Sept. 16, 2014 9:50 AM PT Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy Link URLCopied! Print 1 Lifestyle Editor’s note Information about upcoming changes in book coverageJuly 27, 2008 2 Lifestyle ‘Alfred & Emily’ by Doris Lessing The Nobel Prize-winning novelist re-imagines the lives of her parents.July 27, 2008 3 Lifestyle ‘The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde’ edited by David W. Bernstein An account of the pioneering electronic music center in San FranciscoJuly 27, 2008 4 Lifestyle ‘Lost in Uttar Pradesh’ by Evan S. Connell Collection of stories is both brilliantly insightful and frustratingly shallowJuly 27, 2008 5 Lifestyle ‘Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age’ by Maggie Jackson Technology is turning us into a nation of scatterbrains.July 27, 2008 6 Lifestyle ‘One More Year’ by Sana Krasikov Emigrants from the former Soviet Union, and some who still live there, contemplate straitened lives.July 27, 2008 7 Lifestyle ‘The Count of Concord’ by Nicholas Delbanco The notorious, adventurous life of American traitor Benjamin Thompson.July 27, 2008 8 Lifestyle ‘How to Build a House: A Novel’ by Dana Reinhardt In helping a Southern town rebuild after a tornado strikes, a teen discovers the complexities of race and adult life when she falls in love with a boy from a mixed-race family.July 27, 2008 9 Lifestyle ‘The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe,’ Gershon David Hundert, editor in chief A comprehensive and illustrative look at shtetl life.July 27, 2008 10 Lifestyle ‘Best of the Web 2008’ The collection of online literature, from series editor Nathan Leslie and guest editor Steve Almond, offers a range of voices rarely found together.July 27, 2008
