1) In "Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith" photographer Jason Eskenazy documents the life of Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union; 2) First-time novelist Salvatore Scibona is nominated for a National Book Award for "The End"; 3)...
NPR Books: November 13, 2008
1) The Miami International Book Fair celebrates its 25th anniversary year; 2) "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" posed a marketing challenge for Knopf - author Stieg Larsson, a Swedish journalist, died just as his trilogy was was becoming popular in...
NPR Books: November 10, 2008
1) Michael Crichton, author of science thrillers such as "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain" has died; 2) Writer Amitav Ghosh tells of the opium trade in his novel "Sea of Poppies", set in colonial India; 3) Barack Obama`s election win has...
NPR Books: November 3, 2008
1) Vampires are showing signs of great restraint in the popular series of "Twilight" books by Stephenie Meyer, and the "Sookie Stackhouse" Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris; 2) Studs Terkel, oral historian, author, and champion of...
NPR Books: October 30, 2008
1) A remembrance of mystery author Tony Hillerman, who set 18 of his novels in Navajo lands, with Native American sleuths; 2) A look at the autobiographical books by the presidential candidates, with Newsweek editor Jon Meacham... Senator Barack...
NPR Books: October 27, 2008
1) Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison discusses her new novel, set in late 17th Century America, called "A Mercy"; 2) "Deaf Sentence" by author David Lodge takes a somewhat comic look at hearing loss and the aging process; 3) The...
NPR Books: October 24, 2008
1) The British Library has just unveiled a treasury of early recordings of writers, including Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Conan Doyle; 2) Philip Dray`s new history of the first African-American members of congress is called "Capitol...
NPR Books October 20, 2008
1) Shalom Auslander recommends a collection of letters to and from Groucho Marx in the series "You Must Read This"; 2) Neil Gaiman tries something new with his latest, "The Graveyard Book" - videotaping his readings and posting the entire book on his...
NPR Books: October 16, 2008
1) Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has written a memoir called "Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street"; 2) "Hip Hop Speaks to Children" is a book and CD project edited by poet Nikki Giovanni,...
NPR Books: October 14, 2008
1) This year`s Nobel prize winner in literature: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, `not a typically French writer`; 2) The hero Robert Jordan from Hemingway`s novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" brings together John McCain and Barack Obama; 3) A look at the...
