Long Island Newsday: Books
- Lessons from Frank McCourt learned well in Bay Shore
Monday - 07/20/2009 - 10:53 PMThe auditorium of Bay Shore High School was standing room only. Among the guests lucky enough to score a special green ticket - promising a Bay Shore variation of the venerable Irish blessing, "Where the Sea Breezes Are Always At Your Back" - were the local monsignor and a group of Hibernians.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - BOOK REVIEW: 'The Favorites' by Mary Yukari Waters
Thursday - 07/16/2009 - 04:33 PMTHE FAVORITES, by Mary Yukari Waters. Scribner, 279 pp., $25.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Servants' Quarters,' 'A Day in the Life'
Thursday - 07/09/2009 - 05:13 PMTHE SERVANTS' QUARTERS, by Lynn Freed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 256 pp., $24.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Angel's Game' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Thursday - 07/02/2009 - 05:33 PMTHE ANGEL'S GAME, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Doubleday, 531 pp., $26.95
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Simon Schama, author of 'The American Future'
Friday - 06/26/2009 - 10:33 AMIf there's an English author plucky enough to carry off a title like "The American Future: A History" (Ecco, $29.99), it's Simon Schama. The book fuses reportage from the 2008 presidential campaign with a bold analysis of what Schama perceives to be U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- John Updike's 'My Father's Tears and Other Stories'
Thursday - 06/25/2009 - 03:53 PMMY FATHER'S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES, by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, 292 pp., $25.95.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Just Like Family' by Tasha Blaine
Thursday - 06/18/2009 - 05:03 PMJUST LIKE FAMILY: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work For, and the Children They Love, by Tasha Blaine. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 322 pp., $25.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lauren Conrad, other celebs, to sign books
Tuesday - 06/16/2009 - 09:53 AMLong Islanders craving a brush with fame this summer can catch their big break at star-studded book signings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'How to Sell' by Clancy Martin
Thursday - 06/11/2009 - 04:53 PMHOW TO SELL, by Clancy Martin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 296 pp. $24.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Horrid Henry,' 'Panorama,' 'Tricking the Tallyman'
Friday - 06/05/2009 - 11:13 AMHORRID HENRY, by Francesca Simon, illustrated by Tony Ross. Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky. $4.99 paper. Ages 7-10.
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- BOOK REVIEWS: 'Down Around Midnight' I'm Off Then,' 'Vanessa'
Thursday - 07/16/2009 - 04:33 PMDOWN AROUND MIDNIGHT: A Memoir of Crash and Survival, by Robert Sabbag. Viking, 216 pp., $25.95.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Talking with Ellen Ruppel Shell: discount culture
Thursday - 07/16/2009 - 04:33 PMCorrespondent for The Atlantic and author of a 2002 report on the obesity epidemic ("The Hungry Gene"), Ellen Ruppel Shell explores complicated issues by delving into their history, putting them in a broad social context and delivering the occasional zingy one-liner.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'In the Kitchen' by Monica Ali
Thursday - 07/09/2009 - 05:13 PMIN THE KITCHEN, by Monica Ali. Scribner, 436 pages, $26.99
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Bolter' by Frances Osborne
Thursday - 07/02/2009 - 05:33 PMTHE BOLTER, by Frances Osborne. Alfred A. Knopf,
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'My Judy Garland Life,' 'Bittersweet'
Thursday - 06/25/2009 - 03:53 PMMY JUDY GARLAND LIFE, by Susie Boyt. Bloomsbury, 310 pp., $25.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'In Her Own Sweet Time' by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Thursday - 06/25/2009 - 03:53 PMIN HER OWN SWEET TIME: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment, and Motherhood, by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt. Basic Books, 324 pp., $24.95.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Crazy for the Storm' by Norman Ollestad
Thursday - 06/18/2009 - 05:03 PMCRAZY FOR THE STORM:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Jenkins at the Majors' and 4 more golf classics
Thursday - 06/11/2009 - 04:53 PMThe U.S. Open - "The most democratic sports event in the world," says Kevin Costner to Rene Russo in "Tin Cup" - starts Thursday, and this year it's in our own backyard, Bethpage State Park.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Rogue's Gallery' author Michael Gross riles Met
Monday - 06/08/2009 - 11:23 AMGiven the title of his new book- "Rogues' Gallery" (Broadway Books, $29.95) - you will not be surprised that New York's Metropolitan Museum is cross with author Michael Gross.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Gone Tomorrow' by Lee Child
Friday - 06/05/2009 - 11:13 AMGONE TOMORROW, by Lee Child, Delacorte Press, 421 pages, $27.
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- Frank McCourt, 78, dies in New York City
Sunday - 07/19/2009 - 11:43 PMFrank McCourt, who won a Pulitzer Prize and international acclaim for his first book, the autobiographical "Angela's Ashes," published when the author was in his mid-60s, died Sunday in Manhattan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Heavy Rotation' edited by Peter Terzian
Friday - 07/10/2009 - 12:23 AMFormer Newsday editor Peter Terzian's two loves, literature and music, are married in a lovely ceremony of sorts - his new anthology, "Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives" (Harper Perennial, $14.99 paper).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'The Family Man' by Elinor Lipman
Thursday - 07/09/2009 - 05:13 PMTHE FAMILY MAN, by Elinor Lipman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 305 pp., $25.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Chosen One,' 'The Last Olympian'
Thursday - 07/02/2009 - 05:33 PMPop one of these audio books in the car to make any road trip this summer a family pleasure.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - John Updike's 'My Father's Tears and Other Stories'
Friday - 06/26/2009 - 10:33 AMMY FATHER'S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES, by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, 292 pp., $25.95.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'How to Cook a Tapir,' 'Tide, Feather, Snow'
Thursday - 06/18/2009 - 05:03 PMHOW TO COOK A TAPIR: A Memoir of Belize, by Joan Fry. University of Nebraska Press, 294 pp., $24.95.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Andy Raskin, author of 'The Ramen King and I'
Thursday - 06/18/2009 - 05:03 PMAndy Raskin found it difficult to summarize "The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life" (Gotham Books, $26), so he asked his Facebook friends for aid.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Dark Places' by Gillian Flynn
Thursday - 06/11/2009 - 04:53 PMDARK PLACES, by Gillian Flynn. Shaye Areheart Books, 368 pp., $24.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Rocket That Fell to Earth,' 'American Icon'
Thursday - 06/11/2009 - 04:53 PMTHE ROCKET THAT FELL
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The End of Overeating'
Friday - 06/05/2009 - 11:13 AMTHE END OF OVEREATING: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by David A. Kessler, M.D. Rodale, 320 pp., $25.95.
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