Booklist articles from September 2008

Booklist archives from September 2008

The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower. By Robert Baer. Sept. 2008. 304p. Crown, $25.95 (9780307408648). 955.05. Baer, the former CIA agent turned best-selling author (Sleeping with the Devil, 2003), is such a...

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook. By Martha Stewart. Illus. by Marcus Nilsson and Ditte Isager. Oct. 2008. 512p. Clarkson Potter, $45 (9780307396440). 641.5. This comprehensive introduction to...

Dark Summer.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Dark Summer. BV Iris Johansen. Oct. 2008. 378p. St. Martin's, $26.95 (9780312368081). Crime Fiction. Dogs with miraculous healing abilities are at the heart of a volatile and complicated battle for power in which Dr. Devon Brady,...

Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain. By Kirsten Menger-Anderson. Oct. 2008. 304p. Algonquin, $22.95 (9781565125612) Historical Fiction. The history of medicine and medical quackery, and one family's personal history within that...

The Gate House.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Gate House. By Nelson DeMille. Oct. 2008. 640p. Grand Central, $27.99 (9780446533423). Crime Fiction. Readers who have been waiting nearly 20 years for a sequel to The GoldCoast (1990) can begin celebrating: this new novel,...

The Goliath Bone.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Goliath Bone. By Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Oct. 2008. 288p. Harcourt/Otto Penzler, $23 (9780151014545). Crime Fiction. Before Spillane died in 2006, he left several unfinished manuscripts in the hands of frequent...

A Good Woman.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... A Good Woman. By Danielle Steel. Oct. 2008. 336p. Delacorte, $27 (9780385340267). General Fiction. Annabelle Worthington, 19, lives a fairy-tale life thanks to wealthy and doting parents. Then she gets the flu and is unable to...

The Keepsake.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Keepsake. By Ten Gerritsen. Oct. 2008. 384p. Ballantine, $26 (9780345497628). Crime Fiction. Boston medical examiner Maura Isles gets a bit of a shock when a mummy, assumed to be several thousand years old, turns out to be a...

The Whiskey Rebels.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * The Whiskey Rebels. By David Liss. Sept. 2008. 544p. Random, $26 (9781400064205). Historical Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Liss is at his best when buried deep in the bowels of eighteenth-century finance, as he was in his...

A Mercy.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * A Mercy. By Toni Morrison. Nov. 2008. 176p. Knopf, $23.95 (9780307264237). Historical Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In its first pages, Morrison's latest novel seems to be a retread of the author's old themes, settings,...

Night of Thunder.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Night of Thunder. By Stephen Hunter. Oct. 2008. 304p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (9781416565116). Crime Fiction. Bob Lee Swagger is back, but he's hurting. That last scrape he got into with the samurai (The 47th Samurai, 2007) left him...

Rough Weather.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Rough Weather. By Robert B. Parker. Oct. 2008. 304p. Putnam, $26.95 (9780399155192). Crime Fiction. How readers respond to the latest Spenser will probably depend on whether they judge mysteries by their openings or their endings...

Testimony.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Testimony. By Anita Shreve. Oct. 2008. 320p. Little, Brown, $25.99 (9780316059862). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shreve, consummate craftsman and frequent provocateur, is on tire in her latest novel, a...

The World according to Bertie.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * The World according to Bertie. By Alexander McCall Smith. Nov. 2008. 343p. illus. Anchor, paper, $13.95 (9780307387066). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Six-year-old saxophonist Bertie Pollock steals the show in this...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books. 3d ed. By Harold D. Underdown. 2008. 384p. Alpha, paper, $18.95 (9781592577507). 808.06. As this revised edition states, "Children's publishing is a big business, with...

Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine. Ed. by Bill Wasik. Sept. 2008. 336p. New Press, $26.95 (9781595583932). 071. This collection of articles from Harper's showcases good, and at...

The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World. By John Demos. Oct. 2008, 310p. Viking, $25.95 (9780670019991). 133.4. For each of four instances of witch-hunting in Europe, early America, Salem...

The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons. By Gary Greenberg. Sept. 2008. 256p .Wiley, $25.95 (9780470072776). 174. Taken from the world of medicine, Greenberg's seven tales caution his readers...

The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostleof Abolition. By Thomas P. Slaughter. Sept. 2008.464p. illus. Hill & Wang. $27 (9780809095148). 289.6. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The most famous American Quaker was an unusual...

Ink-stained wretches.(The Manley Arts)(newspapers and books)
September 1, 2008... If you were to call me at home, I would answer the phone Contra Costa Times. One of the blessings of retirement is that nobody ever calls me. I love the peace and quiet. On those few occasions when the phone does ring, 9 times out of 10 it is a...

Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow. By Forrest Church. Sept. 2008. 145p. Beacon, $22 (9780807072936). 289.1092. As pastor of New York's All Souls Unitarian Church, Church is perhaps most comfortable speaking...

Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century. By Joann Faung Jean Lee. Sepr. 2008. 288p. New Press, $24.95 (9781595581525). 920. Published more than a decade after Lee's Asian Americans (1992), this riveting collection of 27 new...

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. By John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. Sept. 2008. 288p. Basic, $25.95 (9780465005154). 302.23. Boomers may think they're too cool and forever-young to find themselves...

Cancer Is a Bitch; or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Cancer Is a Bitch; or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis. By Gail Konop Baker. Oct. 2008. 256p. Da Capo/Lifelong, $22 (9780738211626). 362.19. Product of a home com by paternal abandonment, maternal psychological breakdowns,...

The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security since 9/11.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security since 9/11. By Edward Alden. Sept. 2008. 320p. HarperCollins, $27.95 (9780061558399). 325.73. After it emerged that the 9111 terrorists had exploited visa...

The Numerati.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * The Numerati. By Stephen Baker. Sept. 2008. 256p. Houghton, $26 (9780618784608). 303.48 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Every click we make, every cell phone call, every credit-card purchase enlarges our "digital dossiers," business...

Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal. By Michael Brune. Sept 2008. 264p. Sierra Club, paper, $14.95 (9781578051496). 333.79. Although it is certainly laudable that the average person has become more amenable...

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. By Cory Doctorow. Sept 2008. 288p. Tachyon, paper, $14.95 (9781892391810). 303.48. Doctorow here proves he's smart, funny, and good at...

The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future. By Guy Garcia. Oct 2008. 304p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780061353147). 306.874. Think of this book as a stodgier companion piece to...

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory. By Lisa Jardine. Sept 2008.406p. illus. HarperColiins, $35 (9780060774080). 303.482410492. Exploring the cultural interchange between England and the Netherlands in the...

Hello, Everybody!(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Hello, Everybody! By Anthony Rudel. Oct 2008. 416p. Harcourt $26 (9780151012756). 384. 540973. Broadcasting's formative decade, the 1920s, is given new airtime in Rudel's narrative of commercial radios beginnings. The big unknown...

Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles. By Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly. Oct. 2008. 384p. Overlook, $26.95 (9781585678600). 363.739. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Remember those great 1950s horror movies,...

Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. By David Bacon. Sept. 2008. 272p. Beacon, $25.95 (9780807042267). 331.6. The persistence in calling undocumented workers "illegal" signifies the...

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip Hop Generation.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip Hop Generation. By M. K. Asante. Sept. 2008. 352p. illus. St. Martin's, $25.95 (9780312373269). 305.235089. Asante (b. 1982) decries the negativity of much of mainstream hip-hop....

Lost at School: Why Our Behaviorally Challenging Kids Are Falling through the Cracks-and How We Can Help Them.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Lost at School: Why Our Behaviorally Challenging Kids Are Falling through the Cracks-and How We Can Help Them. By Ross Greene. Oct. 2008. 304p. Scribner, $24 (9781416572268). 371.93. Zero-tolerance policies in school that take...

Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning. By Kathleen Burk. Oct. 2008. 848p. Atlantic, $35 (9780871139719). 327.73041. Because of the bonds of language and the common heritage of representative government,...

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America. By Paul Tough. Sept. 2008. 304p. Houghton, $26 (9780618569892). 362.74. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Canada has captured national attention with his bold...

Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine. By Marion Nestle. Sept. 2008. 231 p. Univ. of California, $18.95 (9780520257818). 363.19. Nestle, the noted professor of nutrition and author of Food Politics (2002) and What to...

You Are Here: The Surprising Link between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... You Are Here: The Surprising Link between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet. By Thomas M, Kostigen. Oct. 2008. 256p. HarperOne, $25.95 (9780061580369). 363.7. Kostigen travels the globe to connect the dots between...

Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years. By Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui. Sepr. 2008. 320p. Portfolio, $25.95 (9781591842194). 658.4. With lessons learned from...

Branding Only Works on Cattle: The New Way to Get Known (and Drive Your Competitors Crazy).(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Branding Only Works on Cattle: The New Way to Get Known (and Drive Your Competitors Crazy). By Jonathan Salem Baskin. Sept. 2008. 272p. Business Plus, $26.99 (9780446178013). 658.8. Baskin is a branding guru, but he states flat out...

Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters. By Bill Tancer. Sept. 2008. 240p. Hyperion, $25.95 (9781401323042). 006.3. Tancer, a search-engine data miner, takes a look at our culture by evaluating the...

Where Have All the Liberals Gone?(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Where Have All the Liberals Gone? By James R. Flynn. Sept. 2008. 346p. Cambridge, $26 (9780521494311). 320.510. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Renowned researcher Flynn, an avowed social democrat, laments the lack of public debate...

Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference. By Tim Sanders. Sept. 2008. 256p. Doubleday, $23.95 (9780385523578). 658.4. Sanders was the chief solutions...

Resurrecting Hebrew.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Resurrecting Hebrew. By Ilan Stavans. Sept. 2008. 240p. Schocken, $21 (9780805242317). 492.409. This is the eleventh book in the Jewish Encounters series, and 18 more are forthcoming. Stavans, a Mexican Jew, posits that he needed...

The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English. By Henry Hitchings. Sept. 2008. 528p. Farrar, $27 (9780374254100). 422. What Hitchings shows us is that the history of our vocabulary is the history of who we really are....

Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts. By Ellen Prager. Oct. 2008. 192p. illus. Univ. of Chicago, $22.50 (9780226678702). 551.46. Prager, chief scientist of the world's...

Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset. By Thomas C. Redman. Sept. 2008. 272p. Harvard Business, $29.95 (9781422119129). 658.4. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The self-appointed Data Doc, consultant Redman...

Inside Drucker's Brain.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Inside Drucker's Brain. By Jeffrey A. Krames. Oct. 2008. 224p. Portfolio, $23.95 (9781591842224). 658.002. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Editor and publisher Krames parlays six hours spent with the late father of management, Peter...

Death from the Skies!(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Death from the Skies! By Philip Plait. Oct. 2008. 336p. illus. Viking, $24.95 (9780670019977). 520. Fans of disaster-from-space movies such as Deep Impact or Armageddon, or of science-fiction novels like Lucifer's Hammer, will...

The Barn House: Confessions of an Urban Rehabber.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Barn House: Confessions of an Urban Rehabber. By Ed Zotti. Sept. 2008. 384p. NAL, $22.95 (9780451225573). 690. In 1993 Chicagoan Zotti and his wife, in contrast to most city dwellers (who were jumping ship for the suburbs),...

A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, & Baseball Bats.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats. By Spike Carlsen. Sept. 2008. 432p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780061373565). 620.1. Who knew wood could be this fascinating? Who knew that...

Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction. By Susan Cheever. Sept. 2008. 192p. Simon & Schuster, $23 (9781416537922). 616.85. There is a thin line between intense passion for one's beloved and a frantic desire to sexually possess a casual...

The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy. By Jim Taylor and others. Sept. 2008. 240p. AMACOM, $24.95 (9780814400487). 332.024. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whom would you label as "truly wealthy"? According to market...

Anticancer: A New Way of Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Anticancer: A New Way of Life. By David Servan-Schreiber. Sept. 2008. 304p. illus. Viking, $24.95 (9780670020348). 616.99. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If anyone has the cred, professional and street, to discuss cancer prevention...

Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet. By Sloan Barnett. Sept. 2008. 288p. Atria, paper, $19.99 (9781416578451). 613. Those seeking an easy-to-use handbook with clearly stated actions to...

The Art and Soul of Baking.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Art and Soul of Baking. By Cindy Mushet. Oct. 2008. 464p. illus. Andrews and McMeel, $40 (9780740773341). 641.8. Despite the title's appeal to emotional and aesthetic urges, this baking guide determinedly concentrates on the...

The Bon Appetit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Bon Appetit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook. By Barbara Fairchild. Oct. 2008. 800p. illus. Wiley, $34.95 (9780470226308). 641.5. The many fans of Bon Appetit magazine will rejoice to see this massive collection of recipes that reflect...

Cheater BBQ: Barbecue Anytime, Anywhere, in Any Weather.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Cheater BBQ: Barbecue Anytime, Anywhere, in Any Weather. By Mindy Merrell and R. B. Quinn. Sept. 2008. 224p. illus. Broadway, paper, $17.95 (9780767927680). 641.7. The authors confess to "an acute case of obsessive barbecue...

Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. By Kenny Shopsin and Carolynn Carreno. Sept. 2008. 288p. illus. Knopf, $24.95 (9780307264930). 647.95. Greenwich Village's Shopsin's General Store would have gone unremarked in the...

The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir. By Patricia Harman. Oct. 2008. 288p. Beacon, $24.95 (9780807072899). 618.20092. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine a health-care provider capable of reiterating the personal history of...

The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks from Classic to Cutting Edge.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks from Classic to Cutting Edge. By Dale DeGroff. Oct. 2008. 272p. illus. Clarkson Potter, $35 (9780307405739). 641.8. DeGroff, who with David Wondrich and Eric Falten forms a...

Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America. By Fredrick Douglass Opie. Oct. 2008. 2561). illus. Columbia Univ., $24.95 (9780231146388). 641.5. Although the cooking of African Americans did not earn the sobriquet "soul food"...

II Viaggio di Vetri: A Culinary Journey.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... II Viaggio di Vetri: A Culinary Journey. By Marc Vetri and David Joachim. Oct. 2008. 304p. illus. Ten Speed, $40 (9781580088886). 641.59. Vetri serves as chef, owner, and eponym of Philadelphia's celebrated Italian restaurant. His...

Osteria: Hearty Italian Fare from Rick Tramonto's Kitchen.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Osteria: Hearty Italian Fare from Rick Tramonto's Kitchen. By Rick Tramonto and Mary Goodbody. Oct. 2008. 288p. illus. Broadway, $35 (9780767927710). 641.59. Tramonto has established his credentials as a celebrity chef, and his...

Smoking Food: A Beginner's Guide.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Smoking Food: A Beginner's Guide. By Chris Dubbs and Dave Heberle. Oct. 2008. 185p. illus. Skyhorse, paper, $12.95 (9781602392571). 641.4. Detailing the various types of smokers, from smaller electrical contraptions that requite...

Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World. By Jed Perl. Sept. 2008. 224p. illus. Knopf, $25 (9780307266620). 759.4. After the inclusiveness of New Art City (2005), art critic Perl focuses on a single artist, his favorite, the...

Best Music Writing, 2008.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Best Music Writing, 2008. Ed. by Nelson George and Daphne Carr. Sept. 2008. 368p. Da Capo, paper, $14.95 (9780306817342). 781.64. Brimming over with vital stuff, this year's Best Music Writing discusses the state of hip-hop in...

Bumping into Geniuses: My Life inside the Rock and Roll Business.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Bumping into Geniuses: My Life inside the Rock and Roll Business. By Denny Goldberg. Sept. 2008. 320p. Gotham, $26 (9781592403707). 781.660973. Record label exec, publicist, and journalist Goldberg has interacted with many of the...

Polanski.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Polanski. By Christopher Sandford. Sept. 2008. 400p. illus. Palgrave, $29.95 (9780230607781). 791.43. It's hard to accept that erstwhile enfant terrible Polanski is now a hoary, Oscar-toting elder of the cinema, which exalted...

The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido: Hiroshige/Eisen.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido: Hiroshige/Eisen. By Sebastian Izzard. Sept. 2008. 160p. Braziller, $130 (9780807615935). 769.92. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), master artists of Japan's...

Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir. By Carl Capotorto. Oct. 2008. 288p. Broadway, $23.95 (9780767928618). 792.02. You have read this memoir before: an actor and playwright author tells the story of his tyrannical father,...

Mason-Dixon Knitting: Outside the Lines.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Mason-Dixon Knitting: Outside the Lines. By Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne. Sept. 2008. 160p. illus. Crown/Potter Craft, $29.95 (9780307381705). 746.43. Knitters fall into two categories: those who think knitting dishcloths is good...

Richard Burton: Prince of Players.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * Richard Burton: Prince of Players. By Michael Munn. Oct. 2008. 272p. illus. Skyhorse, $24.95 (9781602393554). 791.4302. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is something of a guilty pleasure. Serious theater lovers will find plenty...

Swedish Christmas Crafts.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Swedish Christmas Crafts. By Helene S. Lundberg. Sept. 2008. 96p. illus. Skyhorse, $14.95 (9781602393301). 745.59. This collection of Swedish Christmas crafts will appeal to crafters fond of the ever-popular Scandinavian design...

Crazy Loco Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Crazy Loco Love. By Victor Villasenor. Sept. 2008. 391p. illus. Arte Publico, $26.95 (9781558853157). 813. Villasenor's earlier memoirs of his family's Mexican American experience featured strong grandmothers, aunts, and mothers;...

The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life. By Floyd Skloot. Sept. 2008. 256p. University of Nebraska, $24.95. (9780803211193). 818. Novelist and poet Skloot was struck by a brain virus in 1988, which left him unable...

The Best American Poetry 2008.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Best American Poetry. 2008. Ed. by Charles Wright and David Lehman. Sept. 2008. 224p. Scribner, $30 (9780743299749); paper, $16 (9780743299756). 811. Pulitzer Prize winner Wright is on the hook as guest editor for the latest...

Dear Darkness.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Dear Darkness. By Kevin Young. Sept. 2008. 208p. Knopf, $26 (9780307264343). 811. Young is a fluent and bold interpreter of American culture and attitude, writing shrewd blues and droll lyrics that upend and undo catchphrases,...

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... * First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood. By Thrity Umrigar. Nov. 2008. 320p. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper. $14.95 (9780061451614). 823. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A melancholy mood suffuses...

Time and the Tilting Earth.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Time and the Tilting Earth. By Miller Williams. Sept. 2008. 64p. Louisiana State, $45 (9780807133521); paper, $16.95 (9780807133538). 811. Williams' contributions to wise-old-guy verse are a little reminiscent in their...

Without Saying.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Without Saying. By Richard Howard. Oct. 2008. 128p. Turtle Point, paper, $16.95 (9781933527147). 811. Few American poets are as urbane as Howard, whose dramatic monologues, verse epistles, and, in this book, voice-mail messages in...

The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays. By Robert Fisk. 2008. 520p. Nation, $28.95 (9781568584034). 956. Fisk's passionate coverage of the Middle East for London's Independent has earned him a global following; unhesitant to...

The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation. By Abigail Carter. Sept. 2008. 304p. Health Communications, $24.95 (9780757307904). 974.7. Carter, a 9/11 widow, has written a memoir revolving around her personal grieving...