Complete books coverage for Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:”A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter, A talk with Yiyun Li, Supermarket by Satoshi Azuchi, Flannery by Brad Gooch, Chronic by DA Powell, The Lost City of Z by David Grann
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Digitizing the world of medieval manuscripts -- and beyond
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Follow American female writers’ path from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the 19th century to 20th century writers like Gwendolyn Brooks (pictured) to the latest bestseller list.
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Flannery A Life of Flannery O’Connor Brad Gooch Little, Brown: 416 pp., $30 Brad Gooch opens “Flannery,” his biography of Flannery O’Connor, with a lost moment: an account of how when O’Connor was 5, the Pathe newsreel company sent a cameraman to her home in Savannah, Ga., to film a chicken she had trained to walk backward.
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Poet writes about love’s ability to turn a person inside out.
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There’s a whole slew of mysteries featuring animal detectives. Does that mean bookstores should have a section marked ‘anthropomorphic noir’?
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A fascinating account of retracing the Amazon journey of vanished explorer Percy Fawcett, thought to have inspired the creation of Indiana Jones.
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Books by Leanne Shapton, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Tim Farrington
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Fiction weeks on list1.The Associate by John Grisham (Doubleday : $27.95) A dark secret forces a law school graduate to take a job at a corrupt law firm that could cost him his life.1 2.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney(Amulet: $12.95) Greg’s dad enlists him in organized sports in order to toughen him up.3 3.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 30 4.The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco: $25.95) A mute dog breeder is banished by his uncle à la “Hamlet.”295.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation.276.Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality.277.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $24.95) A journalist explores the cold-case disappearance of a Swedish teen heiress. 78.Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich (St.
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Fiction 1. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates ($14.95) 2. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 3.
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Author and book events for the week of Feb. 15, 2009
