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Barbara’s Picks, Nov. 2013, Pt. 3: Nonfiction from Auster, Bloom, Brotton, Gardiner, Halperin/Heilemann, Klima, & Robb

By Barbara Hoffert on May 20, 2013 Leave a Comment

Auster, Paul. Report from the Interior. Holt. Nov. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9780805098570. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805098594. CD: Macmillan Audio. MEMOIR At 63, celebrated novelist Auster wrote an account of his body and of physical sensation generally that was published last year as Winter Journal. In this work he charts the life of the mind, particularly [...]

Filed Under: Barbara's Picks Tagged With: autobiography, Crown, Grove, History, Holt, Knopf, memoir, Music, Norton, Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA), politics, psychology, Viking

Nonfiction Previews, Nov. 2013, Pt. 2: History & Biography, from Red Cloud to JFK to the Warsaw Uprising

By Barbara Hoffert on May 13, 2013 Leave a Comment

Davis, Wes. The Ariadne Objective: The Underground War To Rescue Crete from the Nazis. Crown. Nov. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780307460134. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780307460158. HISTORY History both crucial and swashbuckling: an odd bunch of British intelligence officers (involved because they made “the obsolete choice of Greek at school”) joined with Cretan resistance fighters and an [...]

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Nonfiction Previews, Oct. 2013, Pt. 5: Memoirs, from Chelsea Handler to Elizabeth Smart

By Barbara Hoffert on April 29, 2013 Leave a Comment

Buffett, Howard. 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World. S. & S. Oct. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9781451687866. $26. MEMOIR Farmers can anticipate 40 growing seasons—that is, 40 chances to improve their land’s yield. Son of mega-investor Warren Buffett, who once challenged him to consider what he really wanted to accomplish in life, Howard Buffett [...]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Previews Tagged With: Crown, Grand Central, Holt, memoir, Morrow, Scribner, St. Martin's

Nonfiction Previews, Oct. 2013, Pt. 2: Kennedy & Lincoln

By Barbara Hoffert on April 8, 2013 Leave a Comment

Kennedy, Caroline. Rose Kennedy’s Family Album: From the Fitzgerald Kennedy Private Collection, 1878–1946. Grand Central. Oct. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9781455544806. $40. PHOTO ESSAY Dating from 1878 through 1946, the 400-plus photographs in this volume are never-before-seen images drawn from the private collection of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, showing her growing family in its most intimate moments [...]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Previews Tagged With: Bloomsbury USA, Crown, Grand Central, History, Houghton Harcourt, photo essay, Viking

Nonfiction Previews, Sept. 2013, the Last Roundup: From Mary Beard to Eileen Rockefeller

By Barbara Hoffert on April 1, 2013 Leave a Comment

Beard, Mary. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations. Liveright: Norton. Sept. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9780871407160. $28.95. HISTORY Described by the New York Times as “the closest thing, if it exists, to a celebrity classics professor” in a story about her having stood up to some naysayers who abused her on the Internet, Cambridge scholar [...]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Previews Tagged With: Biography, birds, Blue Rider Pr: Penguin Group (USA), Blue Rider: Penguin Group (USA), civlization, Crown, Doubleday, essays, etiquette, food, Grand Central, health, History, Houghton, humor, langauge, Little Brown, Liveright: Norton, memoir, Music, Norton, performing arts, Random, religion, Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA), sports, Viking

Barbara’s Picks, Sept. 2013, Pt. 3: Barnes, Carroll, Coetzee, Ford, George, Harding, Hastings, Kennedy, Lahiri

By Barbara Hoffert on March 18, 2013 Leave a Comment

Barnes, Julian. Levels of Life. Knopf. Sept. 2013. 144p. ISBN 9780385350778. $22.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385350785. MEMOIR Not a conventional memoir—did you really expect something so mundane from the multi-award-winning author of Flaubert’s Parrot and The Sense of an Ending?—this book aims to “put together two things that have not been put together before, and the [...]

Filed Under: Barbara's Picks Tagged With: Ballantine, Crown, History, Knopf, literary fiction, memoir, Pantheon, Random, science, Viking

Fiction Previews, Sept. 2013, Pt. 3: Four Hot Debut Authors; Bodden, Kent, Smith, & Zailckas

By Barbara Hoffert on March 18, 2013 Leave a Comment

Bodden, Marlen Suyapa. The Wedding Gift. St. Martin’s. Sept. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9781250026385. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250026125. CD: Macmillan Audio. LITERARY/HISTORICAL Not every debut author sells thousands of copies of her self-published novel online before it’s snapped up by a major publisher, and not every debut author gets blurbed by Tom Wolfe and Henry Louis [...]

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Nonfiction Previews, Feb. 2013, Pt. 4: Animals, Food, and the Arts

By Barbara Hoffert on August 24, 2012 Leave a Comment

Arnot, Bob. The Aztec Diet. Morrow. Feb. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780062124050. $25.99. HEALTH/DIET What has eight times the omega-3s of salmon, six times more calcium than milk, three times more iron than spinach, 15 times more magnesium than broccoli, four times more selenium than flax, and five grams of fiber in just 70 calories? The [...]