As reported in Shelf Awareness 092809, taken from The Guardian
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude topped a list of books that have most shaped world literature over the past 25 years, as chosen by "Indra Sinha, Blake Morrison, Amit Chaudhuri and 22 other authors . . . The survey was conducted by the international literary magazine Wasafiri--meaning 'cultural traveller' in Swahili," the Guardian reported.
The Wasafiri list:
Aminatta Forna--The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Amit Chaudhuri--Collected Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
Bernardine Evaristo--Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer
Beverley Naidoo--Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Blake Morrison--The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
Brian Chikwava--The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Chika Unigwe--One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Daljit Nagra--North by Seamus Heaney
David Dabydeen--A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Elaine Feinstein--Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Fred D'Aguiar--Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
Hirsh Sawhney--River of Fire by Quarratulain Hyder
Indra Sinha--Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
John Haynes--Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lesley Lokko--Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Maggie Gee--Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Marina Warner--Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Maya Jaggi--The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Michael Horovitz--Collected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Minoli Salgado--Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Nii Parkes--One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Roger Robinson--Sula by Toni Morrison
Sujata Bhatt--One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Sukhdev Sandhu--The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr. Li Zhisui
Tabish Khair--The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
funniest books they've ever read
An AbeBooks.com poll of British customers about the funniest books they've ever read yielded this laughable list:
1. Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (1933)
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
4. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
5. Wilt by Tom Sharpe (1976)
6. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
7. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954)
8. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse (1938)
9. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1996)
10. Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan (1971)
1. Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (1933)
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
4. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
5. Wilt by Tom Sharpe (1976)
6. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
7. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954)
8. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse (1938)
9. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1996)
10. Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan (1971)
101 Children's Books from Geranium Cat's Bookshelf
from Geranium Cat's Bookshelf blog post with the above title, posted 7/19/08, accessed 9/27/09.
As promised, here is my personal choice of children's books that you may have missed during childhood but might consider catching up on now. Since it is based on my own reading it has a definite UK bias, and I have ruthlessly limited myself to one book by each author (very difficult, which book by Edith Nesbit is really my favourite?) Nonetheless, you can reasonably assume that, where authors have written more than one book, I am confident in recommending their work, although I must add that Enid Blyton only got in by the skin of her teeth. My choice is largely aimed at the older child, so it doesn't include many the excellent books which children read with pleasure, but were not specifically written for them (for instance, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat) and picture books have been ignored, with one or two exceptions, most notably Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, which ought to be on everyone's reading list. It should be remembered that good illustrations play an important part in children's literature, and some of the books listed below have been illustrated by remarkable artists such as C. Walter Hodges, Charles Keeping and Pauline Baynes; for adult readers I would almost always recommend finding an edition with the original drawings. I've also mostly omitted short stories, choosing only to include a small selection of the most famous. I think the book it hurt most to leave out, because it's so very different from the one by Dodie Smith I chose to include, is The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which ought to be on any list of classic children's books, but if I started listing multiple titles by authors, it would go on for ever. The most notable omission is R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island which is, as far as I am concerned, unreadable, and I think few people now read G.A. Henty's Under Drake's Flag.
The titles below are listed in chronological order and, where a book is one of a series, I have either chosen the first or, occasionally, my own favourite. Readers are bound to find glaring omissions (which may represent authors I should have read, but can't remember, like K.M. Peyton), and I will be delighted to hear about them, and may even be persuaded to add them to the list! Remember that 1975 is the cut-off date, though, which was chosen as the beginning of a period when I was mostly required to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar many times a day! A classic, yes, but not much meat for the hungry adult reader.
Finally, there is information about almost all the authors listed below on Wikipedia and, frequently, information on individual books, so the only links I have included are to my own reviews. Another good site, with bibliographies and cover artwork, is Fantastic Fiction. Either site should offer advice about the order in which series should be read.
[s] denotes at least a sequel or, in many cases, a series; [ss] denotes short stories
First, the two collections I talked about in yesterday's post:
Brothers Grimm, Household Tales (1812) [ss]
Hans Christian Anderson, Fairy Tales (1835) [ss]
Captain Maryatt, Children of the New Forest (1847)
R.M. Ballantyne, Coral Island (1857)
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies (1863)
Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women (1868) [s]
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) [s]
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did (1872) [s]
Johanna Spyri, Heidi (1872) [s]
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (1877)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) [ss]
Andrew Lang, Prince Prigio (1889) [s]
E. Nesbit, Five Children and It (1902) [s]
Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) [s]
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) [s]
Frances Hodgson-Burnett, The Secret Garden (1909)
Walter de la Mare, The Twelve Royal Monkeys (1910)
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (1911)
Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs (1912)
Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle (1920) [s]
Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1921) [ss]
Richmal Crompton, Just William (1922) [s]
Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (1925) [s]
Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter (1927)
Erich Kästner, Emil and the Detectives (1929)
Gwynedd Rae, Mostly Mary (1930) [s]
Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (1930) [s]
Alison Uttley, The Country Child (1931)
Norman Hunter, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (1933)
P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins (1934)
Enid Bagnold, National Velvet (1935)
John Masefield, The Box of Delights (1935) [s]
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie (1935) [s]
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1936)
Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes (1936) [s]
Elinor Brent-Dyer, The Chalet School and Jo (1936) [s]
Mervyn Peake, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
Maria Gleit, Child of China (1939)
Geoffrey Trease, Cue for Treason (1940)
Pamela Brown, The Swish of the Curtain (1941)
Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah (1941)
Margot Pardoe, Bunkle Began It (1942) [s]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (1943)
Violet Needham, The Woods of Windri (1944) [s]
Enid Blyton, The Island of Adventure (1944) [s]
James Thurber, The White Deer (1945)
Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse (1946)
T.H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll (1948) [s]
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)
A.F. Tschiffely, A Tale of Two Horses (1949)
Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Goes to School (1950) [s]
C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) [s]
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web (1952)
Mary Norton, The Borrowers (1952) [s]
Burgess Drake, The Book of Lyonne (1952)
Monica Edwards, Spirit of Punchbowl Farm (1952) [s]
Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe (1954) [s]
Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) [s]
Edward Eager, Half Magic (1954)
William Mayne, A Swarm in May (1955) [s]
Gerald Durrell, The New Noah (1955)
Barbara Sleigh, Carbonel (1955) [s]
Diana Pullein-Thompson, Riding with the Lyntons (1956)
Ian Serraillier, The Silver Sword (1956)
Henry Treece, The Children's Crusade (1958)
Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) [s]
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach (1961)
Phillipa Pearce, A Dog So Small (1962)
Madeleine l'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962) [s]
Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963)
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
Clive King, Stig of the Dump (1963)
John Rowe Townsend, Hell's Edge (1963)
Nicholas Stuart Gray, Grimbold's Other World (1963)
Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)
Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone (1965) [s]
John Christopher, Tripods (1967) [s]
Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy (1967)
Emile Genest, Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome (1967)
Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child (1968)
Ted Hughes, The Iron Man (1968)
Victoria Walker, Winter of Enchantment (1969) [s]
Elisabeth Beresford, Vanishing Magic (1970) [s]
Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971)
Peter Dickinson, The Dancing Bear (1972)
Rumer Godden, The Diddakoi (1972)
Richard Adams, Watership Down (1972)
Penelope Farmer, A Castle of Bone (1972)
Andre Norton, The Crystal Gryphon (1972)
Nina Bawden, Carrie's War (1973)
Helen Cresswell, Lizzie Dripping (1973)
Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973)
Diana Wynne Jones, The Ogre Downstairs (1974)
Jill Murphy, The Worst Witch (1974)
Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners (1975) [s]
[101]
As promised, here is my personal choice of children's books that you may have missed during childhood but might consider catching up on now. Since it is based on my own reading it has a definite UK bias, and I have ruthlessly limited myself to one book by each author (very difficult, which book by Edith Nesbit is really my favourite?) Nonetheless, you can reasonably assume that, where authors have written more than one book, I am confident in recommending their work, although I must add that Enid Blyton only got in by the skin of her teeth. My choice is largely aimed at the older child, so it doesn't include many the excellent books which children read with pleasure, but were not specifically written for them (for instance, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat) and picture books have been ignored, with one or two exceptions, most notably Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, which ought to be on everyone's reading list. It should be remembered that good illustrations play an important part in children's literature, and some of the books listed below have been illustrated by remarkable artists such as C. Walter Hodges, Charles Keeping and Pauline Baynes; for adult readers I would almost always recommend finding an edition with the original drawings. I've also mostly omitted short stories, choosing only to include a small selection of the most famous. I think the book it hurt most to leave out, because it's so very different from the one by Dodie Smith I chose to include, is The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which ought to be on any list of classic children's books, but if I started listing multiple titles by authors, it would go on for ever. The most notable omission is R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island which is, as far as I am concerned, unreadable, and I think few people now read G.A. Henty's Under Drake's Flag.
The titles below are listed in chronological order and, where a book is one of a series, I have either chosen the first or, occasionally, my own favourite. Readers are bound to find glaring omissions (which may represent authors I should have read, but can't remember, like K.M. Peyton), and I will be delighted to hear about them, and may even be persuaded to add them to the list! Remember that 1975 is the cut-off date, though, which was chosen as the beginning of a period when I was mostly required to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar many times a day! A classic, yes, but not much meat for the hungry adult reader.
Finally, there is information about almost all the authors listed below on Wikipedia and, frequently, information on individual books, so the only links I have included are to my own reviews. Another good site, with bibliographies and cover artwork, is Fantastic Fiction. Either site should offer advice about the order in which series should be read.
[s] denotes at least a sequel or, in many cases, a series; [ss] denotes short stories
First, the two collections I talked about in yesterday's post:
Brothers Grimm, Household Tales (1812) [ss]
Hans Christian Anderson, Fairy Tales (1835) [ss]
Captain Maryatt, Children of the New Forest (1847)
R.M. Ballantyne, Coral Island (1857)
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies (1863)
Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women (1868) [s]
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) [s]
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did (1872) [s]
Johanna Spyri, Heidi (1872) [s]
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (1877)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) [ss]
Andrew Lang, Prince Prigio (1889) [s]
E. Nesbit, Five Children and It (1902) [s]
Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) [s]
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) [s]
Frances Hodgson-Burnett, The Secret Garden (1909)
Walter de la Mare, The Twelve Royal Monkeys (1910)
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (1911)
Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs (1912)
Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle (1920) [s]
Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1921) [ss]
Richmal Crompton, Just William (1922) [s]
Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (1925) [s]
Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter (1927)
Erich Kästner, Emil and the Detectives (1929)
Gwynedd Rae, Mostly Mary (1930) [s]
Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (1930) [s]
Alison Uttley, The Country Child (1931)
Norman Hunter, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (1933)
P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins (1934)
Enid Bagnold, National Velvet (1935)
John Masefield, The Box of Delights (1935) [s]
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie (1935) [s]
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1936)
Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes (1936) [s]
Elinor Brent-Dyer, The Chalet School and Jo (1936) [s]
Mervyn Peake, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
Maria Gleit, Child of China (1939)
Geoffrey Trease, Cue for Treason (1940)
Pamela Brown, The Swish of the Curtain (1941)
Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah (1941)
Margot Pardoe, Bunkle Began It (1942) [s]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (1943)
Violet Needham, The Woods of Windri (1944) [s]
Enid Blyton, The Island of Adventure (1944) [s]
James Thurber, The White Deer (1945)
Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse (1946)
T.H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll (1948) [s]
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)
A.F. Tschiffely, A Tale of Two Horses (1949)
Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Goes to School (1950) [s]
C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) [s]
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web (1952)
Mary Norton, The Borrowers (1952) [s]
Burgess Drake, The Book of Lyonne (1952)
Monica Edwards, Spirit of Punchbowl Farm (1952) [s]
Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe (1954) [s]
Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) [s]
Edward Eager, Half Magic (1954)
William Mayne, A Swarm in May (1955) [s]
Gerald Durrell, The New Noah (1955)
Barbara Sleigh, Carbonel (1955) [s]
Diana Pullein-Thompson, Riding with the Lyntons (1956)
Ian Serraillier, The Silver Sword (1956)
Henry Treece, The Children's Crusade (1958)
Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) [s]
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach (1961)
Phillipa Pearce, A Dog So Small (1962)
Madeleine l'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962) [s]
Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963)
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
Clive King, Stig of the Dump (1963)
John Rowe Townsend, Hell's Edge (1963)
Nicholas Stuart Gray, Grimbold's Other World (1963)
Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)
Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone (1965) [s]
John Christopher, Tripods (1967) [s]
Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy (1967)
Emile Genest, Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome (1967)
Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child (1968)
Ted Hughes, The Iron Man (1968)
Victoria Walker, Winter of Enchantment (1969) [s]
Elisabeth Beresford, Vanishing Magic (1970) [s]
Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971)
Peter Dickinson, The Dancing Bear (1972)
Rumer Godden, The Diddakoi (1972)
Richard Adams, Watership Down (1972)
Penelope Farmer, A Castle of Bone (1972)
Andre Norton, The Crystal Gryphon (1972)
Nina Bawden, Carrie's War (1973)
Helen Cresswell, Lizzie Dripping (1973)
Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973)
Diana Wynne Jones, The Ogre Downstairs (1974)
Jill Murphy, The Worst Witch (1974)
Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners (1975) [s]
[101]
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Nonfiction Celebrating the West
From SA 07/01/05
The following are the 25 nonfiction titles from and about the West published during the first 25 years of the King's English, Salt Lake City, Utah, that the store has judged its favorites on the subject. This is just one of the many intriguing book lists that appear in co-owner Betsy Burton's new memoir, The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller (Gibbs Smith, $24.95).
1. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig (Harvest, $14)
2. Basin and Range by John McPhee (FSG, $13)
3. The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country by Gary Paul Nabhan )
4. The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich (Penguin, $12.95)
5. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
6. Wild to the Heart by Rick Bass (Norton, $12)
7. Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey (Ballantine, $6.99)
8. The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin by Steve Trimble
9. Desert Notes, River Notes by Barry Lopez (HarperCollins/Quill)
10. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams (Vintage, $13)
11. Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner
12. Hole in the Sky: A Memoir by William Kittredge (Vintage, $19)
13. The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West by Charles Wilkinson (Johnson Books, $14)
14. Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album by Teresa Jordan (Vintage, $12)
15. Temporary Homelands by Alison Hawthorne Deming (Mercury House, $18)
16. Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon by Ann Zwinger
17. A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds by Gary Snyder (Counterpoint, $17)
18. Homestead by Annick Smith (Milkweed, $13.95)
19. Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg (Riverhead, $14)
20. Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West by Chip Ward (Verso, $16)
21. The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams by Nasdijj (Mariner, $13)
22. Eye of the Blackbird: A Story of Gold in the American West by Holly Skinner (Johnson Books, $17.50)
23. The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert by Craig Childs (Back Bay, $13.95)
24. Running After Antelope by Scott Carrier (Counterpoint, $14)
25. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflecting on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Ellen Meloy
The following are the 25 nonfiction titles from and about the West published during the first 25 years of the King's English, Salt Lake City, Utah, that the store has judged its favorites on the subject. This is just one of the many intriguing book lists that appear in co-owner Betsy Burton's new memoir, The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller (Gibbs Smith, $24.95).
1. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig (Harvest, $14)
2. Basin and Range by John McPhee (FSG, $13)
3. The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country by Gary Paul Nabhan )
4. The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich (Penguin, $12.95)
5. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
6. Wild to the Heart by Rick Bass (Norton, $12)
7. Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey (Ballantine, $6.99)
8. The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin by Steve Trimble
9. Desert Notes, River Notes by Barry Lopez (HarperCollins/Quill)
10. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams (Vintage, $13)
11. Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner
12. Hole in the Sky: A Memoir by William Kittredge (Vintage, $19)
13. The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West by Charles Wilkinson (Johnson Books, $14)
14. Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album by Teresa Jordan (Vintage, $12)
15. Temporary Homelands by Alison Hawthorne Deming (Mercury House, $18)
16. Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon by Ann Zwinger
17. A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds by Gary Snyder (Counterpoint, $17)
18. Homestead by Annick Smith (Milkweed, $13.95)
19. Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg (Riverhead, $14)
20. Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West by Chip Ward (Verso, $16)
21. The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams by Nasdijj (Mariner, $13)
22. Eye of the Blackbird: A Story of Gold in the American West by Holly Skinner (Johnson Books, $17.50)
23. The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert by Craig Childs (Back Bay, $13.95)
24. Running After Antelope by Scott Carrier (Counterpoint, $14)
25. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflecting on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Ellen Meloy
Friday, September 25, 2009
Audie Award Winners (2005-2006)
Audie Award Winners
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter Audiobooks ('06Hall of Fame)
Adams, Douglas. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy: tertiary phase (AudioOfYear'06)
Cullin, Mitch. Slight trick of the mind(Fiction06)
Peters, Elizabeth. Serpent on the crown(Mystery06)
Robb, J.D. Origin in death (Romance06)
Verne, Jules. Around the world in 80 days (Classic06)
Friedman, Thomas. World is flat (NF06)
Chapman, Gary. Five love languages (Motivational06)
Reichl, Ruth. Garlic and sapphires (Bio06)
Collins, Jim. Good to great (Educ06)
Morgan, Richard K. Market forces (SF06)
Keller, Laurie. Arnie the donut (kids<8,'06)
Ibbotson, Eva. Star of Kazan. (kids8+'06)
Buckhanon, Kalisha. Upstate (LitFic06)
Franken, Al. Truth (with jokes) (Humor06)
Clinton, Bill. My Life ('05BookOfYear)
Banks, Russell. The Darling ('05fiction)
Wolfe, Tom. I am Charlotte Simmon ('05ficlist)
Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ('05ficlist)
Drewe, Robert. Our sunshine ('05ficlist)
Deaver, Jeffery. Twisted: selected unabridged stories of JD ('05mystery)
Preston, Douglas. Brimstone ('05mystlist)
Kellerman, Jonathan. Double homicide ('05mystlist)
McBain, Ed. Hark! ('05mystlist)
Mosley, Walter. Man in my basement ('05mystlist)
Howard, Linda. Kiss me while I sleep ('05romance)
Adler, Elizabeth. Invitation to Provence ('05romlist)
Patterson, James. Sam's letters to Jennifer ('05romlist)
Laurens, Stephanie. Perfect lover ('05romlist)
Delinsky, Barbara. Summer I dared ('05romlist)
Gregory, Philippa. Virgin's lover ('05romlist)
Dickens, Charles. Christmas Carol (05Classic)
Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless me Ultima. ('05Classiclist)
Waltari, Mika. Egyptian ('05Classiclist)
McCullers, Carson. Heart is a lonely hunter ('05Classiclist)
Joyce, James. Ulysses ('05Classiclist)
Shorto, Russell. Island at the center of the world: Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Colony that Shaped America (05NF)
Bergreen, Laurence. Over the edge of the world (05NFlist)
Wood, Gordon. Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (05NFlist)
Karp, Harvey. Happiest toddler on the block (05Motivational)
Tracy, Brian. Goals! (05MotivationalList)
Lelas, Lisa. Simple steps: 10 weeks to getting control of your life (05MotivationalList)
Williamson, Marianne. Gift of change (05MotivationalList)
Maxwell, John C. Today matters (05MotivationalList)
Dylan, Bob. Bob Dylan Chronicles: Vol.1 (05Bio)
Russert, Tim. Big Russ and me (05BioList)
Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi (05BioList)
MacDonald, Sarah. Holy Cow: an Indian adventure (05BioList)
McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback (05BioList)
Cohen, Elizabeth. House on Beartown Road (05BioList)
Suetonius. Twelve Caesars (05BioList)
Lencioni, Patrick. Death by Meeting (05Edu)
Blanchard, Ken. Customer Mania (05EduList)
Morgenstern, Julie. Making work work (05EduList)
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad's who took my money? (05EduList)
Card, Orson Scott. Lost boys (05SF)
Preston, Douglas. Brimstone (05SF-list)
Anderson, Kevin. Horizon storms (05SF-List)
Levinson, Paul. Consciousness plague (05SF-List)
Asaro, Catherine. Quantum Rose (05SF-List)
Funke, Cornelia. Dragon Rider (05-8+list)
Frost, Helen. Keesha's house (05-8+list)
Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia (05-8+list)
Taylor, Andrew. Unpardonable crime (05LitFic)
Flanagan, Richard. Gould's book of fish (05LitFicList)
Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (05LitFicList)
Faber, Michael. Crimson petal and the white (05LitFicList)
Waltari, Mika. Egyptian (05LitFicList)
Huston, Nancy. Mark of the Angel (05LitFicList)
Toibin, Colm. Master. (05LitFicList)
Rogers, Fred. World according to Mr. Rogers (05Inspire)
Sedaris, David. Dress your family in corduroy and denim (05Humor)
Cartwright, Nancy. My life as a 10-year-old boy! (05HumorList)
Stewart, Jon. Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents America (05HumorList)
Hyman, Peter. Reluctant Metrosexual (05HumorList)
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter Audiobooks ('06Hall of Fame)
Adams, Douglas. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy: tertiary phase (AudioOfYear'06)
Cullin, Mitch. Slight trick of the mind(Fiction06)
Peters, Elizabeth. Serpent on the crown(Mystery06)
Robb, J.D. Origin in death (Romance06)
Verne, Jules. Around the world in 80 days (Classic06)
Friedman, Thomas. World is flat (NF06)
Chapman, Gary. Five love languages (Motivational06)
Reichl, Ruth. Garlic and sapphires (Bio06)
Collins, Jim. Good to great (Educ06)
Morgan, Richard K. Market forces (SF06)
Keller, Laurie. Arnie the donut (kids<8,'06)
Ibbotson, Eva. Star of Kazan. (kids8+'06)
Buckhanon, Kalisha. Upstate (LitFic06)
Franken, Al. Truth (with jokes) (Humor06)
Clinton, Bill. My Life ('05BookOfYear)
Banks, Russell. The Darling ('05fiction)
Wolfe, Tom. I am Charlotte Simmon ('05ficlist)
Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ('05ficlist)
Drewe, Robert. Our sunshine ('05ficlist)
Deaver, Jeffery. Twisted: selected unabridged stories of JD ('05mystery)
Preston, Douglas. Brimstone ('05mystlist)
Kellerman, Jonathan. Double homicide ('05mystlist)
McBain, Ed. Hark! ('05mystlist)
Mosley, Walter. Man in my basement ('05mystlist)
Howard, Linda. Kiss me while I sleep ('05romance)
Adler, Elizabeth. Invitation to Provence ('05romlist)
Patterson, James. Sam's letters to Jennifer ('05romlist)
Laurens, Stephanie. Perfect lover ('05romlist)
Delinsky, Barbara. Summer I dared ('05romlist)
Gregory, Philippa. Virgin's lover ('05romlist)
Dickens, Charles. Christmas Carol (05Classic)
Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless me Ultima. ('05Classiclist)
Waltari, Mika. Egyptian ('05Classiclist)
McCullers, Carson. Heart is a lonely hunter ('05Classiclist)
Joyce, James. Ulysses ('05Classiclist)
Shorto, Russell. Island at the center of the world: Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Colony that Shaped America (05NF)
Bergreen, Laurence. Over the edge of the world (05NFlist)
Wood, Gordon. Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (05NFlist)
Karp, Harvey. Happiest toddler on the block (05Motivational)
Tracy, Brian. Goals! (05MotivationalList)
Lelas, Lisa. Simple steps: 10 weeks to getting control of your life (05MotivationalList)
Williamson, Marianne. Gift of change (05MotivationalList)
Maxwell, John C. Today matters (05MotivationalList)
Dylan, Bob. Bob Dylan Chronicles: Vol.1 (05Bio)
Russert, Tim. Big Russ and me (05BioList)
Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi (05BioList)
MacDonald, Sarah. Holy Cow: an Indian adventure (05BioList)
McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback (05BioList)
Cohen, Elizabeth. House on Beartown Road (05BioList)
Suetonius. Twelve Caesars (05BioList)
Lencioni, Patrick. Death by Meeting (05Edu)
Blanchard, Ken. Customer Mania (05EduList)
Morgenstern, Julie. Making work work (05EduList)
Kiyosaki, Robert T. Rich Dad's who took my money? (05EduList)
Card, Orson Scott. Lost boys (05SF)
Preston, Douglas. Brimstone (05SF-list)
Anderson, Kevin. Horizon storms (05SF-List)
Levinson, Paul. Consciousness plague (05SF-List)
Asaro, Catherine. Quantum Rose (05SF-List)
Funke, Cornelia. Dragon Rider (05-8+list)
Frost, Helen. Keesha's house (05-8+list)
Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia (05-8+list)
Taylor, Andrew. Unpardonable crime (05LitFic)
Flanagan, Richard. Gould's book of fish (05LitFicList)
Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (05LitFicList)
Faber, Michael. Crimson petal and the white (05LitFicList)
Waltari, Mika. Egyptian (05LitFicList)
Huston, Nancy. Mark of the Angel (05LitFicList)
Toibin, Colm. Master. (05LitFicList)
Rogers, Fred. World according to Mr. Rogers (05Inspire)
Sedaris, David. Dress your family in corduroy and denim (05Humor)
Cartwright, Nancy. My life as a 10-year-old boy! (05HumorList)
Stewart, Jon. Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents America (05HumorList)
Hyman, Peter. Reluctant Metrosexual (05HumorList)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Books with cd's
Books with CDs
bullet Chevalier, Tracy. Burning Bright book & cd at GPL
bullet Danticat, Edwidge. Dew breaker 2004 GPL-book&cd
bullet Danticat, Edwidge. Krik! Krak? (pre-college list) GPL cd only, both at PPL
bullet Davidson, Andrew. Gargoyle (book&cd@gpl)
bullet DeMille, Nelson. Gold coast (IngRec 090408) book@gpl,cd@ppl
bullet Downham, Jenny. Before I Die (book&cd at GPL) Guardian Children's Fiction Prize shortlist08
bullet Dunnett, Dorothy. The Game of Kings (#1 Lymond Chronicles)book@gpl,cd@PPL
bullet Eggers, Dave. What is the what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng GPL book only, PPL book&cd (BLEC06)
bullet Dunnett, Dorothy. The Disorderly Knights (#3 Lymond Chronicles)bookNA,cd@PP
bullet Dunnett, Dorothy. Queen's Play (#2 Lymond Chronicles)book@gpl,cd@PPL
bullet Follett, Ken. World without end
bullet Frayn, Michael. Headlong (cd@gpl, book@ppl)
bullet Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides (GPLbook&cd)
bullet Funke, Cornelia. Igraine the brave (Outstanding International Book) book &cd atGPL
bullet Follett, Ken. Pillars of the Earth (1989) will enjoy sequel, World Without End(07).
bullet French, Tana. In the woods (Edgar winner08) book&cd@gpl
bullet Grayson, Emily. Gazebo (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Haynes, Melinda. Chalktown (Recby Joyce Drury) boo@gpl,cd@ppl
bullet Ghosh, Amitav. Hungry Tide (1995) Book&cd@gpl
bullet Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (IngRec0520) (book@gpl,cd@ppl)GeogTrav092808
bullet Kimmel, Haven. Iodine (IngRec090208) book&cd@gpl
bullet Jordan, Hillary. Mudbound (IngRec081508) book&cd @GPL
bullet Kessler, Lauren. Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's PNBA award GPL book & cd
bullet Kneale, Matthew. English Passengers (Tazmania) (2000) Book &cd at GPL
bullet Marsh, Katherine. Night tourist (EdgarNom) book &cd GPL
bullet O'Carroll, Brendan. Mammy (IngRec101408) Humorous (book&cd@gpl)
bullet O'Carroll, Brendan. Chisellers #2 Agnes Browne Trilogy (IngRec101408) Humorous (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Lester, Julius. Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire TEEN (ShelfAwareness3/05/07)
bullet Petterson, Per. Out stealing horses. winner of '06 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize cd & book GPL&PPL
bullet McCarthy, Cormac. The road (Pulitzer fiction07)
bullet Patchett, Ann. Run (2007) book & cd at GPL
bullet Pollan, Michael. Omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals (NYT Best of '06)GPL book ony, PPL book &CD 1207 ANF06
bullet Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. Nautical chart (2001) Spanish (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Pinkwater, Daniel. Neddiad. GPL book only, PPL book&cd
bullet Pratchett, Terry. Nation (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Riordan, Rick, The Sea of Monsters (#2 Percy Jackson & the Olympians) book&cd at GPL
bullet Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence (Man Booker Longlist) book & cd at GPL
bullet Sedaris, David. When you are engulfed in flames. book&cd@gpl Hudson book of '08
bullet Pullman. Golden Compass #1 (kids books of note)
bullet Pullman. Subtle knife #2 (kids books of note)
bullet Pullman. Amber spyglass #3 (kids books of note)
bullet Reinhardt, Dana. Brief chapter in my impossible life (Sydney Taylor honor teen)
bullet Shorto, Russell. Descartes Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason (Ing112408)cd@gpl book@ppl
bullet Shaara, Jeff. Rising Tide (#1in trilogy about WW2) book&cd@gpl
bullet Stein, Garth. Art of running in the rain (IngRec110708)book&cd@gpl
bullet St. James, James. Freak show. TEEN (WPbest) GPL book & cd
bullet Sanderson, Brandon. Alcatraz vs the evil librarians. GPL book & cd
bullet Shaara, Jeff. Steel Wave (#2in trilogy about WW2) (cd at PPL)
bullet Smith, Tom Rob. Child 44 (Man Booker Longlist) GPL book only, book &cd at PPL
bullet Springer, Nancy. Case of the Missing Marquess: an Enola Holmes Mystery book only at GPL, cd @PPL(Edgar Nom)
bullet Springer, Nancy. Case of the left-handed lady (Enola Holmes) not at GPL, book & cd @PPL
bullet Chevalier, Tracy. Burning Bright book & cd at GPL
bullet Danticat, Edwidge. Dew breaker 2004 GPL-book&cd
bullet Danticat, Edwidge. Krik! Krak? (pre-college list) GPL cd only, both at PPL
bullet Davidson, Andrew. Gargoyle (book&cd@gpl)
bullet DeMille, Nelson. Gold coast (IngRec 090408) book@gpl,cd@ppl
bullet Downham, Jenny. Before I Die (book&cd at GPL) Guardian Children's Fiction Prize shortlist08
bullet Dunnett, Dorothy. The Game of Kings (#1 Lymond Chronicles)book@gpl,cd@PPL
bullet Eggers, Dave. What is the what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng GPL book only, PPL book&cd (BLEC06)
bullet Dunnett, Dorothy. The Disorderly Knights (#3 Lymond Chronicles)bookNA,cd@PP
bullet Dunnett, Dorothy. Queen's Play (#2 Lymond Chronicles)book@gpl,cd@PPL
bullet Follett, Ken. World without end
bullet Frayn, Michael. Headlong (cd@gpl, book@ppl)
bullet Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides (GPLbook&cd)
bullet Funke, Cornelia. Igraine the brave (Outstanding International Book) book &cd atGPL
bullet Follett, Ken. Pillars of the Earth (1989) will enjoy sequel, World Without End(07).
bullet French, Tana. In the woods (Edgar winner08) book&cd@gpl
bullet Grayson, Emily. Gazebo (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Haynes, Melinda. Chalktown (Recby Joyce Drury) boo@gpl,cd@ppl
bullet Ghosh, Amitav. Hungry Tide (1995) Book&cd@gpl
bullet Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (IngRec0520) (book@gpl,cd@ppl)GeogTrav092808
bullet Kimmel, Haven. Iodine (IngRec090208) book&cd@gpl
bullet Jordan, Hillary. Mudbound (IngRec081508) book&cd @GPL
bullet Kessler, Lauren. Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's PNBA award GPL book & cd
bullet Kneale, Matthew. English Passengers (Tazmania) (2000) Book &cd at GPL
bullet Marsh, Katherine. Night tourist (EdgarNom) book &cd GPL
bullet O'Carroll, Brendan. Mammy (IngRec101408) Humorous (book&cd@gpl)
bullet O'Carroll, Brendan. Chisellers #2 Agnes Browne Trilogy (IngRec101408) Humorous (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Lester, Julius. Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire TEEN (ShelfAwareness3/05/07)
bullet Petterson, Per. Out stealing horses. winner of '06 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize cd & book GPL&PPL
bullet McCarthy, Cormac. The road (Pulitzer fiction07)
bullet Patchett, Ann. Run (2007) book & cd at GPL
bullet Pollan, Michael. Omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals (NYT Best of '06)GPL book ony, PPL book &CD 1207 ANF06
bullet Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. Nautical chart (2001) Spanish (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Pinkwater, Daniel. Neddiad. GPL book only, PPL book&cd
bullet Pratchett, Terry. Nation (book&cd@gpl)
bullet Riordan, Rick, The Sea of Monsters (#2 Percy Jackson & the Olympians) book&cd at GPL
bullet Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence (Man Booker Longlist) book & cd at GPL
bullet Sedaris, David. When you are engulfed in flames. book&cd@gpl Hudson book of '08
bullet Pullman. Golden Compass #1 (kids books of note)
bullet Pullman. Subtle knife #2 (kids books of note)
bullet Pullman. Amber spyglass #3 (kids books of note)
bullet Reinhardt, Dana. Brief chapter in my impossible life (Sydney Taylor honor teen)
bullet Shorto, Russell. Descartes Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason (Ing112408)cd@gpl book@ppl
bullet Shaara, Jeff. Rising Tide (#1in trilogy about WW2) book&cd@gpl
bullet Stein, Garth. Art of running in the rain (IngRec110708)book&cd@gpl
bullet St. James, James. Freak show. TEEN (WPbest) GPL book & cd
bullet Sanderson, Brandon. Alcatraz vs the evil librarians. GPL book & cd
bullet Shaara, Jeff. Steel Wave (#2in trilogy about WW2) (cd at PPL)
bullet Smith, Tom Rob. Child 44 (Man Booker Longlist) GPL book only, book &cd at PPL
bullet Springer, Nancy. Case of the Missing Marquess: an Enola Holmes Mystery book only at GPL, cd @PPL(Edgar Nom)
bullet Springer, Nancy. Case of the left-handed lady (Enola Holmes) not at GPL, book & cd @PPL
New WPA books
On its 75th anniversary, there are at least four new marvelous books on the Works Progress Administration, FDR's New Deal program that put millions of unemployed Americans back on the job during the Great Depression. The titles unintentionally foreshadow the current economic meltdown. (Be warned: you might find yourself wondering if a "new" WPA could be in our future.)
Nick Taylor's exhaustive study, American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA (Bantam), tackles the program's many achievements and challenges with enough insight and enthusiasm to please history buffs and dabblers alike. You'll be shocked to learn how much of the WPA's handiwork still exists coast to coast, from airports and dams to community parks and post office murals.
Kathryn Flynn and Richard Polese's handsomely illustrated The New Deal (Gibbs Smith) delves into the eclectic deeds of the WPA as well as Social Security, the short-lived Civilian Conservation Corps and Civil Works Administration--the latter two of which together preserved wilderness areas and created countless roads, bridges and public buildings.
One of the WPA's most controversial ventures, the Federal Theatre Project, gets a fresh look in Susan Quinn's Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times (Walker). The FTP, along with the Federal Arts, Music and Writers' Projects (known collectively as "Federal One"), made up 1% of the WPA's enormous budget but, according to Quinn's lively and entertaining account, received the most Congressional scrutiny--and scorn--due to allegations of Communist infiltration (a subject of Tim Robbins's film The Cradle Will Rock).
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America compiled by Paris Review deputy editor Matt Weiland and McSweeney's editor-at-large Sean Wilsey (Ecco) recreates the spirit of the WPA's famous "American Guide" series. While the Federal Writers' Project assigned thousands of out-of-work scribes to create a written portrait of the U.S., State by State employs some of today's best authors--including Dave Eggers (Illinois), Barry Hannah (Mississippi), Jhumpa Lahiri (Rhode Island) and Rick Moody (Connecticut)--to create a more quirky armchair road trip. (Don't miss the Out of the Book movie based on this from Powell's Books.)
More books on the WPA are on their way. Arriving later this month is Posters for the People: The Art of the WPA by Ennis Carter and Christopher DeNoon (Quirk Books), which documents the colorful achievements and far-reaching influence of the Federal Art Project's Poster Division. Historians consider the WPA's posters among the most noteworthy examples of public art in the U.S. They advertised exhibits and performances by the other arts programs, encouraged travel, warned against disease and helped to promote the nation's economic recovery.
And this February, David A. Taylor's Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America (Wiley) will chronicle the work of future literary stars like John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Studs Terkel and Richard Wright as they toiled to create the WPA's popular state and regional guidebooks.--Larry Portzline is a writer and college instructor in Pennsylvania and founded Bookstore Tourism.
Nick Taylor's exhaustive study, American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA (Bantam), tackles the program's many achievements and challenges with enough insight and enthusiasm to please history buffs and dabblers alike. You'll be shocked to learn how much of the WPA's handiwork still exists coast to coast, from airports and dams to community parks and post office murals.
Kathryn Flynn and Richard Polese's handsomely illustrated The New Deal (Gibbs Smith) delves into the eclectic deeds of the WPA as well as Social Security, the short-lived Civilian Conservation Corps and Civil Works Administration--the latter two of which together preserved wilderness areas and created countless roads, bridges and public buildings.
One of the WPA's most controversial ventures, the Federal Theatre Project, gets a fresh look in Susan Quinn's Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times (Walker). The FTP, along with the Federal Arts, Music and Writers' Projects (known collectively as "Federal One"), made up 1% of the WPA's enormous budget but, according to Quinn's lively and entertaining account, received the most Congressional scrutiny--and scorn--due to allegations of Communist infiltration (a subject of Tim Robbins's film The Cradle Will Rock).
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America compiled by Paris Review deputy editor Matt Weiland and McSweeney's editor-at-large Sean Wilsey (Ecco) recreates the spirit of the WPA's famous "American Guide" series. While the Federal Writers' Project assigned thousands of out-of-work scribes to create a written portrait of the U.S., State by State employs some of today's best authors--including Dave Eggers (Illinois), Barry Hannah (Mississippi), Jhumpa Lahiri (Rhode Island) and Rick Moody (Connecticut)--to create a more quirky armchair road trip. (Don't miss the Out of the Book movie
More books on the WPA are on their way. Arriving later this month is Posters for the People: The Art of the WPA by Ennis Carter and Christopher DeNoon (Quirk Books), which documents the colorful achievements and far-reaching influence of the Federal Art Project's Poster Division. Historians consider the WPA's posters among the most noteworthy examples of public art in the U.S. They advertised exhibits and performances by the other arts programs, encouraged travel, warned against disease and helped to promote the nation's economic recovery.
And this February, David A. Taylor's Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America (Wiley) will chronicle the work of future literary stars like John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Studs Terkel and Richard Wright as they toiled to create the WPA's popular state and regional guidebooks.--Larry Portzline
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