Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
From the book description of Joan Biskupic's American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nov. 10, 2009): If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is...
Booktalks -- Quick and Simple blog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Frost, Helen. CROSSING STONES Frost, Helen. CROSSING STONES New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 IL YA ISBN 0374316538 They've been best friends just about all their lives. Muriel and Ollie Jorgensen and Emma and Frank Norman. They've grown up on adjacent farms and have jumped over the stones in the brook many times to get to the other farm. But now Frank has enlisted to fight in World War I....
The Virtual World (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Winner: Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press) Finalists: Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press) Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books)Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press) POETRY JUDGES: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen, Kevin
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
John M. Mason submits: Both of these books are excellent reads. They represent different “takes” on the recent financial crisis and consequently complement each other. Sorkin’s “Too Big To Fail,” (Viking, 2009) is the more personal due to the fact that he is a New York Times reporter and business columnist: he has a legendary collection of connections which he incorporates...
After Long Busyness: A Poetry Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Lowell’s and Bishop’s collected letters. By Michael Hofmann Poetry Media Service Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $45.00. This is such a formidably and dramatically and lingeringly wonderful book, it is hard to know where [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Sounds like a very interesting book, here reviewed by Chris Farrell in Business Week: How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities By John Cassidy Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 390 pp.; $28 Economist John Maynard Keynes had [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Fly by Wire The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson By William Langewiesche (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 193 pages; $24) The flight lasted for not much more time than it will take you to read this review. A minute and a half after takeoff, the US...
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
on now and for an hour after the show ends: http://wamu.org/listen/ 10:00America's Wars Observed Guest host: Susan Page On the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan: A journalist and a photographer document, in unflinching detail, the complex, contradictory and often tragic experiences of U-S troops at war. Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs David Finkel, author of "The...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A very good history of economic thought How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities. By John Cassidy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 416 pages; $28. Allen Lane; GBP25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk JOHN CASSIDY’S new book is a sequel of sorts. In his previous work, “Dot.Con”, which came out in 2002, he chronicled the follies of the stockmarket bubble of the late 1990s. In...
The Liberal Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920s by Ann Douglas. 606 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (paperback) While the 1960s are associated with the counterculture, Ann Douglas makes the case in “Terrible Honesty” for the cultural breakthroughs that took place during the 1920s. Leading the charge were prominent black and white artists–a “mongrel” group that shook off...
Eco-Libris blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
This review is part of the Green Books campaign . Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is organized by Eco-Libris, a a green company working to green up the book industry by promoting the adoption of green...
Bug Girl's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Ann Fadiman. At Large and Small: Familiar Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2007. Bug Rating: I freely admit to being an Anne Fadiman fan-girl. Ex Libris is easily one of my favorite books. The Spirit Catches You is an amazing book about culture, epilepsy, immigration, and they way we don’t communicate. So, I was pretty sure [...]
warrior ant press (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Books fall from trees and Warrior Ant Press rakes them up and bags them for your fall enjoyment. Let the Great World Spin. Colum McCann.2009, Random House. A book that stretches a long thin wire between Philippe Petit's wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and 9/11 and dares to take the reader along the route. With a cast of New Yorkers that makes you long for a big city escape....
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
What amazes me now is how long it took us - we in the west - to see what was happening. For journalists, it was a case of a great story blotting out a world-changing one. The communist regimes of Europe were transforming themselves, quarrelling openly. In the first part of that year , the East Germans snarled at the Poles, the Hungarians hinted that they would license free political parties, the Czechoslovak...
Carol Peters (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
[from Louise Gluck 's A Village Life , Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2009] Confession He steals sometimes, because they don't have their own tree and he loves fruit. Not steals exactly — he pretends he's an animal; he eats off the ground, as the animals would eat. This is what he tells the priest, that he doesn't think it should be a sin to take what would just lie there and rot, this year like...
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