Complete book coverage for Sunday, June 21, 2009
Inside: Marion Winik on the art of memoir, memoir crime and the ethics of telling others people’s stories, Goat Song by Brad Kessler, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Danzy Senna, Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays edited by Brendan Burford, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going by Damion Searls, The Essays of Leonard Michaels, Substrate by Jim Powell
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What do they really do with all that time?
June 21, 2009
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You don’t have to be a hippie to long to exist harmoniously with the planet.
June 21, 2009
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Dragging the past into the present can have serious ramifications for memoirists -- and all who have crossed their paths.
June 21, 2009
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Superheroes, step aside: The comic art can explore nuance and delicacy as this anthology of ‘nonfiction picto-essays’ demonstrates.
June 21, 2009
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Lost in translations: an unusual collection of stories inspired by five unlikely authors.
June 21, 2009
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A collection of his brilliant, funny and uncategorizable pieces is published for the first time under one cover.
June 21, 2009
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Is this a book of poems about nature, or something else entirely?
June 21, 2009
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Down Around Midnight A Memoir of Crash and Survival Robert Sabbag Viking: 216 pp., $25.95 “The things I remember,” writes Robert Sabbag of the night 28 years earlier when the plane he took to Cape Cod crashed in a forest outside Hyannis, “are among those things I continually have to remind myself to forget.”
June 21, 2009
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In a reissue of his “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies,” we see how Banham challenged stereotypes with controversial claims about the city’s status.
June 21, 2009
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Reissues include classic authors like Stephen Crane and Gay Talese; a study of the “American Nerd” and more.
June 21, 2009
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Fiction weeks on list1.The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $27.99) A recently downsized reporter investigates a serial killer who uses his computer job to find his victims. 2 2.Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Random House: $25) Two sisters from Shanghai encounter tragedy and heartbreak as they are sold into arranged marriages in 1930s Los Angeles. 2 3.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 48 4.Skin Trade by Laurell K.
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