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| 01/05/2009 A look at a life, a war, and poetry under fire
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| 'I am large, I contain multitudes," Walt Whitman wrote in the poem "Song of Myself," describing his intimate connection to a teeming world - and intentionally warning biographers that the vastness of himself would not fit easily into any one book.
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| 01/05/2009 Later-life lessons
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| Sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, professor of education at Harvard and former chairwoman of the board of the MacArthur Foundation, names a new life stage in her ninth book, "The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50." (She defines the first two chapters as young adulthood and middle age.) She interviewed more than 40 "new learners" in ...
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| 01/05/2009 The feats and follies of Florenz Ziegfeld
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| 'The world will never forget the Ziegfeld Follies," proclaims William Powell in MGM's sumptuous 1946 musical revue, "Ziegfeld Follies." Sadly, it would appear that the world has a very short memory. For if master showman Florenz Ziegfeld is remembered at all today it's most likely by way of Walter Pidgeon's portrayal in "Funny Girl" or as a name synonymous with ...
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| 01/05/2009 Google to expand its book searches
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| MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Ben Zimmer, executive producer of a website and software package called the Visual Thesaurus, was seeking the earliest use of the phrase "you're not the boss of me." Using a newspaper database, he found a 1953 reference.
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| 01/04/2009 New & Recommended
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| Lulu in Marrakech By Diane Johnson In Johnson’s new novel, a naive undercover agent is beset by betrayals, duplicity, and plain old bad karma (Dutton, $25.95). Descartes’ Bones By Russell Shorto Through the lens of the philosopher’s grave-hopping remains, Shorto traces the shift from medieval thought to modernity (Doubleday, $26). Testimony By Anita Shreve A full, sensitive reckoning of a ...
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| 01/04/2009 A ghost of football past
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| THE GALLOPING GHOST: Red Grange, an American Football Legend By Gary Andrew Poole Houghton Mifflin, 336 pp., illustrated, $25 THE FIRST TIP-OFF: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA By Charley Rosen McGraw-Hill, 288 pp.,illustrated, $24.95 FOLLOW THE ROAR: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season By Bob Smiley Harper, 280 pp., illustrated, $25.95 ...
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| 01/04/2009 Inner visions
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| THE FIRST PERSON AND OTHER STORIES By Ali Smith Pantheon, 206 pp., $23.95 Ali Smith's new collection is her ninth book in 13 years. Her previous books have been shortlisted for the most prestigious prizes awarded to British Commonwealth writers - the Man Booker, the Orange, the James Tait Black - and her novel "The Accidental" won the Whitbread Award. ...
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| 01/04/2009 Shelf Life
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| Flying the coop For 10 years, cookbook author Terry Golson has raised chickens in her backyard. She enjoys their distinct personalities as much as she likes the eggs they produce. Now they have a starring role in her first children's book, "Tillie Lays an Egg" (Scholastic).
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| 01/04/2009 Free speech versus fear
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| DEMOCRACY'S PRISONER: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent By Ernest Freeberg Harvard University, 380 pp., illustrated, $29.95 UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen By Christopher Capozzola Oxford University, 334 pp., illustrated, $34.95 Rarely do the principles of individual rights and liberties conflict more with the notion ...
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| 01/04/2009 Short takes
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| BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age By D. J. Taylor Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 361 pp., illustrated, $27 The "Bright Young People" flourished in the 1920s and are remembered for their extravagance, whimsicality, frivolity, and calculated excess. While many of them frittered away much of their time and talent, many others produced fine novels, essays, paintings, ...
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| 01/04/2009 Friedman's guys, still lonely, still funny
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| THREE BALCONIES: Stories and a Novella By Bruce Jay Friedman Biblioasis, 203 pp., $24.95 Bruce Jay Friedman's razor-sharp wit and keen observation of the genus American male (from the 1950s to the present) have the power to make men laugh and women weep. He has written highly acclaimed novels ("Stern," "A Mother's Kisses"), hilarious books of nonfiction ("The Lonely Guy," ...
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| 01/02/2009 Image need overhaul? Hollywood PR vet offers help
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| It's 2009. Do you know where your public image is? More places than you might think. In the era of social-networking, even private people have public images. And those images may need upgrading, says veteran Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman, who suggests using proven Tinseltown techniques to shape your public persona.
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| 01/02/2009 Image need overhaul? Hollywood PR vet offers help
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| It's 2009. Do you know where your public image is? More places than you might think. In the era of social-networking, even private people have public images. And those images may need upgrading, says veteran Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman, who suggests using proven Tinseltown techniques to shape your public persona.
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| 01/01/2009 BC-Best-sellers-Books-PW
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| HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)
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| 01/01/2009 BC-Best-sellers-Books-USAToday
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| Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback 1. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (F-P)
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| 01/01/2009 BC-Best-sellers-Books-WSJ
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| FICTION 1. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
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| 01/01/2009 BC-Best-sellers-Books-PW
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| HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)
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| 01/01/2009 BC-Best-sellers-Books-USAToday
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| Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback 1. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (F-P)
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| 01/01/2009 BC-Best-sellers-Books-WSJ
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| FICTION 1. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
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| 12/31/2008 Hollywood publicity agent earning "15 minutes"
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| Howard Bragman is a Hollywood spin doctor with a message for everyday Joes and Josephines -- shape your public image.
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| 12/30/2008 Children's book based on Holocaust story is pulled
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| A children's book inspired by a since-discredited Holocaust story has been pulled by the publisher.
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| 12/30/2008 Children's book based on Holocaust story is pulled
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| The fallout continues from Herman Rosenblat's discredited Holocaust story. Laurie Friedman's "Angel Girl," a children's book inspired by Rosenblat, was pulled Tuesday by the Lerner Publishing Group. President and publisher Adam Lerner said in a statement that the Minneapolis-based company had been misled by Rosenblat and his wife, Roma.
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| 12/30/2008 Children's book based on Holocaust story is pulled
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| The fallout continues from Herman Rosenblat's discredited Holocaust story. Laurie Friedman's "Angel Girl," a children's book inspired by Rosenblat, was pulled Tuesday by the Lerner Publishing Group. President and publisher Adam Lerner said in a statement that the Minneapolis-based company had been misled by Rosenblat and his wife, Roma.
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| 12/29/2008 Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story
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| It's the latest story that touched, and betrayed, the world. "Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people," literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others, were taken by Rosenblat's story of love born on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence at a concentration camp.
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| 12/28/2008 Publisher cancels disputed Holocaust love story
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| A publisher has canceled a Holocaust memoir with an amazing love story publicized by Oprah Winfrey after the writer admitted he made up parts, adding the book to a growing list of fabricated memoirs.
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| 12/28/2008 Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story
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| It's the latest story that touched, and betrayed, the world. "Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people," literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others, were taken by Rosenblat's story of love born on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence at a concentration camp.
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| 12/26/2008 Waiting for Scorsese
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| The long march of Richard Yates's "Revolutionary Road " from 1961 novel to 2008 movie was almost as tortured as the story itself, but it is increasingly the norm for American literary fiction. The bleak tale of 1950s angst and blasted hopes, which opens next week and stars Kate Winsletand Leonardo DiCaprio, drew Hollywood interest almost as soon as it ...
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| 12/05/2008 Getting the goods - nonfiction
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| The measured tread of Lincoln books can already be heard, two months in advance of next year's bicentennial of his birth, with Civil War accounts marching along in step.
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| 12/05/2008 Getting the goods - fiction
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| The year brought new fiction from writers such as Philip Roth ("Indignation"), Marilynne Robinson ("Home"), Toni Morrison ("A Mercy"), and John Barth ("The Development"). But the novel that delighted me more than any "big book" was a sleeper, published not in 2008 but in 1924. "The Rector's Daughter," by F. M. Mayor, is a slim masterpiece whose first sentence - ...
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| 03/15/2008 His book deals with sorry state of affairs
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| Paul Slansky, author of "My Bad: The Apology Anthology," chatted on Boston.com this week, and much of the conversation turned to Eliot Spitzer after the New York governor apologized publicly when he was accused of paying for sex with a prostitute. Here are excerpts from that conversation:
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| 12/03/2006 The best fiction of 2006
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| With all due respect to Dickens, the old "best of times, worst of times" canopy no longer quite covers the territory. When the father of realism began "A Tale of Two Cities" with that melancholy insight, it still seemed feasible to capture the world, with all its complexity, in a story -- one that, we might add, was serialized in a weekly journal. Those were the days when novelists wrote installments on deadline and audiences yearned for the next week's chapter; if the novel as a form was considered risqué and even heretical, it hadn't yet been sentenced to the dustheap of history, along with last week's Pentium chip or BlackBerry.
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| 12/03/2006 The best nonfiction of 2006
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| In 1862, when the Civil War was going badly for the Union, Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to the White House to meet with President Lincoln, who greeted her with the now-famous words "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
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