In Print

May 08, 2008

(All listings are tentative and subject to change.)

The New York Times Book Review -- May 11

THE TEN YEAR NAP By Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead)
FALL OF FROST By Brian Hall (Viking)
TWENTY CHICKENS FOR A SADDLE: The Story of an African American Childhood By Robyn Scott (Penguin Press)
THE PLAGUE OF DOVES By Louise Erdrich (Harper Collins)
THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER: A Memoir By Honor Moore (Norton)
BLOOD MATTERS: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies: How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Genome By Masha Gessen (Harcourt)
MUQTADA: Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq By Patrick Cockburn (Scribner)
NIXONLAND: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America By Rick Perlstein (Scribner)
PEACE By Richard Bausch (Knopf)
THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD By Fareed Zakaria (Norton)
HAVANAS IN CAMELOT: Personal Essays By William Styron (Random House)
THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE By Andrew Sean Greer (FSG)
THE RED LEATHER DIARY: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal By Lily Koppel (Harper)

The New York Times Book Review -- May 18

THAT LITTLE SOMETHING By Charles Simic (Harcourt)
WE ARE NOW BEGINNING OUR DESCENT By James Meek (Canongate)
SITTING PRACTICE By Caroline Adderson (Trumpeter/Shambala)
THE COLFAX MASSACRE: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction By Leeanna Keith (Oxford Univ. Press)
THE DAY FREEDOM DIED: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction By Charles Lane (Henry Holt)
THE HAKAWATIA: Story By Rabih Alameddine (Knopf)
COUNSELOR: A Life at the Edge of History By Ted Sorensen (HarperCollins)
THE THIRD ANGEL By Alice Hoffman (Crown)
THE AGE OF REAGAN: A History 1974 - 2008 By Sean Wilentz (HarperCollins)
THE GIRL ON THE FRIDGE: Stories By Etgar Keret (FSG)
IDA: A Sword Among Lions By Paula J. Giddings (Amistad)
ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART By David Samuels (New Press)
NETHERLAND By Joseph O'Neill (Pantheon)
BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag By Michael Tonello (Morrow)
COMMON WEALTH: Economics for a Crowded Planet By Jeffrey D. Sachs (Penguin Press)
PLEASE EXCUSE MY DAUGHTER By Julie Klam (Riverhead Books)
WIT'S END By Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood/Putnam's)
KATE FIELD: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-century American Journalist By Gary Scharnhorst (Syracuse Univ. Press)
WALLACE STEGNER: And the American West By Philip L. Fradkin (Knopf)
THE BIG SORT: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart By Bill Bishop with Robert G. Cushing (Houghton Mifflin)
THE RETURN OF HISTORY: And the End of Dreams By Robert Kagan (Knopf)

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.

May 6: John W. Dean and Barry M. Goldwater Jr., PURE GOLDWATER: The Life and Legacy of Sen. Barry Goldwater, Palgrave Macmillan
April 29: James Gustave Speth, THE BRIDGE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing From Crisis to Sustainability, Yale Univ. Press
April 22: Brian Turner, HERE, BULLET, Alice James Books
April 15: Lisa M. Diamond, SEXUAL FLUIDITY: Understanding Women's Love and Desire, Harvard Univ. Press

Daily Book World Reviews In The Washington Post's Style Section
May 5 - May 9

CARELESS IN RED: A Novel by Elizabeth George (Harper)
CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA: A Novel by Idelfonso Falcones (Dutton)
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? By Morgan Spurlock (Random House)
THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer (FSG)
THE CROWN SOUNDS HAPPY: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball By Nicholas Dawidoff (Pantheon)
FATHERS & SONS & SPORTS: Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman MacLean, and Others By Mike Lupica (ESPN Books)

Washington Post Book World -- May 11
Spring Children's Issue

Fancy Footwork Roundup:
AT GLEASON'S GYM by Ted Lewin (Roaring Brook Press)
FOOTWORK: The Story of Fred and Adele Astaire by Roxane Orgill; illustrated
By Stéphane Jorisch (Candlewick Press)
JABBERWOCKY: The Classic Poem from Lewis Carroll's "Through the
Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Christopher Myers (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
YOUNG PELÉ: Soccer's First Star by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illustrated by James
Ransome (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)

Children's Nonfiction Roundup:
HOW I LEARNED GEOGRAPHY by Uri Shulevitz (FSG)
PIANO STARTS HERE: The Young Art Tatum by Robert Andrew Parker (Schwartz & Wade)
SHE TOUCHED THE WORLD: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer By Sally Hobart Alexander; illustrated by Robert Alexander (Clarion)
WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball By Kadir Nelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
SISTERS & BROTHERS: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page (Houghton Mifflin)
PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: The Story of Wangari Maathai By Claire A. Nivola (FSG)
WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! By Barbara Kerley; illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham (Scholastic)
PALE MALE: Citizen Hawk of New York City By Janet Schulman; illustrated by Meilo Sol (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Children's Picture Books Roundup:
THE PERFECT BEAR by Gillian Shields and Gary Blythe (S&S)
DOG AND BEAR: Two's Company by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook Press)
BIG AND BAD by Etienne Delessert (Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin)
THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT by Susan Marie Swanson; illustrated by Beth Krommes (Houghton Mifflin)
HUSH, LITTLE DRAGON by Boni Ashburn; illustrated by Kelly Murphy (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
READ ALL ABOUT IT! by Laura and Jenna Bush; illustrated by Denise Brunkus (HarperCollins)
LUCKY MONKEY, UNLUCKY MONEY by James Kaczman (Houghton Mifflin)
BEAR'S PICTURE by Daniel Pinkwater; illustrated by D.B. Johnson (Houghton Mifflin)
JUMPY JACK & GOOGILY by Meg Rosoff and Sophie Blackall (Henry Holt)
LITTLE HOOT by Amy Krause Rosenthal and Jen Corace (Chronicle Books)

On Children's Books:
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter By Seth Lerer (Univ. of Chicago Press)
MINDERS OF MAKE-BELIEVE: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature by Leonard S. Marcus (Houghton Mifflin)
SHOW & TELL: Exploring the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration By Dilys Evans (Chronicle Books)

Young Adult Novels:
THE BOOK OF JUDE by Kimberly Heuston (Front Street)
TEST by William Sleator (Amulet/Abrams)
TROUBLE by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books)

LADIES OF LIBERTY: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts (Morrow)
THE PLACE TO BE: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News By Roger Mudd (PublicAffairs)
AUDITION: A Memoir by Barbara Walters (Knopf)
REFLECTIONS OF A WINE MERCHANT: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy by Neal I. Rosenthal (FSG)
NOTEBOOKS 1951 - 1959 by Albert Camus; translated by Ryan Bloom (Ivan R. Dee)

Fiction:
THE WHITE KING by Gyorgy Dragoman (Houghton Mifflin)
SEPULCHRE by Kate Mosse (Putnam)

Daily Book World Reviews In The Washington Post's Style Section
May 12 - May 16

QUIVER: A Novel by Peter Leonard (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BRIGHT SHINY MORNING by James Frey (Harper)
DAWN DUSK OR NIGHT: A Year with Nicholas Sarkozy By Yasmina Reza (Knopf)
THE GERMAN BRIDE: A Novel by Joanna Hershon (Ballantine)
THE LEGEND OF COLTON H. BRYANT by Alexandra Fuller (Penguin Press)

Washington Post Book World -- May 18

WASHINGTON: The Making of the American Capital by Fergus Bordewich (Amistad Books)
COUNSELOR: A Life at the Edge of History by Ted Sorenson (Harper)
WHITE HOUSE GHOSTS: Presidents and Their Speechwriters By Robert Schlesinger (S&S)
FIREFIGHT: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 By Patrick Creed and Rick Newman (Presidio Press/Ballantine)
THROES OF DEMOCRACY: The American Civil War Era 1829 - 1877 By Walter A. McDougall (Harper)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WARDROBE: A Memoir by Elizabeth Kendall (Pantheon)
THE PEARL: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia By Douglas Smith (Yale Univ. Press)
SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE by Germaine Greer (Harper)
CHARLES FORT: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural By Jim Steinmeyer (Tarcher/Putnam)

Fiction:
ADAM THE KING by Jeffrey Lewis (Other Press)
THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS by Jonathan Coe (Knopf)
SCOTTSBORO by Ellen Feldman (Norton)

Los Angeles Times Book Review -- May 11

Ron Hansen, EXILES: A Novel (FSG)
Andrew Sean Greer, THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE: A Novel (FSG)
Bill Moyers, MOYERS ON DEMOCRACY (Doubleday)
James Meek, WE ARE NOW BEGINNING OUR DESCENT: A Novel (Canongate U.S.)
Brian Hayes, GROUP THEORY IN THE BEDROOM: And Other Mathematical Diversions (Hill and Wang)
Paula Uruburu, AMERICAN EVE: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the 'It' Girl and the Crime of the Century (Riverhead)
David Benioff, CITY OF THIEVES: A Novel (Viking)
Robin Benway, AUDREY, WAIT: A Novel (Razorbill)
Nelson George and Alan Leeds (editors), THE JAMES BROWN READER: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul (Plume)
Nicholas Shrady, THE LAST DAY: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (Viking)
Amos Nur with Dawn Burgess, APOCALYPSE: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God (Princeton Univ. Press)

Los Angeles Times -- May 13

James Frey, BRIGHT SHINY MORNING, Harper

In Other Print Publications

Chicago Tribune
April 19: Rachel Sontag, HOUSE RULES Ecco

Entertainment Weekly
May 2: Rose Rock and Valerie Graham, MAMA ROCK'S RULES: Ten Lessons for Raising a Houseful of Successful Children, Collins
May 9: Garth Stein, THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, Harper
James Frey, BRIGHT SHINY MORNING, Harper
Elizabeth George, CARELESS IN RED: A Novel, Harper

The New Yorker Magazine
Week of May 5:
David Remnick examines the history of Palestine and Israel, looking at
historian Benny Morris's new book, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli
War.
From her forthcoming book, FINE JUST THE WAY IT IS, comes a new story by
Annie Proulx entitled Them Old Cowboy Songs.
Reviews of the following titles:
OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout
PRAVDA, by Edward Docx
THE GREATEST GAME by Richard Bradley
DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS by Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue
John Updike reviews Andrew Sean Greer's new novel, THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE
Week of May 12:
John Updike reviews Andrew Sean Greer's new novel, THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE
Tim Wu reports on the outcome of J.K. Rowling's lawsuit against Steve Vander Ark for his unauthorized THE HARRY POTTER LEXICON
Peeking into the kitchen at Union Square Café, Lauren Collins writes about the staff's five-year tradition of poetry reading before their "family meals."

Reviews of the following titles:
DAUGHTERS OF THE NORTH by Sarah Hall
HARDHEADED WEATHER by Cornelius Eady
THE HEBREW REPUBLIC by Bernard Avishai
PLANET SHANGHAI by Justin Guariglia

Nicholas Lemann reviews Barbara Walters' memoir AUDITION
Jill Lepore, co-author of the forthcoming BLINDSPOT
Maury Klein THE POWER MAKERS
Robert Friedel A CULTURE OF IMPROVEMENT
Yiyun Li, THE VAGRANTS

The New York Daily News
April 16: Rose Rock and Valerie Graham, MAMA ROCK'S RULES: Ten Lessons for Raising a Houseful of Successful Children, Collins
April 20: Michael Tonello, BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag, Morrow

OK! Magazine
April 15: Charlotte S. Waisman and Jill S. Tietjen, HER STORY, Collins
April 24: Michael Tonello, BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag, Morrow

Parade Magazine
April 20: Marilu Henner, WEAR YOUR LIFE WELL: Use What You Have to Get What You Want, Collins
May 4: Sidney Poitier, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter, HarperOne/HarperAudio

People Magazine
May 9: James Frey, BRIGHT SHINY MORNING, Harper
Jennifer McMahon, ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS, HarperCollins

USA Today
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April 22: Sophie Uliano, GORGEOUSLY GREEN, Collins
May 9: Rose Rock and Valerie Graham, MAMA ROCK'S RULES: Ten Lessons for Raising a Houseful of Successful Children, Collins
May 13: James Frey, BRIGHT SHINY MORNING, Harper

USA Weekend
April 20: Rose Rock and Valerie Graham, MAMA ROCK'S RULES: Ten Lessons for Raising a Houseful of Successful Children, Collins

Wall Street Journal
MAY 9: CARELESS IN RED: A Novel by Elizabeth George (Harper)

Woman's World Magazine
April 28: Marilu Henner, WEAR YOUR LIFE WELL: Use What You Have to Get What You Want, Collins

BookPage -- May 2008
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Features
Interviews
Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage, FSG, 9780374108663
Tom Rob Smith, Child 44, Grand Central, 9780446402385

Meet the Author
Stephenie Meyer, The Host, Little Brown, 9780316068048

Behind the Book
Tony Horwitz, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Henry Holt, 9780805076035

Graduation
Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture, Hyperion, 9781401323257
Hillary Stamm and Peter Nowalk, The Hollywood Assistants Handbook: 86 Rules for Aspiring Power Players, Workman, 9780761147466
Ann Patchett, What Now?, HarperCollins, 9780061340659
Tanner Stransky, Find Your Inner Ugly Betty: 25 Career Lessons from TV Shows for Young Professionals, Kaplan, 9781427797674
David J. Rosen, What's That Job and How the Hell Do I Get It?, Random House, 9780767926126

Mother's Day
Jimmy Carter, A Remarkable Mother, S&S, 9781416562450
Kathryn Kysar (editor), Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers, Borealis Books, 9780873516143
Pamela Keogh, What Would Audrey Do? Timeless Lessons for Living with Grace and Style, Gotham, 9781592403721
Carrie McCarthy and Danielle LaPorte, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design, Little Brown, 9780316067164
D.G. Fulgord, Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, Hyperion/Voice, 9781401322397
Jerry Schatzberg, Paris 1962: Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior the Early Collections, Rizzoli, 9780847831289
Frances Richey, The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War, Viking, 9780670019618
Alix Strauss, Have I Got a Guy for You: What Really Happens When Mom Fixes You Up, Adams Media/Polka Dot Press, 9781598694338

Columns
Audio
Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan, Macmillan Audio, 9781427202895
John Grisham, The Appeal, Random House Audio, 9780739316535
Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day, HarperAudio, 9780061571138
Thomas Cathcart, et al., Aristotle and an Aardvark To to Washington, Recorded Books, 9781436104937
Book Clubs
Haruki Murakami, After Dark, Vintage, 9780307278739
Per Pettersen, Out Stealing Horses, Picador, 9780312427085
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens, Bantam, 9780553384246

Cooking
Steven Raichlen, The Barbeque! Bible: 10th Anniversary Edition, Workman, 9780761149439
Cathy and Tony Mantuano, Wine Bar Food, Potter, 9780307352798
Joyce Goldstein, Mediterranean Fresh, Norton, 9780393065008

Romance
Kasey Michaels, Dial M for Mischief, HQN, 9780373772919
Amanda Quick, The Third Circle, Putnam, 9780399154843
Debbie Macomber, Twenty Wishes, MIRA, 9780778325505
Karen Rose, Scream for Me, Grand Central, 9780446509206

Science Fiction
Paul Park, The Hidden World, Tor, 9780765316684
Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish, Orbit, 9780316029186
Ellen Datlow (editor), The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Del Rey, 9780345496324

Well Read
Leif Enger, So Brave Young and Handsome, Atlantic Monthly, 9780871139856

Whodunit?
Roberta Kray, The Lost, Soho, 9781569475065
C.J. Box, Blood Trail, Putnam, 9780399154881
Kjell Eriksson, The Demon of Dakar, Minotaur, 9780312366698
David Downing, Silesian Station, Soho, 9781569474945

Standard Reviews
Fiction
Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast, Shaye Arehart, 9780307394958
Jane Johnson, The Tenth Gift, Crown, 9780307405227
Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel, Doubleday, 9780385519700
Gil Adamson, The Outlander, Ecco, 9780061491252
Nam Le, The Boat, Knopf, 9780307268082
Kate Jacobs, Comfort Food, Putnam, 9780399154652
Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves, HarperCollins, 9780060515126
Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, Weinstein, 9781602860247
James Meek, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, Canongate, 9781847671769
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Free Press, 9781416562597

Nonfiction
Joseph E. Persico, Franklin & Lucy: President Roosevelt Mrs. Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life, Random House, 9781400064427
Steve Lopez, The Soloist: A Lost Dream an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music, Putnam, 9780399155062
Lowenstein Roger, While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors Stopped the NYC Subways Bankrupted San Diego and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis, Penguin Press, 9781594201677
Ginger Strand, Inventing Niagara: Beauty Power and Lies, S&S, 9781416546566
Hood Ann, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, Norton, 9780393064568
Ted Sorenson, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, HarperCollins, 9780060798710
Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, St. Martin's, 9780312342029
Jill Price, The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science, Free Press, 9781416561767
Dudley Clendinen, A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age, Viking, 9780670018840

Children's Books
Interview
Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Princess Ben, Houghton Mifflin, 9780618959716

Meet the Illustrator
Jeremy Tankard, Me Hungry!, Candlewick, 9780763633608

Children's Reviews
Blue Balliett, The Calder Game, Scholastic, 9780439852074
Kathi Appelt, The Underneath, Atheneum, 9781416950585
Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key, Viking, 9780670010882
Sarah O'Leary Burningham, How to Raise Your Parents, Chronicle, 9780811856966

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