Late Life Divorce
Even long-term marriages can end in divorce, which was the subject of the Diane Rehm Show on NPR yesterday. As evidenced by the many comments about the show on the Web site, this is a hot-button issue....
View ArticleCash and Caldwell Memoirs Rising
Two women’s memoirs are likely to get significant media attention next week. Rosanne Cash‘s Composed, about her music career and life as Johnny Cash’s daughter, is already getting admiring attention,...
View ArticlePOWER Mad
We’re not surprised when we see Gawker making fun of Rhonda Byrne’s book The Power, the followup to her super successful The Secret, releasing today, but USA Today? The newspaper’s book review editor...
View ArticleFormerly HOT
On the Today Show, Stephanie Dolgoff mourns former hotness, but tries to say the message of her book, My Formerly Hot Life, is to not fear aging. It rose to #80 on Amazon. …………………….. My Formerly Hot...
View ArticleTHE ART OF NON-CONFORMITY
Zooming up to #10 on Amazon’s sales rankings on its first day of publication is a non-conformist manifesto in a conformist package (a book — or as Craig Ferguson puts it, a “BO-OK from the Beforetimes”...
View ArticleNext Week: Tasty Nonfiction by Women
Next week brings three female authors with fresh takes on topical subjects. Big commercial expectations accompany The Wave: In Pursuit of Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, by O magazine...
View ArticleCan Aphorisms Take the Cake?
If anyone has a crack at making a book of aphorisms a bestseller, it’s economist and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Best known for his long-running business bestseller The Black Swan, he’s back...
View ArticleLiterary Jackie Gets Her Due
Next week, book lovers and Jackie Onassis fans may enjoy the first of two books looking at her career as an editor in the publishing industry: Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William...
View ArticleTIGER MOTHER on the Prowl
If you haven’t already, you are likely to hear a great deal about a book released yesterday, which describes the traditional Chinese approach to child rearing, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy...
View ArticleTiger Mom’s Not Finished Yet
Discussion of Amy Chua’s approach to mothering, as she describes it in Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother continues unabated. In today’s NYT, Janet Maslin, who actually read the entire book (rather than...
View ArticleTIGER MOM on Colbert
Amy Chua’s book has been out for less than two weeks, but already “Tiger Mother” has passed into the lexicon. She appears on the Colbert Report tomorrow night. Holds are rising quickly; several...
View ArticleMichael Oher Speaks
Michael Oher, the offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, finally tells his side of his adoption story, which is central to Michael Lewis’s bestseller The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game and the...
View ArticleBig Week for Memoirs
The memoir category continues to grow, as proved by the large selection coming next week. Already making headlines is Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso (FSG), the memoir of the author’s seduction and...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of September 5
Several favorites from Book Expo’s Editor’s Buzz Panel will be released next week with enviable media fanfare, including debuts from Chad Harbich and Justin Torres. Plus there’s Simon Toyne‘s debut...
View ArticleSnooki Loves Her Cats
Entertainment Weekly reads Snooki’s Confessions of a Guidette(Gallery/ S&S, Oct.) so you don’t have to, and includes this choice bit: The book is dedicated to her cats for being the “best cats,...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of Jan 23
Given the librarian stereotype, it seems appropriate that a book which praises introverts, Quiet, will be featured at the raucous ALA MidWinter meeting, on Saturday. The book releases this week, along...
View ArticleNew Title Radar – Week of Jan 30
Next week brings three debuts to watch – about the Korean immigrant experience, an Alaskan couple longing for a child in 1920, and a Romanian Jewish village in 1939 – plus two well-reviewed thrillers...
View ArticleNow FRENCH Parents Are Superior
Anyone remember when we were urged to call French fries “liberty fries”? How quickly things change; now it seems everything French is superior. French women don’t get fat and they’re better parents,...
View ArticleFrench Lessons
Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (Penguin, Feb.7). continues to get attention. It was featured on the Today Show yesterday and on NPR’s...
View ArticleSCIENCE OF YOGA & QUIET Coming to Colbert
On the Colbert Report ”TA-night”, the man who has made yoga controversial (and his book a best seller; it’s currently at #41 Amazon’s rankings and has heavy holds in libraries), William J. Broad. The...
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