Monsters and Critics

Article archive for category "Books"

Wednesday 14 May 2008

• New children’s imprint: Walden Pond Press
• Another yawner from James Frey
• New book: The Boat

Tuesday 13 May 2008

• New book from Bob Dylan’s old girlfriend
• The most expensive bottle of wine
• Carly Simon found “Girls Like Us” painful

Monday 12 May 2008

• Leonard Cohen: Beautiful Loser, Beautiful Comeback by Judith Fitzgerald
• Book about war ironically called ‘Peace’
• The Fall of Bob Frost
• Featured Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Book Review: The Water Garden
• Book Review: The Indiana Jones Handbook
• Book Review: Inspired to Knit
• Book Review: Armed & Magical

Sunday 11 May 2008

• Memoir by daughter about famous father
• Nixonland

Saturday 10 May 2008

• 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
• New novel set during Cultural Revolution

Friday 09 May 2008

• Interview with Jimmy Buffett
• Another contrived book about dysfunction
• Man loves China and a whole lot more

Thursday 08 May 2008

• New book will depress you
• Boris Yeltsin’s life
• Author/gang member gets 6 years in jail

Wednesday 07 May 2008

• Stephenie Meyer’s The Host
• The Post-American World
• Prince is working on book
• Featured Book Review: Taken by Daphne Marlatt

Tuesday 06 May 2008

• Serve the People!
• Hot shot guy from Random House will step down
• New Barbara Walters memoir with “secrets”

Monday 05 May 2008

• Book Review: Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
• Book Review: Everyday Cat Excuses
• Book Review: Blood Bank
• Book Review: The Whole Truth
• Book Review: The Mother Factor
• A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
• The book of ballet
• A new look at the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Featured Book Review: Everyman Library by Irene Nemirovsky

Sunday 04 May 2008

• Girl doesn’t have shadow
• All about Presidents and their speech writers

Saturday 03 May 2008

• How trade shaped the world
• The CIA: successes and failures

Friday 02 May 2008

• William Warner dies
• With his fifth memoir critics are tiring of Augusten Burroughs
• Darryl Strawberry is writing memoir

Thursday 01 May 2008

• Book Review: The Seventh Tower by Garth Nix
• All about Spitzer and his hooker
• All about Shakespeare’s wife
• Louise Erdrich’s latest novel
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for May: Dubliners by James Joyce

Wednesday 30 April 2008

• Book Review: The Templar, The Queen and Her Lover: A Knights Templar Mystery by Michael Jecks
• Book Review: The Adversary by Michael Walters
• Tony Horwitz is back
• Featured Book Review: Dubliners by James Joyce
• Novel says women can’t have it all

Tuesday 29 April 2008

• Book Review: Panda by Heather Angel
• Book Review: The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey
• Clinton in Exile: a life after the White House
• Nabokov’s son plans to defy father’s wish
• New book from deceased author

Monday 28 April 2008

• The man who pushed America to war?
• Featured Book Review: The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen (edited by Meaghan Strimas)
• Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country
• Book Review: Frida Kahlo: The Still Lifes
• Book Review: Lamplighter
• Book Review: A Kiss Before the Apocalypse
• Book Review: A Little Stranger
• Book Review: Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
• Book Review: The Gatherer
• Book Review: God: The Failed Hypothesis

Sunday 27 April 2008

• New book uncovers life of psychiatrist
• New book about nutty women

Saturday 26 April 2008

• Book tells Civil War through letters
• New novel: Trauma

Friday 25 April 2008

• Iceland set for Frankfurt Book Fair spotlight in 2011
• Jimmy Carter’s mother is remarkable new bio notes
• Short Story: Maps of the Bible by Jason Sanford
• Mailer’s mistress sells his sex papers to Harvard
• Featured Book Review: Tin Lizard Tales: Reflections From A Train by Schuyler T. Wallace
• Huckabee writing book on losing the race

Thursday 24 April 2008

• Late Nights on Air
• Standing up for things when no one else will
• Miley Cyrus planning memoir

Wednesday 23 April 2008

• When married to a famous novelist, write a book yourself
• Children’s book from Laura and Jenna Bush
• Dr. Seuss pleas: save the trees!
• Featured Book Review: Purdytion (Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets) by Al Purdy

Tuesday 22 April 2008

• Book Review: We Will Be Heard
• Book Review: Nebula Awards Showcase 2008
• Book Review: The Voice
• Book Review: Fat-It's Not What You Think
• Book Review: The Triumph of Deborah
• Book Review: Lady and the Vamp
• Wikipedia to be converted to a book in Germany
• New book: Reckless finance and spending
• Children’s book will be published by Dutch critic of Islam
• The Harry Potter trial: still anyone’s game

Monday 21 April 2008

• Rushdie must choose his works wisely, article notes
• Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
• The Doctor of Country Music: Driven By a Dream: By Judith Fitzgerald
• The 20th Century is becoming history

Sunday 20 April 2008

• Alexander McCall Smith: book and interview
• New children’s book about plastic surgery
• New Richard Stark novel: Dirty Money

Saturday 19 April 2008

• New novel by Colin Harrison: The Finder
• New book: Joni, Carly, & Carole

Friday 18 April 2008

• The Forgery of Venus
• New book: history of the Panama Canal
• Potter trial comes to an end

Thursday 17 April 2008

• The search for Arab Israeli peace
• Interview with author about new ‘crime’ novel
• Potter fan a crybaby in court

Wednesday 16 April 2008

• New collection by William Styron
• Counting down the days till Rumsfeld memoir
• Encyclopedia is theft, Rowling claims
• Featured Book Review: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Tuesday 15 April 2008

• Hemingway clone lives in the Bronx
• Philip Roth turns 75 and is celebrated
• Rowling feels her creativity has been ‘crushed’

Monday 14 April 2008

• Book Review: Before They Are Hanged
• Book Review: Dragons Wild
• Book Review: Dirty Money
• Book Review-The Raven
• Dying to know about Allen Ginsberg in India?
• Harry Potter goes to court
• God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut by Judith Fitzgerald

Sunday 13 April 2008

• Right of the Dial has too many clichés reviewer notes
• Terror and Consent gets praise

Saturday 12 April 2008

• Slavery by another name
• Norman Mailer memorial

Friday 11 April 2008

• Baseball books make for good roundup
• New collection of stories by Cynthia Ozick
• Featured Book Review: Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton
• New in-depth with Brad Steiger

Thursday 10 April 2008

• New Martin Amis ‘pretentious’ and ‘formalistic’
• The Kurds and their shaping of Iraq
• From fake memoirs to fake authors

Wednesday 09 April 2008

• Ariel Sharon’s son writing memoir
• Keep all your personalities happy
• History made funny

Tuesday 08 April 2008

• ‘Bonk’ author ‘fluffy, facile and formulaic’
• The tie between physical labor and ethical values
• New travel memoir: the Dalai Lama

Monday 07 April 2008

• Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance
• What some are saying about Bhutto’s last book
• Basketball and the early days
• Featured Book Review: Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
• Book Review: Infected
• Book Review: A World Too Near
• Book Review: The Alchemist's Code
• Book Review: Jewelry Studio: Wire Wrapping
• Book Review: The Secret Bride
• Book Review: Hollywood Crows
• Book Review: Bead Romantique

Sunday 06 April 2008

• New book: Arnie and Jack
• Parenting Inc. are we making our kids spoiled brats?
• Kathleen Turner and Nick Cage settle libel dispute

Saturday 05 April 2008

• Crime reporter turned mystery writer
• New book: Generation X

Friday 04 April 2008

• Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
• Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice
• New Lahiri Collection followed by predictable praise
• Featured Book Review: The Bay of Love and Sorrows by David Adams Richards

Thursday 03 April 2008

• Spanish writer dies at 81
• Head Case: Stories of brain injury

Wednesday 02 April 2008

• The Runner: A slim book that doesn’t run very long
• Jerry Falwell: His Life and Legacy
• New book: The Bin Ladens
• Stephen King and family will give reading on April 4

Tuesday 01 April 2008

• Iraq: no end in sight
• Jess’s Book Club Pick For April: US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man by Charlie LeDuff
• Featured Book Review Of Charlie LeDuff’s US Guys: The True And Twisted Mind Of The American Man
• Helen Mirren shares life in new book

Monday 31 March 2008

• New short story collection from Tobias Wolff
• Two Julie Andrews books
• The battle for Japan
• Featured Book Review: Mr. Potter: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid

Sunday 30 March 2008

• Book Review: Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths
• Book Review: Magic Burns
• Book Review: Jane Goodall: A Biography
• Book Review: Fifteen Minutes of Shame
• Book Review: Shibori Knitted Felt
• Book Review: Start Spinning
• Book Review: The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
• Book Review: Misspelled
• Book Review: The Blue Star
• Book Review: Rolling Thunder
• Jane Fonda’s new book: a sequel and 70
• Oddest book title of the year awarded
• ‘The Sum of Our Days’

Saturday 29 March 2008

• New Kurt Vonnegut: Armageddon in Retrospect
• A governor with a book deal

Friday 28 March 2008

• Hugh Jackman joins Virgin for new comic creation
• The man and his thesaurus
• Featured Book Review: Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life by Constance Brown Kuriyama
• WPA and The Great Depression

Thursday 27 March 2008

• Revenge of the Living Dummy: the new Harry Potter?
• The Ghost War plot driven and quick moving

Wednesday 26 March 2008

• Book Review: Dancing with Demons by Peter Tremayne
• Book Review: Genie Us by Steve Cole and Linda Chapman
• Sam Beckett will be saluted
• The End of the Jews
• Political jokes should be taken seriously writer writes

Tuesday 25 March 2008

• Book Review: The Summoning by E.E. Richardson
• Book Review: Bansi O'Hara and the Bloodline Prophecy by John Dougherty
• Throes of Democracy
• In defense of religious equality

Monday 24 March 2008

• Book Review: The Bromeliad by Terry Pratchett
• Book Review: A Small Part of History by Peggy Elliott
• Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
• Featured Book Review: Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
• The arrogance of population planners?
• Russian secrets and scandal uncovered in new novel

Saturday 22 March 2008

• Book Review: Clean Cut By Lynda La Plante
• The Great Warming and climate change
• New short story collection: Knockemstiff

Friday 21 March 2008

• Book Review: Soldier of Fortune By Edward Marston
• Book Review: The Art Thief by Noah Charney
• Turning Tables…a novel of waitressing
• From the life of an animal surgeon
• Featured Book Review: Fidel Castro: A Spoken Autobiography

Thursday 20 March 2008

• Book Review: Dark Horse by John Francome
• Book Review: Special Operations: Dogfight by Craig Simpson
• Belgian author Hugo Claus has died
• Borders Group Inc. might be sold
• Featured Book Review: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Wednesday 19 March 2008

• Book Review: The Templar by Paul Doherty
• Book Review: Innocent Blood by Elizabeth Corley
• Magda Cordell McHale has died
• Windy City: A Novel of Politics
• Arthur C. Clarke has died
• Happy birthday to the peace symbol

Tuesday 18 March 2008

• Book Review: Joe Rat by Mark Barratt
• Book Review: The Stranger from Home by Frederic Lindsay
• Book Review: Affair of the Mutilated Mink, The (Missing Mysteries) by James Anderson
• Richard Price’s ‘Lush Life’
• Book Review: Girls in Trucks
• Book Review: The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan
• Book Review: The Martian General's Daughter
• Book Review: The Hidden City
• Are pharmaceutical companies just a bunch of scammers?
• Book Review: Forgetting
• Book Review: Tangled Webs

Monday 17 March 2008

• Intelligent Talk Radio interview discusses phony memoirs
• Senator shares cancer battle in book
• The impact of stand-up comedy
• Featured Book Review: Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway

Sunday 16 March 2008

• Some erotic doggerel for the masses
• Why We’re Liberals
• New novel: Dreamers of the Day

Saturday 15 March 2008

• A nice novelist donates money
• Last Harry Potter will be split into 2 films

Friday 14 March 2008

• Business for the ‘Superclass’
• Another Tom Perrotta novel to become a film
• Featured Book Review: Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

Thursday 13 March 2008

• New business book: Death to All Sacred Cows
• In celebration of Stegner

Wednesday 12 March 2008

• In depth interview with Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie LeDuff
• Yet another vapid celebrity ‘tell all’: Tori Spelling
• Featured Book Review: Museum of Bone and Water by Nicole Brossard
• More on Hemingway’s letters

Tuesday 11 March 2008

• A long line of literary frauds and hoaxes
• A must read: Jacob Riis
• New thriller from Linda Fairstein

Monday 10 March 2008

• Book Review: Good Neighbors, Bad Times
• Book Review: Grimspace
• Book Review: Goblin War
• Book Review: A Million is Not Enough
• The Outlaw Demon Wails
• For the love of birds
• Featured Book Review: Still Here by Linda Grant

Sunday 09 March 2008

• The Sexual Paradox: women vs. men
• The Everyman: Irène Némirovsky

Saturday 08 March 2008

• Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
• Junot Díaz wins National Book Critics Award

Friday 07 March 2008

• Jeffrey Archer: in stores and interviewed
• Chick lit novel ‘clichéd’

Thursday 06 March 2008

• WWII the beginning, the end or just no clue?
• The Second World, global order and all that good stuff
• Countdown Interview with Jim C. Hines
• Featured Book Review of Goblin War by Jim C. Hines

Wednesday 05 March 2008

• More on the literary fraud front
• A brief history of soccer
• Latest Picoult novel more ‘contrived than inspired’ reviewer notes

Tuesday 04 March 2008

• Another memoir is all lies
• Tired of the Oprah Cult?
• Incognegro: a black man who can pass for white

Monday 03 March 2008

• Book Review: Cult Watches
• Book Review: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
• Book Review: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
• Book Review: Funny Boys
• Book Review: Stitch Graffiti: Unexpected Cross-Stitch
• Book Review: Lost Time
• Book Review: Deep Inside
• Featured Book Review: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Translated by Anne Carson
• Army cartooning Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
• Holocaust author admits her book is false
• Featured Book Review: Desperate Passage by Ethan Rarick

Sunday 02 March 2008

• Depressed looking and thin, Olsen twins write about fashion.
• The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
• New book by rapper Eminem

Saturday 01 March 2008

• Author admits to distorting facts in her Holocaust memoir
• J.K. Rowling would feel ‘exploited’
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for March: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Friday 29 February 2008

• From Oscar to Naked Pics, here’s another from Diablo Cody
• New book offers: elections aren’t fair
• NYT offers tribute to William F. Buckley

Thursday 28 February 2008

• The great comic book scare
• Beautiful Children available online…for free!
• Reporter-Murder tale: the latest scoop
• Featured Book Review: Making a Stone of the Heart by Cynthia Flood

Wednesday 27 February 2008

• ‘The City of the Sun’ radiates
• Anne before Green Gables

Tuesday 26 February 2008

• Monster…a book of movie clichés
• Jonathan Maslow dies
• Weird book titles anyone?
• Featured Book Review of Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Monday 25 February 2008

• Book Review: This May Help You Understand the World
• Book Review: Madhouse
• Book Review: Step-By-Step Jewelry Workshop
• Book Review: The Killer's Wife
• Book Review: Theft
• Book Review: Simply Modern Jewelry
• Book Review: A Magic of Twilight
• Nazi literature and other light reading
• Featured Book Review: The Reserve by Russell Banks
• New Richard Wright novel

Sunday 24 February 2008

• Author Robin Moore dies
• Author Stephen Marlowe dies

Saturday 23 February 2008

• 'The Lyncher in me'
• New Kinsella book a ‘page turner’

Friday 22 February 2008

• Featured Book Review: Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens and Red Ledger by Mary Dalton
• Beautiful Children don’t have beautiful lives
• The Gardens of Water ‘overwrought’
• A boost for Obama

Thursday 21 February 2008

• Featured Book Review: What I Was by Meg Rosoff
• Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates
• French author Robbe-Grillet dies

Wednesday 20 February 2008

• Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
• New book from Jimmy Breslin
• Featured Book Review: Worrying the Nation by Jonathan Kertzer
• New novel ‘hollow’ and ‘pathetic’

Tuesday 19 February 2008

• Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse are uniting forces
• Hats & Eyeglasses…a memoir of gambling
• Marvel…a Red Hulk, a great idea or just out of ideas?
• Book Review: New Orleans 1867
• Book Review: The Woman Who is Always Tan and Has a Flat Stomach
• Book Review: Dead to Me
• Book Review: Simpsonology
• Book Review: Mystery Date

Monday 18 February 2008

• An interesting person or a person of interest?
• Featured Book Review: Paws & Effect by Sharon Sakson
• Crimes on Mt. Everest
• New, in-depth interview with Desmond Morris

Sunday 17 February 2008

• Saving the world’s most beautiful bird
• Mystery writer Phyllis Whitney dies

Saturday 16 February 2008

• If you have money, read this (or not)
• 1960s anti-war activism discussed in new book

Friday 15 February 2008

• New book confirms Americans are stupid
• Featured Book Review: Doing the Heart Good by Neil Bissoondath
• New book from Krakauer: Pat Tillman

Thursday 14 February 2008

• Book Review: Ladykiller by Lawrence Light & Meredith Anthony
• Book Review: The Officer's Prey by Armand Cabasson & Michael Glencross
• Richard Ford leaves Knopf
• New book on the Teapot Dome
• ‘Setting the Desert on Fire’

Wednesday 13 February 2008

• Book Review: Amazing and Extraordinary Railway Facts by Julian Holland
• Book Review: Dragon Horse by Peter Ward
• Bhutto book hits the shelves
• Lincoln Prizes announced
• Featured Book Review: The Ottawa City Project, Poems From the Blue Horizon, and we live at the end of the 20th century by rob mclennan

Tuesday 12 February 2008

• Book Review: The Art of Beowulf by Mark Cotta Vaz & Steve Starkey
• Book Review: Shadow Forest by Matt Haig
• Hemingway wrote 2 plays
• The birth of ‘The New Hollywood’

Monday 11 February 2008

• Book Review: New York Echoes
• Book Review: Unquiet Dreams
• Book Review: Embrace the Night
• Book Review: 49 Sensational Skirts
• Book Review: The Inventors by Alexander Gordon Smith & Jamie Webb
• Book Review: Intrigue (Lady Grace Mysteries)
• New novel on failed ‘60s radical
• Surrender not an option
• Featured Book Review: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• New book deals with AIDS epidemic in Africa

Sunday 10 February 2008

• Book Review: The Hunting Season by Dean Vincent Carter
• Book Review: The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan
• Book Review: The Spoke by Friedrich Glauser
• Where have all the soldiers gone?
• Patricia Cornwell donates 1 million dollars

Saturday 09 February 2008

• Book Review: Sebastian Drake Prince of Pirates by Philip Caveney
• Book Review: The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways by Ruth Binney
• McCain as well as other running candidates will sell more books, publishers think
• Ever wonder what Shakespeare was like as a tenant?

Friday 08 February 2008

• Book Review: The Crochet Bible by Sue Whiting
• Book Review: Manga Pro Superstar Workshop by Colleen Doran
• New Jesse Stone book gains kudos
• Richard Dawkins new in paperback
• Featured Book Review: Gambler's Fallacy by Judith Cowan

Thursday 07 February 2008

• Book Review: Tim, Defender of the Earth! by Sam Enthoven
• New book about the death penalty ‘disturbing’
• New book talks about racism

Wednesday 06 February 2008

• Book Review: Burial Ground by John Richards
• Book Review: Astrostars: The Sun Snatchers by Steve Cole
• Leaders: our new spoken word nominees?
• Black Americans we will not forget
• Featured Book Review: The Tree of Meaning by Robert Bringhurst and The Filled Pen by P. K. Page
• Billions of Entrepreneurs

Tuesday 05 February 2008

• Book Review: Potted History by Catherine Horwood
• Let’s enter in the Commission Report
• NYT featuring political cartoons poking fun at George Bush
• Documentary remembers forgotten novelist

Monday 04 February 2008

• Book Review: The Cruise Connection (Bob Burns Series) by Peter Kerr
• Book Review: Ranger's Apprentice: The Icebound Land by John Flanagan
• Book Review: Murder in Midwinter by Lesley Cookman
• Book Review: Getting Even: Revenge Stories
• Book Review: Darkling
• Book Review: The First Stone
• Book Review: Blood Moon
• Book Review: Send Yourself Roses
• New book on New Orleans a ‘wonderful read’ according to critic
• Featured Book Review: Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
• New book and evidence uncovers glimpses of the Donner Party

Sunday 03 February 2008

• New book not about Brokeback Mountain
• New book on Jefferson and his final years

Saturday 02 February 2008

• The Greatest Gift: A nun is murdered
• New book about the Bush Tragedy

Friday 01 February 2008

• New novel on Japan’s Empress
• Featured Book Review: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
• Doris Lessing notes there isn’t anywhere else to go after Nobel
• Jess’s Book Club Pick For February: Betty Smith by Valerie Raleigh Yow

Thursday 31 January 2008

• New Cornwell book: Sword Song
• Winfrey picks yet another self-help book
• Short Story: Little Pixie by Seamus Kearney

Wednesday 30 January 2008

• Jack Welch and GE
• Alas, even the Last Man must have a Last End
• New book focuses on great film kisses

Tuesday 29 January 2008

• New Grisham novel deals with rigged election, 'stick figure' characters
• Featured Book Review: Letters of Ted Hughes Edited and Selected by Christopher Reid
• Toni Morrison is pro Obama

Monday 28 January 2008

• New travel guides are pretty but not much more
• O.J. dispute finally settled
• Pat Barker’s new novel
• 'PROLOGUE,' Adagios Quartet by Judith Fitzgerald
• Book Review: Skeletons in the Closet: Stories from the County Morgue
• Book Review: Small Favor
• Book Review: Something Magic This Way Comes
• Book Review: Stephen Hawking: A Biography

Sunday 27 January 2008

• New bio on Pound the Poet
• Famous killer’s diary is published by college

Saturday 26 January 2008

• New book on the logic of life
• Don Imus stirs up more controversy

Friday 25 January 2008

• New book ‘The Republic of Suffering’
• Featured Book Review: A Whistling Woman by A. S. Byatt
• What’s new from Russell Banks?
• Fidel Castro’s autobiography

Thursday 24 January 2008

• Prolific mystery writer dies
• Mathematician proves God does not exist
• New Memoir on wartime Berlin

Wednesday 23 January 2008

• Robert Frost’s words are up for dispute
• Add to Henry VIII’s love life: New book on Jane Boleyn

Tuesday 22 January 2008

• Interview with Valerie Raleigh Yow author of 'Betty Smith'
• Featured Book Review: Betty Smith: Life of the Author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Valerie Raleigh Yow
• New Stephen King novel: Duma Key
• Project President: a dirty business

Monday 21 January 2008

• How the CIA Played America
• Man searches for happiest place on earth
• Book Review: The Geography of Bliss
• Book Review: Death of a Gentle Lady
• Book Review: Knight's Lady
• Book Review: Relics of Eden
• Book Review: Why Smart Companies Do Dumb Things
• Book Review: Starship: Mercenary
• Book Review: Ranger's Apprentice Book Four: The Battle for Skandia
• Book Review: The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters

Sunday 20 January 2008

• New book attempts to expose the dirty side of coal
• A new bio on an old poet

Saturday 19 January 2008

• New book criticizes Internet culture
• Tom Cruise biographer accused of telling ‘vicious lies’ to heighten sales

Friday 18 January 2008

• The 30 Ways of looking at Hillary
• ‘Redbreast’ is ‘vivid’ according to review
• Featured Book Review: Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe

Thursday 17 January 2008

• New bio on Washington Irving
• Roger Moore will write memoir
• George Michael will write autobiography

Wednesday 16 January 2008

• Featured Book Review: The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem
• The Anatomy of Deception a ‘thrill’
• When Doctors become Patients
• Disney plans the release of Indian language storybooks

Tuesday 15 January 2008

• Cormac McCarthy papers go to Texas State
• John Newbery Winner announced
• New book about lusting for houses

Monday 14 January 2008

• Book Review: Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers
• Book Review: Simple Ways: Towards the Sacred
• Bookj Review: The Crazy School
• Book Review: Beginner's Greek
• Book Review: Breath and Bone
• Book Review: An Ice Cold Grave
• New children’s books celebrate the love of animals
• A Biography of the First Amendment

Sunday 13 January 2008

• New book on the rise of Neoconservatives
• Holly’s widow fighting the publication of Buddy Holly book

Saturday 12 January 2008

• Dipping Their Toes in the Genre Pool: The U.S. Literary Establishment's Need-Hate Relationship with Speculative Fiction
• Julia Roberts and Knitting
• New bio on Tom Cruise

Friday 11 January 2008

• Tina Brown will write book on Clintons
• USA Today’s roundup of historical fiction
• ‘The Senator’s Wife’ a new Sue Miller story

Thursday 10 January 2008

• Spiderman fans in an uproar over Spidey and MJ marriage
• Daniel Schorr summarizes 20 years of politics in new book
• New book offers analysis of rap music

Wednesday 09 January 2008

• Featured Book Rview: Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs by Phil Freeman
• Star Wars: Darth Bane
• So what if Mrs. Roosevelt had run for President?

Tuesday 08 January 2008

• Author is suing Jerry Seinfeld’s wife for plagiarism, defamation
• People of the Book by Brooks
• More info on Bhutto’s book

Monday 07 January 2008

• Radical Islam’s threat: The Suicide of Reason
• Featured Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• Islam and the making of Europe
• Book Review: The Unnatural Inquirer
• Book Review: Iron Kissed
• Book Review: Stalked
• Book Review: Sway

Sunday 06 January 2008

• New book about Jew-Hatred
• From governor to ‘Venture Ventura’

Saturday 05 January 2008

• A book that begs to defy Dixie
• New Parrot memoir will hit the shelves

Friday 04 January 2008

• Author of Flashman Novels dies at 82
• Featured Book Review: Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
• Kate and Leo reunite in film based on Yates novel

Thursday 03 January 2008

• Tom Wolfe splits from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• New book on James Baldwin’s Harlem life
• New bio on Alfred Kazin

Wednesday 02 January 2008

• Penguin reissues Classic ‘Arabian Sands’ and ‘The Marsh Arabs’
• Someone vandalized Robert Frost

Tuesday 01 January 2008

• New book that defends food
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for January: Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

Monday 31 December 2007

• Featured Book Review Of Anton Chekhov’s Ward No. 6 And Other Stories
• New book: the man behind Sherlock Holmes

Sunday 30 December 2007

• Book Review: Blue Heaven
• Book Review: The Bookaholic's Guide to Book Blogs
• Book Review: Revolutionary Spirits
• Book Review: Robert E. Lee
• Book Review: Witch Ember
• The history of the Kitchen and all other good things
• Fantastic Four goes to Spanish in new issue

Saturday 29 December 2007

• NYT reviewers list their favorites for 2007
• HarperCollins in a hurry to put out Bhutto book

Friday 28 December 2007

• Featured Book Review: Taro & Tomi: My Feline Son and Daughter by Shizue Tomoda
• New bio on Condoleezza Rice
• Harry Potter Book of the Year?
• New novel from Nobel winner Coetzee

Thursday 27 December 2007

• Book Review: Pressured Parents, Stressed Out Kids
• Book Review: No More Angels
• Book Review: School for Scumbags
• Book Review: Dead Over Heels
• Book Review: The Future We Wish We Had
• True story behind Gray’s Anatomy
• Memoir addresses child life in Bombay and other stuff

Wednesday 26 December 2007

• How certain stuff got its name
• Samedi the Deafness: a new Ball novel

Monday 24 December 2007

• 89 year old historian Burns has new plans
• French ‘hermit’ writer dies

Sunday 23 December 2007

• Henry James: The Mature Master
• Karl Rove will make mucho bucks for memoir

Saturday 22 December 2007

• Broncos kicker has new book
• Studs Terkel has new memoir

Friday 21 December 2007

• Featured Book Review of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
• Critics agree about ‘Three Cups of Tea’
• No book will be from Britney Spears’ mom

Thursday 20 December 2007

• The Internet’s influence on the 2008 Presidential Campaign
• Travel journalists lie according to new book

Wednesday 19 December 2007

• Alice Walker papers will go to Emory University
• New novel deals with Capote and Harper Lee

Tuesday 18 December 2007

• New book addresses sex with robots
• Fantasy writer Pratchett has Alzheimer's

Monday 17 December 2007

• Wife of ‘Brave New World’ author dies
• America Squanders...says new book
• Beethoven was 1/16th black?

Sunday 16 December 2007

• Frank McCourt’s new children’s book
• What really goes on in Guantánamo Bay

Saturday 15 December 2007

• 2 books about Latin the NYT notes
• From ‘Skinny Bitch’ to ‘In the Kitch’

Friday 14 December 2007

• Book Review: Rain Gardens by Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden
• Featured Book Review: A Walk for Sunshine by Jeff Alt
• J.K. Rowling fairy tale sells for what?
• New book about animal encounters in the wild

Thursday 13 December 2007

• Book Review: Dispensation of Death by Michael Jecks
• Book Review: A Christmas Secret by Anne Perry
• On Raymond Chandler and his woman
• Lets talk about Tokyo, one writer says

Wednesday 12 December 2007

• Book Review: Trouble with Wenlocks (Stanley Wells Mystery) by Joel Stewart
• Book Review: No Tears for the Lost by Adrian Magson
• Read the letters of John and Abigail Adams
• True stories about the standup comics in paperback
• George and Martha Washington

Tuesday 11 December 2007

• Featured Book Review: Juniper Fuse by Clayton Eshleman
• Canadian novelist Jane Rule dies
• New novel from Edgar Award winning mystery writer

Monday 10 December 2007

• Book Review: Die for Me by Karen Rose
• Book Review: Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings by David Littlefield and Saskia Lewis
• Book Review: History: The Definitive Visual Guide
• The earth and all its green
• New book on survival of the richest
• Book Review: Twisted Justice
• Book Review: The Metatemporal Detective

Sunday 09 December 2007

• Book Review: Along Lost Lines by Paul Atterbury
• Book Review: George, the Dragon and the Princess by Chris Wormell
• Another writer, another life
• ‘The Boys from Dolores’: Fidel Castro’s classmates

Saturday 08 December 2007

• Book Review: The Twig Trilogy by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
• Book Review: Fantasy Artist's Pocket Reference: Incredible Characters by Finlay Cowan
• Lawyers will defend publishing house being sued by J.K. Rowling
• New book on celebrity Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
• Book Review: Christmas Around the World

Friday 07 December 2007

• Book Review: Bad Medicine by Christopher Wanjek
• Book Review: Swansea Terminal by Robert Lewis
• Books you can drink to…or for
• The war within the Civil War
• Featured Book Review: In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall

Thursday 06 December 2007

• Book Review: No Sleep for the Dead by Adrian Magson
• Book Review: Parsleys, Fennels, and Queen Anne's Lace by Barbara Perry Lawton
• Readers should check out ‘I am Legend’
• Elizabeth Hardwick has died
• New Starbucks Book Club pick

Wednesday 05 December 2007

• Book Review: The Sonnet Lover by Carol Goodman
• Book Review: The Inferior by Peadar O. Guilin
• The 1970s…a time of bad clothes and hair
• Lessing’s publisher will deliver Nobel speech
• Christmas letters from…Hell?
• Book Review: Midnight Reign
• Book Review: When Ghosts Speak
• Book Review: Great Peacemakers
• Book Review: Signed, Mata Hari

Tuesday 04 December 2007

• Book Review: A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry
• Book Review: The Pere-Lachaise Mystery by Claude Izner
• Will another Wallace Stegner book hit the shelves?
• Books that would make good gifts...Steven Pinker is one
• Interview with Ian McEwan

Monday 03 December 2007

• A single page written by Napoleon Bonaparte sells at auction
• Featured Book Review: (another) Whole Grain Collected Poems by James Emanuel
• New interview with film critic Philip Lopate

Sunday 02 December 2007

• Spain’s literary prize goes to Argentine poet
• The essays of Truman Capote

Saturday 01 December 2007

• Boy goes from Jew to Nazi in new book
• Jess's Book Club Pick for December: The Force and the Reckoning by James Emanuel

Friday 30 November 2007

• NYT picks best books of 2007
• ‘Crawfish Mountain’ called part satire and part mystery
• Online interview with Dean Koontz
• Featured Book Review: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Thursday 29 November 2007

• Test shows U.S. 4th graders lower on literacy than desired
• 2 new volumes—both on the Constitution
• Doris Lessing too ill to attend Nobel ceremony
• New novel about love of the Irish

Wednesday 28 November 2007

• Norman Mailer wins bad sex prize
• New novel from Danish author
• ‘The Hearts of Horses’ called ‘cold’
• Book Review: The Poet's Corner
• Book Review: The Watcher
• Book Review: Seduced
• Book Review: Garden of Darkness
• Book Review: Coincidentally
• Book Review: The Jinn From Hyperspace

Tuesday 27 November 2007

• Ted Kennedy will write memoir
• Featured Book review of The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
• Schlesinger papers go to New York Public Library

Monday 26 November 2007

• Choosing royalties over loyalties should be no surprise with White House aides
• The Letters of Noel Coward
• Featured Interview with Kelly DiNardo

Sunday 25 November 2007

• Book uncovers private life in Stalin’s Russia
• Collected Poems by Charles Bukowski

Saturday 24 November 2007

• Featured Book Review: What Men Will Die For by Raymond Souster (with Les Green)
• New book examines Oklahoma City bombing
• William Trevor’s new collection

Friday 23 November 2007

• Featured Book Review: The story of a sound by Ben Ratliff
• 100 Notable Books for 2007

Thursday 22 November 2007

• Newly found Edith Wharton letter
• Chabon’s latest novel becomes ‘particularly purple’

Wednesday 21 November 2007

• 'The Natural World of Lewis and Clark'
• New book on communication and the future of media