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Book: 'Appetite for Self-Destruction'
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009
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Northwest Bookshelf for Jan. 16.
Books: 'Legacy of Secrecy'
A new, heavily researched book on John F. Kennedy's murder and its investigation sees links with a bagful of sensational stories.
Maria Semple takes Hollywood stereotypes and makes readers care about them
Debut novel is no homage to "The Day of the Locust," but it's more fun.
Azar Nafisi's new memoir focuses on the battles her family fought
John Marshall: Azar Nafisi has followed her hugely popular memoir, "Reading Lolita in Tehran," with another memoir of her youth. She discusses "Things I've Been Silent About" Friday night at Seattle Central Library.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell explores the nature of success
John Marshall: Malcolm Gladwell discusses the sources of success in "Outliers," his third No. 1 best-seller. In an exclusive Seattle P-I interview, the staff writer for the New Yorker riffs on Bill Gates, hockey players and his own big hair.
Books: 'Beat the Reaper'
Josh Bazell, a medical resident, puts his M.D. to good use in this darkly comic thriller and its bevy of sly footnotes.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009
Books: 'Lark and Termite'
Jayne Anne Phillips' intricate, deeply felt new novel emerges as a powerful and emotionally piercing novel that depicts a family in West Virginia, subject to the centrifugal forces of history.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009
Books: 'You Must Remember This'
"You Must Remember This" is the book version of Richard Schickel's "American Masters" show devoted to Sam, Jack, Harry and Albert Warner, as well as their studio.
New 'Winnie-the-Pooh' book is coming
"Winnie-the-Pooh," A.A. Milne's 1926 childhood classic, will turn a new page in October, when Dutton publishes the first authorized sequel since "The House at Pooh Corner."
MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2009
Books: 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death'
Despite frequent and literally splashy touches of the grotesque, this novel takes a tart, quick-witted, sharply funny trip, hijacked only by certain conventional plot touches and brushes with sentimentality.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009
Winners of NW book awards are announced
John Marshall: Novels by Garth Stein of Seattle and Dave Boling of Tacoma are among the recipients of 2009 awards from independent booksellers in the Northwest.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009
Book and film spotlight independent crafters across the U.S.
Faythe Levine, who honed her indie aesthetic in the Seattle music scene, now champions another form of DIY expression -- the world of crafts, which she documents in a film and companion book, "Handmade Nation."
Books: 'How to Live: A Search for Wisdom From Old People'
Actor and writer Henry Alford had a simple yet captivating idea: People must learn something in seven or more decades on Earth.
Jayne Anne Phillips' complex and haunting new novel burrows deep into the soul
John Marshall: Jayne Anne Phillips rebounds strongly with her complex new novel, "Lark & Termite." She discusses it next Tuesday in Seattle.
Steven Johnson finds something in the 'Air'
John Marshall: Steven Johnson has turned surprising cultural history into best-sellers. He does it again with "The Invention of Air," which he discusses in three days of Seattle appearances next week.
Northwest Book Shelf
Northwest Book Shelf for Jan. 9.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2009
Book: Where Serpets Sleep
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009
Tale of a homeless Korean teen in NYC offers special insight
John Marshall: Nami Mun's harrowing debut novel, "Miles from Nowhere," provides an insightful look at a runaway Korean teen's life on the New York streets. She discusses it next Tuesday in Seattle.
'Red Sorghum' author makes a Seattle stop on his first U.S. tour
Mo Yan, one of China's leading writers, kicks of Seattle's literary new year with an event Monday at Seattle Central Library. The acclaimed author of "Red Sorghum" is on his first American tour.
Northwest Bookshelf
Northwest Bookshelf for Jan. 2.
Book: 'Fidel's Last Days'
The elephant-in-the-room problem with this novel is that Fidel's last day has passed, at least as far as running the country goes. But he is still in charge in this book, so the tale is caught in a kind of in-between zone.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2009
Author of 'Dewey' the cat's tale gets a tabby named Page
Vicki Myron intended to wait a year or two before getting another cat. Her best-selling book, "Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World," was keeping her on the road most of the time and she didn't have time for a pet.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2008
Books: 'The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture'
This large-format atlas spotlights 1,037 notable buildings completed worldwide by star architects and regional talents since January 2000.
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