10 books soon be published include a new story collection by Alice Munroe and a memoir from Mary Karr, who started the whole memoir craze with "The Liars Club" way back when. Check 'em out.
Category: New Books
“Homer & Langley” is now available
E. L. Doctorow's new novel is based on the true story of the eccentric Collyer brothers who lived in New York City. Today, September 1, is its publication date. Here's a quick idea of what it's all about.
Shame on you Barnes & Noble
I purchased Thomas Pynchon's new novel "Inherent Vice" and couldn't believe where I found it.
The stupidity that thrills
Do characters in thriller fiction always have to be so shallow? It's a reason I don't like the genre. Plus, a review of Jason Starr's new thriller "Panic Attack."
There are no dead
William Styron. Charles Bukowski. Vladimir Nabokov. Books from these great, late authors will be published this Fall. The big news - and the interesting story - is Nabokov's book.
The true subject of “Wanting”
Richard Flanagan says his new book is about desire. But it's the historical events and characters (the novelist Charles Dickens and the explorer Sir John Franklin) that make it memorable.
Dear Gertrude
A book about Gertrude Tennant published by Yale University Press offers up 24 new letters written by Gustave Flaubert to the Victorian lady. A rare discovery.
Ponder me, remember me
"Do Not Deny Me" is a new short story collection whose characters are drawn from everyday life. Facing distressing circumstances, they reach for hope and new ways to go forward.
A bookshop across the pond
While reading the London Review of Books, I discovered some upcoming Fall releases in the U.S. are already available in the U.K. I also found a new place to spend my money - at the London Review Bookshop.
He couldn’t stop
Walter Kirn's new memoir mocks the academic meritocracy that deemed him a scholarly achiever. "Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever" reveals he was a student who collected academic awards and prizes, honors and commendations, as if it were a game to be played and not an education to be gained. It's a sobering and funny book.
“The Photographer”
Photojournalist Didier Lefevre traveled into the far northern reaches of Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders in 1986. The leader of the expedition invited Didier so he could document the mission's effort to set up a small field hospital in the war-torn nation. "The Photographer" tells the mission's story in black and white photographs knitted together with prose and artwork in the style of a graphic novel. It's a visual treat.
Libby needs a happy place
"Dark Places" is Gillian Flynn's new novel set in Kansas during 1985 and the present. It's a fictional crime story about a family murder reinvestigated by the surviving daughter, Libby, 25 years after it happened. Had the author created a more convincing Libby, "Dark Places" would be a terrific story instead of acceptable entertainment.
No lucky guess, but a lucky child
In his moving Holocaust memoir, Thomas Burgenthal recounts the miraculous story of his survival in Auschwitz as a 10-year-old separated from his parents. In his Acknowledgements, he writes about the difficulties in getting his memoir published in the United States.
Where do underpants come from?
Six books coming out this summer that are worth taking a look at, including works by best-selling novelist Richard Russo and journalist Bob Greene.
The Longest Chapter 