An American Family By Annette Gordon-Reed (Norton)
THE WAR WITHIN: A Secret White House History 2006 - 2008 By Bob Woodward (S&S)
THE CHALLENGE: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power By Jonathan Mahler (FSG)
LAW AND THE LONG WAR: The Future of Justice in an Age of Terror By Benjamin Wittes (Penguin Press)
WHATEVER IT TAKES: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America By Paul Tough (Houghton Mifflin)
OBSCENE IN THE EXTREME: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath by Rick Wartzman (PublicAffairs)
GUYLAND: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Michael Kimmel (Harper)
MEN TO BOYS: The Making of Modern Immaturity by Gary Cross (Columbia Univ. Press)
SAVE THE MALES: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care By Kathleen Parker (Random House)
THE TROUBLE WITH BOYS: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do by Peg Tyre (Crown)

FICTION
INDIGNATION by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions)
THE WHITE MARY by Kira Salak (Henry Holt)
THE BIBLE SALESMAN by Clyde Edgerton (Little, Brown)

Los Angeles Times Book Review -- September 7

Neal Stephenson, ANATHEM: A Novel (Morrow)
Marilynne Robinson, HOME: A Novel (FSG)
Victor Pelevin, THE SACRED BOOK OF THE WEREWOLF: A Novel (Viking)
Elizabeth McCracken, AN EXACT REPLICA OF A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION: A Memoir (Little, Brown)
Allegra Goodman, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ISLAND (Razorbill)

In Other Print Publications

Elle Magazine
August: Frances de Pontes Peebles, THE SEAMSTRESS, Harper
September: Jamie Oliver, JAMIE AT HOME, Hyperion
Brunonia Barry, THE LACE READER, Morrow/HarperAudio

Entertainment Weekly
August 15: Alafair Burke, ANGEL'S TIP, Harper

ESPN Magazine
September 1: Larry Olmsted, GETTING INTO GUINNESS, Collins

Food & Wine Magazine
September: Jamie Oliver, JAMIE AT HOME, Hyperion

InStyle Magazine
September 1: Temple St. Clair, ALCHEMY: A Passion for Jewels, Collins

Marie Claire
August 1: Kate Brennan, IN HIS SIGHTS, Harper

More Magazine
August: Julia Stuart, THE MATCHMAKER OF PERIGORD, HC Paperbacks
September: Brunonia Barry, THE LACE READER, Morrow/HarperAudio

Newsweek Magazine
August 25: Anne Roiphe, EPILOGUE: A Memoir, HarperCollins/Blackstone Audio
Michael Kimmel, GUYLAND: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, Harper

The New Yorker Magazine
Week of September 1:
Reviews of the following titles:
THE GARGOYLE by Andrew Davidson
THE END OF SLEEP by Rowan Somerville
THE SAME MAN by David Lebedoff
THE BOOK OF DREAMS by Federico Fellini, edited by Tullio Kezich and Vittorio Boarini, and translated by Aaron Maines and David Stanton
John Updike on the life of Max Factor: Fred E. Basten MAX FACTOR: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World
Richard Avedon, PERFORMANCE
In Talk of the Town: Jerome R. Corsi, THE OBAMA NATION
Week of September 8:
Reviews of the following titles:
THE 19TH WIFE by David Ebershoff
TWENTY FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH by Xiaolu Guo
THE GIRL FROM FOREIGN by Sadia Shepard
ANONYMITY by John Mullan
James Wood reviews Marilynne Robinson's new novel, HOME
John Updike, DUE CONSIDERATIONS (forthcoming) and THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, on the career of novelist William Maxwell and the recent Library of America two-volume collection of his work.
Face, a new story by Alice Munro
Ian Parker profiles actor Alec Baldwin's memoir A PROMISE TO OURSELVES

O: The Oprah Magazine
Reading Room: Books That Made a Difference to Téa Leoni
The Books of Summer: A list of 22 reads that are perfect for the plane, porch, pool, beach or bed:

Parade Magazine
September 7: Dennis Lehane,THE GIVEN DAY, Morrow

People Magazine
August 18: The Waiter, WAITER RANT: Thanks for the Tip -- Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, Ecco
August 29: Alafair Burke, ANGEL'S TIP, Harper
September 1: Nina Garcia, THE ONE HUNDRED: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own, Collins Living
September 8: GUYLAND: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men By Michael Kimmel (HarperCollins)

Quick & Simple Magazine
August 12: Julia Stuart, THE MATCHMAKER OF PERIGORD, HC Paperbacks

Time Magazine
August 4: Brunonia Barry, THE LACE READER, Morrow/HarperAudio
September 8: Dennis Lehane,THE GIVEN DAY, Morrow
Harper Bibles, THE GREEN BIBLE, HarperOne

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/default.htm
August 21: Sir Roger Moore, MY WORD IS MY BOND, Collins
August 26: Michael Kimmel, GUYLAND: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, Harper
September 4: Neal Stephenson, ANATHEM, Morrow
Dennis Lehane,THE GIVEN DAY, Morrow
Wally Lamb, THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED, Harper
Philip Norman, JOHN LENNON: The Life, Ecco
Peggy Noonan, PATRIOTIC GRACE, Collins

USA Weekend
August 24: Nina Garcia, THE ONE HUNDRED: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own, Collins Living

US Weekly
August 25: Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler, FRIEND OR FRENEMY? A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't, HC Paperbacks
September 1: Nina Garcia, THE ONE HUNDRED: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own, Collins Living

Vanity Fair Magazine
August 1: Michael Roberts, FASHION VICTIMS, CollinsDesign

Vogue Magazine
August: Diahann Carroll, THE LEGS ARE THE LAST TO GO, Amistad
September 1: Tatiana Boncompagni, GILDING LILY, Avon
Candace Bushnell, ONE FIFTH AVENUE, Hyperion

Wall Street Journal
August 22: Louis Bayard, THE BLACK TOWER, Morrow
September 5: Wally Lamb, THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED, Harper

The Week Magazine
August 15: The Waiter, WAITER RANT: Thanks for the Tip -- Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, Ecco

BookPage -- September 2008
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INTERVIEWS
Francine Prose, Goldengrove, Harper, 9780066214115
Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife, Random House, 9781400064755
Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Railway Bazaar, Houghton Mifflin, 9780618418879

MEET THE AUTHOR
Kathy Reichs, Devil Bones, Scribner, 9780743294386

BEHIND THE BOOK
Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies, Grand Central, 9780446577885

FEATURES
Business
Bill Tancer, CLICK: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters, Hyperion, 9781401323042
T. Boone Pickens, The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future, Crown Business, 9780307395771
Stephen Baker, The Numerati, Houghton Mifflin, 9780618784608

Christian Fiction
Cathy Marie Hake, Whirlwind, Bethany House, 9780764203190
Kimberly Cash Tate, Heavenly Places, WalkWorthy Press, 9781577948575
Ted Dekker, Sinner, Thomas Nelson, 9781595540089
James David Jordan, Forsaken, Broadman & Holman, 9780805447491

Love and Loss
Anne Roiphe, Epilogue: A Memoir, HarperCollins/Blackstone Audio, 9780061254628
Alix Kates Shulman, To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed, FSG, 9780374278151

COLUMNS
Audio
James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning, HarperAudio, 9780061575525
Emilio Calderón, The Creator's Map, HighBridge Audio, 9781598876505
Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage, Macmillan Audio, 9781427204622

Book Clubs
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke, Picador, 9780312427740
Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs, Vintage, 9781400030903
John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's, Three Rivers Press, 9780307396181

Cooking
Jim Denevan, Outstanding in the Field: A Farm to Table Cookbook, Potter, 9780307381996
Sara Jenkins, Olives and Oranges: Recipes and Flavor Secrets from Italy Spain Cyprus and Beyond, Houghton Mifflin, 9780618677641
Arthur Schwartz, Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited, Ten Speed, 9781580088985

Romance
Tara Janzen, Loose and Easy, Dell, 9780440244691
Elizabeth Boyle, Tempted by the Night, Avon, 9780061373220
Julia London, The Book of Scandal, Pocket, 9781416547112
Suzanne Brockmann, Into the Fire, Ballantine, 9780345501530

Well Read
Rose Tremain, The Road Home, Little Brown, 9780316002615

Whodunit?
William Kent Kruger, Red Knife, Atria, 9781416556749
Ann Cleeves, White Nights, Minotaur, 9780312384333
James R. Benn, Blood Alone, Soho, 9781569475164
Meg Gardiner, Crosscut, Obsidian, 9780451225221

STANDARD REVIEWS
Fiction
Marilynne Robinson, Home, FSG, 9780374299101
Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter, Little Brown, 9780316024488
Philippa Gregory, The Other Queen, Touchstone, 9781416549123
Louis Bayard, The Black Tower, Morrow, 9780061173509
Elizabeth Peters, The Laughter of Dead Kings, Morrow, 9780061246241
Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief, Dial, 9780385337458
Paul Auster, Man in the Dark, Henry Holt/Macmillan Audio, 9780805088397
Philip Roth, Indignation, Houghton Mifflin, 9780547054841
Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest, Tor, 9780765321336

Nonfiction
Erin Einhorn, The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families One Home, Touchstone, 9781416558309
Robert Dallek, Harry S. Truman, Times, 9780805069389
Jennet Conant, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, S&S, 9780743294584
Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis, Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur, Ballantine, 9780345506252
Richard Fortey, Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, Knopf, 9780307263629
Cheryl Jarvis, The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives, Ballantine, 9780345500717
Thomas Hager, The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius a Doomed Tycoon and the Discovery That Changed the Course of History, Harmony, 9780307351784

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Interview
Karen Hesse, Brooklyn Bridge, Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan, 9780312378868

Meet the Illustrator
Laura Vaccaro Seeger, One Boy, Roaring Brook, 9781596432741

Standard Reviews
Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures, Schwartz & Wade, 9780375845826
Rick Riordan, The 39 Clues, Scholastic, 9780545060394
Multiple authors, Our White House: Looking In Looking Out, Candlewick, 9780763620677
Bob Shea, Dinosaur vs. Bedtime, Hyperion, 9781423113355

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