HIGH WIRE: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
HIGH WIRE: The Precarious Financial Lives of American FamiliesPeter Gosselin
Basic
ISBN 978-0465002252
374 pages
$26.95
THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND: Reports from
Source:HIGH WIRE: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
OUTLAW JOURNALIST: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson
William McKeen
Norton
ISBN 978 0 393 06192 5
428 pages
$27.95
Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley
Hunter Stockton Thompson, who took his own life three years ago at the
age of 67,
Source:OUTLAW JOURNALIST: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson
THE END OF FOOD
THE END OF FOOD Paul Roberts
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 978-0618606238
390 pages
$26
STUFFED AND STARVED: The Hidden Battle for the World Food SystemRaj
Source:THE END OF FOOD
THE LITTLE BOOK
Selden Edwards
Dutton
ISBN 978-0525950615
405 pages
$25.95
Reviewed by Ron Charles
What if you could travel back in time, strangle 8-year-old Hitler and
avert the Holocaust?
Source:THE LITTLE BOOK
THE WRITING LIFE In which the author obsesses about potshots by amateur critics on Amazon.com.
ISBN NA
Reviewed by Chris Bohjalian
The other day my daughter, 14, saw me hunched over a laptop, cringing at
the customer reviews of my novels on Amazon.com and bn.com. “Why do you
insist on tormenting yourself?
Source:THE WRITING LIFE In which the author obsesses about potshots by amateur critics on Amazon.com.
WHEN WE WERE ROMANS
Matthew Kneale
Doubleday
ISBN 978-0385526258
224 pages
$23.95
Reviewed by Donna Rifkind
Matthew Kneale is an extraordinary British writer whose new novel is
easy to admire
Source:WHEN WE WERE ROMANS
POET'S CHOICE
ISBN NA
Reviewed by Mary Karr
Philip Larkin almost tried to sound unattractive and misanthropic. How’d
he describe himself at Oxford? As a balding salmon. Ultraconservative in
politics and art, he praised
Source:POET'S CHOICE
CHRIS COHJALIAN Imagine that.
ISBN NA
Reviewed by Marie Arana
The boy Chris Bohjalian describes as his youthful self is a sorry sight:
fat, doomed to orthodontists’ headgear, the perpetual new kid in town.
“For four consecutive years, I went
Source:CHRIS COHJALIAN Imagine that.
THE SISTER
Poppy Adams
Knopf
ISBN 978-0307268167
273 pages
$23.95
Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle
Who cares about moths? Butterflies I can see making a hobby of. They
undergo that
Source:THE SISTER
TREE OF RIVERS: The Story of the Amazon
John Hemming
Thames & Hudson
ISBN 978-0500514016
368 pages
$39.95
Reviewed by Edgardo Krebs
In “Atlas”, a book about travel, Jorge Luis Borges wrote that we should
not
Source:TREE OF RIVERS: The Story of the Amazon
