NPR BooksWriting On The Sly, Nathaniel Rich's Secret DebutIt took over five years for Nathaniel Rich to finish his first novel — maybe because he was writing The Mayor's Tongue secretly, first as a college student, and then while writing film criticism during the day. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us Categories: NPR Books
Sontag On Sontag: Journals Record A Writer's BirthIn the first installment of her journals, Susan Sontag exhibits the fierce critical intelligence that distinguishes her work — along with a vulnerability that may surprise. The result is an absorbing chronicle of emotional and intellectual self-discovery. Categories: NPR Books
Amid Slumping Sales, Borders Replaces CEOWith holiday sales down almost 12 percent, Borders has replaced its CEO and it appears the bookseller might be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. The company has named Ron Marshall as its new CEO; he replaces George Jones. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us Categories: NPR Books
Novel Regards Slave Trade In ReverseIn British writer Bernardine Evaristo's new novel, Blonde Roots, African slave traders raid Europe. Evaristo wields language and messes with history and geography with the gusto of someone having a great time with a great subject. Categories: NPR Books
A Childhood Tragedy, Seen From The 'Periphery'Fate is the protagonist in Patricia Ferguson's masterful Peripheral Vision, which examines the effects one unhappy accident has on a constellation of characters. Categories: NPR Books
'Voluntary Madness' Details Life In 'Loony Bin'Norah Vincent spent 18 months living disguised as a man. The experience led to deep depression and a stay at a mental institution. Once she left, Vincent decided to check back into institutions across the country. She tells her story in Voluntary Madness. Categories: NPR Books
Temple Grandin On 'The Best Life For Animals'In her new book, Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among other creatures — possess an emotional system akin to that of humans. Categories: NPR Books
Personal War Journal Becomes Gripping MemoirIn 2005, Dana Canedy's fiance — Charles King — was deployed to Iraq. King started writing a journal to their infant son, in case he didn't make it home. After King lost his life in a roadside bomb attack, Canedy turned King's 200-page journal into a memoir, called A Journal for Jordan. Categories: NPR Books
The Wovel: Literary Alternative To Browsing BlogsA Wovel is an on-line novel written serially, with readers deciding the turns of the plot. Publisher Underland Press is hoping people who already do most of their reading surfing the web will return each week to read the next installment. Categories: NPR Books
Civil Rights Poets Wrote Prologue For ChangeLangston Hughes and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper are prominent African-American poets who wrote about civil rights and whose work still resonates today. Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller about Harper's and Hughes' work and what it means in this time of change in America. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us Categories: NPR Books
What We Don't Know About Sherman's MarchAuthor Noah Andre Trudeau's book, Southern Storm, is about Sherman's March and what actually happened during this famous Civil War event. Categories: NPR Books
Cataloging The Ever-Changing English LanguageLanguage consultant Jeremy Butterfield, author of A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare, talks about the odd words he's come across and the Oxford English Corpus, an electronic database of more than 2 billion words. Categories: NPR Books
'Postcards' Charts China's Economic RiseFor the last two years, James Fallows has followed China's astounding double-digit growth in a series of quirky essays for the Atlantic Monthly. His stories are now collected in a new book, Postcards From Tomorrow Square. Categories: NPR Books
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